Captain America: Civil War Ending - 12 Big Implications For Phase 3

6. Rhodey Is Retired, Hawkeye Can't See His Family

Few would begrudge Rhodey his retirement after what he went through in Civil War. He legitimately should have died after falling out of the sky from around commercial airline height and the fact that some of his bones shattered makes it remarkably odd that the rest of him wasn't turned into a War Machine milkshake inside the suit. But anyway, he was largely turned into the butt of the film's violence as the Russos struggled to really give him anything to do, so him shufflin off in his new Wallace & Gromit style trousers suits his increasingly uninspiring arc.

Perhaps he could pop up in Iron Man 4 (if it's coming) as a grounded (literally) ally to continue Shane Black's buddy cop dynamic, but beyond that he surely has to be done.

Hawkeye, meanwhile has basically made it impossible for his family to see him again. His safe house has been rumbled, thanks to its revelation in Age Of Ultron and it's likely to be the first place Stark looks (if he's bothering) or General Ross checks. So, what, is Hawkeye's family also going to go underground to jon the New Avengers? There's not much call for pre-teen heroes yet.

Rather worryingly, the most appropriate arc at this stage would probably be to kill them off as they were in the Ultimates comics, as a means to drive Hawkeye out of cover. That would particularly work in a Thunderbolts/Black Widow cross-over with a slightly darker edge, but Kevin Feige claims there won't be such darkness in his MCU, so temporary alienation seems more likely.