Warning: SPOILERS for Hawkeye Episodes 1 & 2.

Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) calls herself the world's greatest archer in Hawkeye but she also stole Black Widow's (Scarlett Johansson) most famous move. Kate finds herself in the middle of a criminal conspiracy in Hawkeye episode 1 and 2, but she gets help from her personal hero, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner). Hawkeye happens a couple of years after Avengers: Endgame but Clint understandably isn't over the death of his best friend, Natasha Romanoff. However, Black Widow's spirit is woven into Hawkeye and Natasha's influence even factors into how Kate Bishop fights.

Hawkeye's prologue established that young Kate Bishop (Clara Stack) was an eyewitness of The Avengers' Battle of New York. Kate watched Clint Barton fight off the Chitauri on a rooftop opposite her family's penthouse and Hawkeye even saved her life from one of the aliens. Kate was already a championship-caliber athlete at her young age but Hawkeye's heroism is what inspired Bishop to learn archery and master martial arts and even fencing. Kate must have kept tabs on the Avengers over the next decade - and she seems to have survived Thanos' (Josh Brolin) Infinity Gauntlet snap, because Bishop knew about Clint Barton's violent activities as Ronin. Kate aspires to be a superhero archer like Hawkeye, her hero, but the hero-in-training also obviously learned a thing or two from Natasha Romanoff as well.

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Hawkeye episode 1, "Never Meet Your Heroes," shows Kate Bishop using a classic Black Widow move when she took down one of the Tracksuit Mafia's thugs with a hurricanrana i.e. a flying head scissors takedown. Natasha Romanoff used hurricanranas to cut bigger foes down to size since her first appearance in Iron Man 2, and it's one of her signature moves to use in a fight. Since Kate has no superpowers like Romanoff or Clint Barton, she has to use her whole body as a weapon like they do. This is especially important in scenarios where Bishop doesn't have a bow and arrows, such as when Kate fought the Tracksuit Mafia after she stumbled upon a black-market auction. Black Widow's flying head scissors is an equalizer since Natasha is relatively diminutive compared to most of her enemies, and so is Kate. But size doesn't matter when an opponent is flat on their back, making the move important - though it's worth note that Kate's version of Natasha's hurricanrana is likely part of her black belt training.

Hawkeye Kate Hurricanrana

Amusingly, an even more famous Black Widow move that Kate Bishop failed to master is Natasha Romanoff's superhero landing and pose. In Hawkeye episode 2, "Hide and Seek," Bishop decides to rescue Clint Barton, not realizing he voluntarily allowed himself to get kidnapped by the Tracksuit Mafia so he could meet their leader. (A tactic called 'catch and release' favored by Black Widow.) Kate dons her superhero gear and crashes through the Tracksuit Mafia's skylight while Clint is tied to a chair but she lands with a humiliating thud at Barton's feet. Soon, Kate is tied up alongside Clint, worsening an already fine mess both Hawkeyes got themselves into.

Going by Hawkeye episode 2, Kate Bishop clearly doesn't know how to do Natasha Romanoff's superhero landing. In Black Widow, Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) mocked Natasha's infamous pose where she lands in a spider-like position and flips her hair back. Of course, Yelena later did Natasha's pose during their attack on the Red Room in spite of herself. At some point in Hawkeye, Yelena is expected to follow up Black Widow's post-credits scene tease and hunt down Clint Barton, who Belova's employer, Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss), blamed for Natasha's death. If Kate Bishop also crosses paths with Yelena Belova in Hawkeye, maybe she can also learn Natasha's superhero landing and hair flip pose.

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