Hawkeye may spend his time today as the Avengers' forgotten man (or their most mocked), but anyone familiar with the character's comics knows that he's only one good story away from being considered a fan-favourite.
While a solo Hawkeye film has about as big a chance of happening as Marvel rebooting the MCU with Namor at the helm, there's nothing to say that a series of his own is off the cards. A limited Hawkeye series may even suit the character more than big screen effort too, especially if Marvel were to look towards Matt Fraction and David Aja's seminal Hawkeye comic from 2012, which introduced the likes of Lucky the Pizza Dog, and cemented a working partnership between Clint Barton and Kate Bishop, the second Hawkeye.
There are some gorgeous fan mockups of a Hawkeye show centred around this idea, and while it's likely that Jeremy Renner would take some convincing, Marvel could easily make it work with Kate as the lead instead.
Plus, it would have a Pizza Dog. Everyone loves Pizza Dogs.
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.
