I have not read any Deadpool comics recently but this movie absolutely reminded me of Deadpool's 1990s comic book. While those comics didn't have the nudity and uncensored language, it definitely had
that kind of violence.
I don't know if you read comic books but they can be as violent or more violent than any movie. In the comics, Deadpool was shooting and slicing his opponents like many other characters in their own books.
The Crow from Caliber Comics, Spawn from Image Comics, the V for Vendetta graphic novels from DC Comics' Vertigo imprint and the Watchmen graphic novels, also, from DC Comics had depictions of violence in their comic books before they were ever made into R rated movies.
Also Spawn, from Image Comics, was adapted into an animated series on HBO for mature audiences in the late 1990s. An upcoming animated movie from DC Comics will get an R rating as well. Batman: The Killing Joke one-shot graphic novel published in 1988, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland.
The graphic novel has scenes of torture with the animated movie using most of the source material including those scenes. According to this article, Batman: The Killing Joke is the first animated adaptation from DC and the WB to get an R rating.
http://fansided.com/2016/04/17/batman-killing-joke-slapped-r-rating/Besides Vertigo, there were other imprints and lines of comic books that targeted mature readers due to the graphic nature of the stories and art such as Marvel Comics' Epic and MAX imprints (Epic in the 1980s & 1990s and MAX after 2001).
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