Jeremy Renner touched on whether Hawkeye will come out of retirement for Avengers: Doomsday, and accidentally revealed a big flaw in the MCU’s future.
Clint Barton, AKA Hawkeye, has tried to hang up his bow and arrow several times throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He returned for Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Endgame, and then he was brought out of retirement again to help Kate Bishop in the Hawkeye show.
And ahead of Avengers: Doomsday, Renner says that the archer will always get pulled back into superheroics. “I think he started retired… but he’s always pulled out of retirement, you know,” he told ComicBook.
“I think he’s a family man; you always know where his allegiance lies, and he’s always come out of retirement, man. Until he’s killed, he’s always gonna be working.” But Renner’s comments about retirement point to a massive flaw in the MCU’s future.
Renner’s comments about Hawkeye coming out of retirement again prove that too many characters get to return from the dead/retirement/alternate universes, and it takes all the narrative weight out of losing a hero or a villain.
Without sounding too dramatic, threats will become meaningless for the audience if one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes can simply come back in a few movies time, rather than allowing a story to stand without being propped up by a crowd-pleasing return or cameo.
Tony Stark himself said “Part of the journey is the end,” and he’s got a point. Heroes and villains should both be allowed to die/leave and not return so that their stories have finality and genuine meaning.
Obviously that quote is also a little ironic, since Robert Downey Jr. is coming to the MCU to play Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, but who knows how that will unfold. The problem Marvel now has is balancing that line between making a good movie while also having the entire toy box to play with.
Since both Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars will be huge crossovers with cosmic consequences, Kevin Feige and the Russo brothers have the difficulty of making sure audiences actually care about the stakes.
Characters like Hawkeye have done their time. Let the archer enjoy his retirement on the farm with his kids, he’s earned it.
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