9 Female Marvel Heroes Who Desperately Deserve An MCU Movie
8. Kate Bishop
Marvel Comics
Kate Bishop is the best Hawkeye you've probably never heard of, and one that deserves a film precisely for that reason.
While a Hawkeye Netflix series that paired Jeremy Renner's Clint Barton with Kate would be an amazing (if unlikely) thing to see, Bishop herself is more than capable of running things on her own. She's been the star of Marvel's main Hawkeye title for a few years now (a must-read book by Kelly Thompson), and while Renner's Barton is only really coming into his own now - six years later than he should have - it's time to pass the mantle to Kate.
Young, resourceful, and with a kickass sense of humour to boot, any Hawkeye feature with Kate in the lead would make for a surefire way of diversifying the MCU and, more importantly, providing a further way of establishing a new phase in the franchise.
Netflix or not, Kate needs to be in the MCU, especially if Clint is embarking on a change of wardrobe.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
