Avengers: Endgame - 13 Things It Actually Took From The Comics
9. Hawkeye As Ronin
Marvel Studios
When Jeremy Renner's Clint Barton was spotted in Endgame wielding a sword and donning an all-black outfit, fans knew it meant only one thing - that the archer was suiting up to become Ronin.
Although the circumstances surrounding Barton's identity switch differed drastically to how they were in the comics, Endgame replicated the David Finch's original design almost to the letter. The only major difference was that, instead of a balaclava-like mask, the movie version had a hood to go on top of it.
Obviously the main difference here is that when Clint became Ronin in the comics he didn't embark on a five-year-long murder spree, and instead used it to simply mask his identity, but the point still stands. By giving Clint his black and gold clobber, Endgame honoured one of the character's more unique periods.
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.
