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Taskmaster is a mysterious figure believed to have been born in Bronx, New York City. He has the ability to mimic the physical movements of anyone he witnesses; writers differ on whether this counts as a "super power". He claims that he has had this ability since childhood. He works as a combat instructor and trains others to become lackeys for other villains by utilizing the techniques he has learned from his observation of superheroes and participates in mercenary jobs from time to time. Initially portrayed as a villain, he has also been shown training U.S. Agent and other neophyte superheroes at the behest of the US government. As a mercenary, he has no ideology except that of his employer. Due to his ability to imitate the techniques and armory of other heroes and villains, Taskmaster has occasionally been used to impersonate other characters.

Tony Masters first demonstrated unusual abilities during childhood. After watching a cowboy show on television, he found himself able to duplicate the sophisticated rope tricks he had just watched the cowboy perform. Psychiatrists, called in at the mother's request, determined that the boy had a form of photographic memory which they called "photographic reflexes". He employed his power several times during his youth for personal gain, most notably when he became a star quarterback of his high school football team after watching one pro football game. Upon graduation, he briefly considered a career as a crime fighter, but opted instead to be a professional criminal, which he perceived to be far more lucrative.[6]

He then began a program of observing the fighting techniques of numerous costumed heroes and villains (using archival television news broadcasts). He initially used his fighting skills to execute several successful grand larcenies, but he had not properly anticipated the dangers involved. He decided to use his stolen capital to establish a center for training aspiring criminals to turn into polished professionals. His goal was to become a supplier for criminal organizations around the world.

Designing a costume with a white cowl and skull mask, he took the name "Taskmaster" and began to train many thugs at criminal academies he had located around the United States. However, his existence was eventually revealed when Pernell Solomon of the Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane (a front for one of these academies) used the school's resources to create a clone of himself when the administrator required an organ donation due to possessing an extremely rare blood type; the clone (learning of this fate) managed to contact the Avengers. Taskmaster captured Yellowjacket, the Wasp and Ant-Man when the Avengers invaded the premises;[7] but the Avengers followed, exposing his front operation. Taskmaster held his own against Captain America and Iron Man, however, was subsequently forced to flee after a confrontation with Jocasta since his lack of experience with Jocasta's abilities made it impossible to predict the robot's next move.[6] Taskmaster later established a new training academy in Manhattan, where he battled Spider-Man and Ant-Man, and then escaped.[8] He later used a traveling carnival as a mobile base, where he battled Hawkeye and Ant-Man, and then escaped again.[9] He next trained henchmen for the Black Abbott. Alongside Black Abbott, he battled Spider-Man and Nomad, and escaped yet again.[10]

Deciding to further explore the use of a circus as a front for his academy, Taskmaster took over yet another small outfit, and used it for many months to great success. However, while it was playing a small town in Ohio, the Thing and Vance Astrovik (who would later take the name Justice) assisted a government agent in foiling Taskmaster's activities. While escaping, Taskmaster was captured by a group of U.S. Secret Service agents and taken into custody.[11] There is reason to believe that Red Skull was behind the Taskmaster's capture, since a group of normal men were able to capture him.[citation needed] Through Douglas Rockwell (the head of the President's Commission on Superhuman Activities), Mr. Smith arranged for Taskmaster to train John Walker in order to make him appear to be the real Captain America.[12] In order to conceal Red Skull's involvement, Rockwell had the Commission work out a deal to have years taken off Taskmaster's sentence in return for training Walker. After Taskmaster successfully trained Walker, Red Skull arranged for him to escape from the Commission's detention center so he could continue training lackeys and Red Skull himself.[volume & issue needed]

Having escaped the authorities, he set up a base in a derelict graveyard in Brooklyn, where he battled Spider-Man and then escaped.[13] Taskmaster then competed in a contest against Tombstone, where he battled Daredevil and the Punisher.[14]

Taskmaster's more skilled, successful, and notable students include such characters as Crossbones and Cutthroat (both Red Skull's henchmen), U.S. Agent, Hauptmann Deutschland, Diamondback (Captain America's one-time girlfriend), Spymaster, Spider-Woman, and Agent X. On the other hand, Taskmaster also trains many of his students to serve as low-rent henchmen and cannon fodder. In his early appearances, Taskmaster mentions putting intellect-reducing drugs in the diet of his students. He also routinely sent groups of his more disappointing students to serve as "sparring partners" for Red Skull, routinely engaging several of them at a time and killing them all (Hauptmann Deutschland infiltrated the academy and used one such session as an opportunity to kidnap Red Skull). He has also employed other supervillains, such as when he hired Anaconda as his academy's calisthenics instructor.[volume & issue needed]

On another occasion, Taskmaster was hired by the Triune Understanding—a religious group secretly masterminding a smear campaign to paint the Avengers as being religiously and racially intolerant—to stage an attack on a Triune facility. Posing as Captain America, he contacted Warbird, Ant-Man, Silverclaw and Captain Marvel, claiming that he needed their help to destroy a Triune building containing a mind-control machine. Although they saw through his deception and subsequently defeated him—thanks to Captain Marvel transforming into Rick Jones mere milliseconds away from Taskmaster, thus causing a complete change of attack before Taskmaster could react—the building was destroyed in the ensuing battle and Taskmaster escaped, leaving the heroes lacking any evidence of their story.[15]

Taskmaster continued to train numerous villains and thugs until the Avengers began to search out and shut down some of his academies across the United States. Taskmaster began to spend more time working as a mercenary in order to make up for the loss of profit. This led him to join Agency X at the behest of his love interest Sandi Brandenberg, in missions from time to time, while continuing to teach at his academies around the world. More recently, Taskmaster is once again seen as a hired mercenary, contracted by the Committee to kill Moon Knight (Marc Spector). Taskmaster was misled with information that Moon Knight was broken, friendless and desiring death. During the conflict these factors all proved to be false as Marc's ex-girlfriend and butler came to Spector's defense and found the will to fight back. Despite his superior fighting abilities, Taskmaster was defeated. Moon Knight then carved off part of Taskmaster's facemask, though left him alive.[16]

Taskmaster also worked at training henchmen to copy fighting styles of specific heroes. Taskmaster unleashed Deathshield (trained to fight like Captain America), Jagged Bow (trained to fight like Hawkeye), and Blood Spider (trained to fight like Spider-Man) to face off against Spider-Man and Solo. The three were defeated, while Taskmaster escaped yet again.[17]

When the "Civil War" broke out, Taskmaster was hired by the government and enrolled into a team of Thunderbolts and given temporary amnesty to take down the Secret Avengers.[18] He later battles the Secret Avengers in New York. He attempts to kill Susan "Sue" Storm, only for Reed Richards to take the bullet. Enraged, Sue crushes him with an invisible telekinetic field, rendering him unconscious.[19] He was sent to the Negative Zone Prison with the other "Major-League" members of the Thunderbolts army such as Lady Deathstrike,[volume & issue needed] but was apparently freed by Deadpool.[20] In order to regain his own reputation as a mercenary, Deadpool frees Taskmaster from his imprisonment to have a showdown with him while potential merc contractors watched from their captive position in a nearby prison. Taskmaster is again referred to as Tasky by Deadpool, and a fight ensues between him and the manacled Deadpool. He mentions his professional ethics, but this simply comes down to deciding to simply maim his opponent rather than kill him. In the end, he is defeated by Deadpool who, in spite of the victory, fails to impress his captive audience. After being thanked for letting him win, Taskmaster tells Deadpool that he had not let him win, "The truth is... You're that good. You've always been that good. Which won't get you a cup of coffee until you figure out how to be a professional..."[21] Taskmaster was given a full presidential pardon for his efforts in testing the security of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, in which he was able to break in and place Deputy Director Maria Hill in his sights. Though he was allowed to leave, a threatening message left in Hill's private bathroom revealed that if he ever desired, infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. would be no difficult feat.[volume & issue needed]

Taskmaster replaces Gauntlet as Camp Hammond's drill instructor and is tasked with training registered superheroes for the Fifty State Initiative. Taskmaster would also be involved in MVP's cloning process inputting (via technology) the original's move set for the Scarlet Spiders as well as the move set of Spider-Man.[22]

Taskmaster is hired by Deadpool to help his old enemy and occasional friend defeat the Thunderbolts. Being disguised as Deadpool, he gets captured and is about to be beheaded when the real Deadpool saves him. Deadpool finally pays him, but he expresses annoyance at being paid from an ATM due to his major villain status.[23]

During the "Dark Reign" storyline, Taskmaster is chosen to lead the Shadow Initiative after the Skrull invasion, with their first mission to take down Hardball's HYDRA cell in Madripoor.[24] Along with Constrictor, Bengal, Typhoid Mary and Komodo, Taskmaster stealthily leads the group into the country, but they are soon discovered by HYDRA.[25] Norman Osborn appoints Taskmaster to train criminals for the new Initiative, to behave like heroes. His first task is to retrain Penance.[26] Also, when Blastaar takes control of the Negative Zone prison 42, Taskmaster is ordered to lead a squad to take the prison back.[27] Later, he gives Night Thrasher a severe bullet wound to the head, allowing Osborn to take Night Thrasher prisoner.[28] When Emma Frost and Namor resign from the Cabal, Taskmaster is offered membership.[29] Taskmaster was present at a meeting when Osborn discusses about Asgard.[30][31] He is severely wounded at the meeting as a result of an attack by Doctor Doom. While recovering in a hospital, Taskmaster declined to join the Cabal. Osborn cut the oxygen tank next to Taskmaster's bed, reminding him that it was Osborn who plucked him from obscurity. Taskmaster then agrees to join in the siege of Asgard.[29] During the battle, he fights with both versions of Captain America (Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes).[32] As Asgard falls, Taskmaster finds Constrictor and the two beat a hasty retreat, but not before Taskmaster taunts Osborn about how Taskmaster helped Deadpool. After Osborn's defeat by Captain America and Iron Man, Taskmaster and Constrictor went back to mercenary work.[33]

A false rumor is spread that Taskmaster is leaking information about the criminal underworld to Rogers's new 'heroic' regime. A bounty of $1,000,000,000 is placed on the Taskmaster's head by the mysterious Org. The hordes of AIM, HYDRA, the Secret Empire, ULTIMATUM, the Cyber Ninjas, the Black Choppers, the Trenchcoat Mafia, the Legions of the Living Lightning, the Militiamen, the Sons of the Serpent, and the Inquisition take up the chase to claim the money. Taskmaster, ambushed in a small diner, manages to best his opponents. But the diner's waitress, Mercedes Merced, gets entangled in the saga and is included in the bounty. Taskmaster reveals to Mercedes that his powers cause him to lose his explicit memory, meaning that he cannot remember anything about his personal life, and the only way for the whole ordeal to be over is to re-discover Taskmaster's origins.[34] Taskmaster and Mercedes' quest takes them to Mexico to battle the Don of the Dead,[35] and then to Bolivia to the village where everyone is Hitler. Inside an exact replica of Himmler's Wewelsburg Castle, Taskmaster regains his memories. He remembers being S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Tony Masters that had been sent to Bolivia to terminate Horst Gorscht, the Nazi scientist responsible for a corrupted version of the super-soldier serum. Gorscht had developed a new serum that could unlock the mind's potential to absorb knowledge instantaneously. With Gorscht's serum and test notes destroyed, Masters injected the last of the serum into himself. Having regained these memories, Taskmaster recognizes Mercedes' voice as being the same as 'The Hub', a mysterious voice who works for the Org. Taskmaster shoots Mercedes in the shoulder and threatens to kill her if she doesn't start talking. Mercedes reveals that the Org is a S.H.I.E.L.D. front, and that she is not only an agent, but also Taskmaster's wife. Miles above the Wewelsburg castle in an airship, the Minions' International Liberation Front (a secret group composed of henchmen from all of the major terrorist organizations), led by Redshirt the Uber-Henchman, reveal their deception and plot to rule the criminal underground by using Taskmaster to lead them straight to the Org.[1] Redshirt leads the Minions' International Liberation Front (or the acronym MILF for short) into battle against the Taskmaster and Mercedes. Mercedes convinces the Taskmaster to trust her and work together to fend off the forces of MILF. During the battle, Taskmaster regains his memories of Mercedes and how he fell in love with her. Before they can reconcile, Taskmaster is attacked from behind by Redshirt who has genetically altered his body and mastered superior fighting skills to those of Taskmaster. Redshirt gains the upper hand as the pair push each other to the limits. Mercedes tries to intervene to protect her husband, but is quickly and effortlessly cast to one side. Enraged, Taskmaster attacks Redshirt and delivers a killing blow using Redshirt's own fighting style (which causes Taskmaster to lose his memories once more). Taskmaster, not recognizing Mercedes or his reasons for being there, flees and leaves Mercedes alone once more.[volume & issue needed]

Avengers Academy student Finesse later seeks out Taskmaster, thinking that he may be her long-lost father. When she finds Taskmaster, Finesse ends up sparring with him. After much sparring, Taskmaster finally relents to tell Finesse that he very well might be her father, but that the powers to learn so much about others’ movements and techniques have caused him to forget important things in life. Knowing he likely will not remember the conversation in a couple days, Taskmaster tells Finesse that he wanted to fight her so he might remember her.[36]

During the 2011 "Fear Itself" storyline, Taskmaster comes to the aid of Alpha Flight when it comes to forming a resistance against the Unity Party that was formed by Master of the World.[37]

In order for the Masters of Evil to obtain the Crown of Wolves for the Shadow Council, Max Fury hired Taskmaster to retrieve it only for Taskmaster to demand more money for the job and he hid in the Hole. The Secret Avengers went to the Hole in order to get the Crown of Wolves before Fury got his hands on it. This led to a fight between Taskmaster and Agent Venom.[38] However, Taskmaster escaped and returned the crown to Fury, only for Max to apparently kill Taskmaster when he asks for payment. When the crown's effects don't function for Max, Taskmaster takes the crown for himself, which saves his life by making him the Avatar for the Abyss.[39] As the Abyss spreads, the Secret Avengers members Venom and Ant-Man are able to remove the crown and stop the spread, while Taskmaster and the Masters of Evil are left behind when the Avengers leave with Max in their custody.[40]

The criminals of Bagalia imprison Taskmaster and are preparing to offer him up to the highest bidder. S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Secret Avengers come to rescue him and offer him a position. As their inside man, Taskmaster is part of the new High Council of A.I.M. as the Minister of Defense.[41] Mockingbird later goes to A.I.M. Island to assist Taskmaster in helping make contact between the Iron Patriot A.I. drones and James Rhodes.[42] After the mission goes south and Mockingbird is left stranded on AIM Island,[volume & issue needed] Taskmaster works undercover to free her.[volume & issue needed] But when he gets the chance to get her off the island, she doesn't respond to anything he says until both are captured. While being interrogated, Taskmaster is shot and seemingly killed by Mockingbird apparently under the control of Scientist Supreme (Andrew Forson).[43] However, Mentallo discovered that Mockingbird purposely missed any vitals and Taskmaster survived.[44]

At the time when Captain America was brainwashed into being a Hydra sleeper agent by Red Skull's clone using the powers of Kobik, Taskmaster later relocated to Bagalia where he became its sheriff.[45]

When Taskmaster and Black Ant (Eric O'Grady's Life Model Decoy counterpart) found out what was done to Captain America to be made into a Hydra sleeper agent, they planned to have a parley with Maria Hill to discuss this with only for the new Madame Hydra (Elisa Sinclair) to get to them first.[46] Impressed with the fighting skills of the two of them, Madame Hydra made them bodyguards.[47]

During the "Secret Empire" storyline, Taskmaster appears as a member of Hydra's Avengers.[48] During the battle in Washington DC, Taskmaster and Black Ant witness their teammate Odinson having enough of working for Hydra and striking them down. The two of them defect from Hydra and free the captive Champions. When Taskmaster and Black Ant asks for them to put in a good word for them, Spider-Man webs them up anyway.[49]

Taskmaster and Black Ant later attack Empire State University where Dr. Curt Connors was teaching a class. As the inhibitor chip prevents Connors into turning into Lizard, Peter Parker sneaks off to become Spider-Man. During his fight with Black Ant and Taskmaster, Spider-Man is exposed to the Isotope Genome Accelerator that splits him from his Peter Parker side.[50]

In a prelude to "Hunted", Taskmaster and Black Ant work with Kraven the Hunter and Arcade in capturing some animal-themed characters for his upcoming hunt.[51] Black Ant and Taskmaster are talking about the Hunt. Taskmaster betrays Black Ant saying that Black Ant is an animal-themed villain and tasers Black Ant to get more money.[52] Lizard finds Taskmaster at the Pop-Up with No Name. Lizard proceeds to poisons him by slipping a poison into her beer. Lizard offers Taskmaster the antidote if he can take Lizard to Central Park. While traveling there, Lizard and Taskmaster defeat Vermin, freeing innocent bystanders. Taskmaster helps put a taser chip in Lizard's body, and takes him to Arcade.[53] Taskmaster frees Lizard from his binds and Lizard tells Taskmaster that the poison will wear off in 24 hours.[54] Taskmaster makes off with Black Ant before Yellowjacket, Human Fly, Razorback, Toad, and White Rabbit can take revenge on him. As they leave, Taskmaster states that Black Ant would've done the same for him. When Black Ant asks "Do you mean the betrayal part or the rescue part?" All Taskmaster can say is "yeah!"[55]

During the "King in Black" storyline, Taskmaster is among the villains recruited by Mayor Wilson Fisk to be part of his Thunderbolts at the time of Knull's invasion. While having argued with Mister Fear over who was the first villain to wear a skull mask, Taskmaster becomes the de facto field leader of the group. Following the deaths of Ampere and Snakehead, Taskmaster couldn't stop Rhino from walking off and tells the remaining members not to help the Manhattan Defenders. He and the Thunderbolts arrive at Ravencroft to meet with Norman Osborn who Mayor Fisk claims can help them defeat Knull.[56]

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Who Is Taskmaster? Black Widow Movie Villain Explained

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Marvel's Black Widow movie features Taskmaster as its main villain. Here's everything you need to know about him.

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With Marvel's MCU Phase 4 rapidly approaching, it’s almost surprising that it has taken this long for the Taskmaster to show his skull-covered face. Taskmaster has been taking on various Marvel heroes since 1980 and has gone on to star in two miniseries while getting the occasional supporting character role. He’s on that border where it was hard to tell whether he’d show up in the movies or get relegated to TV, showing up as a villain on Agents of SHIELD or something from the Defenders’ neck of the woods on Netflix. But now we know he'll be the villain of the Black Widow movie, and we got our first look at him in the trailer.

Taskmaster first appeared in Avengers #195, created by David Michelinie and George Perez, mainly as a cliffhanger villain to set up his showcase in the next issue. A fifth-rate villain by the name of Pernell Solomon had a rather inconsequential plot involving cloning himself that ended badly, mostly because it exposed the Avengers to the existence of the Taskmaster and his secret villain school. You see, Taskmaster has a special power called “photographic” reflexes. If he sees someone perform an action – as long as it is a human movement – he can do the same on command. He’s essentially a greatest hits mixtape of every great warrior in the Marvel Universe. That shot of him in the Black Widow trailer wielding a bow might tell us that he has encountered Hawkeye at some point, for example.

But seriously, he can’t do superhuman stuff. He once tried to copy the movements of living cartoon character Slapstick and Bane’d himself.

At first he was going to become a superhero, but he realized that being a villain is where the money’s at. Then he came up with an even better and safer plan: keep the mercenary part of the job minimal and instead make money by teaching goons how to fight. If you’re joining Hydra or AIM and you want to know how to fight, just pay the guy who knows exactly how Captain America throws his shield so well and can perform Daredevil’s exact flips. He’d be able to make all that money using his skills while refraining from taking on superheroes head-on.

In his first appearance, Taskmaster easily took down Scott Lang Ant-Man, Hank Pym, and Wasp. He was even able to take on Captain America and Iron Man at the same time. His downfall was when he got in a one-on-one with Jocasta, who had no human movement to play off of, plus she was straight-up out of his league in terms of power. The other Avengers caught up and Taskmaster barely escaped.

In the years that followed, he remained the renowned villain coach while taking the occasional job if the money was right. Taskmaster was driven by greed as he had no trouble working for Crossbones or the US government if they paid up. During the memorable storyline where Steve Rogers was stripped of his Captain America title, the government had Taskmaster train John Walker, the star-spangled replacement who would later go on to be US Agent.

Marvel was weird about Taskmaster’s identity. For the longest time, they never gave him a real name, but they also didn’t seem to mind showing him unmasked from time to time. Like one time the Punisher nearly killed him and Daredevil later visited him in the hospital. Other than some bandages on his head, Taskmaster looked like a completely average white dude, albeit with a history of plastic surgery. We would eventually get some answers on his backstory, but there would be some contradictions.

Taskmaster appeared in the second issue of Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness’ legendary Deadpool run where Taskmaster kidnapped Deadpool’s sidekick/abused best friend Weasel. The showdown was played for laughs as Taskmaster, boasting about how he can read anyone’s movements and can predict your attacks before you even think about it, was completely helpless against the unpredictable Deadpool. Initially, this was supposed to build towards Taskmaster as a major nemesis for Deadpool during the Kelly run where the plan was that he’d start gaining the ability to inherit strategies the same way he inherits movements. That subplot was cut early on.

Regardless, Taskmaster remained a major part of Deadpool’s corner of the Marvel Universe and would appear in countless runs. While at times Taskmaster would be targeting Deadpool, other times, he would be his long-suffering partner in crime. One of their more memorable meet-ups had Taskmaster one of many hired guns working for a mobster against Deadpool and Spider-Man. Taskmaster whispered to Deadpool that his heart wasn’t really in it and offered to throw the fight for old time’s sake.

It was through that Deadpool connection that we got the brief “UDON Taskmaster” phase in the early '00s. The art studio UDON was drawing the Gail Simone run of Deadpool while also taking care of Ken Siu-Chong’s Taskmaster miniseries. The connecting tissue of this was mainly Sandi Brandenberg, a love interest to Taskmaster and secretary to Deadpool. But also, Taskmaster changed up his appearance, going from “albino Skeletor” to “street-wise Skull Man.” He was more gun-based than sword and shield.

The miniseries went deeper into his abilities, showing that he can remember every moment of his life with 100% clarity. He can also amp up his powers by watching fight footage in fast-forward, which makes him move at super speed at the cost of his body breaking down if he does it for too long. There’s also a neat anecdote about the pitfalls of his powers, as when he was a kid, he watched someone perform a perfect dive, copied it, and then almost drowned because he didn’t know how to swim.

Also, they finally revealed that Taskmaster’s real name is Tony Masters. Of course it is.

The miniseries and the cancellation of Deadpool coned into a new series called Agent X, centered around a scarred-up amnesiac named Alex Hayden who had Deadpool’s powers and personality and appeared months after Deadpool’s supposed death. Taskmaster was a major part of the series, taking time to be annoyed by Hayden’s antics, pining for Sandi, and being an all-around badass.

read more: Agent X: The Strange History of the Other Deadpool

While the UDON Taskmaster look showed up here and there, he was back to his original appearance by the time he was going after Moon Knight. He ended up getting more play thanks in part to Civil War and its aftermath, going from a member of the government’s pro-registration force to training cadets in Avengers: The Initiative. It was there that he became friends with one of his students, Eric O’Grady, the Irredeemable Ant-Man.

Once Norman Osborn took over the superhero wing of the government, Taskmaster briefly joined Osborn’s inner-circle of top villains, otherwise known as the Cabal. Taskmaster ultimately hated being Osborn’s whipping boy and secretly worked against him, eventually escaping and laughing when Osborn’s empire came crumbling down.

In 2011, Fred Van Lente and Jefte Palo joined together to create another Taskmaster miniseries, which was not only fantastic, but it added a few twists and retcons to the character’s backstory. It showed that Taskmaster answers to a higher power called the Org that calls him and gives him orders. Also, Taskmaster has a mental problem where he can only retain so much knowledge, so his brain tends to dump information that isn’t based on physical survival. In other words, he can fight in countless ways, but he can’t remember who he is or really anything about his past. Just a nagging feeling of unforgiveable guilt.

In this story, he protected a diner waitress named Mercedes from all sorts of assassins, only to discover that not only is Mercedes his Org handler, but she’s also his wife. Taskmaster is in fact a SHIELD agent who took a special kind of Super Soldier Serum that gave him his powers, but forces him to constantly forget the woman he loves. Hence the endless guilt.

There's also the thing that he's been unwittingly working for SHIELD all these years.

While that take on Taskmaster was eventually forgotten about (how fitting), it did lead to Avengers Academy member Finesse. Finesse is an Audrey Hepburn lookalike with powers exactly like Taskmaster’s who may or may not be his illegitimate daughter. When she tracked him down and fought him, it was heartbreaking to Taskmaster, as she only fought with copied movesets and he’d never be able to remember her for being her.

Since then, Taskmaster has shown up here and there, usually working alongside Black Ant, who is a robot duplicate of the Eric O’Grady Ant-Man. He tends to pop up whenever Marvel needs a throwaway villain and they’re tired of calling in the Wrecking Crew.

Outside of main continuity, Taskmaster’s shown up in a handful of alternate universe stories. One thing I find amusing is how there’s a What If issue based on the whole “John Walker as Captain America” storyline that has Taskmaster explain his powers by claiming to be a mutant because back then, nobody at Marvel thought too hard about how he got his skills. Then there’s House of M: Avengers, where Taskmaster does the same for the sake of fitting in with the high-status mutant community.

read more: Marvel Movies Release Schedule: Complete MCU Timeline

Taskmaster only showed up in the Ultimate comics towards the end of its run, but there wasn’t much to him. The only thing memorable was that they made him black.

The series Deadpool MAX reimagined Taskmaster as a grizzled and horny woman assassin who turned Wade Wilson into a killing machine and groomed him in the sexual sense. It's probably better that they didn’t go with this version of the character for the movie.

Taskmaster has shown up on several cartoons and in some video games. One of the more memorable is the recent Spider-Man for PlayStation 4 where he acts as a bonus threat, serving a similar purpose as Riddler in the Batman Arkham games. In a look that merged his classic appearance with his UDON appearance, he stalked Spider-Man through the city and came off as more of a knockoff of Deathstroke.

No wonder he and Deadpool keep crossing paths.

Lastly, I can’t help but mention Taskmaster’s appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Not just because you get to play as him and pull off sweet moves stolen from Hawkeye, Captain America, and Black Knight. Not just for his charming Brooklyn accent. Instead, it's for his rad-as-hell theme song.

Hopefully we'll hear this when he goes into action in Black Widow. I’m pumped for anything after listening to that song.

Gavin Jasper writes for Den of Geek and feels that if Taskmaster was more realistic, he’d be doing way more breakdancing. Read Gavin’s other articles here and follow him on Twitter @Gavin4L

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Taskmaster film fancast

Scott adkins as taskmaster

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25) Nijo (nazwisko nieznane) - Agent X (Alex Hayden, Nijo Minamiyori) - Nijo był zabójcą, najemnikiem i agentem zatrudnionym przez telepatycznego niemieckiego zabójcę zwanego Black Swan. Obwiniał Deadpoola o śmierć swojego brata, ponieważ był jednym z celów najwyraźniej udanego zabójstwa japońskich lordów przestępczych o imieniu Four Winds. Po tym, jak Black Swan pobrał wirusa mentalnego do mózgu Deadpoola, ten przybył zarówno po Swana, jak i Nijo w zamku Black Swana Łabędzia w Niemczech. Jednak Black Swan Czarny Łabędź ujawnił, że w rzeczywistości to on zabił Four Winds, w tym brata Nijo, i dźgnął go ze znudzenia swoim narzekaniem i nieposłuszeństwem. Jego wendeta z Deadpoolem polegała na tym, że trafienia zostały błędnie przypisane niewłaściwemu człowiekowi. Bomba, którą przyniósł Deadpool, wybuchła i wszyscy trzej zostali uznani za zabitych. Cała trójka częściowo połączyła się podczas eksplozji, gdy Black Swan użył swoich mocy w akcie desperacji, by się uratować. Black Swan psionicznie nabył czynnik leczniczy Deadpoola, ale przypadkowo nawiązał kontakt z Nijo, a ich cechy osobowości się pomieszały. Swan Łabędź dał także zwłokom Nijo moce regeneracyjne Deadpoola, przywracając go do formy życia pięć minut po jego śmierci. Oprócz części swojej osobowości, Nijo zyskał także talenty do broni palnej, ambicję Swana, niektóre z jego wyrafinowanych gustów, preferencji i uprzedzeń, a także blizny i oburzenie, które otrzymał od Deadpoola, rzucając go twarzą do białej, gorącej patelni kominkowej w jego domu. Nijo wkrótce ponownie pojawił się jako Alex Hayden w Nowym Jorku, mając na uwadze jeden cel – być najlepszym żyjącym najemnikiem. Został znaleziony przez Sandi Brandenberg, byłą sekretarkę Deadpoola, która założyła, że jest Deadpoolem dzięki swoim mocom i zachowaniu. Podświadomie przyjął tę nazwę jako połączenie kompozytorów, których lubił: Alexander Grieg i Josef Haydn, które Sandi opracowała przez swoje zamiłowanie do muzyki klasycznej. Przyjaciel Sandi i dawny romantyczny przyjaciel Taskmaster, był poszukiwany, aby pomóc Alexowi zorientować się i wyszkolić go, podobnie jak Outlaw (Inez Temple) za jej umiejętności strzeleckie. Taskmaster zauważył, że Alex był oburęczny i że w jakiś sposób zakłócał jego zdolność do refleksu podczas treningu z nim. Taskmaster wiedział wtedy, że nie może być Deadpoolem, pomimo jego czynnika uzdrawiającego, a Outlaw to potwierdziła, ponieważ Alex okazał się lepszym talentem do strzelania niż Deadpool. Sandi i Alex utworzyli grupę najemników, Agency X. Ich siedziba była oparta na parku rozrywki, który Alex nabył jako zapłatę za swoją pierwszą misję. Alex wpadł na Outlaw, gdy został przydzielony, by spróbować zdjąć Punishera i ukraść jego pistolety Colt kaliber.45. Zawiedli i zostali zamknięci w budce telefonicznej bez broni i ubrań przez Castle’a. Punisher następnie zabił ludzi, którzy ich wysłali. Później Outlaw i Alex związali się romantycznie. Jednak Taskmaster, który był zazdrosny o przywiązanie Sandi do Alexa, wystawił Alexa na tę misję i został wyrzucony z agencji. Następnie skontaktował się z Higashim, nowym przywódcą części organizacji Four Winds i poinformował ich, że Alex był Deadpoolem, który nadal był odpowiedzialny za zabicie czterech poprzednich głów przestępczych. Organizacja, kierowana głównie przez egzekutora Higashiego, Saguriego, pociągnęła do odpowiedzialności Alexa, Sandi i Taskmastera, ale z pomocą Outlaw cała trójka stanęła w parku rozrywki przeciwko armii najemników i superzłoczyńców, podczas gdy Sandi została przekazana Higashiemu na przechowanie, ponieważ jego zauroczenie nią zapewniłoby jej ochronę. Agency X triumfowała, a Alex szantażował lordów przestępczych do uległości, jednocześnie zabijając Saguri po ukradkowym wynajęciu go przez Higashiego. Higashi był również przekonany przez Sandi, że Alex nie był Wade'em Wilsonem i miał teraz większą kontrolę nad swoją grupą, więc zgodził się zapobiec dalszym odwetom na czwórkę. Alex był zachwycony tym, co wydawało się być nowym początkiem dla Agencji, ale została zraniona, gdy Outlaw ogłosiła, że chce wrócić do domu na Południe, aby zamiast tego zaopiekować się swoim umierającym ojcem, podczas gdy Taskmaster odmówił posady w pełnym wymiarze godzin. Od tamtej pory Alex wykonywał swoje zadania solo, ale jego życie osobiste było jeszcze bardziej zagmatwane, gdy on i Sandi spędzili razem noc. Był rozczarowany swoją pracą i postanowił zamknąć agencję, ale nie był w stanie powiedzieć o tym Sandi, która do tego czasu zatrudniła go i Taskmastera, aby działali jako ochroniarze Higashiego jako ostateczny akt zawieszenia broni. W drodze na spotkanie pomiędzy rodzinami Four Winds, grupa Alexa została zaatakowana przez parę rozradowanych zabójców, ale po szaleńczej bitwie dotarli bezpiecznie i odkryli, że jedna z rodzin Four Winds kazała zaatakować Higashiego. Teraz, gdy Higashi był im dłużny, Alex, Taskmaster i Sandi wrócili do mieszkania Sandi, aby znaleźć Black Swana i czekającego na niego tabula rasa Deadpoola. Black Swan zaproponował trójstronną mieszankę umysłów, aby przywrócić każdemu człowiekowi ich właściwe stany osobiste, ale podwójnie je skrzyżował. Outlaw wróciła na czas, aby pomóc w walce z Black Swanem , który teraz wchłonął moce Alexa i Deadpoola, aby się wzmocnić. Mimo że Alex wezwał Higashiego do łask i otoczył Swana zabójcami, okazało się to bezowocne, więc Alex opracował nowy plan. Po tym, jak Taskmaster i Outlaw rozproszyli go, Deadpool przypiął Swana do załadowanej materiałami wybuchowymi furgonetki Taskmastera, a Alex go zapalił. Alex następnie odwrócił absorpcję Black Swana, ale także dał mu wspomnienia złapania w eksplozję bomby w Niemczech. Grupa następnie wielokrotnie strzelała do Black Swana, aby upewnić się, że nie żyje. Ciało zostało wypchane i noszone przez każdą parę (Taskmaster i Sandi, Alex i Inez) jako rekwizyt podczas wyjazdu na wakacje. Kiedy później znaleźli się po przeciwnych stronach w sprawie losu Cable’a, Alex miał kolejną konfrontację z Deadpoolem, którą początkowo przegrał, dając Deadpoolowi możliwość przeliterowania „Hi, Weasel” z jego wnętrznościami jako „niespodzianki” dla swojego najlepszego przyjaciela . Nie mogąc wyrządzić sobie nawzajem dużych szkód ze względu na ich czynniki lecznicze, ust��pili po tym, jak Wade zgodził się oddać Alexowi trzustkę. Po nieudanej próbie kradzieży urządzenia Hydry, Sandi i Outlaw przekonały Deadpoola, by uratował Alexa. Alex został dotknięty przez urządzenie, które miał ukraść, dając mu artretyzm i "amerykański gen" (co spowodowało, że był niesamowicie gruby). To sprawiło, że ucieczka była fizycznie niemożliwa - chociaż nie chciałby przegapić wielu smakołyków i karmy dla małp, które były mu podawane jako okaz laboratoryjny. Deadpoolowi udało się uwolnić Alexa z pomocą Boba, agenta HYDRY. Następnie poprosił Deadpoola, by kierował Agencją X, gdy odzyskał formę, rozumując, że jego jedyną alternatywą jest zastrzelenie się lub zjedzenie Sandiego i jego firmy. W końcu wrócił do swojej pierwotnej sylwetki kilka lat później, jak widać, gdy on i sojusznicy Deadpoola zebrali się, by pomóc Domino, gdy jej moce były na froncie. Później przeniósł się do zmutowanego narodu Krakoa.

Regenerative Healing Factor: Agent X posiada nadludzki czynnik uzdrawiający, który pozwala mu regenerować uszkodzoną lub zniszczoną tkankę ciała ze znacznie większą szybkością i wydajnością niż zwykły człowiek. Agent X jest w stanie w ciągu kilku chwil wyleczyć rany, takie jak cięcie, rany kłute, rany postrzałowe i poważne oparzenia. Jego czynnik leczniczy jest tak rozwinięty, że może odrodzić się i ponownie przymocować brakujące kończyny i narządy. Jego czynnik leczniczy pozwalał mu wielokrotnie przeżyć nawet przebicia mózgu. Dzięki temu doskonałemu czynnikowi leczniczemu wykazał wyjątkową tolerancję na ból

Foreign Chemical Resistance: Ciało agenta jest wysoce odporne na większość leków i toksyn. Na przykład bardzo trudno, choć nie jest to niemożliwe, upić się. Może jednak być pod wpływem pewnych leków, takich jak środki uspokajające, jeśli zostanie wystawiony na wystarczająco dużą dawkę.

Disease Immunity: Nie tak wyjątkowe właściwości regeneracyjne czynnika leczącego Agenta X rozciągają się również na jego układ odpornościowy, czyniąc go odpornym na skutki wszystkich znanych chorób i infekcji

Extended Longevity: Czynnik leczniczy Agenta X zapewnia mu dłuższą żywotność, spowalniając efekty procesu starzenia do nieznanego stopnia

Telepathic Immunity: Czynnik leczniczy powoduje, że jego komórki mózgowe są w ciągłym stanie przepływu i regeneracji, co czyni go odpornym na czynniki psychiczne, takie jak Profesor X i Emma Frost.

Superhuman Strength: Ze względu na swój czynnik leczniczy, Agent X może wycisnąć swoje mięśnie do poziomów przekraczających naturalne granice zwykłego człowieka bez doznania obrażeń, co daje mu nadludzką siłę. Jest w stanie podnieść ponad 800 funtów i pokazano, że podnosi do 3 ton. Dokładna granica jego siły nie jest znana

Superhuman Stamina: muskulatura Agenta X generuje znacznie mniej toksyn zmęczeniowych niż mięśnie zwykłego człowieka, zapewniając mu nadludzki poziom wytrzymałości we wszystkich aktywnościach fizycznych. Potrafi fizycznie wysilać się na najwyższych obrotach przez co najmniej 18 godzin, zanim zmęczenie zacznie go osłabiać

Superhuman Agility:: Zwinność, równowaga i koordynacja ciała Agenta X są zwiększone do poziomów, które przekraczają naturalne ograniczenia fizyczne nawet najlepszego sportowca, na równi z Deadpoolem

Superhuman Reflexes: Jego odruchy są podobnie wzmocnione, lepsze od nawet najlepszych ludzkich sportowców

Limited Telepathy: Wykazał pewien stopień telepatii, jednocześnie będąc w stanie chronić swój umysł przed czytaniem w myślach, a także będąc wysoce nieprzewidywalnym w walce, podobnie jak Deadpool, co udowodnił Taskmaster, gdy nie był w stanie skopiować ruchów Alexa ani go przewidzieć

Expert Combatant: Nijo jest niezwykłym wojownikiem walczącym wręcz i jest mistrzem wielu technik walki wręcz. Pokazano, jak walczy z tak niesamowicie wykwalifikowanymi wojownikami, jak Deadpool i Taskmaster, a nawet pokonuje ich w walce wręcz. To pokazuje, że sam Nijo jest jednym z najbardziej utalentowanych wojowników w uniwersum Marvela, pod warunkiem, że był szkolony pod kierunkiem Taskmastera. Twierdził, że jest mistrzem kung-fu, taekwondo, jeet kune do i zapasów sumo. Strzelec wyborowy: Wyszkolony przez Taskmastera w strzelectwie.

Bronie: Zwykłe pistolety, noże i gwiazdy do rzucania

Drobnostki : Jako pośredni uczeń szkoły kryminalnej Taskmastera, nigdy tak naprawdę nie dołączył ani nie uczęszczał na żadne zajęcia w ich kompleksie

Pokazano przez Outlaw, że jest oburęczny w posługiwaniu się bronią palną, w przeciwieństwie do Deadpoola, który lepiej radzi sobie z prawą ręką.

Agent X (Nijo Minamiyori, alias Alex Hayden) to najemnik pojawiający się w amerykańskich komiksach wydawanych przez Marvel Comics. Po raz pierwszy pojawił się w Agent X #1 (wrzesień 2002) przez Gail Simone i UDON. Serial, pseudo-spin-off Deadpoola, kontynuował cyniczną, slapstickową akcję, która charakteryzowała jego nadrzędną serię. Rzeczywiście, główną cechą Agenta X była kwestia tożsamości tytułowego bohatera, czasami sugerowanej, że jest on samym Deadpoolem. Deadpool odnosi się do Agenta X jako jego „Earth-2 Counterpart”, komediowe odniesienie do oznaczenia różnych Ziem przez DC Comics dla różnych iteracji identycznych i podobnych postaci. Agent X narodził się z długo działającej serii Deadpool, Marvel Comics, której sprzedaż spadła do punktu anulowania, z eksperymentami, w tym „miniserialem w serii” (Deadpool: Agent of Weapon X i Deadpool: Funeral for a Freak, gdzie numeracja głównej serii została zdegradowana do statusu drugorzędnego poniżej numeracji „miniserii”, ponieważ nie udało się powstrzymać wycieku. Następnie podjęto decyzję o uruchomieniu „końcowego łuku”, aby zamknąć serię, a następnie wznowić ją z pierwszego miejsca z X w tytule, próbując ściślej utożsamić ją z popularną serią X-Men (w ramach tego samego wysiłku, Cable zmieniono na Soldier X, a X-Force na X-Statix). Wśród fanów krążyły pogłoski, że w tym czasie wznowienie tytułu (w tym Deadpool na Agent X) było częściowo spowodowane sporem o tantiemy z Robem Liefeldem; plotki zostały rozwiane przez samego Liefelda. Internetowa humorystka Gail Simone została wybrana do napisania zarówno ostatniego odcinka Deadpool, jak i nowej serii, wraz ze studiem UDON, które niedawno przerobiło Taskmastera w dobrze przyjętym miniserialu, aby dostarczyć grafikę. Agent X zastąpił Deadpoola podobnym bohaterem, dodając niejednoznaczne wskazówki co do charakteru jego relacji z pierwotną postacią. Agent X został dobrze przyjęty przez krytyków, ale nie odniósł sukcesu sprzedażowego. Niektórzy uważali, że ten tytuł ucierpiał z powodu braku wsparcia Marvela zarówno dla tego, jak i dla Soldier X, ponieważ żaden tytuł nie cieszył się wsparciem domu ani handlu. Simone publicznie starła się z redakcją Marvela, gdy wznowiony tytuł miał problemy ze znalezieniem przyczółka. Simone opuściła książkę po numerze siódmym, wciąż nie ujawniając prawdziwej tożsamości bohatera. Sprzedaż książki jeszcze bardziej ucierpiała, co skłoniło Marvel do anulowania książki. Następnie firma zmieniła kurs, aby opublikować serię uzupełnień, na mieszane recenzje. Pod koniec, dwa z tych uzupełnień zostały opublikowane z małymi fanfarami: te autorstwa znanego autora Evana Dorkina oraz uznanego zespołu artystycznego Juana Bobillo i Marcelo Sosa. Niedługo potem Agent X został anulowany z problemem #12. Jednak wkrótce po tym ogłoszeniu Marvel zdecydował się wydać książkę Cable & Deadpool jako zmianę kierunku, co zakończyło się znacznie bardziej udaną konsolidacją dwóch postaci w jeden tytuł. To pozwoliło Simone i UDON dokończyć swoją początkową wizję w ramach trzyczęściowego łuku wiążącego luźne końce i przywracającego Deadpoola do użytku w nowej książce, która została opublikowana po miesięcznej przerwie jako Agent X #13-15. Agent X pojawił się także w Cable & Deadpool #11-12. Pojawił się ponownie w #38-39, gdzie został schwytany na misji przeciwko HYDRZE, która była w stanie wywołać u niego zapalenie stawów przy użyciu nowej technologii, a następnie chorobliwej otyłości, aby nie zauważył artretyzmu. Został następnie uratowany przez Deadpoola, który został zatrudniony przez Sandi i Outlaw. Po uratowaniu Agent X zdecydował się pozwolić Deadpoolowi na prowadzenie Agencji X, dopóki nie zostanie wyleczony ze swojej niepełnosprawności. W sekcji „Dear Deadpool” w #37 scenarzyści żartobliwie zasugerowali, że Agent X może otrzymać nową, trwającą serię w przyszłości. Black Swan zaproponował trójstronną mieszankę umysłów, aby przywrócić każdemu człowiekowi ich właściwe stany osobiste, ale podwójnie je skrzyżował. Outlaw powróciła na czas, aby pomóc w walce z Black Swanem, który teraz wchłonął moce Alexa i Deadpoola, aby się wzmocnić. Mimo że Alex wezwał Higashiego do łask i otoczył Swana zabójcami, okazało się to bezowocne, więc Alex opracował nowy plan. Po tym, jak Taskmaster i Outlaw rozproszyli go, Deadpool przypiął Swana do załadowanej materiałami wybuchowymi furgonetki Taskmastera, a Alex go zapalił. Alex następnie odwrócił absorpcję Black Swana, ale także dał mu wspomnienia złapania w eksplozję bomby w Niemczech. Grupa następnie wielokrotnie strzelała do Black Swana, aby upewnić się, że nie żyje. Ciało zostało wypchane i noszone przez każdą parę (Taskmaster i Sandi, Alex i Inez) jako rekwizyt podczas wakacji. Kiedy później znaleźli się po przeciwnych stronach w sprawie losu Cable’a, Alex miał kolejną konfrontację z Deadpoolem, którą początkowo przegrał, dając Deadpoolowi możliwość przeliterowania „Hi, Weasel” z jego wnętrznościami jako „niespodzianki” dla swojego najlepszego przyjaciela. Nie mogąc wyrządzić sobie nawzajem dużych szkód ze względu na ich czynniki lecznicze, ustąpili po tym, jak Wade zgodził się oddać Alexowi trzustkę. Po nieudanej próbie kradzieży urządzenia Hydry, Sandi i Outlaw przekonały Deadpoola, by uratował Alexa. Alex został dotknięty przez urządzenie, które miał ukraść, dając mu artretyzm i "amerykański gen" (co spowodowało, że był niesamowicie gruby). To sprawiło, że ucieczka była fizycznie niemożliwa - chociaż nie chciał przegapić wielu smakołyków i karmy dla małp, które były mu podawane jako okazowi laboratoryjnemu. Deadpoolowi udało się uwolnić Alexa z pomocą Boba, agenta HYDRY. Następnie poprosił Deadpoola, aby kierował Agencją X, podczas gdy on odzyskał formę, rozumując, że jego jedyną alternatywą jest zastrzelenie się lub zjedzenie Sandie i jej firmy. W Deadpool: Suicide Kings #2 Outlaw mówi Deadpoolowi, że Alex stracił 14 funtów dzięki Jenny Craig, chociaż Deadpool sugeruje, że nadal ma nadwagę. Po wydarzeniach z Domino #1 Alex odzyskał dawną sylwetkę, przypisując utratę wagi koktajlom dietetycznym.

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radishflower · 11 months ago

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❝ When I’m dead, just throw me in the trash. ❞ (to Sandi)

it's always sunny sentence starters II @symbioteburnout

sandi looks up from her sketchbook, silly little modifications to her friends' uniforms that she thinks would be REAL FUN if they ever let her play around with the designs, if not, sketching them was fun on her own. she smiles a little at andi and pats the space beside her. " -- well, hopefully that's not something we have to think about for a LONG TIME."

#symbioteburnout #meme: sandi brandenberg.#( hey you!! <3 )

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indie private and selective NATASHA ROMANOFF aka BLACK WIDOW from MARVEL COMICS. influenced both by the 616, mcu, and a decade’s worth of headcanons. adored by alex. previously we-got-all-the-toys, established in 2012; recently featured on my multi @radishflower, and now back on her own blog because i miss her. 21+. nsfw and sometimes uncomfortable themes may be present on this blog, so please so not interact if you are under 21 years of age.

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agdistis-sanctified · 6 years ago

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A few underrated raw moments from the Deadpool comics. (Underrated = None of the recent hell from “Despicable Deadpool” or the Secret Empire arc, nothing related to the fantastic "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" arc, not the infamous Typhoid Mary scene, not Cable's main touching goodbye, not the "we keep doing stupid things to stay together" Cable scene, nothing with Ellie or Evan, not his death during the Incursion, etc.)

When Wade was sadistically mocking Wolverine with a plan to 'kill' him, transparently overcompensating and insisting that he didn't need Logan's approval or anyone else's (he does), having flashbacks to his abusive father and hallucinating the whole time, only to be thrown completely off-guard and uncharacteristically speechless for a few moments by Logan saying, simply, "You're not crazy." [Wolverine: Origins #24]

The time they tried to get the soul of one of his closest friends, Emily Preston, out of his head and into a new mechanical body, and they thought they were being sabotaged because things went wrong, but it was actually Wade's fear of being alone again causing his own subconscious to attack her. When he woke up, he ran away before she did because he felt guilty and embarrassed. [Deadpool (2012) #24]

When Wade and Cable tried to figure out who'd murdered a terrorist Cable was trying to make peace with, only for them to realize Wade himself had done it and couldn't even remember because of his brain damage and memory problems. He spent an issue fantasizing about all of the heroic reasons he could have had to kill the man, only to acknowledge to himself with shame that he'd probably just felt like it. Cable threw him out of his utopia and when Wade asked what he'd do if he messed up like that again, Cable told him he'd kill him. Wade called it the one question he actually didn't want to know the answer to, and upon getting that answer from his best friend, the one person that really accepted him at the time, he decided to kill himself. [Cable & Deadpool #14]

That time Cable died and Wade took his metal arm- the only part of him that remained- on an absurd trip to the country Cable had saved, forcing people there to respect him and ultimately saving the day with a humorous combination of his and Cable's powers while reminiscing about their relationship, only for it to be revealed that he'd been standing by Cable's grave the whole time, just mourning and trying to figure out how to process the loss. Within that issue: "He had the whole world on his mind, not just the two of us. [Memory of Cable: “I can’t be mad at you for being who you are.”] See? Nate understood me like nobody else." [Deadpool & Cable #26]

When he'd been led to believe he could fulfill a world-saving prophecy by defending an alien "Messiah" from another alien that would try to assassinate it. He struggled for a long time to be a better person that was worthy of the task and fought harder than he'd ever fought before only to humiliatingly lose the big fight against the assassin alien. In one of the most vulnerable, raw moments I've seen from an adult male character, he ran away from the botched fight and went straight to Blind Al, sobbing in her lap because he “wasn’t good enough.” [Deadpool (1997) #23]

That panic attack he had in front of Cable after his face was exposed in a fight with him. He tried to run from the fight but Cable was angry and wouldn't give him a break. [Deadpool (1997) #22]

When Deadpool became “Zenpool” during the Axis arc and it looked like it’d be all fun and games, but he struggled with usual tasks, felt like he was disappointing his family, and ultimately concluded that he was legitimately depressed after things went back to normal. “I ruin it because I can... because it’s easy.” [Deadpool (2012) #37]

When Deadpool didn’t want Cable to leave him again, and any of the times he notes missing him. [Deadpool & Cable #25]

Deadpool’s friend/assistant, Sandi, was hospitalized by her abusive boyfriend and he felt incapable of comforting her, believed that she wouldn’t want someone like him hugging her and telling her things would be okay, and noted that he’d lost the ability to cry or scream about things to feel better. [Deadpool (1997) #69]

EDIT: When Steve Fucking Rogers, his hero (or at least, the Hydra version, but Wade didn’t know that), punched Wade and called him “just another failed experiment” because he’d disobeyed him to help the mutants. To help Rogue, his best friend, and his daughter. (I said no Secret Empire because it’s low hanging tragedy-porn fruit but Uncanny Avengers is underrated enough to count anyway.) [Uncanny Avengers #14]

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