THE FANDOM ZONE 226: "Never Meet Your Heroes" Is Up!

"What an unexpected surprise."
"All surprises are unexpected."
-- Jack Duquesne and Kate Bishop, Hawkeye: "Never Meet Your Heroes"

Hello again, everyone! It's time for another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, DJ Nik and I are joined by Jesse Jackson to discuss "Never Meet Your Heroes" & "Hide and Seek", the first two episodes of the Disney+ series Hawkeye, featuring Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye/Clint Barton, Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, and Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne!

In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like Jesse returning to The Fandom Zone, my being a fan of the Matt Fraction/David Aja Hawkeye comics, how Hawkeye stacks up against the previous Marvel Cinematic Universe TV shows, Hawkeye being reminiscent of Die Hard, Marvel TV and movie projects not needing to be on the scale of Avengers: Endgame, Simon Callow as Charles Dickens on Doctor Who, Hailee Steinfeld's Kate Bishop being the first Jewish superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, some comics background on Kate Bishop, the Tracksuit Mafia, Lucky the Pizza Dog, and the Swordsman, Kate's connection to the Chitauri invasion of New York City in The Avengers (2012), Kate making Hawkeye her idol, Kate learning to get by without her mom's credit cards, wondering if Kate's friend Greer will become Tigra, Jack's rivalry with Armand, Clint losing his hearing, Kate being similar to Carrie Kelly in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Clint having a hard time after Black Widow's death, Nik defending Clint's terrible hairstyle as Ronin, Nik wondering about the various swordsmen entering the MCU, Kate assuming the Ronin identity, Jesse having to leave halfway into our episode, some comics background on Grills and Detective Caudle, Clint showing Kate how to clean and bandage her head wound, the surprise appearance from Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games, Clint having to experience LARPing to get his Ronin suit back from Grills, Kate and Jack's fencing competition, wondering if Eleanor Bishop is all kinds of shady, Clint allowing himself to be captured by the Tracksuit Mafia, the cliffhanger introducing Alaqua Cox as Echo to the MCU, our favorite quotes of the episodes, new Fandom Zone Fanmail from Holly from Wisconsin, my not wanting the entire soundtrack to Rogers: The Musical, Nik and I interviewing Doom Patrol writer/producer Shoshana Sachi on TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week for Episode 227 as DJ Nik and I discuss Episode 3 of Hawkeye, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!