Hawkeye Reverses Phase 4s Avengers Money Problem

Hawkeye Reverses Phase 4’s Avengers Money Problem

Hawkeye addresses a rather common concern in Marvel stories that was already addressed in Phase 4 – money problems – which it reverses.

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Hawkeye Reverses Phase 4s Avengers Money Problem

The MCU’s Disney+ series, Hawkeye, addresses a money problem that Avengers have been dealing with since the beginning of Phase 4. The MCU, like the Marvel comics that inspired it, approaches the concept of superheroes, outlandish powers, and aliens from a realistic lens, and Hawkeye is no exception. Clint Barton, once a SHIELD Agent and superhero member of The Avengers, has since retired and devoted his time to his family, finally spending Christmas with his children following their resurrection in Avengers: Endgame. However, a brief moment in Hawkeye’s pilot acknowledges that, despite being a superhero, he still has bills to pay like everyone else.

The Avengers in general and Hawkeye, in particular, didn’t need to worry about money for most of the MCU. Tony Stark was one of the richest people in the world, providing housing and funding for the other Avengers. Aside from that, Barton, Romanoff, and Rogers were all on the SHIELD payroll, and may have continued to receive financial support from them following the agency’s collapse (since SHIELD still existed after Project Insight, albeit in secret).

This seems to have changed when Tony Stark died at the end of Avengers: Endgame and the status of The Avengers as a team became unclear. With Stark’s funding gone, Phase 4 began addressing how exactly the former Avengers paid their bills, with The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and Hawkeye. In the latter, Clint and his children are enjoying a rather large meal, which the restaurant nicely gives Barton for free in gratitude for him saving New York in 2012 and helping restore half of Earth’s population in Endgame. This was a far more optimistic version of this issue than what Falcon and Winter Soldier showed.

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In Falcon and Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson accompanies his sister to get a loan approved, hoping to avoid selling their family boat while also making some much-needed repairs to their house. The bank’s loan officer doesn’t recognize Wilson at first, but even after realizing that he’s speaking to an Avenger, he refuses to approve the loan. He mentions, rather insensitively, that Avengers can’t get by on goodwill and he asks if there’s a fund of some sort for superheroes.

Clint Barton, on the other hand, is nicely given a free meal in Hawkeye (much to Barton’s discomfort), showing how goodwill does occasionally benefit Avengers. In Barton’s case, the fact that he was in New York City, which he took part in saving during the Chitauri Invasion in 2012, was likely the main reason why the restaurant gave him his meal on the house upon recognizing him. Considering his arrangement with Nick Fury to keep his family secret and safe, Barton may receive a flow of funds from SHIELD to help them all remain off the grid.

In keeping with their focus on realism, financial woes are fairly common in Marvel comics and their adaptations, especially Spider-Man stories. The superhero team Heroes for Hire (which typically describes the duo of Luke Cage and Iron Fist) mitigates this problem by having its superheroes charge for their services (alongside plenty of free work in emergencies). In the MCU, however, Phase 4 has started to make these issues more prominent, with Falcon and Winter Soldier and Hawkeye showing two vastly different instances of how an Avenger’s superhero status could affect their money problems.

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Link Source : https://screenrant.com/hawkeye-avengers-money-problem-phase-4/

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