Madcap first made his debut in 1985’s Captain America #307 and since then has only appeared a few dozen times. Madcap’s real name and full history are still not known but he used to be a very religious and family oriented young man. On the way to a church picnic his family is in a car accident which kills his parents and sister, but Madcap survives because the tanker they ran into saturates him in Compound X07 (created by the terrorist group A.I.M.) which gives him a Healing Factor, an inability to feel pain (or perhaps any physical sensation) and the ability to induce temporary euphoric insanity in people who make eye contact with him. At first Madcap is simply emotionally broken and suicidal, but the trauma of his situation and his inability to escape it quickly drive him insane and he dedicates his existence to spreading his personal hodgepodge anarchist/nihilistic philosophy.
Madcap was originally created by Mark Gruenwald who said, “Madcap represents purposelessness, the disaffected youth of today who thinks ‘What’s the reason for doing anything?’ The ultimate dropout generation.”
Despite Gruenwald’s insights in sociology and youth culture, Madcap is a pretty interesting character.
Deadpool and Madcap first meet in Heroes for Hire #10–11 when both are kind of accidentally hired to help on a mission. Deadpool is doing his best to be a superhero at the time and Madcap simply wants to cause trouble.
That’s about the extent of it.
Madcap recently returned in Deadpool Annual #1 in which we learned that Madcap was actually Deadpool’s white box all along. If you don’t know what I mean I that, read this before continuing.
Deadpool runs into Madcap on a rooftop in New York and Madcap uses his eyeball power of insanity to drive Deadpool insane, but Deadpool is already insane and the power seems to have the opposite effect on him.
The two of them are interrupted by Daredevil and Thor who simply want to be rid of them so Thor eviscerates both of them
When Deadpool regenerates he is alone. It is then explained that soon thereafter is when he develops his disassociated personality disorder (he hears a new voice in his head and assumes it’s a part of his brain that achieved a sort of separate consciousness, this is part of Deadpool’s character for many years up until the current run in which it simply seems to have disappeared)
Years later according to canon and supposedly right before volume 4 began Deadpool learns the truth of what happened when a blow to his head gives Madcap control of his body and he explains what happened
Because both men were completely eviscerated and regenerated from their ashes which were mixed they became fused. Now that the truth is out, both are eager to be separated and achieve that by having Luke Cage and Thor rip them in two
It is finished and they part awkwardly
And now the Deadpool is alone, even in his own consciousness, he feels lonely
This completely re–contextualizes all of Way’s run (the whole third volume) and we are left to wonder what the repercussions of Deadpool and Madcap’s relationship are, especially when we consider the romantic nature that the two of them had.
Not only do we know that Deadpool’s subconscious had a (metaphysical?) sexual relationship with Madcap
but even within the annual issue itself which reveals the true nature of their situation Madcap insist that they are in love
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