7 big Hawkeye questions, from Kingpin’s fate to Kate’s hero name, answered

The finale is like a Christmas gift. Hawkeye has arrived to wrap up the madcap story of Clint Barton’s most stressful holiday season and Kate Bishop’s superhero origin. It’s light and funny and has some great surprises.

Some of the questions raised by this week’s Hawkeye While Marvel Comics has their answers, some points towards the dark future of Marvel Cinematic Universe.

[Ed. note: This post contains huge spoilers for Hawkeye episode 6, “So This Is Christmas?.”]

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Now that all the spoiler-fearing folks are gone, let’s take a look.

Kingpin actually dead?

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It sure did look like that! Wilson Fisk’s big scene was a shocking turnaround for a character many fans never expected to see again after the cancelation of Marvel’s Netflix shows.

The last time we saw Vincent D’Onofrio’s Fisk was the end of Daredevil season 3, in which he was carted off to jail and swore to stay there, on pain of Matt Murdock exposing his beloved wife for her role in ordering their enemy’s murder. Yet here he is, walking free — no clear explanation is given, but with the Snap upending so much of society, it doesn’t seem beyond the pale.

He, or at the very least, he This was walking free, until he was shot by an arrow, beaten up, hit by a car, exploded and — finally — seems to have been shot point blank by Echo in revenge for orchestrating her father’s death. This would appear to have been enough to fall anyone, but this guy just tore a car’s door from its hinges with all his naked hands. It’s enough to make the uninitiated wonder if Kingpin has superpowers.

The answer is that Fisk’s terrifying strength and resiliency has always been a part of the character — but one that comics have taken care to stress has no supernatural element to it. Fisk is just all muscle. Is this possible? No. It’s comics.

Is the Kingpin actually dead? Although rumors suggest he might appear in Marvel spin-offs, I’m positive. At least, he’s as dead as anybody gets in the world of superheroes.

What does Kingpin’s death mean for Echo?

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Echo is coming back! Her own TV series will be her eponymous, which was officially launched in November. With her vengeance complete, it’s unclear what quest she’ll take on next, but her origin is tied up not just with Kingpin, but with Daredevil. With characters and actors from Netflix’s DaredevilEcho could meet more series in her series, if they are back in the MCU.

What is Kate Bishop’s superhero name?

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This is so much fun!

It’s Hawkeye.

She’s Hawkeye, and Clint is Hawkeye. They’re both Hawkeye at the same time. As Peter Parker and Miles Morales, they are simultaneously Spider-Man. Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain (Barbara Gordon), and Cassandra Cain are all Batgirls simultaneously.

If you really want, you can call Clint “Hawkguy.”

Is this what the watch was all about?

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With so much of the show focused on recovering Clint’s Ronin outfit from the wrong hands, it was easy to forget that the real reason the Tracksuit Mafia broke into that auction of Dangerous Secret Stuff for Snooty Rich People was to pilfer a much smaller item: A Rolex watch that grants access to Avengers tower. Clint mentioned it almost exclusively, noting it belonged to an extremely important individual.

HawkeyeIn episode 6, it was revealed that Laura Barton is the man’s wife. Awwwwwww!

Kingpin was therefore interested in the watch. It remains to be determined if Kingpin was a criminal mastermind. You are requiredA reason to have a watch that allows you to enter the Avengers tower is:

What is Agent 19?

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There was one last mystery about this watch Hawkeye’s last moments: It makes sense that Laura Barton would have been a SHIELD agent. We now know Clint and Laura Barton were an adorable workplace romance, between a capable woman and a government assassin.

What does 19 actually mean? For Marvel Comics aficionados, the 19 refers directly to Agent 19, Bobbi’s original codename. Hawkeye, what does all this have to do? Bobbi later became a superhero, going by the name Mockingbird. There, she had a romantic relationship with Hawkeye.

In Clint’s very first solo miniseries, he and Bobbi got Vegas-married, and though the two have had their ups and downs, they’ve remained inextricably linked in the Marvel Comics Universe. By putting a 19 on Laura’s watch, Hawkeye is nodding to Clint Barton’s original wife, and giving her a Marvel Cinematic Universe incarnation: Laura Barton, former SHIELD agent and mother of three.

Is it really responsible to burn the Ronin suit?

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This has nothing to do comics, movie continuity or… a grill. If that suit has kevlar armor in it — and it better — that’s so much plastic!

Perhaps you want some distance from all that smoke. Don’t ever cook AnyYou can also cook directly from the grill.

Do Rockefeller’s Christmas trees have owls?

Once! In November of 2020, a teeny tiny northern saw-whet owl became trapped in the boughs of the 75-foot spruce tree that had been chosen to adorn Rockefeller Center’s iconic ice rink, and was accidentally transported all the way from Upstate New York to the middle of Manhattan. Rocky was given her name. She was then rescued and released back into nature 12 days later.

The owl appears to enjoy a meal of tracksuit mafia brothers trapped in shrunken vans.