Deadpool: Here's What You Need to Know About Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus
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Deadpool is chock-full of references to other Marvel films. In fact, it's so self-aware that at one point, Deadpool tapes a picture of Hugh Jackman over his face. (So meta!) Not only does the movie refer to the X-Men several times, but it introduces one new mutant to the cinematic universe and brings back another: Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) and Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapicic). They're not exactly Deadpool's sidekicks, but they are campaigning for him to join their team of superheroes. Here's what you need to know about their characters in the comic books, and read carefully, because there's a big chance they'll appear in the already-in-development Deadpool sequel.
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Negasonic Teenage Warhead is essentially a footnote in the Marvel comics. Her real name is Ellie Phimister, and she first appears in a 2001 X-Men comic as one of Emma Frost's students. (Remember Emma Frost? January Jones played her in 2011's X-Men: First Class.) She has a knack for predicting the future via her dreams. She dies relatively quickly after being introduced; the Wild Sentinels attack her country and she's one of the casualties. She later appears as a figment of Emma Frost's imagination, though we don't find out until later that she's not actually real.
It's neat that she appears in Deadpool, but the character is very different than she's portrayed in the comics. For one, she's alive. But also, rather than her powers of telepathy, she has the ability to act as a sort of tiny bomb.
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Colossus
Colossus, aka the "CGI Character" introduced in the film's epic opening credits, first appears in Giant-Size X-Men #1, which came out way back in 1975. He's a Russian mutant, and Daniel Cudmore played him in several movies: X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. He looks a little different in Deadpool, no? (For the record, Cudmore was offered the role again, but according to director Tim Miller, he turned it down.) His real name is Piotr "Peter" Rasputin, and he gets his powers (armored skin) when he saves his sister from a runaway tractor. He eventually joins the X-Men, serving under Professor Charles Xavier.
Colossus doesn't actually know Deadpool in the comics, but it's cool to see him show up. Maybe these three can form a supermutant team for the sequel?