Here’s what you oughta know about Taskmaster’s comic book roots and how they changed for the MCU.
Warning: Spoilers fromBlackWidoware discussed in this article.
Growing up in the Bronx in New York City, he learned quickly of his mnemonic abilities.
Cover of ‘Avengers’ #196.Marvel Comics
He watches a cowboy show on TV and moments later can replicate the lasso moves.
Tony sees, Tony does.
He could’ve gone the way of heroism but reasoned there were more perks to being a supervillain.
Taskmaster in ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ video game.Square Enix/Crystal Dynamics
He wasn’t able to mimic a hero’s superhuman powers at the time, just their physical movements.
But that did come later for a short while, thanks to some experimentations.
He then later became a hired gun, working for various organizations.
Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster in ‘Black Widow’.Marvel Studios
The fight becomes incrementally more intense.
He takes on a different role inMarvel’s Spider-Manas a side mission in the open-world game.
This is Taskmaster’s way of learning how Spider-Man moves and fights.
Elsewhere in pop culture, actor Clancy Brown voiced Taskmaster in the animatedUltimate Spider-Manseries on Disney XD.
Brown returned to the role for theAvengers AssembleandIron Man and Captain America: Heroes Unitedcartoons.
Her final task to prove herself to S.H.I.E.L.D.
way back when was to execute Dreykov (Ray Winstone), who heads the Red Room.
All these moves have been uploaded to her mind through Red Room technology.
With Taskmaster, especially in this context, comes a question of identity.
(A brainwashing gas that makes women susceptible to male influence.)
That and more devious plans fromJulia Louis-Dreyfus' Val.
