A few resistances for Comics Deadpool

[SamanPatou]

This will be a brief thread just to add some little abilities to the merc with a mouth. These are from very classic issues and I always thought we had them on the profile, but it turns out we don't, so it's time to fix it.

In Deadpool Vol 3 2 Wade Wilson squares off against Taskmaster. At first he opens with conventional martial arts and gets quickly overwhelmed by his photographic reflexes. During their second match, he promptly shifts approach and begins to use some custom dance-based martial arts against which Taskmaster is utterly helpless.
Taskmasters explicitly refers to such movements as suddenly erratic, unpredictable, with Deadpool backing it up in a flamboyant way and Taskmaster stating once again how they were purely chaotic and not human.
This should warrant a Resistance to Analytical Prediction and Photographic Memory/Technique Mimicry for Deadpool.

In the fourth page of the imgur album we also have a direct statement by Taskmaster about Deadpool being an expert at utilizing his banter to distract his opponents in combat. This has always been fairly obvious and is most likely the reason why he has Social Influencing listed on his profile, without any justification for it. I believe this scan is a useful evidence for the ability, and while it might look like a cheap solution instead of clear displays (for which you could link the entire Deadpool bibliography and call it a day) it is still better than nothing.

 

[Hypertornado099]

Isn't this just a skill feat?

 

[Tomfer]

Huh, I was discussing about this fight a few days ago here.

This should warrant a Resistance to Analytical Prediction and Photographic Memory/Technique Mimicry for Deadpool.

I think this is just resistance to AP, not really all of that combined. But I agree.

In the fourth page of the imgur album we also have a direct statement by Taskmaster about Deadpool being an expert at utilizing his banter to distract his opponents in combat. This has always been fairly obvious and is most likely the reason why he has Social Influencing listed on his profile, without any justification for it. I believe this scan is a useful evidence for the ability, and while it might look like a cheap solution instead of clear displays (for which you could link the entire Deadpool bibliography and call it a day) it is still better than nothing.

Yeah, sure.

Isn't this just a skill feat?

It can be both.

 

[SamanPatou]

Isn't this just a skill feat?

It is, but we have a handful of statements from Taskmaster stating his abilities don't work on this new approach, unlike the previous two Deadpool used.

I think this is just resistance to AP, not really all of that combined. But I agree.

I included the latter two because Taskmaster couldn't explicitly copy them, instead of simply being unable to predict them, which in the context of this issue are kinda the same.

 

[Hypertornado099]

It is, but we have a handful of statements from Taskmaster stating his abilities don't work on this new approach, unlike the previous two Deadpool used.

This sounds like a limitation of Taskmaster's ability

 

[Tomfer]

I included the latter two because Taskmaster couldn't explicitly copy them, instead of simply being unable to predict them, which in the context of this issue are kinda the same.

Yeah, valid. I can agree with that. Also I recommend tagging @The_man_with_the_Midas_touch to see this, he's knowledgeable on Taskmaster.

 

[SamanPatou]

This sounds like a limitation of Taskmaster's ability

With this argument you can say that any resistance is a failure of the other party's ability, but the blunt context of the story is that Task managed to copy all the conventional martial arts and swordmanship techniques of Deadpool, but the moment he pulled off his wacky repertoire (with references to ir dancers and actors) his powers stopped working for how unpredictable he is.

Yeah, valid. I can agree with that. Also I recommend tagging @The_man_with_the_Midas_touch to see this, he's knowledgeable on Taskmaster.

I'll do.
@The_man_with_the_Midas_touch

 

[SamanPatou]

Bump

 

[SamanPatou]

Bump

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

Taskmaster's abilities can't account for when an opponent goes off their "script" or fights in a way outside of their usual movements or repertoire. This is exemplified in his fight with Captain America, where He is overwhelmed by America rapidly alternating his fighting methods without giving him time to analyze them.

I think this is legitimately just a weakness of his reflexes.

 

[SamanPatou]

We should then write in on Taskmaster's weaknesses section, using yours and this thread's scan as support and justifications.
Then Deadpool's feat becomes one of martial arts skills for being able to circumvent Taskmaster's ability on the fly.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

We should then write in on Taskmaster's weaknesses section, using yours and this thread's scan as support and justifications.
Then Deadpool's feat becomes one of martial arts skills for being able to circumvent Taskmaster's ability on the fly.

Yeah, thats definitely a good idea. Elaborating that if an opponent suddenly switches fighting styles or moves too erratically, he'll lose the ability to predict them.

 

[SamanPatou]

May I ask you to wind up a draft for Taskmaster's justification? Since you know the character better than me, I believe you'd also get to write it more properly. Nothing too complex or long ofc.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

Alright, how about uhhhh.

His predictive ability can be disrupted should his opponent repeatedly alter their fighting style(Captain America (2018) #5), or move in an erratic, unpredictable fashion (Deadpool (Vol. 3) #2).

(the parenthesis would be put in a reference format)

 

[Tomfer]

Bump.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

This recent run of Deadpool has been really good for Taskmaster, character-wise. I'm enjoying him a lot.

 

[SamanPatou]

Alright, how about uhhhh.

His predictive ability can be disrupted should his opponent repeatedly alter their fighting style(Captain America (2018) #5), or move in an erratic, unpredictable fashion (Deadpool (Vol. 3) #2).

(the parenthesis would be put in a reference format)

Looks good to me. So, to sort it out, the final tally is the weakness for Taskmaster, a martial arts upgrade for Deadpool and the Social Influencing scan.
We just need staff to vote then we're done.

Off topic: That scan up here would actually make sense, it's a interesting concept for Task to be a magician if all it takes are words and signs.

 

[Tomfer]

This recent run of Deadpool has been really good for Taskmaster, character-wise. I'm enjoying him a lot.

The explosion he survived in this new issue could yield a 9-A or even an 8-C result.

 

[Tomfer]

Off topic: That scan up here would actually make sense, it's a interesting concept for Task to be a magician if all it takes are words and signs.

Funny enough this isn't the first time a street level played with magic, both fists of Khonshu can use magic thanks to their pact with Khonshu and Daredevil actually knows a few spells thanks to Strange, so it can actually happen one day.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

The explosion he survived in this new issue could yield a 9-A or even an 8-C result.

Might be difficult to quantify since it's hard to tell how much of the explosion Tasky actually took, considering he wasn't near the explosive itself. But it's a good feat for his trick arrows.

Looks good to me. So, to sort it out, the final tally is the weakness for Taskmaster, a martial arts upgrade for Deadpool and the Social Influencing scan.
We just need staff to vote then we're done.

Off topic: That scan up here would actually make sense, it's a interesting concept for Task to be a magician if all it takes are words and signs.

Yeah! that pretty much covers it!

And yeah that scan does have some interesting implications. Tasky could certainly at least mimic the casting of any spell that relies on a somatic component, though he'd doubtlessly need some kind of training to actually perform anything useful.

 

[Tomfer]

Might be difficult to quantify since it's hard to tell how much of the explosion Tasky actually took, considering he wasn't near the explosive itself. But it's a good feat for his trick arrows.

That's why I lowball to 9-A because even if he wasn't at the center, the flames did go quite high and affected the building pretty bad. But that's for another crt.

 

[SamanPatou]

Bump

 

[SamanPatou]

Looks good to me. So, to sort it out, the final tally is the weakness for Taskmaster, a martial arts upgrade for Deadpool and the Social Influencing scan.
We just need staff to vote then we're done.

Bump, this is the summary

 

[SamanPatou]

I want to wrap this up and get done with it, so I'll use my ancient forbidden magic to summon @Antvasima
This is pretty much done and resolved, also very simple, but I can't draw attentions from staff and I don't gave the time nor will to pester them 1 by 1, apologies.

 

[Antvasima]

This seems uncontroversial to apply.

 

[SamanPatou]

The changes have been applied, so I'm closing the thread.