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The Hawkeyes look dapper for the series finale.
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With the last week, of series Hawkeye hit on Wednesday. The season finale seems like the perfect time to have Avenger Clint Barton and his apprentice Kate Bishop (Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld) go up against shadowy baddy Wilson Fisk, New York City’s Kingpin of crime ().The revelation of Fisk’s involvement came from (Florence Pugh), who was hired to kill Clint by Kate’s mom, Eleanor Bishop (Vera Farmiga). Yelena took the contract under that Clint was responsible for the death of her sister Natasha Romanoff in .Separately, Tracksuit Mafia leader Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) had a vendetta against Clint for as the masked vigilante . However, it seems like her conviction was shaken by the possibility that Fisk may have been responsible for that.All roads lead to Kingpin, so let’s jump into an underworld of SPOILERS for the season finale, entitled “So This Is Christmas.”
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Bishops in debtIt turns out that the Bishop family owed Fisk a pile of money when in the Battle of New York back in 2012. With the debt long paid, Eleanor wants out of the arrangement — she let her ditzy fiance, Jack Duquesne (Tony Dalton), take the fall for Fisk’s front company and killed Jack’s uncle Armand.However, Kate’s investigation into the criminal doings has put her in danger, and Eleanor wants out. It’s a tough situation Eleanor is in, but Fisk fans likely had one thought after this scene: “She’s dead.”Kate and Clint see a video of the meeting, and he promises to help her, before acknowledging her as his partner. At last. Wilson Fisk gets an arrow to the chest, but it doesn’t faze him.
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Kingpin unleashedFisk realizes Maya has turned on him as well, so he tasks (Fra Fee) with taking care of her, Eleanor and Clint.”The people need to be reminded that this city belongs to me,” Kingpin says, with his signature dramatic midsentence breaths. Kingpin has excellent fashion sense in the comics as well.
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Before his appearance in this show, our last encounter with Fisk was in . We saw him being dragged off to prison in that show’s finale, which in . He’s also wearing a rather flamboyant red and white shirt – this is the same outfit he wore in the . This is about Peter Parker’s maybe-sister Teresa and has little in common with this show. It’s a nice shirt, though, and seems like it’d hide some of the blood when Fisk gets all murderous. He was probably planning to go to a tropical-themed Christmas party after dealing with Eleanor.Fisk confronts Eleanor outside Rockefeller Center, but Kate stops him with an arrow to the (presumably body-armored) chest, and https://justpaste.it/2lgsp Eleanor flippin’ rams him into iconic toy store FAO Schwarz. Kate and Kingpin throw down among the toys, until she blows him up with an explosive arrow. Maya Lopez prepares to bring justice to Fisk.
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Echo aloneAfter Fisk gets his much deserved beatdown, Maya tries to convince her childhood friend Kazi to escape the Tracksuit Mafia life, but he asserts that it’s the only life he knows and forces her to kill him. Rough.Before getting the heck out of dodge and into , she tracks down a wounded Fisk and confronts him about her father’s death. She seemingly shoots him in the face, but it cuts away before we see if he’s dead or alive. They had a similar encounter in the comics.
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Fisk is almost certainly not dead – Maya did the same in a , and left the baddy blind. He eventually , though. It’s unclear if he’ll suffer the same fate in the MCU, but it’d be silly to re-introduce a beloved character and kill him off immediately. The trickiest of arrowsMuch like , Clint and Kate use a bunch of trick arrows to make fools of the Tracksuit Mafia in their battle at Rockefeller Center.Smoke arrow: Fills Kazi’s sniper’s perch with purple smoke, forcing him to leave.Acid arrow: Melts through the trunk of the Rockefeller Christmas tree so Clint can get to the ground.Electromagnetic arrow: Pulls the Tracksuits’ guns out of their hands.Flash arrow: Temporarily blinds a bunch of the Tracksuits.Needle arrow: Fires nasty barbs in every direction, incapacitating a group of goons.Freeze arrow: Traps one of the Tracksuits’ legs in ice. I hope that doesn’t result in him losing that limb.Drone arrow: Grabs a guy by the leg and pulls him up and away from the fight.Electric harness arrow: Pins a Tracksuit’s limbs and shocks him into unconsciousness.Tranquilizer arrow: Fires a bunch of sedative darts, knocking out targets.Pepper spray arrow: Disorientates a bunch of Tracksuits.Air bag arrow: Bounces a group of Tracksuits in the air, probably leaving them with all kinds of injuries after they hit the hard of Rockefeller Center surfaces.Pym arrow: Shrinks a van of Tracksuits to toy size, but Clint doesn’t have a way to bring them back to normal size. Rendered moot when an owl drags the tiny gangsters away in their little vehicle. Dark.Explosive arrow: Clint blows up a bunch of Tracksuits without even looking. Badass.Grapple arrow: Kate tries to use it on Fisk, but he uses it to drag her toward him.Net arrow: Kate uses it to trap Fisk in the toy store and stop him from going after Eleanor during their battle.Too Dangerous arrow: Among the arrows that Kate uses to blow Fisk up in FAO Schwarz. Yelena Belova has a moment of realization with Clint.
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Battle with Black WidowAfter tussling with super best frenemy Kate, Yelena confronts Clint on the Rockefeller Center ice rink. She won’t accept that Natasha sacrificed herself rather than Clint killing her but is ultimately convinced when he uses her and Natasha’s secret whistle.He reveals that Natasha told him about events of the ‘s opening flashback – as her and Yelena’s undercover family escaped the US – and ho
