#anti clint barton
can someone tell me why they hate clint? and “because he’s not like he is in the comics” and “because he should’ve died instead of natasha” isn’t an answer
I don’t hate Clint, in fact I’m now a Clintasha shipper. But in onscreen canon, he becomes increasingly unlikable as the movies go on.
He’s positively lovable in the first “Avengers” movie, as the devoted agent whose closest bond was seemingly with Nat.
“Age of Ultron” basically rewrote his character entirely, reconning him into a character that now felt less spry, and that powerful bond with Natasha was reconned to “oh they’re just really, really good friends.”
“Civil War” did no one’s character any favors, but Clint got some of the worst of it, from peer pressuring Wanda to stupidly put herself into the worst possible position, to taunting Tony about Rhody’s broken back. Putting himself in such a dumb position when he had a wife and kids back home made him look even worse.
In “Endgame,” his cynical personality of course makes sense for a man who lost his s family. But since we never got to know said family over this decade long series, it’s hard for the audience to properly empathize. The fact that in the last movie where we saw Clint, “Civil War,” he didn’t seem to care all that much about his family, doesn’t help his revenge arc.
And having this plotline follow Clint’s dickishness in CW just makes his entire character seem inherently grumpy and unlikable.
How far the Legolas of SHIELD has fallen.
So to make a long story short, the relationship we the audience saw and cared most about for Clint was not the one driving his character, and the family that’s supposed to be his driving force is one we know jack all about.And Clint doesn’t do a great job convincing us by himself that said foot is more important to him than Nat.
