Who Is Deadpool & Wolverine’s Bald Villain? Origin, Powers & Huge X-Men Link Explained

Deadpool & Wolverine will bring an incredibly powerful new villain to the MCU with major links to one of the most famous X-Men of all. The new Deadpool & Wolverine trailer offers the first full reveal of the bald villain, as she menacingly emerges from the skull of a giant-sized dead Ant-Man – her suitably macabre base – prompting inevitable questions over her identity.

Interestingly, the new Deadpool & Wolverine villain doesn’t come alone: the trailer also revealed the return of Fox X-Men characters Azazel (father of Nightcrawler) and Lady Deathstrike, adding them to the gang of mutants who seemingly serve their powerful master in The Void. But who is calling the shots and why is she such a threat to Deadpool’s pla to recruit Wolverine and save the Sacred Timeline?

Who Is The Bald Villain In Deadpool & Wolverine?

Deadpool & Wolverine‘s villain – as the trailer confirms – is Cassandra Nova, a genocidal mutant with a bald head who possesses terrifying powers, and was behind a massacre on Genosha that wiped out millions of mutants. That storyline has just been adapted in X-Men ’97, with Nova swapped out for Mister Sinister as the villain pulling the strings behind the Wild Sentinels.

Impressively, Cassandra Nova might have the darkest MCU villain origin of all. Thanos might have lost his entire planet, so he has a good claim to it, but Nova is the evil twin of Professor Charles Xavier, who attempted to kill him in utero and was killed in the process, only to be reborn in another body, vowing revenge. Oh, and she’s essentially a demon – the personification of what Marvel’s Shi’ar people call a Mummudrai, or an astral “shadow self” that everyone possesses.

Nova possesses the same impressive powers as Professor X, with more on top of his skillset, and the scale of her powers is only hinted at in the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer as she effortlessly fights off Hugh Jackman’s berserker using telekinesis. On top of that, she also comes with various other psychic powers, and is clearly powerful enough that Loki’s temporal monster – Alioth – hasn’t been able to take her out.