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RE Taskmaster, that's really cool @comicwriter to learn that he/ his costume was sort of a rip-off of Deathstroke. I hadn't really thought of similarities before, but now they seem apparent.
It's also interesting to learn of him being more heinous in earlier appearances (although not necessarily surprising for the reasons noted by Known Unknown). Reading a bit of his Wikipedia entry, I was struck by the fact that in said less sympathetic appearances, his supervillain training was more in the way of running a Red Room like operation (with shades of the MCU version of Faustus), which would make that take on him well suited to be a Black Widow villain.
That being said, I'd be kind of disappointed to use him (and presumably kill him off) as the Big Bad of a Black Widow movie, because I'd far more like to see him in his more "lovable" form as an Ant-Man villain. In particular, I'm thinking it might be cool to adapt Nick Spencer's idea of him and Eric O'Grady ('s evil clone) as Those Two Bad Guys in some kind of Dark Avengers movie, in which they were Scott and Luis' evil equivalents.
This discussion also reminds me that one of my only complaints (besides the underlying assumption that Wikileaks is good) with Winter Soldier is having Batroc as an example of Ruthless Modern Pirates with a stated reputation for killing captives. Because besides being an exaggerated French stereotype, Batroc's salient feature in the comics is that he's a pretty noble, heroic guy. Like the way, I understand him is basically what you'd get if you took a Gentleman Thief character of the kind played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, but made him the antagonist, and threw him in a world where he was generally outclassed.
And like he and Taskmaster are fairly similar in characterization, with the difference that Batroc frequently turns against evil employers when he learns of their true plans, whereas Tastmaster will do his job, regardless of any qualms, and just wants to collect a paycheck.
The major downside to using him against Ant-Man is that neither Ant-Man nor Wasp give him any opportunity to show off his schtick, since unless they give him full power copying he can’t duplicate superpowers - and if you were going to do that, you might as well use a different villain, like AMAZO the Super Adaptoid - and he’s not liable to be training people to be size shifters even if he could.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 4th 2019 at 6:55:43 AM
The Ultimate comics had a habit of making characters stronger either for Rule of Cool or convenience’s sake, yeah.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 4th 2019 at 7:01:17 AM
I think Ultimate Taskmaster has the ability to channel energy, like a knockoff Bishop
Didn’t matter because like many arrogant and mighty before and after, he fell to the venom sting
And basically got his ass kicked by children whereas the 616 Taskmaster got his start punking an entire roster of Avengers
His only weakness was Jocasta because like the writers most days he just didn’t know she existed
Edited by Bocaj on Apr 4th 2019 at 11:20:28 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHypothetical scenario:
Thanos' plan was based on resource management and bad math.
We know it has unintended negative consequences because it doesn't take into account infrastructure that exists for resource delivery or that can affect lives and throw the math off, such as the automotive and aviation collisions we saw in the post credit scene, or how life saving support staff can be erased, such as in the Ant-Man end credit scene, or if neo-natal doctors were snapped away, etc.
(we also know it wouldn't work unless everyone in the universe knew his issue was resource management, immediately and evenly took fair population restrictions to curb it, and allowed for the equitable distribution of existing resources, such that localized food scarcity or other such concerns weren't an issue)
"Not a great plan."
But let's say that as a result of his snap, a dangerous, hateful government leader(s) was removed from existence. At least under that individual's territory, during the time after the snap, people fared better without them. Would it be fair, good, or what have you, to undo the snap and restore them?
Or what if some people fell in love due to the snap, and remarried after their spouses died? Or made some other, non-resource based life decisions? Would simply undoing the snap, or restoring people to life, be ethical?
If it's within your powers to undo a genocide and you choose to actively not do so, that makes you the villain.
My various fanfics.I mean, if you have a timeship and don't at least try to undo one of the many, many, many genocides throughout history... yeah, that's bad.
My various fanfics.Edited by alliterator on Apr 4th 2019 at 11:30:40 AM
Well, you're just not going back far enough, then. You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally!
My various fanfics.

He also has a maybe baby in Finesse from Avengers Academy so if they ever do an Avengers Academy thing he could show up as her probable papa in a search for her origins.
Edited by slimcoder on Apr 4th 2019 at 3:02:09 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."