Red blood icon

When hit by some attacks, Deadpool’s ‘a little off the top’ for example, a red blood icon appears over the health symbol. Does this signify anything?

Deadpool just slashed your dude… right in the Health Bar! 'Cause he’s Deadpool!

The animation should show him slicing a health bar in half, because I didn’t get it for a while either. I think he’s the only character that bloodies the Health Bar, though.

I always (erroneously) thought this meant that he reduced a character’s maximum health by x%. So slashing Patch meant that he could only heal himself up to his new reduced maximum. And I thought that’s why the health bar got the red blood on them.

Would have been an interesting mechanic. Obviously the reduced amount would only be for that match.

This was my first thought on the ability too.
I think it would have made it more interesting. 65% is a lot, so the values would have to be tweaked slightly, and it would have to be made so that it couldn’t stack.

The move is probably inspired by Deadpool on Marvel vs Capcom 3 where he picks up the health bar and attacks the opponent with it. Too bad the actual animation in MPQ doesn’t reflect him slashing the health bar.

Ok, now I want to put down MPQ and go play that.

So you want them to nerf his red? No thanks.

Yeah, it’s a neat idea, but if they added that ability and kept it the damage same it would be OP, but if they reduced the damage it would be horrible.