MCU: 8 Things You Need To Know About Kate Bishop

Who is the latest archer destined for the Avengers?

by Ewan Paterson
Hawkeye Kate Bishop
Marvel/Jen Bartel

Hot on the heels of reports saying that Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye will be suiting up for a TV show of his own after Avengers: Endgame, it now looks as though that another Hawkeye is set to join him on Disney+.

According to Variety, Renner will reprise the role of Clint Barton for a Hawkeye series on Disney's new streaming platform, and that the story will revolve around him passing the torch onto Kate Bishop, the second Hawkeye of the comics. Bishop has been a standout character in Marvel's books for the last ten-or-so years, and though fans may be frustrated to learn of Barton's fate before Endgame's premiere, the potential for this new series far outweighs any immediate sense of disappointment regarding the finer details of the fourth Avengers film's story.

There's currently no word on when the series will premiere, but with a Loki show already announced and a Bucky/Falcon series set to follow, it might be a while before Hawkeye starts airing on Disney's service.

But who exactly is Bishop? And why is her upcoming arrival to the MCU such a big deal? With over ten years' worth of history to draw from, here's everything MCU fans need to know about the character, and what she could bring to the franchise going forward.

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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.