The following article contains spoilers forHawkeyeandSpider-Man: No Way Home.
Hawkeye’sseason finale helped wrap up the year forMarvel Studiosin exciting fashion, as most Disney Plus shows tend to do, but one insightful animator recently shared an exclusive take into what the series’ real post-credits sequence was supposed to look like.
Of course,Hawkeyestill brought plenty of shock and awe to the MCU, not in small part thanks toVincent D’Onofrio’s triumphant return as Kingpin, as well as setting up the future for characters like Kate Bishop and Maya Lopez. Nevertheless, when it came to the usual mid or post-credits scene the MCU has accustomed its fans to,Hawkeye’sbit featuring a full song from the “Rogers” musical may have been quite the letdown.
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Now, one ofHawkeye’sanimators, Elaina Scott, has actually spilled the beans on what that post-credits scene was supposed to be like, and to no one’s surprise, it wasn’t one bit musical. However, the planned scene wasn’t any sort of mind-blowing revelation with long-lasting consequences in Kevin Feige’s grand plans for the MCU, instead, it was a direct payoff from one of the final episode’s funniest moments featuring the owl that Clint meets atop Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree.
As seen in the tweet, viewers were supposed to find out just what happened to the Tracksuit Mafia’s goons that were taken away from the battlefield by that cute white owl, right after Kate Bishop shrunk them to Hot Wheels size with an Ant-Man trick arrow. Although the proposed scenario would have provided some hilarious footage, it does say a lot about the lack of plans for a big teaser.
Both the final “Rogers” musical number and the owl scene described by Scott clearly showHawkeyehad run out of surprise shots for fans and the show was never going to deliver a classic Marvel teaser. That is unless one believes rumors that pointed to Charlie Cox being lined up for aHawkeyecameo at some point, one that would have placed him opposite to Wilson Fisk to solvethe questions D’Onofrio wouldn’t answer about Kingpin’s fate.
Those plans, if true, were ultimately discarded due to scheduling constraints, though in the end, it didn’t matter much as Matt Murdock’s comeback wasconfirmed inSpider-Man: No Way Home. Maybe ifHawkeyegets a second season those tiny mobsters will show up somewhere else in New York.
