@k4tzm4n: the first fight didn't have him fightibg like Taskmaster at all and I don't know where you got that from. Yeah, Elektra did win by ditching Her fighting style, meaning Bullseye lost to someone who literally forgot they had any combat skill. Bullseye was arrogant in the other fight, but he always is. I don't think Bullseye has any combat showings that don't involve his arrogance. Can't really be counted against him anymore.
Daredevil's stomped Bullseye 6 times. One of them was a one-shot and one of them had Daredevil with a broken arm. Elektra's stalemated Daredevil several times and even gotten the upper hand a few times. Crossbones nearly killed Bullseye and he's also absurdly less skilled than Elektra. Punisher beat Bullseye up close twice while Elektra speedblitzed him. Bullseye' a damn Nightwing leveler. He's not doing crap to Elektra on average.
Honestly, I think you're downplaying Bullseye. Simply put, if Bullseye was "ludicrously outclassed" by Elektra, he wouldn't be considered one of her biggest enemies and provided Daredevil with several good fights. If he was, as you say, ludicrously outclassed by them, he'd be someone else's villain because he'd be on their level or at least a level close enough to offer a challenge. But that isn't the case and he often fights DD and Elektra because he does often have what it takes to give them trouble. As for Punisher, he won in Daniel Way's street fight (when it was purely close combat), but Bullseye also humiliated Frank in the jungle and embarrassed him in Way's story (that one encounter aside). As for their fight when Punisher survived his execution, I'd take that with a grain of salt since Bullseye admitted he was pulling his shots (wanted to see if it was really Frank) and then Frank one-shotted him, something that's pretty silly given Bullseye had an adamantium skull and has endured much greater beatings against Daredevil in several prolonged fights. The times Bullseye has taken a beating before losing outweigh the times he was dropped by 1-2 hits.
You have a very high opinion of Elektra, which is understandable, but I think Bullseye is much more formidable than you give him credit for and you seem to only be looking at the times he's lost or suffered an embarrassing defeat. We know he has the reflexes to block bullets; we know he has the agility, skill, and ruthlessness to give Murdock several savage fights; we know he's tough enough to take a beating in several of them; we know he has uncanny accuracy and phenomenal use of ricochet shots. At any rate, I can't say I agree with you in the least that Elektra has Bullseye "lubriciously outclassed." Can she take a majority over him? Sure, I think she would. Will it be easy and effortless? I strongly disagree and, to be blunt (not rude, just honest), nothing you can say is going to change that. Everything you're citing I've already read and I just don't view the same way as you do. I spent a stupid amount of money on Bullseye's issues back in college -- much more than I should have -- because he was one of my favorite villains back then. I've read all of his fights with Elektra (skrull and regular) as well as the times he's faced off with other heroes and villains. I think Elektra should beat him, but I think she'll have to work for it. If I thought she had him "ludicrously outclassed," that would mean she wouldn't have to work for the victory and wouldn't have any trouble walking all over him. That's something we obviously don't see eye to eye on. If you disagree with that, that's fine, but given their history and many of Bullseye's better showings, I can't say I'm going to agree with you.
As for the Taskmaster comment, that's the only time Bullseye has attempted to duplicate his opponent's style and then was baffled when they did something unexpected. That's exactly how writers make Tasky lose sometimes and that's the only time I recall Lester using that approach. It's not how he operates, so I view that as out-of-character.
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