![]() ![]() ![]() He is also trained in meditation, including a technique that enables him to conserve breath. His physical skills include multiple martial arts (modern and historical styles), boxing, wrestling, swordsmanship, archery, marksmanship, juggling, gymnastics, aerial acrobatics and sleight of hand. These latter two powers, gained during Albino’s experiments, have apparently worn off.Ī naturally gifted athlete, Taskmaster has trained himself into superb physical condition. Taskmaster also briefly gained the power to duplicate others’ superhuman abilities by watching them use their powers. For a time, Taskmaster could double his speed and reflexes to the point where he could grab bullets mid-flight, but he could only maintain his heightened state for minutes before risking permanent physical damage to his body. He can also use his ability to mimic the voices of others and to learn new languages. When facing an opponent he has already studied, Taskmaster can virtually predict his enemy’s attacks, and he can see through disguises of anyone he has studied by recognizing their unique body language, making it virtually impossible to conceal any identity from him. By reviewing recordings of movements periodically, Taskmaster can retain duplicated moves indefinitely. He cannot duplicate feats that require superhuman strength or other superhuman attributes. Taskmaster’s “photographic reflexes” enable him to watch another person’s physical movements and duplicate them without practice, no matter how unique or complex these movements might be. Taskmaster single-handedly holds his own against both Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, and Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man in combat while tempted to test himself against all the Avengers, he realizes that he would not be able to run his business from jail and ends up fleeing after the unfamiliar abilities of obscure robotic Avengers associate, Jocasta, throws him off balance Photographic Reflexes Parnell Solomon develops heart problems and has Taskmaster’s science staff grow him a clone, Selbe, to harvest for a replacement organ though Selbe escapes and runs to the Avengers, who expose the operation with the aid of their ally Scott Lang, AKA Ant-Man. Taskmaster then sets up the Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane as a front for one of his training academies, but its administrator Dr. Designing a costume, he takes the moniker “Taskmaster”. Initially committing several grand larcenies, he decides it smarter to avoid risking direct confrontation with law enforcers, and uses his stolen capital to establish himself as a combat trainer for aspiring professional criminals-specializing in producing henchmen for Super Villains and criminal organizations around the world one unidentified early graduate of his criminal academy would become espionage legend Spymaster. He studies television footage of various Super Heroes and their techniques to expand his combat repertoire. After graduating high school he contemplates becoming a Super Hero, but decides crime would be more lucrative. Afterwards, his mother calls in psychiatrists who study his ability, terming it “photographic reflexes.” He revels in his abilities in his youth, even becoming his high school football team’s quarterback after watching one professional football game. Growing to understand his ability, he sees a man perform a difficult backwards leap from a diving board he duplicates the dive, but nearly drowns because he does not know how to swim. He discovers his unusual abilities in childhood when, after watching a cowboy television program, he finds he can duplicate the actor’s rope tricks. The man who would become the Taskmaster is born a prodigious savant of mnemonic talents in the Bronx, a borough of New York City to an unidentified mother. He makes quite a bundle training and distributing hired help to the Super-Villain trade, and when he’s not a hired combat instructor, he’s a covert operative for government agencies. Anthony “Tony” Masters realizes at a young age that he has photographic reflexes and grows up to become a career criminal, able to replicate Super Hero moves. ![]()
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