Hawkeyes History With The Tracksuit Mafia & Echo

Hawkeye’s History With The Tracksuit Mafia & Echo

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The Hawkeye Disney+ show includes new MCU villains, the Tracksuit Mafia – but who are they are what is there link to Clint Barton’s past?

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The first episodes of the Hawkeye Disney+ show confirms the appearance of the “Tracksuit Mafia,” – renamed from the Marvel Comics’ Tracksuit Draculas – and there’s already a hint that Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton has run into them before. Here’s what fans need to know about the new MCU villains, their apparent boss Echo and how they’re linked to Hawkeye himself.

More personal and small-scale than other MCU projects, Hawkeye nevertheless sets up a big future, with the arrival of Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) and a potential set up for the Young Avengers. Then there’s also the promise of an Avengers-level threat that seems somewhat at odds with the heavy presence of the Tracksuit Mafia. During his time with the character, Matt Fraction did some great work with Hawkeye and showed him as a street-level, average hero just trying to do his best. Hawkeye’s story included him living in an apartment building and standing up to the landlord, Ivan Banionis, the leader of a local New York mafia. Barton eventually forces Ivan to sell the building to him, even though Ivan had another deal lined up. This is the beginning of a war between Clint and Ivan’s mafia, which includes a massive car chase, hired assassins, and much more.

The first episodes introduce Hawkeye’s audience to head Tracksuit Mafioso Ivan and his bros and it’s already clear that they are being set up for a similar role for them in the series to Fraction’s run. What isn’t entirely clear yet is why the Tracksuit Mafia are specifically after Clint, given that his Ronin identity is still a secret (Ivan mentions to Echo that both Clint and Kate are in their captivity) or where they’ve met before. But what seems obvious is that instead of tying the feud between Ivan and Clint to the apartment of Clint’s affair with Ivan’s wife, Hawkeye could tie it back to his days as Ronin and terrorizing criminals in New York.

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The Tracksuit Mafia Comics Origin & History

Hawkeyes History With The Tracksuit Mafia & Echo

Ivan and the Tracksuit Draculas don’t pose too big of a threat to Clint at first in the comics, but his continued interference in their plans made them have it out for Hawkeye. The Tracksuit Draculas originally planned on selling the apartment building to help create a shopping mall. When this became impossible after Hawkeye forcefully bought the building, they had to use different tactics. This resulted in the Tracksuit Draculas ordering a hit on Hawkeye. They hired an assassin known as The Clown, played by Fra Fee, who will appear in the Hawkeye TV series. In the comics, The Clown works with Ivan and the Tracksuit Draculas to raid the apartment building in the hope of killing Clint Barton. They did not, however, account for Kate Bishop showing up and helping. The raid did not work as a result, with Clint and Kate worked together to take down The Clown and Ivan.

Since so many elements from Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye run will be in the show, it seems that it is set up to faithfully adapt most of the story. The Hawkeye trailer already teased the New York car chase between Clint and the Tracksuit Draculas, although that was tied to Clint’s relationship with Cherry in the comics. Clint is a happily married man in Hawkeye, so him sleeping with Ivan’s wife wouldn’t fly with the MCU’s version of the character. The Draculas’ abuse of Lucky the Pizza Dog has already been shown, but they didn’t own the dog in episode 1, which is an obvious change from the comics.

Who Are The Tracksuit Mafia In The MCU

Hawkeyes History With The Tracksuit Mafia & Echo

In the absence of New York’s criminal underworld thanks to Hawkeye’s time as Ronin in Avengers: Endgame, the Tracksuit Mafia have clearly risen up as one of the most prominent presences in the MCU. While they may not all be foreign nationals, so far, it seems that all of the Mafia speak with Eastern European accents, liberally using the word “bro” to punctuate everything they say. They’re ruthless enough to have kicked Lucky the Pizza Dog, earning them a reputation alongside Thanos and Ultron as the worst villains in MCU franchise history very quickly. They also evidently answer to a higher power, not least Alaqua Coxs Maya Lopez – otherwise known as Echo – and it’s very possible that they also work for another so far unrevealed villain who directs Echo herself.

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How Hawkeye Could Know Echo & The Tracksuit Mafia In The MCU Already

The obvious link between Hawkeye and the Tracksuit Mafia is set up by the centring of Endgame’s Ronin story. While the Ronin suit isn’t their primary target when the Tracksuit Mafia attack the secret auction, Kate Bishop’s decision to wear Clint’s Ronin costume refocuses their attention on her and Clint by extension. There’s mention of Ronin cutting off the heads of the criminal underworld, which presumably allowed the Mafia to rise up, but also destabilized the criminal world at the same time. Hawkeye coming into contact with the Tracksuit Mafia as he sought to take down the higher criminal powers makes sense, especially given the way he seems to perceive them when he acknowledges his past with them in passing. The fact that they answer to Echo, who seems to have a link to Hawkeye even without the awareness that he was Ronin is also telling, and so too is the set-up for Echo’s own MCU series. The latter would suggest that Echo won’t be as clear-cut a villain as episode 2’s ending seems to portray, which implicitly hints that she too answers to a bigger villain. Whether that is Jack Duquesne, Hawkeye’s teased villain, or a bigger, more notorious Marvel bad guy like Kingpin remains to be seen.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/hawkeye-villains-tracksuit-draculas-mafia-explained/

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