Hawkeye Will Continue One Post-Endgame MCU Trend

With Hawkeye on Disney+, the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues its trend of exploring Avengers: Endgame's ramifications on ordinary people as opposed to just superheroes and the government. Hawkeye will see Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) spend some time in New York City where he teams up with a young archer, Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), who also considers herself the world's greatest archer. The two Hawkeyes' street-level adventures will see them rub elbows with regular people in the MCU who are still in recovery mode after Thanos' (Josh Brolin) Snap.

Marvel Studios' movies in Phases 1-3 didn't deal too much with how superheroes like the Avengers affected the lives of ordinary people. Most of the focus has been on the superheroes and institutions like SHIELD and the government. At the end of The Avengers, there were interviews with the New Yorkers Earth's Mightiest Heroes saved after they defeated Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and the Chitauri, and Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr.) in Captain America: Civil War was decided, in part, by his meeting with Miriam Sharpe (Alfre Woodward), whose son Charlie died in Sokovia during Avengers: Age of Ultron. But otherwise, despite superheroes and villains deciding the fate of the world, life proceeded in a relatively normal fashion judging from how the teenagers in Spider-Man: Homecoming behaved. Black Widow, which was set in Phase 3, revealed that Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) was on magazine covers and that the world saw the Avengers as heroes.

However, the MCU is a very different place after Thanos' Snap and Smart Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) resurrecting billions with the Blip, and Hawkeye will look at how changed New York City is in a few different ways. The fact that there's an Avengers-themed musical called Rogers that Clint Barton takes his kids to speaks to how most people see Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man, and the other Avengers as heroes who saved the world. While the governments of the world tried to rein the Avengers in with the Sokovia Accords due to the destruction and collateral damage they cause, ordinary people look up to the superheroes and are grateful for the lives they've saved. This includes the students of Spider-Man: Far From Home's Midtown High, who honored the Avengers who died in the Infinity Saga with a video set to Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You."

The MCU post-Avengers: Endgame is an intriguing place as the impact of the Blip is explored further. Spider-Man: Far From Home touched upon how the age gap of five years between the survivors and those brought back to life has caused myriad problems, including people reappearing in their homes only to find new occupants living there. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier examined the Blip's complicated international aftereffects and how the Flag Smashers rose up against the injustice of millions of people being displaced from their countries.

Further, the US government decided Captain America is still needed and recruited John Walker (Wyatt Russell) for the role, although the shield finally went to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) as the new Captain America. Either way, a marketing and merchandizing blitz sold the new Cap to the welcoming American public. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier also looked at how Avengers like Sam and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) are treated when they try to do normal things like getting a bank loan to help the Wilsons' family business or Bucky attend mandatory therapy sessions to reintegrate into society.

WandaVision's TV genre-bending examination of Wanda Maximoff's (Elizabeth Olsen) grief, Loki's time-twist jaunts throughout the MCU's sacred timeline, and What If...?'s peeks into the Multiverse have widened the scope of the MCU. But Clint Barton and Kate Bishop in Hawkeye will show MCU fans a different side of New York that Spider-Man (Tom Holland) swings above. Hawkeye puts boots back on the ground of the MCU's 'real world' of New York City and the Disney+ holiday series will further deepen the audience's understanding of how much the MCU has changed since the Blip and how ordinary people see the Avengers post-Endgame.

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