Yes, there are two Hawkeyes in the Marvel Universe, and they exist simultaneously - kinda like the two Spider-Mans we all know so well, thanks to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Because comics readers know Kate by another name: Hawkeye. But it still feels like a moment of transition: Are we witnessing the future of the Marvel universe take shape? Hawkeye, despite losing his hearing, knows what he’s doing. The first two episodes of the Hawkeye Disney Plus series see Avenger pro and and his teenage devotee on the run from the Tracksuit Mafia, buttoned-up swordsmen, and perhaps a few other mysterious foes. Marvel Studios introduces us to Kate, played by Hailee Steinfeld, as a quiver-carrying, quip-delivering college student whose moment of peril directly intersects with the greatest moment in her life: meeting her hero, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner). So it was finding an organic way in that made the most sense for the two of them to connect and bond over an ending sort of create that, that chemistry in that partnership along the the mission that they go through.” And that really inspired her to start learning that craft. She was seeing Hawkeye in a way that anybody who happens to have encountered that situation sees the moment. Her character, in a way, is the eyes from the audience point of view. “So it felt like it was the right moment, because it was such a big moment in the MCU, that it would connect with her.

“It was really important figuring out a way that made the most sense of why Kate idolizes Clint in the way she does, and at what pivotal moment in her life does she witness or encounter this that makes sense for her to start training and learning archery,” Marvel Studios producer Trinh Tran tells Polygon of revisiting the Battle of New York from a new angle. In 2021, when Hawkeye picks up, the girl is Kate Bishop, warrior wannabe. The moment will mold the impressionistic kid over the next nine years into a formidable archer. The girl, Kate Bishop, looks out at the raging war just as Clint Barton aka Hawkeye jumps, twirls, and plants an arrow in the head of a Chitauri warrior. During the Battle of New York, a gaping hole offers a glimpse of the hellish mayhem - and the Avengers in battle. In the before times, her window was a perfect vantage point at Stark Tower. In the opening scenes of Hawkeye, Marvel’s new Disney Plus series, a young girl looks out from the recently torn-off side of her Manhattan high-rise.

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