MCU: 10 Fascinating Facts Behind The Avengers (2012)

7. Hawkeye's Cut Backstory

Famously, Hawkeye has been held up as the most over-looked character in the entire MCU. He's had some interesting moments, but when rankings of Avengers happen, he's invariably at the bottom of the ladder. Particularly in terms of the original team.

But if Joss Whedon had had his way, we would have got a lot more backstory for Clint. He apparently wrote a detailed story for Hawkeye, but ran out of time to include any of it.

Rumour has it his backstory would have seen him shown as a former circus performer, trained by supervillains who manipulate him into fighting the Avengers - his 616 origin story. And he was also almost in Iron Man 2 as a SHIELD agent, but that too was cut.

Two interesting points that did make it - one is this film proves he's ambidextrous as an archer and that when he shoots a gun, he shoots it in the same stance as he shoots his bow...