Where The Heck is Hawkeye : 9 Conspiracy Theories
By: Daniel L
Tags: Movies, Marvel, Conspiracy Theories, Comics, Film

“Everyone answers to someone.” In this theory, Marvel’s biggest twist to date involves the beloved Hawkeye being revealed not only as a traitor — he’s Thanos’ boss, making him responsible for every bad thing that’s happened! Being mind-wiped in Avengers 1? An act. House arrest? A clever excuse to avoid having to be put in an awkward situation of fighting his underling. After all, do we ever see him fight Thanos? No, no we don’t.

So how did this partnership come about? Well, obviously Hawkeye wants to reset the Earth. Maybe he’s tired of having the limelight taken away by the more popular Avengers. Maybe his kids are being bullied at school. Or maybe he’s just pure evil.

And guess which two Marvel characters are mostly purple? That’s right. Purple is the color of villainy in comics. Galactus. Magneto. Green Goblin. Mysterio. Kang. And that’s just the Marvel ones. They’re present in DC comics as well, and just about every Disney villain wears it.

Of course, he’s not in this film, but he’s probably in a cut post-credits sequence, sitting in a chair saying, “Fine. I’ll do it myself.”

6. Infinity War is Hawkeye’s dream.

Should NOT have eaten that sandwich.

The story of Infinity War is really unbelievable if you think about it. Iron Man in space. Hulk not being able to use his powers. Talking trees and raccoons. The Spider-Man and Black Panther franchises seemingly going up in smoke. It’s very likely that Hawkeye, already traumatized from the events of Civil War, ate a sandwich (he’s been shown to enjoy Mediterranean pita-based meals) before bed and is now just having terrible nightmares as a result, where the worst possible scenarios happen to each of his friends. This would explain the bizarre and unexpected deaths in the film.

But would this mean every film until Avengers 4 (when he wakes up) is also a dream?

7. Clint Barton is not in the film…but the directors found a loophole by including a “hawk eye”.

Hawk Eye

There are certainly birds in the film, and certainly some of those are hawks, and certainly those hawks have at least one eye.

Sneaky one, Russos.

8. Hawkeye was in the film, but Loki has brainwashed us to remember otherwise.

Fooled Again!

This theory requires one to suspend their disbelief quite a bit more than usual, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility that Hawkeye did play a big role in Infinity War…we just don’t remember it because we’ve been brainwashed by the God of Mischief.

“But didn’t Loki die?” you ask. It certainly looked that way, but that’s exactly what he would want us to think. He pretty much fakes his death in every Avengers film he’s in! If you see a character die, you automatically assume they cannot be responsible for further events in the film. Loki could very well be responsible from erasing Hawkeye from our memories. He just overlooked the poster…his big mistake.

Mind stone or not, we’ve seen Loki control minds before. In fact, how do we know that anything that happened in any of the movies actually happened? Or anything in our life…..????

9. Hawkeye got to the reality stone first, and created a fake reality stone for Thanos. Therefore, everything in the movie is an illusion created by Hawkeye!

wen ur a mad titan but get played by the guy with arrows

That’s right. Hawkeye Inception’d Thanos by getting the reality stone first and fooling the Mad Titan into believing he was succeeding in his quest.

In reality, Hawkeye the Avengers are all watching Thanos run around aimlessly while they enjoy popcorn and shawarma.