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Hammerheadm-4 In reply to TheWickedAvatar1 [2014-06-16 02:18:45 +0000 UTC]

Zodak can determine someone's weakness, so it won't matter how many moves Taskmaster knows if Zodak knows his weakness.

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TheWickedAvatar1 In reply to Hammerheadm-4 [2014-06-16 13:53:10 +0000 UTC]

Taskmaster does not have an exploitable weakness, just limitations to what his powers can allow him to do.
Photographic Reflexes

Taskmaster has what he calls "photographic reflexes". After seeing someone perform an action once, he can perfectly copy the action, after one hour of studying the action. He has used this ability to copy the fighting styles and skills of many heroes and villains, mixing them up and turning them into his own style. The people he has copied styles/skills from include: Beast , Black Knight , Black Widow , Bullseye , Captain America , Cat , Daredevil ,Deadpool , Elektra , Hawkeye , Hulk , Iron Fist , Mister X , Ms. Marvel , Porcupine , Photon (Genis-Vell ),Puma , Punisher , Quicksilver , Razorfist , Scarlet Witch , Shang Chi , Silver Samurai , Spider-Man ,Swordsman , Thing , Thor , Tigra , Toad , Vision , Wolverine , Zaran , Blazing Skull , Luke Cage , Ant-Man (Lang) , Boomerang , Cable , Justice , Machete , Oddball , and Libra . 

He can only mimic actions to the extent that his body will allow. For example, he can copy the way Spider-Man fights, but can't copy his super strength. He can copy the way Daredevil moves to avoid danger, but he can't copy his radar. He can copy the fighting style of Deadpool but can't copy his unpredictability and healing factor. Copying skills doesn't give him an understanding of what is needed to do them either. He could copy a famous pianist's performance, but wouldn't be able to read sheet music. In a flashback he demonstrated something like this: when he was a child, he almost drowned after perfectly duplicating a swimmer's dive, forgetting that he couldn't swim.

Taskmaster has said that he finds Moon Knight's style of fighting annoying, as Moon Knight would rather take a punch than avoid it. To add to his abilities when he can't find someone to watch, Taskmaster uses the television. He watches movies and TV to study super-humans, athletes, stunt-men, archers, soldiers, wrestlers, etc. In this way, he has gained a wide range of combat as well as acrobatic skills including aerial acrobatics, gymnastics, boxing, martial arts (all the ones presently used and some historical ones), wrestling, swordsmanship, marksmanship, archery, car-jacking, and sleight of hand. By watching a video in fast forward, Taskmaster picked up the ability to move in "double time", giving him super speed for short periods of time. He also learned how to catch bullets during his mini-series.

Another skill Taskmaster has that is unconnected to his photographic reflexes is his ability to mimic voices. With just a couple hours of practice, Taskmaster can fully mimic another persons voice and speech patterns, a tool he uses for impersonation and breaking voice-activated locks.

Taskmaster carries a wide variety of weaponry he uses to mimic the fighting styles he managed to copy along his publication. Within his most consistent and visible gear we can see Captain America's shield , Black Knight's Sword ,Daredevil's Billy Clubs  and Hawkeye's Bow  and Trick Arrows. All this gear along with less known objects were carried manually by Taskmaster until his first solo series in 2002 introducing a new gear, commonly known as UDON suit. He changed his outfit and devices, but most importantly, he stole a S.H.I.E.L.D device which allowed him to create his weaponry by solidifying energy. This change proved to be very practical since he could move faster, avoid possible disarmament and utilize more weaponry in an easier way. Within the added weapons and gadgets: Wolverine's Claws and Spider-Man's Webshooters  as well as a very advanced image-inducer that allows him to take on the physical appearance of whomever he sees, this last one is currently 

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Hammerheadm-4 In reply to MightyMorphinPower4 [2014-06-14 22:57:28 +0000 UTC]

He-man And the Masters of the Universe.

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Hammerheadm-4 In reply to kaaslave [2014-06-14 22:58:49 +0000 UTC]

He's immortal, but nowhere near Demi-god status. He's just as vulnerable as anyone else.

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roknese In reply to Hammerheadm-4 [2014-06-15 17:44:33 +0000 UTC]

disagree. zodak is a neutral party and one of the few people who can take on he-man and give him an actual run for his money. i think that puts him firmly in demi-god status.

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kaaslave In reply to Hammerheadm-4 [2014-06-14 23:39:42 +0000 UTC]

If you say so.  It's just that with a title like "Cosmic Enforcer," I was expecting someone more formidable.

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