ALTERNATE VERSIONS
Ultimate Taskmaster was a mercenary repo man working for Roxxon. When the company’s genetic test subjects Cloak & Dagger escaped custody, Mr. Roxxon hired Taskmaster to retrieve his “property” and return them to the brain trust for further testing. However, he ran into another test subject named Bombshell working with Cloak & Dagger, Miles Morales and Jessica Drew. This version of Taskmaster had an edge, due to his ability to duplicate super-powers used against him, but the group of young heroes still defeated him. He later returned to fulfill the contract after these teens joined up with Kitty Pryde as the All-New Ultimates, but working at cross purposes with the Serpent Skulls gang meant he lost his bounty a second time.
In the Age of Ultron, humanity was nearly wiped out by Ultron and his army of drones. In 
Chicago, Taskmaster worked with Red Hulk and Black Panther in a plan to capture one of the drones for study. During the mission, a horde of other drones fell upon them before they could get away. T’Challa was killed in an explosion and Taskmaster tried to run. When the Red Hulk got free from his attackers, he confronted Taskmaster and then killed him for being untrustworthy.
In the House of M reality, sapiens were unofficially second-class citizens to mutants under Magneto’s rule. Consequently, Taskmaster passed off his “photographic reflexes” as being from the X-Gene. He was recruited for Thunderbird’s FBI organized crime task force called the Brotherhood. They intervened on a fight between the street gangs known as the Dragons and the Avengers. Taskmaster was planted as a sniper, but his killshot on Avengers leader Luke Cage was intercepted by Luke’s girlfriend, Tigra, who died from her wounds. Later on, Cage convinced the Brotherhood’s Punisher to turn on his mutant employers. Taskmaster caught them accessing computers at the precinct, and Cage took his revenge for Tigra. He crippled Taskmaster’s leg and hands, leaving him unable to apply his abilities ever again. Thunderbird abandoned Taskmaster as well once medical tests confirmed he was merely an enhanced human.
On Battleworld, several versions of Taskmaster were found. In Killville, Taskmaster was one of many villains serving the Assassins Guild. He tried to kill M.O.D.O.K., but the murderous organism barely took time to acknowledge him. In the realm of K’un-Lun, a version known as the Laughing Skull served Emperor Zheng Zu in the school of the Ten Rings. He and Red Sai tried to kill or retrieve the emperor’s wayward son, Shang-Chi.
