Quote Originally Posted by Dfense75
While the costumes have few similarties at this point Rob Liefeld admits that Deathstroke was Deadpools inspiration.
Not anymore. Either someone is posting under his name on Newsarama, or he's changed his mind on that one.

robertliefeld wrote:

Never understood the Deathstroke/Deadpool thing other than the Dead/Death aspects of their names. So if you take away the buccaneer boots, the chain mail, the half mask, the buccaneer gloves.....you have Deadpool? Deathstroke has Superman's build, strong and broad, Deadpool has a slighter build, more Spider Man, Nightcrawler. And that's just what my naked eyes reveal at a glance.
See it here.

His full post is on the seventh page of comments.