They Choose the Ronin schtick. That's on the Russos (before I was willing to concede TPTB but CA:CW wasn't a fluke.)
Yes, that's such a good point! They could have just NOT HAD CLINT BE A MASS MURDERER, and the choice would actually have been a lot harder. I've seen meta on how it's a mirror on what he does with Nat -- he saved her after she was a killer, she does the same for him -- but she was a brainwashed child soldier, and even in that official MCU timeline, they have him bringing her in when she was 14 or 16. I am sorry but I just don't think a brainwashed 16-year-old brought up in a cult is the same or morally less than a grown man who basically decides to bartend in the dark after he loses his family, but at the expense of other people's lives. It was like they wanted to bring in comics backstory, but distorted and it makes no sense.
How was he even getting around? Did all of (I was assuming the farm was in Iowa but I've read it was Missouri) Clint's part of farm country get Snapped? Because if it hadn't he'd have been drafted by a 14 year old girl who was in contact with hackers in Ukraine to reprogram the tractors.
HAH! And yeah, Clint in the MCU is kind of a CIPHER, to borrow a word, ahem, but I really never got the impression that he would just go off on a rampage like that. Hell, I don't even remember that they outright said that Coulson brought him in from a life of crime (could be wrong!). I know that's what fandom picked up and ran with, but fandom also ran with Clint in Vents, so.
In comics right now, Nat (and Tony too) is a clone who has all the memories of her former self, but is having a bit of a posthumous identity crisis. Too bad they won't do that in the MCU, because if she met up with Gamora then, it could be neat....
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Yes, that's such a good point! They could have just NOT HAD CLINT BE A MASS MURDERER, and the choice would actually have been a lot harder. I've seen meta on how it's a mirror on what he does with Nat -- he saved her after she was a killer, she does the same for him -- but she was a brainwashed child soldier, and even in that official MCU timeline, they have him bringing her in when she was 14 or 16. I am sorry but I just don't think a brainwashed 16-year-old brought up in a cult is the same or morally less than a grown man who basically decides to bartend in the dark after he loses his family, but at the expense of other people's lives. It was like they wanted to bring in comics backstory, but distorted and it makes no sense.
How was he even getting around? Did all of (I was assuming the farm was in Iowa but I've read it was Missouri) Clint's part of farm country get Snapped? Because if it hadn't he'd have been drafted by a 14 year old girl who was in contact with hackers in Ukraine to reprogram the tractors.
HAH! And yeah, Clint in the MCU is kind of a CIPHER, to borrow a word, ahem, but I really never got the impression that he would just go off on a rampage like that. Hell, I don't even remember that they outright said that Coulson brought him in from a life of crime (could be wrong!). I know that's what fandom picked up and ran with, but fandom also ran with Clint in Vents, so.
In comics right now, Nat (and Tony too) is a clone who has all the memories of her former self, but is having a bit of a posthumous identity crisis. Too bad they won't do that in the MCU, because if she met up with Gamora then, it could be neat....