Is TaskMaster Left handed or Right handed?

DERPYREVENGERDERPYREVENGER Member Posts: 265 ★
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In the first image, he is holding his sword in his left hand (loading screen)

In the next images, he is holding his sword in his right hand (in battle)

I'm confused. Even if he is ambidextrous, wouldn't it be a more optimal idea to train one hand more than the other, or at least just have it set in stone which hand he is going to hold his sword in? I don't think changing the hand that you hold your weapon in, is a good idea, no matter how perfectly amidextrous he is?
Consistency

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  • DERPYREVENGERDERPYREVENGER Member Posts: 265 ★

    Oops
  • SnizzbarSnizzbar Member Posts: 2,223 ★★★★★
    Well, firstly, he's an invented fictional character. So the rules of 'real life' probably don't really apply in his case.
    Secondly, left and right handed is interchangeable in MCoC, because the AI champs are just a mirror image of the player controlled ones - the Taskmaster I control may hold his sword in his left hand but the computer controlled Taskmaster will hold it in his right.
    Thirdly, and I may be a little off here, but isn't the whole point of the Taskmaster character that he absorbs other people's skills, and he doesn't have to train at all? And left-or-right handedness likely has no particular meaning in his (fictional) world?
  • Sundance_2099Sundance_2099 Member Posts: 3,525 ★★★★★
    Winter Soldier and Cable's bionic arms switch sides. That's a far bigger issue than a guy who's a combat expert swapping which hand he holds his sword in.

    Plus, I read somewhere a lot of Spec Ops personnel in the military learn to use guns in both hands in case they get injured. Him being ambidextrous therefore fits his backstory.
  • LocoMotivesLocoMotives Member Posts: 1,200 ★★★
    Snizzbar wrote: »
    Well, firstly, he's an invented fictional character. So the rules of 'real life' probably don't really apply in his case.
    Secondly, left and right handed is interchangeable in MCoC, because the AI champs are just a mirror image of the player controlled ones - the Taskmaster I control may hold his sword in his left hand but the computer controlled Taskmaster will hold it in his right.
    Thirdly, and I may be a little off here, but isn't the whole point of the Taskmaster character that he absorbs other people's skills, and he doesn't have to train at all? And left-or-right handedness likely has no particular meaning in his (fictional) world?

    Along the lines of this, Taskmaster is the last one that this would matter for. He’s able to instantly learn fighting styles just by seeing them, I doubt his left hand is a weakness lol.
  • KhanMedinaKhanMedina Member Posts: 927 ★★★
    Sundance_2099 wrote: »
    Winter Soldier and Cable's bionic arms switch sides. That's a far bigger issue than a guy who's a combat expert swapping which hand he holds his sword in.
    Definitely a bigger issue and kind of embarassing for them.
  • VulcanMVulcanM Member Posts: 664 ★★
    on the screen before you start a fight the champs position is mirrored, thus reversing the the hand he is holding a sword ,try fighting a champ the same as yours in a quest(magik v magik or something) its like a mirror kinda, only because your fighting him on the opposite side of the screen
  • シャドウシャドウ Member Posts: 30 ★
    This swapping side thing has been an issue in many fighting games that date back to as far back as the 90's.

    I remember seeing a question asked about Sagat from Street Fighter's eye patch switching sides depending on which side of the screen he was facing. This was asked in gamepro magazine. (I'm THAT old).

    But as a Taskmaster lore collector of sorts - from a comic standpoint - his Photo Reflexes DOES allows him the flexiblity to be efficient with either the left or right sides of his body.

    Although it was hinted at in early issues of Agent X that he himself was NOT born ambidextrous.
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