A few of the possible Hawkeye Disney Plus villains may have been teased in the first trailer for the upcoming TV show, which just landed today. The Hawkeye trailer focuses mainly on the interplay between Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) and introduces the beloved Lucky the Pizza Dog, but it also teases some potential villains — including the return of a familiar face whose appearance was teased at the end of the Black Widow movie.
All possible Hawkeye Disney Plus villains for the TV show
There are multiple villains teased in the Hawkeye Disney Plus trailer for the December show, both confirmed and unconfirmed. Here are the villains fans can expect to see when the Hawkeye series launches in November.
YELENA BELOVA
Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) made a big splash in this year’s Black Widow movie, but the most interesting part came during the post-credits scene — where Yelena was tasked by Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to kill Clint Barton, who Yelena now believes murdered her “sister” Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Avengers: Endgame. Yelena’s appearance in Hawkeye is confirmed by a brief shot of her framed in red during the trailer.
SWORDSMAN/JACQUES DUQUESNE
Swordsman is a major Hawkeye villain who originally helped to train Clint Barton, and while he isn’t in the trailer he has been confirmed as appearing in the series, played by Tony Dalton. He has been spotted on set sporting the Swordsman’s iconic mustache and seems to have a close relationship with Kate Bishop’s mother Eleanor Bishop (Vera Farmiga), who briefly appears in the trailer.
THE HOOD/PARKER ROBBINS
One of Hawkeye’s bigger villains is The Hood, who wears a red hooded outfit and who fancies himself a successor to Kingpin as a master of the criminal underworld. Repeatedly throughout the trailer, Clint and Kate Bishop go up against armed gangsters dressed all in red, a possible tease that they may be working for The Hood. Furthermore, Hood was the main villain in the recent popular Hawkeye comic story Freefall, where Hawkeye is framed by someone dressing up as his sword-wielding alter-ego Ronin — exactly what happens in the trailer.
BULLSEYE/BENJAMIN POINDEXTER
This is possibly the loosest connection yet, but Marvel Studios may be teasing the return of the major villain Bullseye to the MCU. Bullseye is well known as a Daredevil villain, and actually appeared in Netflix’s Daredevil Season 3 (played by Wilson Bethel) but he’s also probably Hawkeye’s deadliest enemy too. The tease in the trailer for Bullseye, if that’s what it is, is actually in the Marvel Studios logo itself — a load of concentric circles in the exact same pattern as the iconic symbol on Bullseye’s head. Furthermore, Bullseye actually became an evil version of Hawkeye and joined the Dark Avengers, a team-up that the MCU seems to be building towards.
The Hawkeye TV series will launch on Disney Plus on November 24.
