Marvel's HAWKEYE Series Will See Clint Barton's Dark Ronin Side Resurface

Some more details have surfaced regarding Marvel’s upcoming Hawkeye series that I think fans will be interested in learning. While the series looks like a charming action-packed Christmas story, we will get to see Clint Barton’s Ronin dark side resurface.

Barton’s dark and mysterious Ronin was introduced in Avengers: Endgame, and he was on a bloody warpath after his family was dusted by Thanos’ snap of death. we got to see how ruthless he was when he took out a bunch of yakuza bad guys including the yakuza boss, who was played by Hiroyuki Sanada.

Well, that wasn’t the last that we’ll see of Barton’s dark side. During an interview with Games Radar, director Amber Templemore-Finlayson shared the following insight:

"He wanted the darkness. He wanted to go there. And there are moments that the Ronin Clint resurfaces. It's very important to have those depths that you can explore, so that he can come out of it."

I was wondering how this series would handle Barton’s Ronin side, and I like the fact that they aren’t going to ignore that it ever happened, because that’s what I worried might happen. Thankfully, that’s not the case and they will be acknowledging the darkness that still resides in Barton. The director went on to say:

"It's genuinely not what you expect from Marvel [Studios]. It's an absurd Christmas story. Just starting from that point, tonally, I was tickled. What does that mean? And it's throughout the whole series. It's not what you're expecting it to be."

I’m excited to see what this series ends up being and how it moves Barton’s story arc in the MCU forward. The series follows Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, and his life gets a bit more complicated during Christmas when he partners up with Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop as they find themselves fighting to survive an onslaught of bad guys who are trying to take them down.

“Former Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a Super Hero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail far more than the festive spirit.”

The series also stars Vera Farmiga as Kate's mother Eleanor; Fra Fee as Kazi, which is short for Kazimierz Kazimierczak, a.k.a. Clown; Tony Dalton is Duquesne, a.k.a. Swordsman, Alaqua Cox is Echo, and Zahn McClarnon is playing Kate’s father, William Lopez. Florence Pugh returns also to the role of Yelena Belova from Black Widow.

The show was developed by head writer Jonathan Igla. Troop Zero directors Bert and Bertie, a.k.a. Amber Finlayson (Bert) and Katie Ellwood (Bertie), and Saturday Night Live and Comrade Detective director Rhys Thomas have been hired to helm some episodes of the upcoming Disney+ Hawkeye series.

The first two episodes of Hawkeye premiere on Disney+ on November 24, 2021.