Trivia / Hawkeye (2021)

• Actor-Inspired Element:
  • Jeremy Renner suggested the scene of Hawkeye meeting a fan in the bathroom, saying it has become a common occurrence in his life.
  • Maya Lopez/Echo isn't an amputee in the comics, but was written as such to accommodate the casting of Alaqua Cox.
  • Florence Pugh loves hot sauce, so once she found a bottle in the set, she made sure to add it to the Kate/Yelena scene. By contrast, Hailee Steinfeld is not much of a fan (" You know, it’s not my preference, but I’m not against it."), so the ad-lib of Yelena waiting until Kate is done to deluge the pan with it also qualifies.
  • Vincent D'Onofrio was the one who suggested that Fisk wear the Hawaiian-style shirt and fedora that was lifted from the Family Business comic. D'Onofrio was a fan of said comic and had kept a panel from it as his laptop screensaver, so he wanted to incorporate that look for his reappearance in this show.
• Actor-Shared Background: Alaqua Cox is deaf and Native American like Echo.
• Ascended Fanon: The "Thanos Was Right" meme is referenced in the first episode of this series, where Clint discovers the phrase written on a urinal in the bathroom.
• Awesome, Dear Boy:
  • Vincent D'Onofrio was just as excited to return as Wilson Fisk as the Netflix fans were at seeing him in a mainline MCU project. Though the character's fate remains uncertain after the finale, D'Onofrio has expressed hope that he'll continue to play him.
  • From her recounts, Hailee Steinfeld was very honored and excited to be given such a big opportunity by starring in the MCU.
  • Having primarily played villains over the course of his acting career, Tony Dalton signed up for this show simply so that he would get to be a heroic character for once. He enjoyed portraying Jacques enough to express interest in returning to the role at some point.
• Billing Displacement: Vincent D'Onofrio is credited before Alaqua Cox in the last two episodes, even if Maya is only absent from the season opener while The Kingpin only appears in the flesh in the closer (in Episode 5, he only appears in a photo). Florence Pugh being billed third is also noticeable given she's absent from the first half of the show, and only first appears near the end of the fourth episode.
• California Doubling: While some parts of the show were shot on location in New York City, much of it was filmed in Atlanta, with visual effects being used to turn the location into New York (particularly the car chases).
• Colbert Bump: Daredevil (2015) saw a resurgence in viewership numbers following the airing of Episode 3 which hinted at Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin in the flashbacks for Echo.
• The Cameo: 90's Broadway fans might recognize the singing businessman from Rogers the Musical. Its Adam Pascal, best known for playing Roger in RENT.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: More than a few trailer reactors confused Kate Bishop for Clint's daughter Lila based solely on the opening scene in Avengers: Endgame and believed that the show was him training his daughter... despite the trailer very clearly showing that this was not the case.
• Defictionalization: Rogers: The Musical, the fictional Broadway musical from this show, would later become a fully-realized stage production at Disney's California Adventure. It opened (for a limited run) at the Hyperion Theater in the summer of 2023.
• Deleted Scene:
  • Young Clint Barton going to a carnival with his mother Edith, followed by him letting her get arrested in an attempted burglary.
  • Some with a young Maya Lopez interacting with Kingpin and a young Kazi.
  • An extended intro to the opening scene, showing Kate making her father look for her in the house and him discussing his business trip.
  • Kate's aunt arrives, and angrily expels her and Clint from her apartment.
  • Clint and Kate buy arrows, with the latter also asking for a boomerang.
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor: Like her actress Alaqua Cox, Echo is deaf and an amputee.
• Disowned Adaptation: Hawkeye artist David Aja has expressed sentiments about the series similar to Ed Brubaker concerning The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. While his approval for the series itself is mostly neutral, he has vocalized concerns about the lack of financial compensation for the series taking cues from his visual style that defined the run it takes its inspiration from. By contrast, writer Matt Fraction is credited as a Consulting Producer in the series, and received payment for his input.
• Dyeing for Your Art:
  • Hailee Steinfeld spent time perfecting her archery skills so that her skills with a bow and arrow would be second nature for this show. She was somewhat disappointed when Jeremy Renner explained that most of the work would be done in CGI and that there wouldn't even be real arrows.
  • Both Renner and Steinfeld made efforts to learn some American Signed Language so that they could communicate more easily with Alaqua Cox (who's deaf since her birth). She really appreciated that special attention. Fra Fee also learned ASL for Kazi, who had been signing since he was a kid.
• Fake American: Armand Duquesne III is played by Simon Callow, who is English.
• Fake Russian:
  • The Russian Kazi is played by Irish actor Fra Fee.
  • Like in her debut film, British actress Florence Pugh portrays the Russian Yelena Belova.
• Meme Acknowledgment: Vincent D'Onofrio confirmed his role by simply tweeting "When I was a boy..."
• Non-Singing Voice: Rory Donovan, Derek Klena, Bonnie Milligan, and Christopher Sieber all provide the singing voices for the "Avengers" in Rogers: The Musical. Adam Pascal does the singing voice for Cap, while also appearing as a separate character in the show.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In the Japanese dub, Hiroki Tochi voice the titular protagonist, replacing Hiroyuki Miyasato from the dubs of the MCU films. Tochi had previously voiced the character in What If…? (2021). Likewise, just like the Brazilian dub, the Kingpin is voiced by Tesshō Genda, rather than Kenji Nomura from Daredevil (2015), since possibly the latter already had many roles in the MCU, and also reprising the same role from both Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man (PS4).
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, the Kingpin is voiced by Sergio Castillo, rather than Matias Fajardo, as Daredevil (2015) was dubbed in Chile, while this series was dubbed in Mexico instead.
  • Similarly, in the Brazilian dub, the Kingpin is voiced by Guilherme Lopes instead of Mauro Ramos, presumably to avoid confusion with Drax who Ramos is now voicing in the MCU. Doubles as a Role Reprise since Lopes voiced the Kingpin in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• The Other Marty: The Brazilian dub for the first trailer had Kate Bishop being voiced by Amanda Manso, the same actress who dubbed Hailee Steinfeld in Bumblebee and Dickinson. The second changed it to the eventual dubber.
• Out of Holiday Episode: The first episodes happen five days before Christmas. They debuted around Thanksgiving 2021, though the series caught up with Christmas around Episode 5.
• Orphaned Reference: As mentioned in Deleted Scene, the show was planned to show a young Clint getting his mother arrested, foreshadowing Kate Bishop doing the same at the end of the series.
• Playing Against Type: Tony Dalton, known primarily for playing Lalo Salamanca amongst other villainous characters, plays the eccentric, mild-mannered and heroic Jacques Duquesne.
• Poorly Disguised Pilot: The increased focus on Maya Lopez during the middle and later parts of this series was meant to capitalize on her eventually becoming the star of her own spinoff show, which was confirmed to be in the works before this series had even finished airing all its episodes.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends:
  • During post-production of the series, there were reports that Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld did not get along, allegedly due to Renner's personality rubbing Steinfeld the wrong way. This was proven to be false during the lead up to the release, as Steinfeld said in several promotional interviews that she loved working with Renner and he acted as a mentor to her on set.
  • Rumours of a post-credits scene in which Fisk had survived his supposed death at Maya's hands, with him receiving the Ronin's katana as a warning for him to stay away from Clint's family and Kate Bishop, were later revealed to have been fabricated.
• Real-Life Relative: Young Maya Lopez/Echo is played by Darnell Besaw, who is Alaqua Cox's cousin.
• Release Date Change: After Lucasfilm announced that The Book of Boba Fett would premiere on December 29, 2021, Hawkeye episodes #2-6 each saw their release dates get bumped one week earlier, so that #6 wouldn't drop on the same day.
• Screwed by the Lawyers:
  • Presumably the reason why this series did not use footage from Daredevil (2015) to provide context for the Kingpin, as the rights to the latter series is held by Netflix - which happens to be a rival streaming service to Disney+ (not to mention the fact Daredevil was produced by Marvel Television - which was a separate branch of Marvel Entertainment while Marvel Studios is part of Disney's in-house film division).
  • Another likely reason is that many years have passed in-universe since the last season of the series and the series doesn’t directly connect to this series. A lot of context would need to be filled in between his last appearance, which may be filled in in future installments.
• Sequel in Another Medium:
  • Jeremy Renner was last canonically seen as Hawkeye in Avengers: Endgame, a movie. His story picks up again here, in a made-for-streaming limited series.
  • The Stinger of Black Widow (2021) also leads into the series.
• So My Kids Can Watch: Adam Pascal has a teenage son, and part of the reason he agreed to sing in Rogers: The Musical was "I'll be the greatest dad ever."
• Teasing Creator: During the promotion of this show and the weekly episode releases, Vincent D'Onofrio went out of his way to show his support for the series, despite having little reason to do so. The fact that he was liking tweets speculating about his return as Wilson Fisk only riled up the fanbase even more. And sure enough, the Kingpin himself makes an appearance in the fifth episode (albeit on Kate's phone screen), and is explicitly pointed out by Clint to be The Man Behind the Man and the financiers of the Tracksuit Mafia.
• Throw It In!: According to the directors of Episode 5, Yelena finding only a single fork and scolding Kate Bishop over her lack of proper cutlery was improvised dialogue from Florence Pugh, with Hailee Steinfeld reacting, and was due to COVID protocols dictating that the actresses couldn't share utensils for the mac and cheese scene and the props department scrambling to find a second fork but only being able to get a plastic one.
• Trolling Creator: In the lead-up to release, Rhys Thomas initially confused people by claiming the series takes place in 2025 (which felt too long a stretch), before the first episodes dropped and he amended it to 2024 on his Twitter; he admits that the former year was considered, and he was making an allusion to it just to mess with everyone.
• Underage Casting: Again, like in Black Widow (2021), Florence Pugh is playing Yelena in her late 20s, despite being the same age as Hailee Steinfeld, who plays the 22-year-old Kate Bishop, and Tom Holland, who plays the considerably younger Peter Parker. That being said, Yelena spent five years Snapped, so at least the gap isn't higher, but then again so did Parker, who is explicitly stated to be 17 in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Olivia Cooke, Taissa Farmiga and Kathryn Newton were in the running for Kate Bishop before Hailee Steinfeld was cast. Farmiga's real-life sister, Vera Farmiga, would later be cast as Kate's mother in the series, while Newton would go on to play Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
  • The TV show was originally tentatively planned as a movie, which was even included in Jeremy Renner's contract. However, Kevin Feige felt that it would be a better fit as a Disney+ show and when he approached Renner with the idea, Renner agreed to the change.
  • Matt Fraction was supposed to make a Creator Cameo as one of the Tracksuit Mafia but the COVID-19 Pandemic prevented him from travelling to the set.
  • Rogers: The Musical was initially a joke pitch made by Rhys Thomas, who wasn't actually serious about its inclusion in the show. However, Kevin Feige quickly realized that an in-universe Broadway show about Captain America would give Clint's family a good reason for them to be in New York during the holidays, and so signed off on the idea.
  • Rhys Thomas initially wanted Lucky the Pizza Dog to be an entirely CGI creation, in part due to the lack of one-eyed dog actors in Hollywood. However, Jolt the Golden Retriever impressed him enough during the audition process, and so CGI was used in order to digitally remove Jolt's eye, allowing Lucky to appear in the flesh.
  • Rhys Thomas apparently tried to get Paul Rudd to cameo as Scott Lang on this show, as he enjoyed his chemistry with Jeremy Renner on press runs for Avengers: Endgame. One of the writers also suggested having the La Cucaracha horn from Luis's van appear as one of the recovered Avengers compound items at the black-market auction, but it didn't go through.
  • On her Instagram page, Alaqua Cox posted BTS photos of herself and her stunt double, as well as pictures of her and Jeremy Renner, clad in a costume with Echo's logo from the comics, as well as the character's trademark white handprint paint on their faces. It can be surmised that Maya was supposed to don her comic outfit in the final battle, only for this to be saved for her upcoming spin-off show instead.
  • Rather than the showing of Rogers: The Musical that ended up in the final product, there was a post-credits scene that would've revealed the fate of the shrunken Tracksuit Mafia members that were carried off by the owl in the finale's climax. They would simply have been dropped into a nest and the scene cuts to black.
  • Set photos show what looks like the escape from the Tracksuits in episode 2. In them, Clint is holding his collapsible recurve bow out on the streets. This implies that the escape from the Tracksuits was supposed to be longer and involve Clint using his archery skills.
  • Two deleted scenes show that the script went through changes even as filming begun, one with Clint burning the Ronin suit still in New York, and another that shows a completely different succession following the auction, featuring Kate bringing Lucky to her apartment, going to work, and then not getting an answer at Armand's house.
  • Maya Lopez wasn't initially planned to appear in this series, with her debut initially planned for Moon Knight as the love interest of Marc Spector. However, the executives at Marvel eventually reversed course on this idea, and decided to introduce her here instead.
• Word of God: According to executive producer Trinh Tranh, all the surviving Avengers were invited to see the Steve Rogers musical, but Clint was the only one who accepted.
• Word of Saint Paul:
  • Vincent D'Onofrio has stated that he discussed it with the show's creators and believes the Kingpin he portrays in this show is the exact same one from Daredevil (2015), with no indication of a Continuity Reboot. He also believes the Kingpin survived the Blip, but lost some of his control over the city in the process. Now he's simply trying to get it back.
  • Hailee Steinfeld stated that her character was not among those who were Blipped out of existence by Thanos.
• You Look Familiar:
  • In the Japanese dub, Eleanor Bishop is voiced by Kikuko Inoue, who previously dubbed Karen the Suit Lady.
  • Tomas is played by Piotr Adamczyk, who has been Scott Lang/Ant-Man's Polish voice actor since Ant-Man.

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