Why Hawkeye Has Hearing Aids In His MCU Show

Why Hawkeye Has Hearing Aids In His MCU Show

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Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton is seen wearing hearing aids in his MCU Disney+ Hawkeye series, recalling a crucial Marvel comic story.

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Why is Clint Barton deaf in Disney+’s Hawkeye TV show? Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye has been a staple of the MCU franchise despite being the butt of far too many jokes since his debut in Thor, and Hawkeye offers a stark reminder of what it cost him to be an Avenger. Having gone on to play key roles in The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron, Clint Barton put his body through hell without the help of super soldier serum or God-like powers. And still people seem to believe Hawkeye is the worst Avenger.

Clint Barton’s story appeared to end alongside the culmination of Marvel’s Infinity saga. Thanks to the Avengers’ successful time heist, those disappeared by Thanos’ snap were restored, and Barton returned to his family once again, five years older and carrying the emotional scars of his vigilante murdering spree as Ronin. And yet the stories of the original Avengers are far from over, with each of the core 6 heroes represented in the MCU’s future one way or another. For Hawkeye’s part, the eagle-eyed archer is set to train his successor in Kate Bishop, as well as wrestling with Ronin’s ghosts after Endgame, while adjusting his life to deal with his hearing loss.

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Hawkeye’s battle with hearing loss derives from the Marvel comics. In a 1983 miniseries, Hawkeye teams with SHIELD’s Mockingbird (played by Adrianne Palicki in Agents of SHIELD, incidentally) and encounters the supervillain known as Crossfire, who is building a sonic weapon to send superheroes into a frenzy. Using one of his own sonic arrows to counter the effects, Hawkeye is left predominantly deaf thanks to the ensuing bang. Although he later heals from this injury, the Clown physically stabs Barton’s ears with two of his own arrows, giving another origin story for Hawkeye’s hearing struggles. A 2014 comic later revealed that Clint’s deafness began due to abuse suffered during childhood. Neither of those backstories are adapted into Barton’s MCU series, which establishes that Hawkeye is deaf as a result of repeated trauma on Avengers missions. A flashback montage shows him being injured during the events of The Avengers, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, and Avengers: Endgame.

How Hawkeye Lost His Hearing In The MCU After Endgame

While it isn’t explicitly spelled out in Hawkeye, the cause of Hawkeye being deaf is known as noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), which can often follow extreme tinnitus. It’s something that a significant proportion of ex-servicemen who repeatedly saw action without ear protection (which wasn’t used in heavy rotation until the 1980s) face in their later life. NIHL doesn’t necessarily need one trigger event, but Hawkeye’s hearing loss is clearly a result of the cumulative impact of trauma, which offers a physical balance to the mental trauma that played such a key part in Iron Man’s Phase 2 story arc. It also follows on from Black Widow revealing that Natasha’s mission pack included Ibuprofen to deal with the damage she put her body through.

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Introducing Clint Barton’s hearing loss into the MCU is a very welcome story development for the character, and one that will go a long way towards improving representation of disability in the franchise. For all its critical acclaim, the MCU has previously been criticized for glossing over the human “weaknesses” of its superheroes – Tony Stark’s alcoholism, for example. Hawkeye might’ve escaped his movie career without suffering any adverse effects, but since the Disney+ series is a passing of the torch from Clint Barton to Kate Bishop, it makes perfect sense to explore a more personal struggle, and the more realistic side of superhero life. Watching Hawkeye use sign language — which has already been hinetd at – could come into play when communicating with Echo, a deaf Marvel character and wearing a hearing aid will allow young fans who share his condition to identify with an Avenger, while also unveiling new, more human aspects to Clint Barton as a character through Hawkeye.

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