Spideypool

Spideypool is the slash ship between Peter Parker and Wade Wilson from the Marvel fandom.

Canon
Their homoerotic friendship has been alluded to many times in the Marvel Universe, and the huge fan culture surrounding the two characters led to their own spinoff comic series being released in 2016 called "Spider-Man/Deadpool" (a reference to the Spideypool slash ship).

Whilst Deadpool is pansexual in canon and has Spider-Man listed on the 'free pass' list he agreed with his wife, Shiklah, Spider-Man doesn't exactly return his feelings. In the episode 'Ultimate Deadpool' of the 'Ultimate Spider-Man' cartoon series, for example, Spider-Man is repeatedly frustrated and angered by the antics of the merc with a mouth. Despite this, most people regard the two as tentative friends.

Fanon
Most shipping was originally based on Wade being a major fan of Peter's superhero identity, Spider-Man. His hero worship of the other causes him to want to be a better person. Shippers were also drawn to their similar senses of humor, since they both have tendency to sass and quip. Spider-Man will also occasionally break the fourth wall, but not as much as Deadpool.

The ships main rival is Cablepool. Although both ships were popular at different times. With Cablepool being more popular mid to late 2000's and Spideypool becoming popular in most recent years. Despite this, there are very few ship wars between the fandoms, although debates did arrise after the casting of a much younger Peter Parker in the MCU.

Shippers who base many of their works on the film adaptations, typically will tag that they are writing about a different version of Spider-Man than the one in the MCU. Typically the one portrayed by Andrew Garfield, in The Amazing Spider-Man duology. The casting of Tom Holland made the tag feel necessary for movie shippers, since Ryan Reynolds is twice his age, and people had been shipping the Garfield version of Peter with Reynolds version of Wade long before the Holland was cast, or before the first Deadpool film.

When shippers made fan video's the editors would gather clips from a variety of Andrew Garfield and Ryan Reynolds films and would cut them together to make trailers or cute videos that made it seem like the two would talk to one another. Reynolds was always chosen as the casting choice for Deadpool since his scene as the character is considered one of the only good things from X-Men Origins Wolverine. Fan videos of their interaction's from the comics as well as from the episode of Ultimate Spider-Man, "Ultimate Deadpool".

On AO3 it is the most written ship for both chracters and the most written ship in the Deadpool tag.

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Trivia

 * Andrew Garfield, who plays Peter in The Amazing Spiderman, and Ryan Reynolds, who plays Wade in the X-Men series, kissed at the 2017 Golden Globes.