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Hawkeye and Hawk Guy
Nov. 25th, 2021 10:08 pmThe MCU has a "Hawkeye" miniseries on the Disney+ channel that's airing right now.
The logo and branding for it are taken from the 2012-2015 Fraction/Aja run of Hawkeye.
In that story, Clint Barton is a very weary working-class super hero. He doesn't have any actual super heroic abilities, just skills he's spent a lot of time perfecting. The bad guys frequently get the jump on him solely by the virtue of being more numerous than he is. While his teammates recover quickly from various Avengers escapades, he recovers much more slowly and sometimes only after medical care. He's from a low class family (carnival workers) and he's estranged from them. His only friends are the people he works with, really, and he's got some neighbors he likes alright.
Clint's rooted pretty firmly from the start in a particular class. He has a duffel bag full of cash, but he's not rich. He works with his hands, with his body, and he's tired at the end of the day. He does his own grocery shopping and holds the door for his neighbors as they come in and out of the run down apartment building they all live in. They might not be close friends but they are a community and they recognize each other.
The building's owned by the Russian mob. The building owners refuse to make repairs, to make the building safe, but still demand rent payments. The area's gentrifying, which means housing is becoming more scarce and also more expensive. Clint winds up trying to purchase the building IN CASH. WITH A DUFFEL BAG FULL OF CASH. But the owners turn down the offer, betting that they'll get a bigger profit if they sit on the building until the neighborhood's improved a bit more.
A constant running thread of action is the mobsters targeting him, jumping him, swarming him like fleas. He gets beaten up pretty badly because they outnumber him. He hurts them but they keep being able to get close enough to get him. He's just one guy, you know? He's just a guy.
A guy with some arrows.
Some of the arrows are stunt arrows.
Throughout the course of the comic he also rescues a dog, has his hearing damaged again and returns to using sign language, and starts working with Kate Bishop who is a rich young woman with expensive hobbies, like archery.
In the MCU Clint Barton is an archer.
He doesn't really talk to any of the Avengers other than Natasha/Black Widow. They are best friends. I do not, off the top of my head, remember him interacting with any other Avengers. He's a character who sinks into the background quietly. He doesn't talk to people. He's just kind of there.
It's eventually revealed that he's had a secret wife and kids tucked away in a single family home in a rural area, a fact that inspires all the Men Avengers to praise that sort of isolated family-centered lifestyle and how all the Women Avengers would really love being the Wives in that sort of situation. After the Blip, he puts on a hoodie and uses the identity of "The Ronin" to murder "bad guys" with a sword in Japan.
Look pal, you're an arrow guy or a sword guy. Pick one. You can't be both.
In the "Hawkeye" tv show we see that Clint is in The City with his kids to see a TRULY horrific Avengers-themed musical that for some reason is modeled after "Rent" and not "Hamilton." They're only in the city for a short while, they'll soon be back in their single family home nestled among the trees.
He doesn't use stunt arrows.
We also meet Kate Bishop.
She grew up in a luxury penthouse suite type situation, one of those weird winding staircases massive windows overlooking everything scenes. She's currently at a private college, pursuing very expensive hobbies (archery, various martial arts), and is being groomed to inherit the white collar family business.
She lives in an apartment in an income-generating building she inherited from a family member. She's above a pizza place and her apartment is fucking huge.
But it's ok, there's still Russian-accented guys in track suits and a dog with one eye that she feeds a piece of pizza to!
We go from a comic about a working class guy trying to protect his home and his community, a community of marginalized people being squeezed out of their homes, to a show about an isolated dude and a rich girl who could fuck off to live off her trust fund with just her besties if she wanted.
MCU writers are overwhelmingly ham handed and deal with issues like class, race, gender, etc extremely poorly, so unless Taika Waititi takes over they're probably not going to touch on any of the themes that helped make the Fraction and Aja story actually compelling.
Instead we're just going to get Clint Barton LARP sword-fighting a bunch of NYC Police and Firefighter nerds, one of whom stole items from a crime scene.
The logo and branding for it are taken from the 2012-2015 Fraction/Aja run of Hawkeye.
In that story, Clint Barton is a very weary working-class super hero. He doesn't have any actual super heroic abilities, just skills he's spent a lot of time perfecting. The bad guys frequently get the jump on him solely by the virtue of being more numerous than he is. While his teammates recover quickly from various Avengers escapades, he recovers much more slowly and sometimes only after medical care. He's from a low class family (carnival workers) and he's estranged from them. His only friends are the people he works with, really, and he's got some neighbors he likes alright.
Clint's rooted pretty firmly from the start in a particular class. He has a duffel bag full of cash, but he's not rich. He works with his hands, with his body, and he's tired at the end of the day. He does his own grocery shopping and holds the door for his neighbors as they come in and out of the run down apartment building they all live in. They might not be close friends but they are a community and they recognize each other.
The building's owned by the Russian mob. The building owners refuse to make repairs, to make the building safe, but still demand rent payments. The area's gentrifying, which means housing is becoming more scarce and also more expensive. Clint winds up trying to purchase the building IN CASH. WITH A DUFFEL BAG FULL OF CASH. But the owners turn down the offer, betting that they'll get a bigger profit if they sit on the building until the neighborhood's improved a bit more.
A constant running thread of action is the mobsters targeting him, jumping him, swarming him like fleas. He gets beaten up pretty badly because they outnumber him. He hurts them but they keep being able to get close enough to get him. He's just one guy, you know? He's just a guy.
A guy with some arrows.
Some of the arrows are stunt arrows.
Throughout the course of the comic he also rescues a dog, has his hearing damaged again and returns to using sign language, and starts working with Kate Bishop who is a rich young woman with expensive hobbies, like archery.
In the MCU Clint Barton is an archer.
He doesn't really talk to any of the Avengers other than Natasha/Black Widow. They are best friends. I do not, off the top of my head, remember him interacting with any other Avengers. He's a character who sinks into the background quietly. He doesn't talk to people. He's just kind of there.
It's eventually revealed that he's had a secret wife and kids tucked away in a single family home in a rural area, a fact that inspires all the Men Avengers to praise that sort of isolated family-centered lifestyle and how all the Women Avengers would really love being the Wives in that sort of situation. After the Blip, he puts on a hoodie and uses the identity of "The Ronin" to murder "bad guys" with a sword in Japan.
Look pal, you're an arrow guy or a sword guy. Pick one. You can't be both.
In the "Hawkeye" tv show we see that Clint is in The City with his kids to see a TRULY horrific Avengers-themed musical that for some reason is modeled after "Rent" and not "Hamilton." They're only in the city for a short while, they'll soon be back in their single family home nestled among the trees.
He doesn't use stunt arrows.
We also meet Kate Bishop.
She grew up in a luxury penthouse suite type situation, one of those weird winding staircases massive windows overlooking everything scenes. She's currently at a private college, pursuing very expensive hobbies (archery, various martial arts), and is being groomed to inherit the white collar family business.
She lives in an apartment in an income-generating building she inherited from a family member. She's above a pizza place and her apartment is fucking huge.
But it's ok, there's still Russian-accented guys in track suits and a dog with one eye that she feeds a piece of pizza to!
We go from a comic about a working class guy trying to protect his home and his community, a community of marginalized people being squeezed out of their homes, to a show about an isolated dude and a rich girl who could fuck off to live off her trust fund with just her besties if she wanted.
MCU writers are overwhelmingly ham handed and deal with issues like class, race, gender, etc extremely poorly, so unless Taika Waititi takes over they're probably not going to touch on any of the themes that helped make the Fraction and Aja story actually compelling.
Instead we're just going to get Clint Barton LARP sword-fighting a bunch of NYC Police and Firefighter nerds, one of whom stole items from a crime scene.
