The encyclopedia of the villain: Taskmaster

When he was a boy, Tony Masters watched a cowboy tv show, fascinated by the string movements he wanted to try and he replied perfectly, a group of psychiatrists came to analyze it and diagnosed it with "photographic reflexes" capable of reflecting movements of anyone he pays attention to. When he was a teenager he became the best American football player since he copied the movements of professional players, but that was not enough for Tony Masters, he wanted to become a crime fighter, copy fighting styles and fight with criminals, but he end up choosing to be a criminal after thinking that he would have more money.

He got to rob some banks after seeing movements of superheroes that would help him in the robbery, after robbing the banks he realized that although he had those skills the danger and the risk remained the same, with the stolen money he founded an academy to elite criminals, where he would train them in the art of fighting and copying. By day, director of an academy for criminals, at night, a mercenary who does anything for money, not having his own ideology or opinion for the job, does whatever it takes to pay.

Taskmaster has a fairly extensive repertoire of knowledge, can use any weapon and knows all possible fighting styles, but all that knowledge takes a space in its finite memory. Forget memories of the past every time he gets extensive knowledge, always wears a mask and is good in disguise, few, if not nobody has come to see his face and maybe, not even he remembers it...

Since he was a child he had that power called "photographic reflections" but he cannot be counted as a mutant, the category where a person like him can enter is difficult. Apart from that, he get to inject a modified medicine to increase memory, get to analyze it faster and retain more information.

In addition to having experience fighting heroes and villains, he can use any weapon perfectly when he see elite users of them, the only person who has faced him was Deadpool, due to its insane characteristic that is not defined, it is difficult to realize what it is his pattern.

The first time I saw Taskmaster was in the animated series of "The Amazing Spider-Man" and I thought it was a fearsome villain, capable of replicating whatever an almost invincible opponent did, the only way to defeat him would be with a Complete team and of people with unique abilities. The fact that he never showed his face and was good to disguise, caught my attention too much, I investigated the character but the truth, nothing in his story impressed me.

The only thing that stands out is that he has trained supervillains and heroes, he does everything for money and until one day he can become a puppet that only reacts to money given his memory problem, his ability can also destroy it. Taskmaster does not appear on many sides, it must be because of its potential that a fearsome enemy makes it, it is normal that writers do not always place their strongest characters in common stories because they would know what would happen.

Even so, he will be a main character in the new Marvel movie, so I thought it would be good to give an understanding of the character, to an open-mouth so that you come to understand why the character is like that.

I hope you liked the post and have been glad for the return of this section in my blog, I hope to retake it and make it frequent, without further adding, we read later my dear readers.