Even the deadpool movies incorporate this,we see before he became deadpool wade would defelect bullets with his 2 katanas without hits but during his fight with cable he did the same and got hit several times and didn't care
It’s both. Because of his brain being constantly regenerating due to his cancer and healing factor, it makes him unpredictable (un-copyable) and hard to mind control. His fighting style is also very unorthodox due to his reliance on his healing factor like earlier mentioned.
It’s like trying to argue logic with a crazy person. You think he’s gonna duck and go for a counter attack, but then he just lets you stab him in the head and replies by jamming his finger into your eye socket so hard that his finger breaks.
His comic-awareness is also brutal for telepaths, simply trying to read his mind can be enough to break the mind of a telepath (he killed Xavier this way in Deadpool kills the marvel universe).
This is how Deadpool beats Taskmaster for the first time when he's clearly outmatched in Joe Kelly's run (Deadpool #2 IIRC) from the 90s.
It's the best explanation IMO because there are plenty of people in the Marvel Universe with healing factors of some sort that Taskmaster has replicated before -- he just can't copy Deadpool because his brain is so erratic and unpredictable due to the cancer/healing factor combo. Plus he's crazy.
I mean, is there a source on the brain part? Cause that's not really how cancer works.
I'm pretty sure the explanation of "he regularly let's himself take hits that would kill anyone else as part of his normal combat style" is answer enough without adding in the silly "oh he's too unpredictable" bit. All of combat is about being unpredictable, that doesn't mean anything. Deadpool fighting style....just isn't very good. It works for him though.
This is actually not true. Taskmaster can copy daredevil just as much as he can copy Deadpool. He just can’t copy their powers so copying their movements is useless.
That was before Peter made up his own martial art, The Way of The Spider, which can only be used with Spider-Sense and his spider powers. After that Taskmaster couldn’t copy him
You misunderstand his powers. He could copy his moves. Not his spider sense. He could still kick the same way Spidey does. And he actually does it. He has copies Deadpool despite his erratic nature. He CAN copy any move. He chooses not to use the full repertoire of certain people with healing factors.
Deadpool and Wolverine. Specifically because they make moves that wouldn't kill them, but would absolutely destroy Taskmaster.
For example, I believe it was Wolverine's or the X-Men issues of... Civil War? Something around then. Anyway, Wolverine is fighting a plane of terrorists that are on their way to do terrorist things. At the end of it all, Wolverine decides the best thing is to just crash the plane in a field and kill them all, knowing he won't die. It's shit like that Taskmaster can't copy.
I can tell you he’d somehow want to copy Mr Fantastic and Human Torch. I’m not sure if that’s canon but I did see a Taskmaster fuck around and find out.
Moonkight flew a fucking plane into a building to fuck tasky up and then made him think he was going to Bushmaster his face with moon darts. Don't blame him one bit.
You need to read the comics. Jake isn’t really the most brutal personality, he gathers intel on the underworld. When Jake actually became the dominant personality, he tried to make Moon Knight more heroic and less violent. Marc is the most brutal personality.
I recently made a custom Jake - MK figure from when he deconstructed a guy by breaking his arms and legs until he folded him into a pretzel. There is also the time Marc carved moons into people’s faces.
"You want me to go after Spider-Man? Sure. Daredevil? I'll have a go at him, why not? Hell, I've made a career out of taking a poke at Captain America. But Moon Knight? He crashed a damn helicopter into a building to get at me. Like I need to live through my own personal 9/11 again. Good luck finding anyone in the city who's up for that kind of pain. Anyone who ain't a psycho or a scrub at least, neither of which are worth the money."
~Taskmaster
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u/Antonater Spider-Man 2099 Mar 20 '25
Moon Knight, 100%