Welcome to I Am Your Target Demographic and today we’re preparing you for the Hawkeye series on
Disney+. It’s coming out around Thanksgiving and you’ll likely have plenty of time during
the holidays to sit down and watch this series, maybe even with your family members who aren’t as
savvy on the current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So this video is intended to catch folks
up with where Hawkeye has been over the course of 20 movies and what you absolutely need to
know before diving into his series. Let’s meet Clint Barton, an agent
with a government organization called SHIELD. Instead of guns, Barton prefers
a bow and arrows and goes by the nickname Hawkeye because he seemingly never misses.
He doesn’t just use typical arrows but instead he can load up special arrows that explode,
disable electronics, shoot ropes for climbing or swinging, or various other trick effects. Barton
isn’t just an agent, but he also has a family that very few people know about, including his
wife Laura and several children. He often has to leave his family to go on globetrotting missions,
including dangerous missions with one of his partners, Natasha Romanoff,
going by the codename Black Widow. These two are some of SHIELD’s most gifted agents,
that is until the Director of SHIELD Nick Fury begins to assemble a team called the Avengers,
where we meet heroes like Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America,
and Thor. Barton and Romanoff manage to hold their own alongside these superhuman allies as they face
an extraterrestrial invasion during the events of the Avengers. These aliens are led by a trickster
god named Loki who manages to mind control Barton and deal a massive blow to SHIELD from the inside.
Eventually Barton’s mind control is shattered and he assists the other
Avengers in defeating Loki and the alien invasion. During the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron,
the team of Avengers retreats to Barton’s home and they get a chance to meet his family and hide
away, before returning to battle. Barton is a key factor to recruiting some new members to the team,
including the mystical Wanda Maximoff who embraces her supernatural abilities
to help stop the threat of Ultron. The world is now acutely aware of
these massive threats and the governments of the world put in effect something called the Sokovia
Accords, after Ultron nearly destroyed the world and many innocents were killed. The
Avengers are split in half on how they react to these Accords. Half, led by Iron Man Tony Stark,
believe that the government should have oversight and control of how this superhuman group acts and
giving them direction. The other half, led by Captain America Steve Rogers, believe
that the team should make their own decisions and government regulatory bodies may not always have
the world’s best interests at heart. Clint Barton sides with Captain America, rescuing Wanda from
the Avengers compound, and fighting against these government regulations, even if it means facing
off against his former allies. They are eventually captured and Barton is restricted to house arrest.
While he’s on house arrest, the universe goes wild. A mad conqueror named Thanos acquires
powerful artifacts called the Infinity Stones and uses them to snap his fingers and destroy half
of all life in the entire galaxy. Barton is at home with his family, when all of them disappear
into a wisp of dust. He is alone and angry, while half the population has been snapped away.
He decides to be a wraith of justice, taking out criminals that didn’t deserve to stay alive.
He uses the name Ronin and wears a very different outfit to hide his identity. His former partner
Natasha is trying to track his movements and stop him from this slaughter, eventually confronting
him in Japan. He is wrecked and hopeless, until Natasha shares with him a possible
idea to undo the snap and bring these people back. To undo what Thanos had done, our team resorts to
time and space travel, sending teams to retrieve the stones before Thanos ever acquired them.
One of the stones is hidden on a planet of absolute emptiness. To get the stone, Thanos had
to sacrifice his adopted daughter Gamora and he was rewarded with the orange soul stone in return.
Clint and Natasha travel to this planet, not really understanding that they too would need to
provide a sacrifice. In order to undo the deaths caused by Thanos, they end up fighting over who
would be sacrificed, as they alternated trying to throw themselves to their deaths. Eventually,
Natasha won out, sending Clint to be back with his family and making the ultimate sacrifice.
Clint returned alone, with the soul gem, and they were able to use the stones together to bring
all life back, including Clint’s family. Our heroes waged war in an epic battle against
Thanos and his armies, where the heroes were able to succeed and destroy them, using the stones to
undo Thanos and his armies from existence. Now, in the film Black Widow, we see more
about Natasha’s backstory and we meet her adopted sister Yelena, another well-trained
soldier in the Black Widow program. After Natasha never returned from off-planet,
Yelena is confronted by a mysterious woman named Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who seems
to be putting together a team of antiheroes for possibly nefarious purposes. She shows
Yelena a picture of Clint Barton, the man who was ultimately responsible for Natasha’s death.
Will Yelena show up in Hawkeye to get vengeance? Is this setting up a plot for a future movie?
After spending five years as an assassin, how can Hawkeye return to being a father?
We’ll see when Hawkeye airs starting November 24th on Disney Plus.
Hopefully you found this recap helpful and thanks for watching!