While Clint Barton spent a big chunk of The Avengers under Loki's control, the archer was key in stopping the God of Mischief and his Chitauri army in the movie's final act. He saved a lot of lives that day, but it wasn't until Hawkeye we learned that Kate Bishop was actually among them.
The Disney+ series kicked off by revisiting the events of the 2012 movie from Kate's perspective, confirming that she was inspired to become an archer by seeing Barton in action.
Now, one clever fan has managed to sync up footage from the two Marvel Studios projects so that we see everything play out at the same time. It's really well-done and shows how much thought was put into this Hawkeye flashback without screwing up continuity in any way.
The older the MCU gets, the easier it is to build in this shared world's history; the fact that Kate was just a child when the Battle of New York took place both makes us feel extremely old and emphasises how Marvel Studios can now build on this shared world's history in meaningful ways. Whether Kate will tell Clint about the role he played in her childhood remains to be seen, of course.
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