Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

This girl.  I'd been looking for this quote, which makes me a little misty eyed.  So, Deadpool still has Preston in his head, and Strange says maybe he and Preston, who is being magically pink-ified externally or whatever, should talk in his study.   Maybe Wade would like to be in alone with his thoughts.   Angry, Deadpool answers that he's not in the mood for jokes. 

"You are a human being, with rights and dignity."

See, Strange acknowledged the experimentation and how wrong what was done to him.   He says that he did well, under very hard circumstances.   And for me, Strange might as well be talking about Wade's every day life.   This hits to the core of my issues: the mental health issues in Deadpool. 

All I wanted was this.   Yes, it's treated horribly throughout this whole series, but y'know what?   Strange just redeemed the Marvel universe with one sentence.   All I really wanted was for someone to acknowledge that Wade has been taken advantage of horribly.   All I wanted was someone to sit down and listen and say despite this all, he's human, and should be treated as such rather than as living detritus.   (Fuck you, most of the rest of the Marvel universe.  I mean, I normally love you, but right now fuck you.)

I'm not sure if this is what the writers intended, but for me this hit the heart of the problems with the way that Deadpool was writing.   For me, it spoke to a truth, the truth that so many people who have different ways of seeing the world are discounted without anyone looking at them as if they are human. 

So, thank you, Doctor.   You're automatically my next Marvel fixation.  I'm adding you right now.  I really thought - maybe hoped - that it would be Wolverine or Cap who had said this.   I figured after North Korea.   But while they were nice, while they offered to catch up with him over a beer, and to share stories, what I really, really needed was this: a brief, a concise, acknowledgement of a very simple truth. 

Wade Wilson should be treated as a human, with the same rights and dignity as any other human.  

And yes, I'm now automatically seeing the Dr. Strange movie when it comes out.   Because of this.