Antonia/Taskmaster survives for the entire movie, and was the center of a pretty big subplot. His script had Taskmaster bonding with Ava, who, as we learned in Ant-Man and the Wasp, gained quantum-shifting powers in a lab accident that killed her parents, and was subsequently found by SHIELD, raised in a lab, and trained as a weapon. Pearson felt theyd have a lot in common as people who’d grown up in labs and been controlled that way.
And Ava, having won her autonomy earlier in the chronology than Taskmaster, was kind of big-sistering her a little bit, in a way of how to break free and be your own person,” Pearson says.
He also feels that Taskmasters presence helped rein in some of the other characters tendency for self-pity: I mean, everyone in there has suffered a ton of tragedy, he says. But she was kind of the ultimate tragedy. In the old tragedy rankings, she was at the top, and the other, bigger personalities no one could get out of line, because no one could say I had it worse than you.
His version of Taskmaster also enabled a running joke about her tendency to forget shed moved past trying to assassinate John Walker, and go after him again. On the comedy side, she was struggling with her own memory-loss stuff, and there was a gag where she just kept restarting the fight and
forgetting that they had made up and become friends. he says.
They would be discussing the plan of how to get out [of the vault], and she’d just go after him again, and they’d all have to pig-pile on each other, and pull her off, and be like, No, we know each other! We’ve had this conversation before!
