Related: Who Is Hawkeye's Retired Avenger Friend? Who The Watch Belongs To Stating that it belonged to a retired yet still undercover friend, theories raged regarding who that could be. Equally sought after by both heroes and villains among Hawkeye's cast of Marvel characters, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) shed more light on its history in Hawkeye episode 4. On top of that, the emergence of a Rolex watch from the rubble of the Avengers compound has sparked much speculation.
As well as the question of whether Jack Duquesne (Tony Dalton) and/or Eleanor Bishop (Vera Farmiga) are as benevolent as they insist, and if the father of Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) is genuinely dead, there’s been teased a shadowy Big Bad that’s increasingly likely to be Vincent D’onofrio’s Kingpin.
That fact was made all the more clear in the Easter egg-packed Hawkeye episode 4, with even the unassuming Laura Barton (Linda Cardellini) fleshed out to be more than meets the eye.Īdopting less global and more personal stakes, Hawkeye has centered around several mysteries. While it may not be as sprawling a recontextualization as glimpsed in Eternals, it’s remained nonetheless true of the more character-driven and street-level Hawkeye series. Since its debut, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been as much about retroactively expanding and fleshing out its history as it has laid the groundwork for the future. The events of Hawkeye episode 4 hinted that the mysterious watch from the Avengers compound belonged to Laura Barton and may reveal her identity as the MCU’s Mockingbird.