Hawkeye is a brand new MCU collection on Disney Plus Hotstar that continues the story of Jeremy Renner’s titular archer superhero (often known as Clint Barton) and likewise introduces Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop — who assumes the mantle of Hawkeye in comics.
Two episodes of the collection have been launched concurrently on Wednesday final week. The present has a festive theme and begins a couple of days earlier than Christmas in New York.
Like every thing else in MCU, Hawkeye boasts of a great deal of callbacks to earlier MCU occasions, Easter eggs, and references. Here are 5 of these.
Clint shedding his listening to
While watching Rogers: the Musical in New York, Clint seems to enter a trance and can’t hear what his daughter is saying. She then asks him whether or not he turned off his listening to support. This is straight lifted from comics the place the superhero turns into listening to impaired.
The Battle of New York
Until 2012, the Battle of New York in The Avengers was MCU’s largest set piece, a large battle between the Avengers towards Loki and the Chitauri military lent to him by Thanos that diminished a lot of town to rubble. Hawkeye’s opening scene noticed Kate witnessing Clint Barton taking up the Chitauri warriors.
In one shot, he jumps from a skyscraper and as he’s falling, he shoots an explosive arrow at an enemy on the high of the constructing. It was the identical scene that we noticed within the movie, solely the angle was completely different. Clearly, the scene was reshot to provide it such seamless similarity to the unique and plenty of VFX wizardry was additionally concerned.
Hawkeye’s Black Widow trick
Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow in The Avengers.
In the second episode, Clint pretends to be captured by a bunch of Russian goons. They don’t comprehend it, however he simply needs to learn about their targets. This is a transparent callback to the primary Avengers film. In the primary act, Natasha Romanoff, higher referred to as Black Widow, allowed herself to be captured after which freed herself simply. Perhaps Clint may have completed the identical had Kate not arrived to rescue him.
The Stark Tower
Clint at one level mentions that Tony Stark offered the Stark Tower, which later turned Avengers Tower. But he doesn’t inform who purchased the constructing. Disparate theories floating on social media platforms say any individual main like Kingpin or Reed Richard is the present proprietor. And actually the way in which Clint says it, it does appear to be the present needs it to be a thriller to be solved in upcoming episodes.
Lucky the Pizza Dog
Not many know this, however the one-eyed canine that Kate finds is an precise comic-book character. The solely distinction is within the lore it’s Clint who finds the canine.
Hawkeye is streaming on India on Disney Plus Hotstar.