In the 2016 film Deadpool, what is the name of Wade Wilson’s fiancée?

Vanessa Carlysle is Wade Wilson’s fiancée in the 2016 film Deadpool. She is played by Morena Baccarin and is introduced as Wade’s partner before his cancer diagnosis and experimental treatment transform his life. Their relationship supplies the film’s central emotional motivation.

In the movie, Wade leaves Vanessa after accepting a procedure that he believes may cure his cancer. The treatment instead activates his latent mutant abilities while severely scarring his body. He adopts the Deadpool identity and later returns to rescue Vanessa after learning that Ajax has taken her.

The name can cause confusion because Vanessa Carlysle is also the comics identity of Copycat, a shapeshifting mutant. The film version is primarily presented as Wade’s human romantic partner, rather than emphasizing that comic-book identity. Deadpool was directed by Tim Miller and became the first X-Men-related film to receive an R rating in the United States.