Taskmaster Vs Backlash

Fight takes place in an abandoned train station, no morals apply, fight to death or KO.

Usual Gear, backlash with enhanced whips. No Genfactor/telepathy.

Taskmaster

http://www.comicvine.com/taskmaster/29-4578/

Backlash

http://www.comicvine.com/backlash/29-25978/

This is too close for me to decide.

@TheCowman: but he was created by Jim Lee.....

@Cable_Extreme said:

This is too close for me to decide.

Make Fair Fights

Don’t make battles that are clearly one-sided. Most times this happens when people want to make one character look bad or another look good. Either way it’s childish and a waste of space. Sometimes it’s a mistake because you don’t know all the abilities of one of the characters and it turns out that they have a power that would make them win easily, but that doesn’t happen much (and it really shouldn’t, CV is an encyclopedia, look up characters before you make the fight). If it’s obvious you’re doing it on purpose, the thread will be locked.

Backlash is a Human/Kherubim hybrid who has been alive for the past 3 thousand years. Due to this all his physicals are superhuman. During his thousands of years on earth he's trained as ninja, knight, military intelligence operative, USAF Sergeant Rescue Commando, USAF Colonel, special forces operative and more impressively Stormwatch drill master (it was his job to train everyone in Stormwatch in tactics and combat). Due to his vast experience in hand to hand he is considered the best hand to hand fighter in Wildstorm outclassing both Zealot who is more than 3 times his own age and Midnighter. Backlash can dematerialze on command turning himself into living mist making physical attacks temporarily useless against him. He can also use this ability to go inside his enemy (via them breathing him in when misted) and killing them from the inside. Slayton can also create pisonic constructs in the shape of whips from his wrists. In their weakest version they are able to one-shot a military APC and in their strongest they could one-shot high level deamonites. He can also change the amount of pisonic energy flowing through the whips (ie: the damage the whips inflict can be made lethal by increasing the flow of pisonic energy and frying the person's brain). Last but not least he doesn't have complete control over his pisonic's hence the reason he forms them into whips however he has in past used bursts of telekinesis to throw his enemies around.

Backlash stomps

@N0tS0An0nym0us: Hw is that so? A person above you just pointed out that taskmaster should win because backlash is handicapped lol. He doesn't have his genforce in this fight so it is in no way an unfair fight.

@Cable_Extreme said:

@N0tS0An0nym0us: Hw is that so? A person above you just pointed out that taskmaster should win because backlash is handicapped lol. He doesn't have his genforce in this fight so it is in no way an unfair fight.

Re-Emergence

In a back-up story that ran through four different Wildstorm titles, Marc was featured in a story called "Slayton: Gauntlet" in which he must escape from the mutated experiments held within International Operations Research and Containment Facility #42 in New Mexico. Throughout the story, Slayton is required to use his powers in order to survive, revealing that he retains the ability to turn into mist, as well as use his psi-whips. At the conclusion of the arc, Marc laments not having his costume and plans to seek out some of his former Team 7 cohorts, indicating a possible return to his more active role in the Wildstorm universe.

Backlash stomps

@N0tS0An0nym0us said:

@Cable_Extreme said:

@N0tS0An0nym0us: Hw is that so? A person above you just pointed out that taskmaster should win because backlash is handicapped lol. He doesn't have his genforce in this fight so it is in no way an unfair fight.

Re-Emergence

In a back-up story that ran through four different Wildstorm titles, Marc was featured in a story called "Slayton: Gauntlet" in which he must escape from the mutated experiments held within International Operations Research and Containment Facility #42 in New Mexico. Throughout the story, Slayton is required to use his powers in order to survive, revealing that he retains the ability to turn into mist, as well as use his psi-whips. At the conclusion of the arc, Marc laments not having his costume and plans to seek out some of his former Team 7 cohorts, indicating a possible return to his more active role in the Wildstorm universe.

Backlash stomps

As a one time carrier of the Gen-Factor Backlash had access to a healing factor as well as high-end telepathy and telekinesis. All of which he lost when his Kherubim heritage purged his system of the Gen Factor. During his final mission with Team 7 ( as seen in Team 7 Objective: Hell #3) he was able to generate Psi-Whips; telekinetic generated psychic tendrils that can rend, coil and produce energy to shock opponents and objects. These Psi-Whips were enhanced after the total loss of his Gen-Factor. Backlash has also displayed the ability to turn into mist but since the loss of the Gen Factor his is only able to do so once (or twice a day with some great effort).

He also has a cybernetic bionic leg, from his time as a director of I.O. to replace his damaged one. (That = handicapped) :D

Even if he wasn't able to use his misting, I'd still give the edge to Backlash. He's beaten Zealot a couple of times, and his psi-whips are powerful enough to mess Tasky up.

@Cable_Extreme: @N0tS0An0nym0us said:

Backlash can dematerialze on command turning himself into living mist making physical attacks temporarily useless against him. He can also use this ability to go inside his enemy (via them breathing him in when misted) and killing them from the inside. Slayton can also create pisonic constructs in the shape of whips from his wrists. In their weakest version they are able to one-shot a military APC and in their strongest they could one-shot high level deamonites. He can also change the amount of pisonic energy flowing through the whips (ie: the damage the whips inflict can be made lethal by increasing the flow of pisonic energy and frying the person's brain). Last but not least he doesn't have complete control over his pisonic's hence the reason he forms them into whips however he has in past used bursts of telekinesis to throw his enemies around.

Backlash stomps

@N0tS0An0nym0us said:

@Cable_Extreme: @N0tS0An0nym0us said:

Backlash can dematerialze on command turning himself into living mist making physical attacks temporarily useless against him. He can also use this ability to go inside his enemy (via them breathing him in when misted) and killing them from the inside. Slayton can also create pisonic constructs in the shape of whips from his wrists. In their weakest version they are able to one-shot a military APC and in their strongest they could one-shot high level deamonites. He can also change the amount of pisonic energy flowing through the whips (ie: the damage the whips inflict can be made lethal by increasing the flow of pisonic energy and frying the person's brain). Last but not least he doesn't have complete control over his pisonic's hence the reason he forms them into whips however he has in past used bursts of telekinesis to throw his enemies around.

Backlash stomps

As a one time carrier of the Gen-Factor Backlash had access to a healing factor as well as high-end telepathy and telekinesis. All of which he lost when hisKherubim heritage purged his system of the Gen Factor. During his final mission with Team 7 ( as seen in Team 7 Objective: Hell #3) he was able to generate Psi-Whips; telekinetic generated psychic tendrils that can rend, coil and produce energy to shock opponents and objects. These Psi-Whips were enhanced after the total loss of his Gen-Factor. Backlash has also displayed the ability to turn into mist but since the loss of the Gen Factor his is only able to do so once (or twice a day with some great effort).

He also has a cybernetic bionic leg, from his time as a director of I.O. to replace his damaged one. (That = handicapped) :D

@Cable_Extreme said:

Backlash can dematerialze on command turning himself into living mist making physical attacks temporarily useless against him. He can also use this ability to go inside his enemy (via them breathing him in when misted) and killing them from the inside.

Backlash has also displayed the ability to turn into mist but since the loss of the Gen Factor his is only able to do so once (or twice a day with some great effort).

Backlash stomps

@N0tS0An0nym0us:

Photographic Reflexes

Taskmaster has what he calls "photographic reflexes". After seeing someone perform an action once, he can perfectly copy 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 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, Silver Samurai, Spider-Man, Swordsman, Thing, Thor, Tigra, Toad, Vision, Wolverine, Zaran, and Blazing Skull. (In crossovers he has learned the skills of Batman and Huntress but it is unknown if he retains them in the normal Marvel Universe.) This is just a short list, but it is impressive.

I think that is good enough to make the fight fair. It is in no way a stomp.

@Cable_Extreme: Ok, since he cant replicate turning into mist .... he get's choked out ....

Make Fair Fights

@N0tS0An0nym0us said:

@Cable_Extreme: Ok, since he cant replicate turning into mist .... he get's choked out ....

Make Fair Fights

The mist is a part of genfactor, which is not allowed in the rules I have set. It is a battle between these two guys.

@Cable_Extreme said:

@N0tS0An0nym0us said:

@Cable_Extreme: Ok, since he cant replicate turning into mist .... he get's choked out ....

Make Fair Fights

The mist is a part of genfactor, which is not allowed in the rules I have set. It is a battle between these two guys.

You edited it 7 mins ago ...........

Obviously it wasn't a fair fight ..........

@N0tS0An0nym0us: I thought saying enhanced whips and no telepathy basically said no genfactor, sorry for confusing you.

@Cable_Extreme said:

@N0tS0An0nym0us: I thought saying enhanced whips and no telepathy basically said no genfactor, sorry for confusing you.

Be Specific About Fights

I think this is probably the most important rule, and when it’s followed, many other problems go away. When starting a battle you need to be specific about how everything is going to go down. This includes a lot of factors. A lot of posters just type "fighter 1 vs fighter 2, who wins?" and they're done. Putting just a little effort into it can sort out a lot of questions that pop up later. You can determine if the characters involved are acting in character (like they normally would as their personalities dictate), if they are “bloodlusted” or anywhere in between, how much time they get before the fight (prep), where they're fighting, what gear they have with them, which incarnation of the character, any power limitations, etc, etc. It really isn’t hard to flesh out the battle a little and it goes a long way.

@N0tS0An0nym0us: Ty for the help mate!!!!

@N0tS0An0nym0us: I see backlash possibly losing, but his whips would be deadly, I think taskmaster wins 7 out of 10 times. What do you think?

@Cable_Extreme said:

@N0tS0An0nym0us: I see backlash possibly losing, but his whips would be deadly, I think taskmaster wins 7 out of 10 times. What do you think?

I see the whips doing to Taskmaster what they did to the APC at their weakest ...

one hit = death

Marc Stomps

@N0tS0An0nym0us: But taskmaster's weapons aren't a 1 hit kill?

@Cable_Extreme said:

@N0tS0An0nym0us: But taskmaster's weapons aren't a 1 hit kill?

Considering they can hit their target and not kill it (like bow and arrow, sword) ....as long as they don't hit their mark, which considering the energy from the whips would destroy the on coming arrows and destroy the sword, No, they arent

@N0tS0An0nym0us said:

@Cable_Extreme: Ok, since he cant replicate turning into mist .... he get's choked out ....

Make Fair Fights

The mist is a part of genfactor, which is not allowed in the rules I have set. It is a battle between these two guys.

@CitizenBane: What's your take on this thread ...

@Stompa: That was my thinking, Backlash has a lot of experience, but Taskmaster has a lot of the best melee fighters fighting style memorized which makes me think that a hand to hand battle would be a fun and close match.

@Jonny_Anonymous: I fairly sure that misting is part of his genfactor because he couldn't use it after he lost it, and is just now able to use it once a day with extreme effort. CitizenBane above knows more about it than me.

Backlash wins with ease.