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Spoilers Hawkeye -Discussion Thread

In Kate’s room, we see an invite to the Christmas party coming next episode. So Hawkeye’s ‘present day’ is now locked in as December 2024.
 
Thanks! That explains why it's in my motorcycle jacket.

Hint: Aramid spreads impact throughout the weave, which how it stops bullets. It blunts other impacts the same way. It is also fire resistant and abrasion resistant.
Well obviously abrasion too, but leather will also do that for the most part, so it didn't seem worth mentioning.
And you're welcome to drive your bike into a brick wall at 40mph and let me know how painless that miracle weave makes it.
 
It's hard to believe that there is only one more episode left, feels like there should be at least two.

I thought Hailee Steinfeld really knocked it out of the park on this one. I was watching on the bedroom TV which I don't use much and really the screen is too big for the distance it's at but seeing everyone that close I was really struck by how expressive she is.
 
Well obviously abrasion too, but leather will also do that for the most part, so it didn't seem worth mentioning.
And you're welcome to drive your bike into a brick wall at 40mph and let me know how painless that miracle weave makes it.
I didn't mention "painless." I have been hit by car going over 30kph, knocked 3 meters through the air and landed flat on my back (which apparently distributed the impact; if I'd landed on my shoulder it would have been different.)
 
I didn't mention "painless." I have been hit by car going over 30kph, knocked 3 meters through the air and landed flat on my back (which apparently distributed the impact; if I'd landed on my shoulder it would have been different.)
Well the initial discussion is why Nat doesn't seem to react to pain the way Clint does, and I rolled out the Lawrence of Arabia pain quote.

So what point are you arguing against exactly?

Incidentally, my older brother has ridden bikes his whole life; one of my earliest memories is riding on the tank of his 50cc fizzy, screaming up a farm track and over cattle grids when I was like 5 years old, and he's come off those things more times than I care to count, and has had more than one friend who did the same thing and didn't get up again. So you can take it as read that I'm well aware of what motorcycle protection can and can't do.
 
A good friend predicted Kingpin would appear before the end of the year and he was right. I'm glad they're incorporating him into the series, which also opens up the door for Daredevil to appear now that
on-set photos from No Way Home indicate Daredevil(as Matt Murdock) is either in the movie itself or is at least in a cut scene.
 
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Steve is by no means indestructible, just really, really tough. And as was pointed out, that fall out of the Triskellion should have snapped his legs clean off.
Steve is more than just really, really tough. He's enhanced to the peak of human perfection, so he is not going to suffer from the same trauma as a regular human.

Another aspect of this (and a minor bugbear of mine) is fight consistency. Meaning that for a given character the difficulty of a given fight should be proportional to the abilities of their opponent in relation to their own.
This might sound like it's stating the obvious, but it often isn't something that action focused media bothers with.

Civil War actually metered on the accurate side when Bucky easily beat Stark, Sharon, Black Widow and Sam as he made his escape. That's superhuman ability having what would be an expected impact on regular people, as opposed to so many episodes of Supergirl, where early seasons Alex routinely tried to fight super-beings and was not killed for her troubles, which made the villain seem average. That always takes a viewer out of a production's story.
 
I think this is the first time that "Kingpin" has been spoken in the MCU as an actual alias for Wilson Fisk. The Daredevil series tiptoed around it and found ways to allude to it indirectly, which was odd, because it's a standard epithet for the head of a criminal organization.
 
Kudos to the producers for finally showing the Blip from the perspective of a person wiped out by the Snap in 2018. Yelena is in 2018 one minute then all of a sudden her surroundings change and she's standing in the same location but years later. She died and was brought back into existence without even knowing what was happening at the time.
 
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