Patton Oswalt on Agents of SHIELD
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ericadawn16I'm excited about having Patton Oswalt on Agents of SHIELD. Yes, he's a fan favorite and that's always fun but it's more than that.
It's about his stand-up act in 2012 or more specifically, the show I caught on a free HBO weekend where he badmouthed Hawkeye for a good five minutes...or what felt like five minutes.
I know it's comedy. I know Hawkeye is the obvious choice for making of Avengers. I know people make fun of him all the time. I know all of this but...
I HATE when people make fun of Hawkeye. Aside from Bruce and maybe a few others, Clint had it the WORST growing up. It's like the story that teenagers write for maximum woobie but it's all canon.
Still, Clint made something of himself. He joined SHIELD to make a difference, help people.
What's so endearing about Hawkeye, why I love them so much is...
They are both complete fuck-ups. They almost can't help it and that gives me hope because I feel like a fuck-up a lot of the time but here are superheroes, Avengers even and they're complete fuck-ups. I love it. They just get on with what they need to do and try to make the best out of things.
Now that Patton Oswalt has a canon MCU character, and one who appears to be a SHIELD agent at that, I get to imagine all sorts of scenarios where he repeats his feelings on Hawkeye to either the wrong person or gets overheard by the wrong person.
Beautiful.
Try insulting Clint in front of Coulson, just try it. I dare you.
It's about his stand-up act in 2012 or more specifically, the show I caught on a free HBO weekend where he badmouthed Hawkeye for a good five minutes...or what felt like five minutes.
I know it's comedy. I know Hawkeye is the obvious choice for making of Avengers. I know people make fun of him all the time. I know all of this but...
I HATE when people make fun of Hawkeye. Aside from Bruce and maybe a few others, Clint had it the WORST growing up. It's like the story that teenagers write for maximum woobie but it's all canon.
Still, Clint made something of himself. He joined SHIELD to make a difference, help people.
What's so endearing about Hawkeye, why I love them so much is...
They are both complete fuck-ups. They almost can't help it and that gives me hope because I feel like a fuck-up a lot of the time but here are superheroes, Avengers even and they're complete fuck-ups. I love it. They just get on with what they need to do and try to make the best out of things.
Now that Patton Oswalt has a canon MCU character, and one who appears to be a SHIELD agent at that, I get to imagine all sorts of scenarios where he repeats his feelings on Hawkeye to either the wrong person or gets overheard by the wrong person.
Beautiful.
Try insulting Clint in front of Coulson, just try it. I dare you.
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Date: 2014-04-15 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-04-15 01:15 pm (UTC)Although, most is fair in comedy and I mean Hawkeye makes fun of *everyone* all the time, too. So, I don't think it's too far-fetched. He'd probably get a kick out of it.
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Date: 2014-04-15 02:08 pm (UTC)Fandom does it too, though. People don't take him seriously, but he's valid, he's smart, and he is such a great guy!!!!
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Date: 2014-04-15 09:43 pm (UTC)I do get annoyed with people busting on Hawkeye all the time though. He overcame his past, fought against his own family to get to where he was and somehow still have enough compassion in his heart to know when to take a chance on new people. Give him so credit!
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Date: 2014-04-16 01:43 am (UTC)Who makes fun of Hawkeye?
Date: 2014-04-16 02:42 am (UTC)Re: Who makes fun of Hawkeye?
Date: 2014-04-16 03:01 am (UTC)Okay, there's the video I posted in reply to the first comment and there's also this...
Apart from that, I won't name names but I've come across a lot of people online who seem to hate Hawkeye and feel he's useless. Even Saturday Night Live and Robot Chicken both had skits along these lines.
Nope, Barton wasn't made fun of in tonight's episode, yay...but bad guy did insult Romanov...
I wonder if anyone's written a fic with Romanov and Hand being friends and then Romanov going after asshole and Ward.
Re: Who makes fun of Hawkeye?
Date: 2014-04-17 03:34 am (UTC)