HAWKEYE Reportedly Cut A Post-Credits Scene With [SPOILER] Setting Up The Character's Return

HAWKEYE Reportedly Cut A Post-Credits Scene With [SPOILER] Setting Up The Character's Return

The Hawkeye finale has drawn something of a mixed response from fans, but a new report claims to reveal details of a post-credits scene that could have helped put some minds at ease. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - Dec 23, 2021 06:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Hawkeye
Source: The Cosmic Circus

The season finale of Hawkeye saw Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin make a huge impact, though there has been a lot of backlash online after his apparent demise at the hands of Maya Lopez. Comic book fans will know that this version of Wilson Fisk survived being gunned down by Echo (losing his eyesight in the process), but it's unclear what direction Marvel Studios plans to take things in. 

However, if a report from The Cosmic Circus is to be believed, there was a very different plan in place for Kingpin. Apparently, the season finale originally included a post-credits scene with Fisk receiving Ronin's sword and a message from Clint Barton warning the villain to stay away from both his and Kate Bishop's families. 

The reason for the change is obvious after what happened when Fisk crossed paths with Maya in that alleyway, and it sounds like reshoots actually added Kingpin to the final battle. 

What the future holds in store for Kingpin remains to be seen, but it's baffling to think Marvel Studios would do such a great job bringing him into the MCU only to end the villain's story so prematurely. Perhaps if Maya attempts to take over Fisk's criminal empire, she'll find herself fending off his attempts to regain his status as Kingpin and a certain Man Without Fear's interventions?

Hopefully, someone involved with the series will address Kingpin's future at some point because, for many fans, the ambiguity surrounding his fate has soured an otherwise excellent finale. 

Keep checking back here for updates!

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Prork
Prork - 12/23/2021, 6:54 AM
I prefer them leaving his fate ambiguous for now. It's fairly obvious he's not dead, and revealing what's happened to him now would lessen the impact of whenever we do next see him again.
Cap1
Cap1 - 12/23/2021, 6:56 AM
@Prork - yeah ‘killing’ him to show he’s still alive no less than 5 mins later would kinda defeat the purpose
HeeroG
HeeroG - 12/23/2021, 7:13 AM
@Prork - Yeah. It was an obvious sett-up for the soon to come Echo show: Fisk survives being shot by Maya and comes back with a vengeance.
It's storytelling 101.
How people don't get it?
Tpo81
Tpo81 - 12/23/2021, 8:16 AM
@Cap1 - agreed but only because that’s the direction they went with it. Would’ve much rather him not get shot ambiguously or otherwise. Sounds like the sword from Clint would’ve been more satisfying end for me
Tpo81
Tpo81 - 12/23/2021, 8:20 AM
@Cap1 - Also the shield emblem on the watch was cool but would’ve been sweet if he called her Bobbi in a whisper after embracing or something. Just want a confirmation of some kind ool
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 12/23/2021, 9:13 AM
@HeeroG

Storytelling 101 also means if you get shot in the head, you die.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 12/23/2021, 11:21 AM
@HeeroG - Oh I get that he's probably coming back. I just think it's dumb that Kingpin can survive a direct shot to the head. I think it's pointlessly throwing out the Netflix version of the character because obviously that version would die from that.
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 12/23/2021, 11:49 AM
@Nightwing1015 - we don't know he got shot point blank in the head. Dare Devil could have thrown his stick and hit the gun last second to make the shot miss, or maybe last second she pulls the gun to the side and fires next to his ear as to make him deaf too. Or to have the flash blond him like he's blinded by her in the comics.

There could be any number of explanations for what we didn't see. But one thing we do see if you watch carefully is Fisks shadow not drop to the floor after the gun shot. His shadow still stands, so he's not dead.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 12/23/2021, 1:04 PM
@ElricReturns - That's true if that happens it would be better. Except I don't think a gun flash can blind somebody. Still I already think it's kinda silly the guy can survive a direct explosion when it probably would've killed him in Daredevil.

People are deluding themselves that his strength will be explained by Captain America's serum or something but it's madness. They're just not accepting the sad truth that this is probably a different version to what was in Daredevil.
CaptainFlapjaks
CaptainFlapjaks - 12/24/2021, 10:04 AM
@HeeroG - Yeah I am surprised after all of these years of TV and movies people have not caught on to the obvious ploy of "no body means no death".
bobevanz
bobevanz - 12/23/2021, 7:01 AM
They shouldn't have even bothered doing the off screen shot. Instead we got that cringy musical number. I hate Broadway!
Spike101
Spike101 - 12/23/2021, 11:51 AM
@bobevanz - yes that musical was just terrible.
Origame
Origame - 12/23/2021, 7:01 AM
And instead they gave us a full version of the Rogers musical number that the entire point of it in the show being that it's terrible. Thank you marvel. Truly this is what audiences wanted.
suitekid
suitekid - 12/23/2021, 9:10 AM
@Origame - I mean it is. There were a ton of people who were saying they wanted a full version of the song. Just because you didn’t want it doesn’t mean that’s the general consensus.
Origame
Origame - 12/23/2021, 9:35 AM
@suitekid - you're acting as if we didn't already get a full version of the song prior to the end credit scene.
jascurio
jascurio - 12/23/2021, 10:04 AM
@Origame - um we didn't lol. The song in the first episode starts off halfway through the song, not to mention it gets muffled when its showing it from Clints POV and the scene ends about 1.5 mins before the song does
Origame
Origame - 12/23/2021, 10:06 AM
@jascurio - ...they released the full song on YouTube and iTunes. Anyone who actually wanted to listen to the full song had plenty of opportunities. We didn't need to effectively remove the potential for a true end credit scene for something we already got.
Origame
Origame - 12/23/2021, 10:07 AM
@jascurio -

This video was released 4 weeks ago.
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 12/23/2021, 7:16 AM

Fans SHOULD be pissed, because I think they screwed it up for no reason.😂 Fisk was supposed to getaway. Not get caught, and shot at point blank range, anticlimactically. They can easily write themselves out of his apparent demise. But it was definitely a weird choice.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 12/23/2021, 7:35 AM
@99OPTIMISTPRIME - it gave closure to Echos arc in the series. She killed the man responsible for her fathers death. That way if the show wasn’t green lit, that would be the end of her story
Razorface1
Razorface1 - 12/23/2021, 10:00 AM
@99OPTIMISTPRIME - Even if he survives, I don't think he can still be intimidating. His whole fist appearance was him getting hurt over and over again.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 12/23/2021, 11:22 AM
@Razorface1 - Him getting hurt and wearing silly Hawian shirts and hats.
Spike101
Spike101 - 12/23/2021, 12:18 PM
@Nightwing1015 - This silly shirt is actually a thing. I thought the same but was corrected. Search for Spider-Man Family Business #1
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 12/23/2021, 1:06 PM
@Spike101 - No I completely get that. Ive seen all the posts of that image in the thread. But just because it's in one specific version of Kingpin in the comics doesn't mean it's a good decision to include here. I don't think it fits with Vincent's Kingpin, I just think it looks silly and it being in a comic doesn't change that.

He's also super humanly strong in the comics but I still find the fact that they included that here also dumb. I don't think Kingpin needs to be a huge physical threat for him to be intimidating. The Netflix show proved that and yet they set up a 62 year old Vincent is a guy that could fight Spider-Man here and I think it just looks silly and cartoony.
TruePunishment
TruePunishment - 12/23/2021, 1:59 PM
@JFerguson - except she didn't. His comment about "seeing eye to eye" is a huge clue. In the comics Echo shoots Wilson in the eyes, blinding him, he gets an eye transplant and goes back for revenge. He's going to be the big bad in her show.
Spike101
Spike101 - 12/23/2021, 3:00 PM
@Nightwing1015 - Agreed. I found it a strange choice too, you’d have thought they’d just want to cement him into the MCU so try to be too clever but instead it seems a bit messy.
AC1
AC1 - 12/23/2021, 7:19 AM
I honestly can't see him actually being dead. Bringing back a character that big and finally folding him into the wider MCU, only to kill him off a week later without having tapped anything close to his fullest potential, would be a monumentally stupid decision.

Plus after No Way Home I think almost everyone wants to finally see Spidey and Kingpin face off on the big screen in live action, perhaps with a certain "very good lawyer" along for the ride.
Fares
Fares - 12/23/2021, 7:21 AM
Anything would've been better than the musical.
Crtdacct2say
Crtdacct2say - 12/23/2021, 7:31 AM
Wait....did people actually think they killed him off? Those people were serous?
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