Can Deadpool Regenerate Memories?

[@becausescience]

Thanks for watching! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday no matter what/how/with who you celebrate. No livestreams for the rest of the year, but there will still be Footnotes and the main episodes every week (even on Christmas Day and New Year's Day!). -- kH

[@thatsmrfisher]

Perhaps deadpool has backup memory throughout his body. Just imagine if what we perceive as horrific skin defects as a result of his mutations are actually that his has wrinkly brain tissues under his skin backing up his brain.

[@lisasky5094]

Thank you so much for all that you do for us!!! Happy holidays!

[@collinpereira2546]

Hey can you do a video on how the cw flash stops/slows the rotation of the earth. Like the speed and its effect and what would happen if you slowed the frickin Earth's rotation. Like c'mon seriously

[@RELOADEDFI]

Wouldn't there be a change that mr.pool just grows a new body for the head instead retaining his memories in the case it´s a clean decapitation?

[@peter1067]

Doesnt ajin touch on this?

[@doubleg281]

Theory: deadpool's ability to regenerate memories comes from his ability to break the fourth wall. Healing factor makes the new brain cells but fourth wall break connects them with the information that he is deadpool and what deadpool is.

[@zzfrute]

Good theory. In the 616 universe, it was speculated by beast that wolverine recovered memory after severe head trauma via either a cellular memory, or an extra dimensional database (a cloud, if you will). Since deadpool derives his healing factor directly from wolverine's his psychosis might have been derived from his attachment to this other dimension, without Logan's adaptive mutations to quell the increased stimulation. This could even explain deadpool's severe memory problems, as he can't differentiate memories between his dimension and ours.

[@zachnerdydude6605]

I actually love this concept (and of course how the commenter above me expands on it)

[@FalloutJack]

I like this theory, and I will subscribe to it.

[@softpaw6234]

I came to say something like this, he probably reads some back issues

[@notthickz8913]

Pretty good theory

[@JackPool-lq8ux]

Deadpool's constant head injuries has been used by writers to explain his memory loss and mental problems. Making it easier to retcon his history on occasion.

[@Sacremas]

That plus various funky Weapon-X related doctors using drugs to do it. After Secret Empire and Deadpool's actions there (including killing Phil Coulson) he even wiped his own memories by ODing on those same drugs to punish himself when no one else could do it.

[@JackPool-lq8ux]

Personally I think coulson had it coming. He's such a douche.

[@jlokison]

Not exactly retcon his history so much as he can't remember his own history so makes stuff up about his own history to fill gaps and lost memories. His brain is a patchwork of patch jobs . It also explains his multiple personality disorder, remnants and partial memories of previous versions of his brain.

[@ryanharaden1786]

When he dropped the pen, it made a vibration (a noise) which means the void has a floor. That means the void is in 3 Dimensional space and could be in some type of parallel of pocket universe. Anyway, nice video

[@teruphoto]

While it doesn't make sense for "regular" healing powered characters like Wolverine to be able to retain memories from a newly re-formed brain, Deadpool is in a totally different group. DP has 4th wall breaking powers that allow him to have an awareness that extends beyond conventional memory. 4th wall breaking allows him to have access to the collected knowledge/memories of all comics, social media, etc. In essence, the answer to all of DP's abilities is: Because Deadpool.

[@becausescience]

Teru Kage Wrong Show - kH

[@NinjaBearFilms]

Tell it to Matt Pat, I’m sure he can create a full Film Theory to explain how that power works.

[@RandallJamesPeterson]

Deadpool's brain exists in higher dimensions. Tesseract brain. That's why he breaks the 4th wall, he passes right through it.

[@dillonchaddick695]

@@NinjaBearFilms He already did about the time the first Deadpool movie came out.

[@mr.wilson4360]

You're assuming deadpool's fourth wall break is something that is natural. This was a development due to the "treatment" he received to obtain his regeneration. So it's a learned ability. If deadpool looses his memory due to decapitation, then he may forget he had fourth wall breaking abilities.

[@LordBloodraven]

First time: Maximum Effort! Second time: Max Effort. Third time: Do... it... harder... Last time: Why am I here?

[@i9incher]

What if instead of growing a new head, he grew a new body from his neck down? Or better yet, both happened and then there are 2 versions. One with memories and one without.

[@mekhiwilliams1577]

Actaully when deadpools head gets cut off he gets a new body. He does not regrow his head. This video eas basically pointless 😆

[@acc3085]

@@mekhiwilliams1577 no if his head was smashed to pieces he has to regrow his head

[@alexandrerafaelblasi753]

@@acc3085 BUUUTTT, he actually WOULD die, at least before he got cursed by thanos, which means, his actual scientific powers wouldnt save him from this, but in the comics, he would be saved by his "mythical" powers.

[@leeman27534]

there was this fanfix sort of online story idea of superhero society thing where this superman ish figure got bisected vertically (split in half head to foot) and his regeneration was so strong it had both halves regrow the story has two of him one uses the middle initial r the other l also speaking of at least 'semi canon' stuff wasn't that the plot point for logan's memories to be gone in origins wolverine that the tissue regrew but the memories didn't (also using the not canon wade but ah well)

[@thewiseotter3884]

This reminds me of Aijn the anime

[@ericlanglois9194]

If I remember well, Deadpool's regenerative powers will only regenerate him to his exact physical state at the time his powers were gained. That's why his burns don't regenerate, because those scars were already there when he gained regeneration. Taking that into consideration, I believe that his brain would be returned to the way it was at that time, his memories included. But hey, Mistress Death might have something to do with it too :)

[@TheRealJahan]

The real question is would his head grow a body or would his body grow a head 🧐🤔

[@kairu_aname]

It's been both in the comics. Generally it's whichever has more mass or whichever isn't just destroyed

[@1217BC]

Both... Infinite Deadpools

[@aaronnguyen4506]

@@1217BC oh god pls no! NOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@gamershavefun8108]

Cut of One head, and two More Will take its place...

[@humphreyowencortaga5115]

@@gamershavefun8108 HAIL HYDRA!!!

[@weeeitsnookies8320]

I always thought about that. Especially with vampires and their healing. I was like "ok they can heal up, but wonder if they take a bullet to the head and it completely destroys the part of the brain that stores memories. Would they come to not knowing what or who they were thus resulting in essentially a rabid animal?" For example we see numerous vampires shot in the head numerous times with wooden bullets in the vampire diaries..

[@darcraven01]

if deadpool's head is blown up, he regrows it from his body. if his body is blown up he regrows it from his head. but if his head is simply cut off his body, which part is regrown and how does his cells know which to regrow? as for deadpool's memories... my theory as to how he could "regrow" them... maybe his power could also record the memories and when the brain regrows his power replaces those memories. (like, maybe his power stores memories within each cell as a kind of redundant backup system)

[@Frankenstein077]

Well, if it's like the Planarian Worms you get two Deadpools. ;-)

[@abdlhmdx]

His memories are stored in the 4th wall

[@luisfortunaGQ]

Originally he could only regen if the head was reconnected but the grow back regen is more recent and he grow from the largest piece of his body depending where the head is and how he was dissected. So if his head cut off he grows his head, if hes diagonally / he would grow from the head half down, it's never really shown how he grows from an explosion but I assume it would be either from his head or the largest piece of torso with spinal cord intact

[@coolbananas4719]

He would just regenerate from the bigger part I hope.

[@abdlhmdx]

@Martin Smouter Memory is stored in the balls

[@SkyDiving_StormTrooper]

Kyle I came upon this episode as I was researching this eerie phenomenon of some people claiming to recall past lives or having knowledge their parents or grandparents possess but they never studied. In this I have read studies that seem to link people who have a natural talent for things to the fact their parents or grandparents or so on became a master of that thing. The percentages of people being talented at, say, playing the piano, were higher among those who had an ancestor, usually fairly recent in the family tree, though not always, than those who had no such ancestor. Also there very well documented cases of people getting organ transplants and suddenly exhibiting a talent or aptitude or interest for something the donor was good at but they themselves never practiced or studied. A man in Paris, for example, got a heart transplant from a famous artist and shortly ever started being able to paint very well and in the style of the donor. Also a guy who builds ships donated a liver to a guy who ended up shortly after being able to draw prints up for ships that guy worked on. Its being studied if memories or other kind of "mental" data can be genetically stored. Is it possible Deadpool could have some advanced mutant version of this that could allow him to regenerate his memories?

[@kachucho872]

Would he regrow another body or another head?

[@Danilego]

That's the biggest question!

[@ToabyToastbrot]

I heard of a story where he did both - one of the new deadpools was evil I think.

[@bugmaster05]

He would actually regrow another body as seen on Deadpool 2 when he tried to commit suicide by blowing himself up. The head was the only thing seen left behind though but its guaranteed that he can regrow his body.

[@erbgorre]

@@Danilego probably both, which is another big issue with deadpools regenerative abilities in general. if, in theory, any of his cells were spontaneously able to dedifferentiate and redifferentiate into any type of cell needed, while physiological ressources like biomass or energy are apparently never an issue for him to begin with, then every time you cut off any part of wade wilsons body, both of these parts would over time regrow into a full wade wilson. regardless of which of the parts was bigger, or which one had the head attached to it, yadda yadda. so by cutting up deadpool you would essentially just multiply him -.- you could go even further and say that under such circumstances, any time he shed a skin cell (which as kyle points out happens non-stop) each and every one of these skin cells could potentially grow into a full deadpool clone. hed literally be the the living organism equivalent of metastasizing cancer. which kind of makes sense, in a way, as thats exactly the kind of disease that was mutated into becoming his superpower.

[@ToabyToastbrot]

@@erbgorre Maybe his second superpower prevents shenanigans like that, maybe he can break the forth wall just to make sure that shit like that doesn't happen and there continues to be a cool story ;)

[@Carstuff111]

I do love the attention to detail in the first movie when he cut off his hand, and the way it was growing back.

[@E__Saurabh]

*Now that's a lot of damage*

[@aaronnguyen4506]

but Super-Regeneration can fix any problem!

[@arghnoor]

I SAWED THIS DEAD POLE IN HALF

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*_When you realized that Thor can do the fourth wall better than Deadpool._*

[@shuvodev7888]

They make a face like your profile picture

[@sithlorddread8721]

Bro the *best* Deadpool fourth wall break is when Professor X looked into Deadpool's mind and was instantly rendered catatonic....idk if that is a fourth wall break in a literal sense but you catch my drift

[@jackskellingtonsfollower3389]

Why would Xavier of all people even think about looking into Wade's mind? That's brain damage waiting to happen.

[@lucashenderson3120]

What

[@ascerteshallow9277]

Half the time I can't figure out what Kyle is saying but I love his enthusiasm all the same :D

[@flyingfree333]

At 4:00 you aren't jealous you are envious, jealousy implies ownership.

[@sirhellios5248]

Tnx Homer

[@duardor2027]

Ooh, trying to be smart i see

[@DanteYewToob]

@@duardor2027 not really, they are just helping kill a common misconception. Envy, is wanting what someone else has. You envy better looking, richer, and more skilled people. Jealousy is fear, fear of losing what you have. You a jealous of your girlfriend and her new _guy friend_ or maybe jealous of someone better at your job than you, afraid you might be fired and them promoted. They are two very different things, jealousy typically comes from fear, anger, and anxiety. Envy is a feeling of emptiness, of wanting, and coveting. To envy someone can be to see them as maybe unworthy of what they have because you think you deserve it, you feel entitled to it. Hope that helps clarify.

[@1217BC]

Yay, pedantry!

[@thenodgod1735]

@@DanteYewToob @FlyingFree333 Huh, I did not know that, thank you both!

[@jewseph0114]

What about how a butterfly seems to be able to retain memories from when it was a caterpillar after turning into bug soup?

[@zarcon4002]

A few points: 1.If he had to regenerate his head can someone explain how he would get the energy needed in his body since he cant eat any longer and how much energy(food) he would need to regenerate even a finger at that rate. 2. If his body would know not to lay down scar tissue when his head was decapitated doesnt that mean that when he regenerated his limbs for example he would no longer have the scar tissue over the part that was regenerated thus fixing his uglynes problem?

[@Gamelycan]

1. comic book logic is how. Being serious now, fat, muscle, bone, kidney, then anything else, will be sacrificed to do so. 2. The extremely quickly multiplying cancers would fix that beautification at roughly the same rate as it regenerates.

[@emmettobrian1874]

The same question would apply to any super hero but technically he could convert co2 into carbon and use that to build most of the mass out of the air. You know, like a tree.

[@Desdemona-XI]

His ugliness isnt caused by scar tissue its cancer. Tumors. They'd regrow as fast as the rest of him. Maybe faster as cancer cells multiply faster than normal cells. Which in turn might be part of where his fuel comes from as cancer cells are just normal cells basically multiplying out of control. His body could be consuming the cancer to fuel his abilities. Also deadpool can put away an insane ammount of food perhaps as a consequence of his regenerative abilities

[@cinderflame7774]

There was a story line where a crazy person loved wade so much she saved body parts of his witch had their own healing factor and when put together they made a new deadpool with all his memories, (atleast everything that the head had experienced untill decapitation i assume) but was mentally more missed up than the original deadpool

[@masonmills1499]

Its been said that Deadpool can regenerate from a single cell. So if Deadpool is decapitated, would the body regrow a head and the head regrow a body?

[@NinjaBearFilms]

The limits of the regeneration by looking at real world animals capable of regeneration has been covered in a previous episode. Go check it out. But the short answer is… the full extent of his regeneration as shown in the comics is already beyond the scope of reality. So the answer would be yes, if the authors need it to work that way. 🤓

[@Frankenstein077]

That's what happens with Planarian Worms. If you cut them in half both halves will grow into whole individuals.

[@Sacremas]

This was Lobo's original power, he was made as an over the top parody of Wolverine largely so his regen was so that if he even bled, each drop of blood would grow a new Lobo, who all would then battle it out while screaming "bastich" at each other until only one true Lobo remained. This power was removed later by Vril Dox, son of Brainiac. For Deadpool, the times he's been decapitated he has always later had the head reattached, so it's unclear. The one time it was believed to have happened with Agent X (an amnesiac very similar to Deadpool) it turned out a freak incident had melded their powers and personalities instead... So it's still unknown.

[@mischief4258]

@Martin Smouter oh no

[@agonleed3841]

@@Sacremas that was the first deadpool comic I read since a kid...so I was confused as shit by the end lol

[@kysier6015]

Theory #2: The Marvel universe is all a computer simulation, and Wade keeps his memories via digital backups. Preferably backups in the cloud, only because then I could assume actual clouds are just memory storage.

[@rockyroadmagic4152]

Kysier so much cgi, it pretty much is a computer simulation

[@WAMTAT]

Comics can be silly, but Kyle makes them smart. A true superpower!

[@OCsigma]

This reminds me of something that happens in the anime "Ajin". In one part, the protagonist (who is inmortal) is captured by a guy who is hunting him down. He says he can't kill him, but he can do something similar: to cut off his head, so all that makes him who he is dies (severed parts don't regenerate), while the body regenerates a new one, with a completely different personality and memories

[@JeremyWS]

I've always assumed that if Deadpool was decapitated, he would just pick up his severed head and place it on his shoulders and regrow the neck. So by reattaching the severed head to the body, Deadpool would avoid having to regenerate a new head. That's what I have always thought on this topic. This would always avoid having to worry about losing memories, as Deadpool would just be reattaching his severed, not re-growing a new one. Does that make sense? Great video, keep up the good work. Have a nice day/night.

[@hooded0166]

I would think the reattaching a limb is possible. For instance, in the second deadpool, it is weakly implied that DP is able to do this. I derived this from the scene where Colossus is dragging DP's "parts" to the mansion and in the next scene he is whole. This may have just been movie magic with some time compression and he actually just regrew his body cause the mouth was still working in the bag.

[@elbee2324]

One could have one's head exploded, or have the amputation at the brain level rather than the neck level. Then you still have problems with nerve regeneration and memory loss. Sure, a neck can be regrown, but there are other ways to have one's brain damaged. :-(

[@Jose-wq4zr]

But Kyle, if dp for some reason regenerated not only on the cellular but the atomic level as well, wouldn't he also regenerate his memories as well? It is an exact atomic copy after all.

[@galiciaart]

Actually in one comic thor turns deadpool into ashes whit other guy, who's name i don't want to remember, and both of them come back in a single body, kind of mixing both personalities and memories

[@ProfAzimov]

Memories are electric signals passing through the brain. If regrown, the neurons are new, so they don't have the ability to regenerate the electric signals

[@Gibbypastrami]

i would love a scene in a deadpool movie where he loses half his head (idk where motor functions are controlled, but basically cut off the head in a way where this part is preserved) and proceeds to feel where his lack of head is, queue a funny one-liner about losing his head

[@ninathepink]

This is probably my favorite video. I love everything to do with brains, they're just so cool!

[@masterhypnos6783]

The explanation at about 9:00 of the results of Deadpool regrowing his head to be a different person make him sound like a Time Lord.

[@aLumpOfParticles]

mabey in the future deadpool can upload his memory by wi fi and then regrow a head with the same memories like in nier automata(but in nier automata is a new body being with the same memories)

[@Anthonybrother]

i'm still playing that

[@Renallis]

Hardly ever comment but i love your vids! Just wanted to say great work to you and all of your crew! Memory is so strange but amazing!

[@mikenapier3598]

Hey Kyle, love the show and happy holidays. If deadpool was to lose his head and regenerate it the matter to grow a new head would have to come from somewhere. So his body would need fuel(food) to get the biomass needed to regenerate his head....so does that mean his headless body is taking in food down the hole where his esophagus would be? I mean without a jaw, he would have to survive off a easily digestible food that does not require chewing(because no teath). The mental image of a headless body feeding itself by pouring food down its neck hole is....well messy.

[@sevenproxies4255]

He could be converting other cells (biomass) from other parts of his body to regrow bodyparts. The human body doesn't directly use all nutrients that you eat. A lot of it gets stored in the form of fat. If you don't eat for a while, the body will start to consume fat reserves to keep itself going. But normal humans mostly consume fat as a source of energy. So what if Deadpool has body fat that essentially work as stem cells instead? That way he could regrow a bodypart without having to "eat it back" first. However, he would probably feel extremely hungry afterwards.

[@richardbogard7083]

Hey Kyle, I may be wrong since i learned this in high school and that was a while ago, but when you drew the neurons the electrical signals were animated going both directions along the axon. Isn't the axon usually sending signals and the dendrites receiving signals therefore meaning it is not a 2-way street? Of course if you consider reuptake then that may be what was shown, but I'm pretty sure that reuptake doesn't really produce electrical signals. P.s. I know it's hard to be an amazing artist and show 100% detail with markers, but you did a really good job on showing the synaptic cleft and myelin sheath on the axons. :)

[@ruyman90]

Here is some thought food, when superheroes regenerate almost immediately like in wolverine, deadpool, attack on titan, etc they shouldn't have hair or fingernails, but somehow they do. Think about it, they regenerate and create new cells but pilling up dead cells is a different process and if you say that the regeneration process, lets say of a limb, includes a combination of creating and killing new cells and then stacking them up then that would mean that they would grow their hair and nails everytime they heal, but that isn't the case. Somehow their hair and fingernails always grow up to a comfortable point. Does their healing factor somehow know how long a fingernail or every hair thread should be? That's without mentioning the amount of bacteria that don't form part of their DNA so they shouldn't be able to regenerate them and that their bodies need for digestion. They would have stomach ache and malnutrition for months

[@GoldenWhistle]

Their emotion change how long their hair could be. If wolverine go berserk, his hair grows super long.

[@aaronnguyen4506]

wade doesn't really have hair. he's all skin and tumors.

[@hardthinking]

All cells on the last layer (stratum corneum) of epidermis are keratinized and dead.

[@pyr0maniac227]

Hey Kyle, there was a time in the comics when Wade Wilson regrew his entire body from one atom. (Theres a fun story behind it 10/10 recommend) I was wondering how difficult that would be and how long it could take realistically.

[@fugeman2]

The real question is, can deadpool regenerate meeeeemes

[@oncetmitie5278]

if a meme is dead it's dead........i mean do yu kno da whey

[@SilverSidedSquirrel]

4:13 : "You insensitive Prick! Do you have any idea how much that stings?!"

[@dakotam9358]

being that DP break the 4th wall constantly he can just watch/read his history/memories

[@Jin92727]

5:20 wouldn’t you have baby hands xD

[@VanHonkerton]

Couldn't find the sources for my claims but I seem to recall that one reason why Deadpool is constantly insane is the supercancer constantly mushing is brains and his regeneration repairing the damage, one x-man or similar commented to it that Deadpool literally _changes his mind_ every 10 or so seconds. Also probably related as to why no psychic will ever try to invade his mind.

[@ToabyToastbrot]

While it would be more probable that he deadpool would regenerate with a blank memory, there might also be a chance that his neurons - randomly connected to each other after regeneration - would make him a whole different person. That would lead to even more fun, when he dosn't get decapitated but looses only half of his brain. He could regenerate and have a lot of wrong memorys that make no sense whatsoever. That sounds like a fun Plot to me!

[@HyperionaSilverleaf]

Sounds like a Marvel What If one shot or mini series.

[@Sacremas]

There's an infamous incident of an American worker that got a steel bar through his frontal lobe and a actually changed personalities in the process, becoming cold and aloof, almost like a psychopath... So such a story would have grounds in reality! Instead the result in the comics is usually similar to the knife in the skull incident in the first movie, or just the loss of motor function, though it has been used to explain Deadpool's sometimes changing personality and retcons.

[@Tfin]

Psychopathy isn't a learned trait made by memories though, you start out with defective structure and/or chemistry.

[@ToabyToastbrot]

@@Tfin well destroyed/regenerated and unusable sounds a lot like defective

[@Tfin]

Yes. I'm saying that it isn't new memories as you proposed that make someone like that.

[@BluePhoenixAlex]

The weird thing about regrowing his head, is that in a lot of the comics he regrows from his head. Like in the marvel zombies run, he lived as a zombie head for a long time. And the time wade had a stalker at a mental Institute, she cut off "enough parts to make another me", as deadpool put it. Hence the birth of evilpool

[@joetheatomboy]

Thanks Kyle & team! Happy holidays!

[@elijahtaboy]

What about muscle memory which is stored in the nerves in your spine. Would wade still have his fighting skills and reflexes.

[@josephsexson3319]

We know from studying biology that each eukaryotic cell in the human body contains the same DNA inside the organelle called the Nucleus. Since Deadpool is a mutant, it could be possible that his cells have also mutated to have another organelles that we don’t have. One of those potential organelles could function as a way of storing memories, removing the dependence on having memories be from the synapses formed in the brain. If this were the case, Deadpool would be able to regenerate his memories since they would be in all of his cells, and not just in his neurons. Furthermore, this could be a one time mutation with Wade Wilson, leaving your Wolverine anecdote with the adimantium bullet to still be applicable.

[@dragonjaw95]

2:41 the marker shouldn't drop straight down when you grip it like that. The momentum of the slash should be transfered somewhat to the hand and finger and launch the marker to the left when leaving the sliced hands.

[@PennyOMG]

I know you were going off a quote from Liefeld, but I have to think it would make more sense for his head to regenerate a new body rather than the other way around. It would be interesting if he could do both, though. It would be, like, big-head/tiny-body DP riding big-body/small-head DP, like Master Blaster from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Of course, if that happened, it would beg the question: how many DPs could you have? Like, if you just kept bisecting Wade until he stopped duplicating himself. Think the brooms Mickey brings to life in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

[@optimisticpessimist..]

Perhaps, instead of the body regrowing a head; it is the head that begins regrowing the body. Now I do understand that the head would have a finite amount of resources which may not be sufficient to regrow an entire body, but if possible, it would resolve the issue of memories becoming unrecoverable. In addition it would make sense that the head would send signals to trigger the regrowing process, rather than the body, otherwise wouldn't a severed limb (say a hand) try to grow the arm>shoulder>body>etc?

[@ItsAlreadyRendered]

Hey Kyle, big fan of the show for a long time. I do have one problem with the end of the video. In X2 when Wolverine gets shot in the head, his ENTIRE skeleton is covered in adamantium including his skull. Adamantium canonically speaking is basically unbreakable. That would mean the bullet did not penetrate his skull and scramble his brain. HOWEVER, the force of that bullet may have been enough to give him a concussion and knock him out briefly. If that's the case he would have some bruising on the brain (which knowing him would heal) and then the skin would muscle tissue would push the bullet out of the forehead as they grew back. That would mean his memories would still be intact.

[@ZydrateKnight]

Another explanation that I've not seen in the comments so far is that on occasion Deadpool has possessed the Continuity infinity stone, which allowed him to talk to the comic writers, and even view and alter his own continuity.

[@Desklamp1234]

Do one about why freezing time would be bad, like how if you froze time and moved there would be a trail of implosion's when you unfreeze time.

[@osmo2384]

I wonder how many of these comments were purely written, just to get into footnotes...

[@WAMTAT]

They only read the smart comments in footnotes.

[@Renallis]

not always sometimes they look for silly or random lol :P @@WAMTAT

[@deunanknute6318]

In Species II, one of the infected Astronauts, Commander Ross (Justin Lazard), shot himself in the head with a shotgun taking off the top, which regenerated, however he was no longer home, in his place the mind of the species infection had taken complete control over his body.

[@trevorstevenson8231]

I like how you pulled your hair back before cutting your head off to make it easier to do

[@OmarFeliciano]

I think if that ever happen the writers should make it clear that in case of decapitation he will regen from head/neck down not from body/neck up or head needs to be reattach to body. This way they have cover any probable loophole/or further issues this could may cause in story etc.

[@lavarball939]

Matpat already bet u at answering this question...

[@arghnoor]

What does that even mean

[@vividsftw67]

Scadelapers film theorist Mattpatt answered this already

[@ThatSoddingGamer]

My theory is that his mind is now backed up in his cells, genetic memory if you will. I'm pretty sure they've actually determined that there is some degree of genetic memory even with mundane humans. Well, there is certainly epigentics at least, some changes that are made over the course of your life based on experiences (environmental and mental states). It's all rather a stretch of course, but not any moreso than the idea of a person regrowing whole limbs over the course of seconds/minutes/hours.

[@JoeKawano]

When I saw his hair was pulled back in 4:05, I thought, “Oh, he’s going to get his head cut off in an effect!”

[@caveman_casey]

Kyle, I heard somewhere that some people who receive a donated organ also experience some of that person’s memories and cravings. If that is true then memories might also be stored in your bodies cells and Deadpool might actually be able to regrow his memories with his head.

[@RocketLR]

Imagine if the memory is stored in other parts of his body like in a hdd Raid configuration where he can afford to loose one part because he can rebuild it from the information stored in the others.

[@kidsonblackops]

This channel's staff would be the best science teachers in schools.

[@cz1822]

Similarly, wouldn’t you lose your memories after quantum teleportation? As I understand it - and correct me if I’m wrong - quantum teleportation basically takes all of the information of your exact composition, down to the atomic level, sends that information to a second location, and builds an exact copy of you, perfect down to the atomic level in the new location. The part that makes it teleportation, not cloning, is the fact that in order to get the precise information to create a copy of you, the only methods we have of getting information that precisely change the state of your particles, essentially destroying the old you. If you are teleporting using this method, you wouldn’t retain these same connections between neurons, since it is essentially creating a new brain, similarly to what was said in this episode. It would stand to reason that you would lose your memories.

[@bryceadams4118]

For your information the comics recently retconned his regeneration saying that it only regenerates cancerous cells.

[@martianepic]

Not sure if this qualifies as Super Nerd material but a thought none the less. I agree that if Deadpool had to regrow his head from scratch because it was blown off, he would lose all his memories. But if he merely had it sliced of at the neck, wouldn't that leave his his head, brain, and memories intact? Wouldn't his head just have to regrow the body?

[@RunToEternity]

I think Deadpool can control his healing with his intent to some extent. If his head was severed, he could signal his body to delay regeneration for a time until his head could re-attach. After a certain time without re-attachment though, a new head could re-grow. That way, say if he lost his left arm during a battle, he could collect his lost arm and re-attach it without having to grow a whole new one.

[@phattony2000]

Kyle just solved the 'how does Deadpool work in the MCU' problem, good job by you

[@kysier6015]

Another thing to think about is the question of consciousness. As others pointed out, he can regain memories using his ability to break the fourth wall, but would he still have that ability? Would he still be deadpool, or wade wilson, at all? Or, would he be a different person entirely. If he did lose his brain, wouldn't it stand to reason that deadpool, the current self aware version, would indeed die, and be replaced by a new entity entirely? It's basically a question of what makes you, you. Considering that 4th wall question though, I don't believe Wade Wilson would retain his ability to do that, since he would likely no longer be Wade Wilson at all on regeneration. Unless of course were all in a computer simulation and there's backups of everyone.

[@angel235229]

One thing that seems to be a thing, (at least in the movies) is that Deadpool regenerates from the head. If he was decapitated, he wouldn't regrow a head, he would regrow an everything else. He'd be left as just a head for weeks, maybe months as a limp, sarcastic head, so as long as his head was in tact, wouldn't have the need to regrow memories.

[@jacesmith6666]

If you haven't seen Ajin, I highly reccomend it. Basically a few people in the world cant die. They will renegerate anything needed and comeback after death. The main antagonist, as a punishment for them will cut off their heads and let both the head and body grow back both needed parts. They cant tell which is the real one

[@j-pastel-yellow]

The string of that necklace looks like a freshly stitched cut.

[@Wietecha.]

He survived being rurned to ash in the incinerator and not eating for years (because of which he probably shouldn't be able to grow cells), so it has to be more of a magic thing. Also, he once regenerated from his hand and DID lose his memories

[@darkriverfarmer699]

OK I SAW AN AXOLOTL IN THE PREVIEW SCREEN AND IM REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE I HAVE AN AXY AND I LOVE AXIES SOOOO MUCH plus deadpool is my favorite marvel character. also in case youre wondering his name is Wade, YES after Wade Wilson, YES because of the regenerative capabilities im NOT obsessed.

[@MidwestArtMan]

When caterpillars turn into butterflies, they digest their bodies inside the cocoon which allows them to create a butterfly body out of the protein-filled liquid that remains. They have "imaginal discs" which are kind of like blueprints for each body part that don't dissolve and make it possible to correctly form their new bodies. Some caterpillars have been found to be able to retain memories from the larval stage to adulthood and some (not sure if it's the same species) form their imaginal discs before they go into the pupa stage. So theoretically, if Deadpool had an imaginal disc for his head, he could regenerate memories, right? Although I'm guessing it wouldn't update instantly when he experiences new things, so he'd likely be a few hours or days behind from when he was decapitated.

[@Mystic_Eddie]

You know, it's pretty interesting. An anime, Ajin, covered this exact subject. The immortal characters view decapitation as the closest thing to death, inspite of retaining memories.

[@benedikte8613]

Did they experiments after they decapitated planarian flatworms regarding memory? i found a study from 2013, quote : "We show that worms exhibit environmental familiarization, and that this memory persists for at least 14 days - long enough for the brain to regenerate. We further show that trained, decapitated planaria exhibit evidence of memory retrieval in a savings paradigm after regenerating a new head"

[@seanjohnson8344]

You missed one thing. Deadpool’s memory’s and sense of self can exist outside his body. This is apparent with his discussions with lady dearth. I propose that his brain is more of a receiver of his mind. Damage can mess up reception but will eventual heal back.

[@marcuscorrea88]

Even thou all of this makes alot of sense. Deadpool DID regenerated brain with memories once, during "Agent X" comics. Someone says that should be impossible making a very good comparison with "regenerating a arm is ok but regenerating memories would be not only re-growing the arm, but having a tatto grow with it". I though it was a very good compartison at the time..... still he did regene memories because comics.

[@XaneFrostwind]

One exception to this though is if Deadpool didn't regrow his head from his body, but rather his body from his head.

[@farcasdanandrei4344]

Great episode but.... 1 there are insects that regenerate their entire head and don't loose their memory because there are other cells that can keep the memory ( what you said about the memory coming back in a different way). 2 You said that the brain needs experience but there are studies that show you can create a memory, that is false, about you playing the piano ( may be not that complex) and you can do it ( the thing with muscle memory is false you said that in an episode :)) ). The experiment i think is done on mice and it's a way to deal with post traumatic stress in patients that have been to war and things like that to introduce new memories and eliminate others.... BECAUSE SCIENCE!! and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

[@jakhebmatthews804]

Deadpool could retain his knowledge through genetic memory which he is able to control as part of his mutation. He would just have an adjustment phase after it being regrown. This is supported by his reaction to being stabbed in the head in the first movie, he clearly remembers everything and has no loss of moter function but is out of it for a while hallucinating cartoons.

[@BlurryPaladin]

Something interesting that I thought of was what if Deadpool regrew his brain with specific connections already in place? It would explain why the voices in his head are always there, at least that would male sense to me. Not sure if the science could back it up

[@strangerangel7722]

I think because of his ability to break the fourth wall, he doesn't necessarily "store " his memory. The writer is who determines what he says, so he sort of has the brain of the writer. Some Deadpools ( from different universes) know things that other Deadpools don't, because the writers determine what he does and doesn't know. So even if his head is cut off, the writer can still have him know everything pre-decapitation.

[@OriginalPiMan]

I've always thought it more likely that Deadpool would regenerate his body rather than his head, in the event of decapitation.

[@briandanforth24]

I thought they have done studies with flat worms . The worms run a maze and once they know the maze then they blend them up and feed to another flat worm the worm can ru. The maze faster than a worm that didn’t run the maze before. That suggests that memory is transferred in some way.

[@michaelbobic7135]

Would he still have muscle memory? Does muscle memory actually send signals to the brain? When I was younger, they said the signals did not go to the brain, but I've seen recent studies saying they do.

[@oddranch1429]

The thing with Wolverine being shot with adamantium bullet is it would create a weak spot, because his brain and skull would regen but not the adamantium covering it so he would have a bullut sized area of exposed skull that could be penetrated with normal weaponry.

[@GabrielTrentinBarbosa]

2:41 worst joke of the week I loved it

[@Morgankohntopp96]

Was not expecting my name to be mentioned at the end! Thought he was breaking the fourth wall, tripped me out!

[@Dan-ch8kv]

It depends on your understanding of his ontology. If his consciousness isn’t material (which seems to be the case in the real world), then it would be a matter of his mind body connection. So when his body and brain are destroyed, he would be able to grow everything back and his consciousness would remain intact. But the brain is also the center by which the person operates, so if anything grows back in a manner other than it originally was, then he may not have full access to everything that was originally available to him.

[@nosajwolf333]

anyone notice that every time when he got his head chopped his hair was always in a ponytail? I know why but i just wanted to know if anyone else noticed that.

[@christsdisciple3105]

Question: What if his body changed in the mutation to where it's not just his brain storing memories, but every cell in his nervous system? Would that even be possible? Or possibly help explain how his body recognizes that his head needs to regenerate?

[@nyetloki]

Actually, its both. He remembers imperfectly. On top of the regeneration, his super cancer (his cancer also has the healing factor) causes his brain to reform all the time and he regularly forgets things.

[@bobshark666]

What about blood cells holding memories. There are some cases of transplant patients gaining memories of the person they gained their organs from.

[@CrazyP0tat095]

i feel like if he lost his head in the form of decap i feel like his body would regrow from the head hangman style and the body he had would just rot or become the deadpool husk

[@kaiserwigglesiii2369]

A neat comic idea would be that for every lost limb Wade grows a clone from it, but the big fella of marvel (the tribunal or something, the one that's supposed to keep a given universe working) cleans it up and moves it somewhere else. Then a big reveal crops up in that every flake of skin or hair that pops off grows another deadpool, which spawns some astronomical number of deadpools, all sitting in some cosmic warehouse. Maybe they revolt and kill the tribunal, and escape to fuck shit up and dick around the cosmos eternally omnipresently. Idek, it's an idea, I'm high, and it's 5 A.M. But then that's where most great ideas come from, isn't it?

[@bland9876]

That computers can regenerate memories if we consider regenerating memories as the equivalent of Setting up a raid. And having one of the drives died. And then just replacing it with another.

[@levin2951]

The anime Ajin is about that. The only way to stop the evil guy is to cut of his head so he will forget everything.

[@vasiledan3141]

Maybe he can somehow make an epigenetic "backup" of his memories. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in normal humans epigenetics already encode some of parent's "experiences" (i.e. environment), which are passed down to offspring.

[@WillPower311]

This is by far my Favorite Show!!! Alright, what if Deadpool was sliced straight up the middle? Would he then regrow on both sides hence becomong double Deadpool or Doublepool? Also what if his head regrew his body instead? I think this is possible in starfish and worms.

[@Anthonybrother]

I think that's just weird. I think there's always a smaller half that should die and a larger half that should regenerate. Unless he was made to stay immobile and cut with microscopic precision. I don't see that happening in a fight. Would make an insane torture scene, though.