imagine clint and nat just hanging around in one of their safe houses and lounging on the couch while doing research on their next targets and they try to one up each other’s assassination target like “hey my guy bombed 3 major cities in the past 6 months” “well my guy is rumored to be behind the deaths of over 15 big game politicians” “well I’m getting paid more”
Steve’s line of “I don’t think I can afford a place in Brooklyn” concerns me.
He’s Captain America and he can’t afford an apartment in Brooklyn?! Does he not get a salary? Are any of the Avengers being paid since SHIELD’s downfall? Are they all worried about making their rent each month?! Is Steve doing commencement speeches for extra cash? Is Natasha doing some spy-work on the side? Do they save the world by day and carefully plan their grocery budget at night?!?
Steve spent it all on that Gucci suit he’s wearing for the funeral scene of Civil War.
Seriously though, someone needs to write that fanfic - the Avengers and their side jobs. Natasha’s teaching women’s self-defense classes down at the local YMCA, Steve gets a job at Barnes and Noble so he can read all the books on his breaks, meanwhile:
*Clint’s Avengers communication devise buzzes*
Clint: “Tony, hang on a sec”
muffled in the background: “with pepperoni, anchovies, and extra cheese”
Nat. Wonderful as always. Kate’s moved in your room because, and I quote, ‘you and Clint suck at everything, including houses’ so I think it has to do with the decor?
One of my favourite things about Age of Ultron is that the Avengers are presented with 2 new super-powered rivals and the only member to really land a solid hit to either of them in the entire film is the very non-super-powered Hawkeye.
Not only that, but in both cases he pretty much just does it out of sheer spite towards them
“OH MIND CONTROL HUH? BET YOU THINK YOU’RE REAL SPECIAL. NICE TRY KID I’VE PLAYED THIS LEVEL BEFORE” *electrocutes Wanda IN THE FACE*
*shoots the glass under Pietro’s feet* “WHAT YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING? HAHAHAHA WHO’S LAUGHING NOW SMARTASS-WITH-A-CATCHPHRASE? THAT’S FOR GETTING ME SHOT”
there are few things in AoU I’ll accept as cannon and this is one of them
this seemed so natural and correct to me that I had to read it three times before I realized what was wrong with it
Okay I know I just reblogged this, but I’m not done with it.
Has anyone else thought about how much more compelling this simple change would have been thematically? We lose nothing of Clint’s character development, because a sister can be just as important and share the same concerns as a wife. But instead of an awkwardly underdeveloped romantic relationship, suddenly there’s a sibling relationship to parallel the Maximoffs. But Clint has chosen to protect his family and keep them out of it, while Pietro and Wanda have chosen to fight side by side. Give Clint a conversation with Pietro about family, and protecting their family. Make them disapprove of each other’s methods. Pietro’s sacrifice to save Clint is instantly so much more heartbreaking. Give us Clint fighting to bring Pietro’s body back, because he knows he needs to bring him home to Wanda.
Literally so much improvement with less than five minutes of the actual film changed
clint and nat getting into arguments about stupid things and nat calling him ridiculous bird names like ‘bluetit’ and ‘penguin’ just to watch him get irrationally angry over it like “PENGUINS AREN’T EVEN REAL BIRDS!” and “I’M A HAWK! A HAWK!” and her responding with “whatever you say, goose”
and one day in the middle of a fight, he just stops yelling and looks at her and whispers, “brown recluse.” she doesn’t talk to him for two days.
Okay, this looks bad. Something is very wrong with Clint Barton’s life. After his encounter with Loki, he is sent on an extended vacation to Tahiti, and upon his return, Fury suggest he spends some quality time with his family. Except, in the back of his mind, he can’t remember marrying or wanting children, ever. Not only that, but Natasha and Fury aren’t answering his questions, he keeps thinking of a girl archer with a dog and to top it all off, some eastern european track suit army has decided to pursue him. Aw, no. He’s been brain washed again, hasn’t he?
I would imagine that Clint is on a first name basis with a lot of New York’s emergency responders.
Hurt and in the back of an ambulance? The driver is like “Clint Barton is that you again?“ “Yeah, it’s me, you know I like helping people every way I can. Like letting you earn your paycheck, Barry.“
Need police assistance? “Hey, Doris, yeah it’s Clint, I need some help. Oh yeah, Lucky is fine. How’s the husband? Oh that cheating bastard.“
Caught dangling from a telephone wire because the jump to the other roof was farther than expected? “Honestly, Karl, I don’t do this on purpose. No, it isn’t an excuse to get to climb down the engine ladder or play in the fire truck.”
Mistaken for a burglar for trying to help some little old lady and sitting in the back of police cruiser? “You aren’t going to tell Doris about this are you Meredith?”
There is no way that anyone could convince me that Natasha “shall we play a game” Romanoff and Bucky “let’s go to a science convention on my last night before deployment” wouldn’t be the nerdiest assassin duo to ever make dad jokes while offing bad guys
“for the first time ever i’m not the lamest” -clint barton probably
