Ultimate Deadpool first appears in the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man where he and his mechanically modified Reavers kidnap the X-Men, also kidnapping Spider-Man due to his visiting the X-Mansion at the time. Taking them to the island of Genosha, Deadpool and his Reavers proceed to hunt them on live TV for sport, to the joy of anti-mutant viewers everywhere. Forced to flee from attacking Reavers, the X-Men ultimately manage to unmask Deadpool, who uses his shapeshifting to trick them into thinking that he's Professor X in disguise. Though Deadpool proves to be a formidable and tenacious fighter, he is ultimately defeated by Kitty Pryde when she phases through him and sabotages his circuits. Though believed killed, Deadpool is shown at the end of the story to have in fact survived, glaring at