NOV 2, 2026
EVERY MOVE TASKMASTER LEARNS COSTS HIM A MEMORY — HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS OWN WIFE DOZENS OF TIMES OVER!
The perfect fighting machine is maintained by the one person he can never keep: the handler in his earpiece is the wife he keeps losing.
Taskmaster Vol. 2 #1–4 (2010): Fred Van Lente's run reveals the mnemonic primer behind Tony Masters' photographic reflexes overwrote his personal past — erasing S.H.I.E.L.D., his own identity, and his wife Mercedes Merced, who secretly handles him as the voice of 'the Org.'
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