Kate Bishop first appeared in 2005 and was created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung. Even though she bases her superhero identity on Hawkeye and his related characters, including Black Widow and Mockingbid, it wasn't until later that she actually took on the identity proper.
Much like Carol Danvers' recent switch of identity, it was Captain America who spurred Kate to adopt the Hawkeye mantle. Steve maintains that, because she was able to stand up to him, she deserved the mantle, with Barton having marked his early Avengers appearances by constantly bickering with the star-spangled man.
Kate's emergence onto the scene, however, occurs at an interesting time for the Marvel Universe. Back then the superhero community was on the precipice of a Civil War, while Clint Barton himself was presumed dead. In reality, Clint had adopted the mantle of Ronin, and with the character confirmed to do the same in Endgame, it could be the biggest tell-tale sign yet that Bishop is actually in the film.
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.
