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| “ | What's my name? | „ |
| ~ Ajax's famous catchphrase; also his last words. |
| “ | Joke around all you want. One thing that never survives in this place is a sense of humor. | „ |
| ~ Ajax to Wade. |
Francis Freeman, also known as Ajax, is the main antagonist of the 2016 superhero comedy film Deadpool, the eighth installment of the X-Men film series.
He is based on the character from Marvel Comics. He is a member of the Weapon X Program and the one responsible for the creation of Deadpool. He is also a powerful mutant who gained enhanced physical attributes and an immunity to pain. After finding out what the treatment did to him, Deadpool makes it his life goal to hunt down Francis and force him to reverse the program.
He was portrayed by Ed Skrein, who also played Thomas Alexander Upton in TAU and Admiral Atticus Noble from Rebel Moon.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- While his enhancements prevent him from feeling anything including empathy and remorse, he still has moral agency regardless because it does not impede his knowledge of right from wrong, as well because he still takes sadistic pleasure in his evil work. He also cares nothing for Angel Dust as he does not react to seeing her getting defeated, merely valuing her genuine usefulness to him.
- Recruited people with nothing to lose into awakening mutant genetics with the false pretense that his operation creates superheroes, when they are really creating super slaves, then subjects those into intense torture to provide stress and awaken the mutant gene, with he himself stating that people have died from it.
- Subjecting Wade Wilson to torture for days after his mutant gene kicked in, disfiguring him in the process. He then locks him in an asphyxiation chamber just because he was being annoying.
- Upon witnessing Wade's deformity, he taunts him by claiming he knows how to fix it, but would refuse. He later admits that this was a lie to make Wade more reluctant to kill him.
- Impaled Wade when he escaped and left him to burn alive along with the other prisoners in his lab.
- Kidnapped Deadpool’s girlfriend, Vanessa, and attempted to kill her in front of him by locking her in an asphyxiation chamber.
- Tries to kill Deadpool by stabbing him in the head in an attempt to bypass his healing factor.
- He may not be as heinous as Apocalypse or Vuk, but he is not nearly as powerful as them.
- Though he implies he has standards several times, they are out of sheer pragmatism.
- Despite being in a highly comedic film, he has no humor of his own and is always treated dead seriously.
Trivia[]
- Despite Ajax's Pure Evil status, his actor Ed Skrein possibly doesn't see him as Pure Evil, as Skrein noted ahead of the premiere of Rebel Moon that Admiral Atticus Noble, his villainous role in that film, is the first villain he ever plays without trying to add any kind of humanity or empathy. The moral limitations Skrein may see on Ajax are his inability to be empathetic or remorseful in any way, and it doesn't add up, because Ajax still shows sadism and knowledge of right and wrong, ultimately allowing him to qualify as Pure Evil.
- Funnily enough, Deadpool even calls him "pure evil" in the movie.
External Links[]
- Ajax on the Villains Wiki
- Ajax on the X-Men Movies Wiki
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