{"id":227201,"date":"2021-03-30T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/disney-plus-hawkeye-series-logan\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:00:34","slug":"the-disney-plus-hawkeye-series-can-give-clint-barton-a-logan-style-swansong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/the-disney-plus-hawkeye-series-can-give-clint-barton-a-logan-style-swansong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disney Plus Hawkeye Series Can Give Clint Barton A Logan-Style Swansong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fact that there will be a new episode of an MCU streaming series arriving on Disney Plus pretty much every week this year more than makes up for a Marvel-less 2020. After The Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/em>, Loki<\/em>, What If…?<\/em>, and Ms. Marvel<\/em>, fans will be treated to a Hawkeye<\/em><\/strong><\/a> series starring Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton and Hailee Steinfeld as his successor, Kate Bishop<\/a>. While the series should mostly focus on introducing Kate\u2019s origin story and showcasing Steinfeld\u2019s take on the character, it has an interesting opportunity to contrast the beginning of Kate\u2019s story with the end of Clint\u2019s.<\/p>\n

James Mangold\u2019s Logan<\/em> gave Hugh Jackman\u2019s iconic portrayal of Wolverine the perfect bittersweet swansong<\/a>. The character finally stopped trying to outrun his past and sacrificed himself to ensure the survival of the next generation of mutants \u2013 it provided the perfect conclusion to Jackman\u2019s two-decade X-Men<\/em> arc. After the dark turn that Clint\u2019s own arc took in Avengers: Endgame<\/em>, Hawkeye<\/em> has the chance to give him the Logan<\/em> treatment.<\/p>\n

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After the opening scene of Endgame<\/em> makes it clear that Thanos\u2019 destructive finger-snap<\/a> can\u2019t be undone and the Avengers are forced to live with the massive ramifications of their failure, the movie takes a surprising five-year time jump into a dark 2023 where everybody\u2019s lost so many people that they\u2019re too depressed to move on with their lives. Clint, having lost his entire family when the Mad Titan put the Infinity Gauntlet on shuffle,\u00a0is revealed to have taken on the mantle of \u201cRonin\u201d and become a grizzled antihero determined to kill everybody who deserved to turn to dust more than his wife and kids.<\/p>\n

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While Tony spent those five years starting a family in the ruins of society<\/a>, Clint spent those years murdering people to deal with the grief of losing his own family. Throughout Endgame<\/em>, as he\u2019s recruited by the reformed Avengers to help with the \u201cTime Heist\u201d that could bring everybody back, Clint shows real remorse for how he spent the interim. He\u2019s ready to kill himself for the Soul Stone on Vormir because he feels like he deserves to die for what he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

Clint will be in a very dark place following the events of Endgame<\/em>. Laura and his kids are back, but he still has to live with the guilt of those five blood-soaked years. With Clint passing on the torch to Kate, he\u2019ll be retiring from \u201cthat superhero life,\u201d as Rhodey put it, and living out his days peacefully with his resurrected wife and kids \u2013 or, at least, that\u2019s the plan. It\u2019s possible that Clint will end up having the make the ultimate sacrifice, like Logan did, to save Kate and make sure she can live to fight alongside Earth\u2019s mightiest heroes. After all, most of the MCU\u2019s mentors (Yinsen, Dr. Erskine, the Ancient One etc.) end up dead. Death is a great redeemer<\/a>, so such a melancholic bookend would effectively absolve Clint of his crimes as Ronin.<\/p>\n

Marvel fans have never found Hawkeye to be a particularly interesting character, and have made no secret of it. He\u2019s constantly referred to as the most useless Avenger, his most substantial storylines in the MCU were mundane in comparison to everybody else\u2019s, and the observation that a team with a god, a super-soldier, and a giant monster doesn\u2019t need a guy with a bow and arrow has become a tired joke. But thanks to movies like X-Men: The Last Stand<\/em> and X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/em>, Jackman\u2019s Wolvie had a pretty rocky journey<\/a> to Logan<\/em>. Mangold\u2019s movie proved that it\u2019s never too late to turn around an underwhelming superhero arc.<\/p>\n

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Just as Logan<\/em> functioned as both an origin story for X-23 and a series finale for Wolverine, Hawkeye<\/em> has the opportunity to conclude Clint\u2019s entire MCU arc while beginning that of Kate Bishop. Clint may not be as exciting a character as Tony Stark or Steve Rogers, but he\u2019s been an Avenger for just as long as them and his swansong deserves to be just as fitting as theirs in Endgame<\/em><\/a>. With a real deconstruction of Clint\u2019s role in the larger universe and his effectiveness as a hero (i.e. not Joss Whedon\u2019s \u201cNone of this makes sense\u201d bathos), the Hawkeye<\/em> series can give his arc the kind of immensely satisfying conclusion that retroactively improves some of the shakier storytelling that came before.<\/p>\n

The confirmed appearance of Lucky the Pizza Dog will surely result in a Baby Yoda-level phenomenon, but the Hawkeye<\/em> series shouldn\u2019t lose sight of Clint himself. Setting up Kate to take over the mantle of Hawkeye should be this show\u2019s main priority as Marvel looks into the future \u2013 it\u2019s likely that Kate will be a founding member of the MCU\u2019s Young Avengers line-up<\/a> \u2013 but with some sharp parallel storytelling, Clint\u2019s \u201cendgame\u201d could complement the first steps of Kate\u2019s journey and inform how she approaches fulfilling the duties of Hawkeye.<\/p>\n

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