DEADPOOL Director Discusses Negasonic Teenage Warhead's Powers
Over the holiday weekend, 20th Century Fox released two trailers for the upcoming Deadpool movie, one of which was a red-band trailer that fans absolutely loved. These trailers offered us our first look at Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead showing her powers in action.
It was surprising to see because, in the comics, Negasonic Teenage Warhead's power set was purely psychic, but as you saw in the trailer, director Tim Miller gave her some new abilities that are definitely more fitting of her name. During a recent interview with Empire, Miller talked about her powers:
"Her power, I mean, we chose her because we wanted a trainee for Colossus in the film and the writers and I just fell in love with her name. It’s just so out there and so Deadpool and it was Grant Morrison who named her, so we knew we had to get her in there. And then we thought, well, we’re going to need to make her powers fit with who she feels like she is in the movie and so to me it’s just like other characters in the Marvel universe, like Nitro, for instance, whose power is to just explode parts of their body. But we did try to do it so that it wasn’t just a simple, ‘oh, I can explode’, she can transfer the force of the explosion down so she can move upwards - she can put it into a punch if she wanted to. So it was really just her fist exploding as she hit somebody. we tried to mix it up, even though we didn’t use that particular thing in the movie, but it was the idea. Actually, we did use it in the movie, it’s just not in the movie now!"
Miller went on to talk about Negasonic Teenage Warhead's personality and her relationship with the Merc with a Mouth.
"I think Deadpool wishes she’d keep her mouth shut more than she does in the film! Because she’s quite snarky,” but, you know, her whole attitude is this disaffected teen who thinks Deadpool’s just a douchebag. And so that’s her whole attitude. She’s really not that silent in the film or at least she’s silently surly because she just can’t be bothered to engage with this a**hole. That’s the basics of her personality: silently shaming, judgemental personality."
That definitely comes across in the trailers! She seems like she’ll be a fun character for Deadpool to interact with. The movie hits theaters on February 12th, 2016. To watch the latest trailers again, click here!