I'm glad you did, too! (And yeah, Bugs is totally a trickster.)

I have been wanting to read more Deadpool. I absolutely love fourth wall play. (I've got characters in my sci-fi stories who have a religion that says they are all characters in a story and god is the author. And a few other references that make me think they're on to me ...)

The guilty pleasure we get at things like the disappearing pencil or his futzing around with the detonator before he explodes a hospital also make him powerful--clearly the dark humor is there, but he's the one who lets us admit it.

Thanks for bringing up Sherlock Holmes, too, since I think he's also in the modern pantheon!