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In one scene, Clint teaches Kate how to properly clean and dress a cut on her head. When Clint tries to track down his old Ronin suit, he discovers it’s being used by a LARP-er-a live action role-player-who’s wearing the outfit for a local tournament.
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And the series places the same satisfying emphasis on everyday city life: Escaping from their tracksuited enemies, Clint and Kate don’t soar through the skies aboard the Avengers’ Quinjet they take the subway.
Some characters have walked right off the pages, including members of a buffoonish, tracksuit-wearing gang, as well as a one-eyed, pizza-loving golden retriever. The Disney+ version counts Fraction as a consulting producer, and the comics’ influence is evident. He knew that he was a superhero only because of his one major skill-being able to use, as he put it, “a stick and a string from the Paleolithic era”-so he tried to prove he had a life outside of being a nifty tool in the Avengers’ arsenal. Often this version of Clint was shown covered head-to-toe in bandages, still healing at the slow pace of a typical human. The comic redefined Clint Barton by exploring how he lived when he wasn’t on Avengers missions: He was a well-intentioned, if somewhat smug, Brooklyn bachelor doing ordinary things-like searching for the right kind of tape to label his trick arrows, or helping a neighbor move stuff out of his elderly father’s basement during a hurricane. It draws from the writer Matt Fraction and the artist David Aja’s critically acclaimed comic-book series, Hawkeye, which ran from 2012 to 2015. Hawkeye’s story is small-scale in focus, but not in ambition. This show, at least in the two episodes screened for critics, seems to be squarely about Clint and Kate, and how these two regular people with impeccable aim can untangle a local conspiracy in time to unwrap their presents. Nor is there any wrestling with the legacy of a fallen hero, as in Falcon and the Winter Soldierand Black Widow. Yet in Hawkeye, there is no bending of space-time or pruning of multiverses.
Since that film was released, the franchise’s scope has exploded, exploring new realities and dimensions in projects such as Lokiand Eternals. Set in New York City the week before Christmas, the show, which starts streaming tomorrow, follows Clint as he teams up with a young archer named Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) together they try to solve a crime connected to his stint as Ronin, the katana-wielding, vigilante alter ego he adopted in Avengers: Endgame.
One of the original six protagonists in 2012’s Avengers, the master archer (played by Jeremy Renner) gradually became an afterthought, not even appearing in 2018’s Infinity War.īut Hawkeye, the new Disney+ series, frees him from the pressure of appearing alongside his flashier colleagues-and, more important, frees his narrative from Marvel’s universe-expanding ambitions. Next to near-invincible heroes such as Thor, Captain America, and the Hulk, he just looked ill-equipped, wielding a bow and arrow against monstrous aliens and killer robots. Hawkeye, was never the most exciting Avenger in the Marvel films. This may sound harsh, but Clint Barton, a.k.a.