Once he uses his photographic reflexes to copy someone is it permanent?  

Yes.  His ability is slightly complex.  It's like perfect eidetic memory, where whatever he sees is perfectly memorized by not only his conscious mind, but his reflexes.  Any physical move he's seen done, even once, he can do.  No practice, no training.

And he doesn't have to see it in person.  He can see news footage and be able to copy the move.  (I recall that from an old story I read with him in it.)  It's the same as the girl in Heroes that could cut tomatoes to look like flowers and do kung fu moves after seeing them on TV, or play the piano after watching her cousin play.  On Heroes, they called her a "muscle mimic."

More proof that he can permanently retain that information, he was able to identify Mutant X as Typhoid Mary by remembering her moves.

All he has to do is watch something be done, and he can do it. 
 
Take this for example....

"Once he uses his photographic reflexes to copy someone is it permanent?   "

Yes.  His ability is slightly complex.  It's like perfect eidetic memory, where whatever he sees is perfectly memorized by not only his conscious mind, but his reflexes.  Any physical move he's seen done, even once, he can do.  No practice, no training.

@The Lobster : My only problem with that little sequence is movies use prop guns that prob don't weigh as much as real guns, so wouldn't that throw off the whole sequence of moves or is he meticulous enough to account for something like that?

The way he learns moves from fighting people and watching them fight a real fight is legit and I know it's a part of his origin but wouldn't him using movies/TV to learn things be a little off considering that most of their actions are nothing more than stunts? Cause I'm pretty sure any stuntman would tell you that preforming a stunt and actually preforming said move in real life is two different things.

@SuperDoahBoy: Yeah, that was a silly sequence. I'll just assume he was talking smack.

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Echo has similar powers to Taskmaster, as does his maybe-daughter Finesse. I say "maybe-daughter" because Taskmaster's powers come with a memory problem where the combat abilities crowd out other memories.

I hate that memory loss BS that came out of that last minnie, the UDON one was way better in all ways.

Taskmaster was always a little silly because having photgraphic reflexes and having the ability to do something you've seen someone else do are two different things. I mean If he watches a powerlifter lift 500 lbs just knowing the correct form does not mean he's physically strong enough to do it. And watching a yoga master bend into a pretzel doesn't mean he's limber enough to do it. And watching Captain America throw his shield around, which is made of a really specific alloy, as well as having perfect balance and weight doesn't mean he can do the same thing with his taskmaster shield. Like when Azreal took over for Batman and there was that weird thing about them training him in his sleep? I always thought he must be really sore every morning when he woke up. and he must have been one on those annoying epople who was like "no I never work out I just have a really high metabolism. "

@The Lobster : My only problem with that little sequence is movies use prop guns that prob don't weigh as much as real guns, so wouldn't that throw off the whole sequence of moves or is he meticulous enough to account for something like that?

The way he learns moves from fighting people and watching them fight a real fight is legit and I know it's a part of his origin but wouldn't him using movies/TV to learn things be a little off considering that most of their actions are nothing more than stunts? Cause I'm pretty sure any stuntman would tell you that preforming a stunt and actually preforming said move in real life is two different things.

but why does he have to dress up as skeletor?

@umbrafeline said:

but why does he have to dress up as skeletor?

He was originaly a villian

@Captain_Gunky said:

Taskmaster was always a little silly because having photgraphic reflexes and having the ability to do something you've seen someone else do are two different things. I mean If he watches a powerlifter lift 500 lbs just knowing the correct form does not mean he's physically strong enough to do it. And watching a yoga master bend into a pretzel doesn't mean he's limber enough to do it. And watching Captain America throw his shield around, which is made of a really specific alloy, as well as having perfect balance and weight doesn't mean he can do the same thing with his taskmaster shield. Like when Azreal took over for Batman and there was that weird thing about them training him in his sleep? I always thought he must be really sore every morning when he woke up. and he must have been one on those annoying epople who was like "no I never work out I just have a really high metabolism. "

That´s the bealty in him. He can do anything he sees, but he has no originality. He can trow a round shield "just like cap" as himself say in "marvel vs capcom" but it is not the same thing, its a copy, a slower, weaker, black and white copy

He can do any re-bounce shield performance that cap had previously done, but not a new one. Look, if cap is inside a room and do an amazing re-bounce throw in there taskyie can do an almost equal thing instantly, but cannot do that anywhere else, simply becouse the angles would not be the same.

He cannot create moves, just repeat then, but he can repeat then more easily than the original performer, ie, if BP do something (momentum related) very challenging to him, to taskmaster to "redo" that is plain and simple like "half moon+ forward + punch" . Of course, some of the most powerful martial arts are based on repetition, and he knows all.

He sees a lot of television tho, to keep updated one may say.

I like taskie because of that, he can copy everything batman does, but he cannot be the bat, or cap, or daredevil...he is a Player in a videogame sort of, and i can relate to that

@The Lobster

They still use guns with blanks in them in movies to this day. Lord of War (2005) used real AK-47s because according to the director it was cheaper than getting prop guns.

Of course I've heard about the Brandon Lee incident and to be honest I didn't know that about Lord of War, but I kinda find it hard to believe that with all of the movies being made all of the world and the fact that there is such a thing as prop guns that every movie is made using real guns. Maybe all of the movies you've seen used real guns, but I'm a fan a bad action movies from all over the world and I've seen some that have used prop guns.

@The Lobster

They still use guns with blanks in them in movies to this day. Lord of War (2005) used real AK-47s because according to the director it was cheaper than getting prop guns.

Of course I've heard about the Brandon Lee incident and to be honest I didn't know that about Lord of War, but I kinda find it hard to believe that with all of the movies being made all of the world and the fact that there is such a thing as prop guns that every movie is made using real guns. Maybe all of the movies you've seen used real guns, but I'm a fan a bad action movies from all over the world and I've seen some that have used prop guns.

It wouldn't make a difference !!!! He can automatically duplicate the move naturally regardless of a prop gun or whatever . You can shoot a basketball through a hoop and just like you can shoot a tennis ball through that same hoop because you naturally adjust for the difference. @Captain_Gunky... That's why is a superpower based on reflex and not just normal photographic memory ... It's a SUPER POWER.....the difference is you see something and you simply remember it and if you practice enough you 'might' be able to perfect it... His SUPER POWER is that he can skip all that and his muscles instantly can work perfectly to do whatever he has seen.

@Enosisik said:

It wouldn't make a difference !!!! He can automatically duplicate the move naturally regardless of a prop gun or whatever . You can shoot a basketball through a hoop and just like you can shoot a tennis ball through that same hoop because you naturally adjust for the difference. @Captain_Gunky... That's why is a superpower based on reflex and not just normal photographic memory ... It's a SUPER POWER.....the difference is you see something and you simply remember it and if you practice enough you 'might' be able to perfect it... His SUPER POWER is that he can skip all that and his muscles instantly can work perfectly to do whatever he has seen.

i dont think its a super power... just a skill. its how his brain works