15 DEADLIEST Comic Book Assassins
9. Taskmaster
Hiring an assassin to take down a superhero is no easy task. Captain America is physically perfect. How do you expect anyone to take him out?
Simple. You hire an assassin that can fight like Captain America... or anyone for that matter. From a young age, Taskmaster learned he had photographic reflexes, meaning he can copy any physical action he witnesses. If he saw Spider-Man perform a triple backflip, Taskmaster could do it with the same level of agility and precision. After watching a couple of fights of Black Widow, Elektra, or Black Panther, the skull-blazoned supervillain could go toe-to-toe with any of them.
To imitate superheroes who wield weapons like Captain America or Daredevil, Taskmaster is armed with every weapon you can imagine. Carrying around a sword, shield, shurikens, knives, a bo staff, Spider-Man webs, Wolverine claws, bow, arrows, a katana, and guns, the cloaked mercenary is a literal one-man army.
Because he has the precision of Hawkeye, the athleticism of Deadpool, the strength of Cap, as well as the fighting skills of dozens of other combatants, even the mightiest superheroes have fallen against Taskmaster.