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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Hawkeye's my second favorite Avenger after Cap, and I haven't even read the Fraction/Aja run yet. I'm a Hawkeye fan mainly because of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Kurt Busiek's Avengers run. Clint's scene on the Raft in Civil War gives me hope that he'll get some more awesomely quintessentially Hawkeye moments in Infinity War and Untitled Avengers Sequel.
edited 1st Feb '17 9:49:02 PM by FoxBoxKid
Make mine Marvel.Why is Tony mentioned over Hawkeye as the MCU Avengers Team Dad on that page?
Barton might be a good dad to his kids, but I don't think he acts like much of a dad to the other Avengers. Whereas Tony's definitely a disapproving father in Civil War. Although the example on the page describes him as a godfather to the Avengers, which is a little different.
If anyone takes on the role of being the responsible one, it's Cap, but the Avengers tend to be more like squabbling kids around each other. Not sure any of them fit the trope at this point.
If anything, I'm guessing the reason Chris Hemsworth made that 'godfather of the team' comparison, it might be because RDJ is like a Team Dad for the MCU cast. I could sort of see that.
Hawkeye certainly seems to think he's the Team Dad of the Avengers, considering his reason for staying and his pep talk to Wanda.
Yeah, Hawkeye was the guy able to give some human perspective to Wanda with his "You walk out that door, you're an Avenger" speech. Steve could have given that speech but it wouldn't quite have the same impact. But even more than Natasha he is the normal guy of the team, well trained and has some good skills but still a normal guy.
Fury does have the tough mentor attitude the Avengers need. Especially good was his scene in Iron Man 2 and his "You're Tony Stark! You're telling me you can't fix this" speech.
Hawkeye's definitely the normal guy of the team, but I think he's more like the family friend who can stand outside all of family's bullshit and call them out on it, rather than the dad they all listen to. Fury or Coulson probably could've taken on that role (Coulson's a natural for it, as we see on AOS), but they're not really around anymore.
Whew it sounds like Karolina will still be gay.
So what's the over under on "Molly Hernandez" being an Inhuman?
Do we even need to touch on the reeeeeeally Unfortunate Implication-laden romance of her with Xavin?
Wow. Never thought this would get off the ground although I had always hoped.
I bet Molly will be an Inhuman or nebulously defined Differently Powered Individual. I'd more wonder though about handling Karolina and Gert because of how their/their parents backgrounds fit with the Fantasy Kitchen Sink of the comics which doesn't fully square with the established MCU (who knows though because Agents of Shield has its fair share of weird stuff).
With Karolina, besides the aspect of Superman parody, I'm not sure how much set-up there is for hostile aliens living on Earth. I guess it's not too odd, especially because Guardians introduced some of the alien races.
No idea though about handling Gert's parents as time travels from an alternate universe.
Edit- Might make sense to change the parents of one of them to Asgardians.
edited 2nd Feb '17 3:04:48 PM by Hodor2

Or an apartment building he impulsively acquired.