DEADPOOL

Saturday, October 31, 2026Earth-616 canonDeadpool Vol. 3 #19 (2013)

Today's Fact

Checked against independent sources — the issues are cited below.

DEADPOOL HAS A DAUGHTER HE NEVER KNEW EXISTED — AND HIS ENEMIES USED HER AS LEVERAGE AGAINST HIM!
The Featured Fact

Wade Wilson's most closely guarded family secret has nothing to do with healing factors. In Deadpool Vol. 3 (2013), during 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' arc by Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, Wade learned that a brief romance with a woman named Carmelita Camacho had produced a daughter, Eleanor 'Ellie' Camacho — a child he had never met, raised entirely without him.

Carmelita had once tracked Wade down to ask for child support, and he refused, insisting a child that beautiful could not possibly be his. Years later the Butler, the man who had run the program that experimented on Wade, kidnapped mother and daughter as insurance against Deadpool and held them in North Korea — and Carmelita died there before Wade could fight his way to her.

Ellie survived because the Butler handed her to his own brother Joshua to raise under another life, a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Emily Preston uncovered through a vision granted by the eye of Uatu the Watcher. Wade rescued Ellie from U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M., had her officially declared dead on paper, and placed her with Preston's family — a mercenary's version of fatherhood: visit quietly, and keep every gun in his world pointed away from her street.

Why It's Obscure

The Merc with a Mouth, silenced by a paternity reveal — and for once, the joke he refused to make was about himself.

Ellie
Eleanor Camacho — Marvel's official character record lists Ellie as the daughter of Wade Wilson and Carmelita Camacho, raised after her mother's death by Emily Preston and her family.
The X-gene
A dormant inheritance — Testing shows Ellie carries an active X-gene marker inherited from her father, though her mutant ability had not manifested while she was still a young child.
North Korea
Butler's insurance policy — The kidnapping hid Ellie in a prison camp as a hostage against her father; Carmelita did not survive the captivity Wade arrived too late to end.
The Prestons
A paper death, a real home — To protect her, Ellie was declared dead through a coroner's favor and quietly folded into Agent Preston's household, with Wade watching over her from a careful distance.

Sources

Every claim above checks out against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

  1. Eleanor 'Ellie' Camacho — Marvel.comMarvel's official Ellie Camacho profile: daughter of Wade Wilson and Carmelita Camacho, her mother's death, the Butler kidnapping and her placement with Emily Preston's family.
  2. Deadpool's Daughter Guide: All About Eleanor Camacho — Comic Fan ClubAn issue-by-issue guide to Ellie's story, from her conception in Deadpool #13 (2013) through her first in-person appearance and rescue.