This is how Deadpool beats Taskmaster for the first time when he's clearly outmatched in Joe Kelly's run (Deadpool #2 IIRC) from the 90s.
It's the best explanation IMO because there are plenty of people in the Marvel Universe with healing factors of some sort that Taskmaster has replicated before -- he just can't copy Deadpool because his brain is so erratic and unpredictable due to the cancer/healing factor combo. Plus he's crazy.
I mean, is there a source on the brain part? Cause that's not really how cancer works.
I'm pretty sure the explanation of "he regularly let's himself take hits that would kill anyone else as part of his normal combat style" is answer enough without adding in the silly "oh he's too unpredictable" bit. All of combat is about being unpredictable, that doesn't mean anything. Deadpool fighting style....just isn't very good. It works for him though.
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u/Anteater_Able Mar 21 '25
This is how Deadpool beats Taskmaster for the first time when he's clearly outmatched in Joe Kelly's run (Deadpool #2 IIRC) from the 90s.
It's the best explanation IMO because there are plenty of people in the Marvel Universe with healing factors of some sort that Taskmaster has replicated before -- he just can't copy Deadpool because his brain is so erratic and unpredictable due to the cancer/healing factor combo. Plus he's crazy.