Hawkeye

 Time for some more "catching up" in all the so far missed Marvel, Star Wars, DC, etc movies and series...

... and this time, it's my favorite (comics) Avenger, Hawkeye.

 

Well, actually I watched this two weeks to late, as it is a christmas story.  Albeit one in the trend of Die Hard, but heck, details.  

 

During the battle of New York in 2012, a young Kate Bishop witnesses Clint battling the Chitauri, and decides to become a hero like him.  Current day, and Clint spends time with his children for christmas in New York, while Kate is attending a charity auction with her mother Eleanor and her new fiancee Jack, as Kate's father died in the battle back in 2012.  She stumbles upon a black market auction, featuring items recovered from the Avengers Tower, when the Tracksuit Maffia crashes in (personal note: these guys are hilarious).  Jack steals the Ronin sword, as Kate gets her hands on the Ronin suit, defeating the mobsters while wearing it and giving rise to the rumour the Ronin has returned.

She is cornered by the Tracksuit Maffia who followed her, but Clint intervenes and saves her.  But her appartment is destroyed by them, and the suit is left behind as they escape to Kate's aunt place who is abroad.  Clint gets the suit back at a LARP event, as Kate tries to convince her mom there is something shady about Jack.  But later she and Clint are captured by the Maffia and their leader Maya Lopez interrogates them, Clint loosing his hearing aid in the process.  After escaping, Kate convinces Clint to aid her uncover the secrets of Jack.  But her mother asks him to keep Kate safe, to which he agrees.

Kate deducts that Clint is actually the Ronin, as they discover that Jack seems to be the CEO of a money laundry company for the Tracksuit Maffia, getting him arrested.  As they go after Lopez, Clint is attacked by the new Black Widow, Yelena, who blames him for the death of her "sister" Natasja.

Yelena meets Kate, telling her she is hired to kill Clint, who faces Lopez himself in the Ronin suit, telling her it was a set-up that got her father killed and her vendetta is based on lies.  Yelena texts Kate, telling it was her mother that hired her to kill Clint, and a movieclip of her mother meeting with non other then The Kingpin, who has her in his power.  Clint and Kate make a move to save her mother, but learn that Eleanor was behind it all, and used Jack as an unknowing scapegoat for her cover-up.  In the final confrontation, Kate holds her own against the Kingpin, as Yelena spares Clint after learning the truth of Natasja's sacrifice to save humanity.

Back with his family, Kate is invited along to have christmas as her mother is arrested, and he burns the Ronin suit once and for all, passing on the monicker Hawkeye to Kate...

Now, this was an excellent series, and one I enjoyed the most so far of the MCU series I've seen.  Though this might also have to do with the fact Hawkeye (comic and MCU version) was my favorite Avenger, so I might be a little biased on that front.