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there was an idea, stark knows this, called the avengers initiative. the idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. to see if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could.
The way he doesn’t kneel, just falls? That right there, is a broken man. The man who saw his best friend die, so he could be reunited wirh his family. The man who watched his comrade, his friend sacrifice his life so countless others could be reunited with their families. He feels like it should have been him. He has lost two friends in one day and it really shows.
Clint’s been dead, he’s been a murderous spider, this probably wouldn’t even make the top five on his ‘oh Fuck no’ list. Mostly I think he’d just be super totally 100% over it.
What you seek lies in front of you. As does that which you fear.
For one of you. For the other, in order to take the stone, you must lose that which you love. An everlasting exchange. A soul for a soul.
You know what??? I’m gonna say it, because someone has to.
The MCU fucked up by deleting that scene.
And no, it’s not because of what that scene did for Tony Stark (although that was great too rip dad ly3000) It’s because of what that scene did for Clint Barton.
Let back track a bit here. What was the last weighted thing Clint ever said to Tony?
“Better watch your back with this guy, chances are he’s gonna break it”
That’s it. That was the last exchange between the two, before everything went to shit, the avengers broke up, half the world disappeared, and Clint began training to become an irl terminator. Those five years when the remaining five slowly forgave each other, built their trust in each other again from the ground up, Clint wasn’t anywhere around. As far as we, the audience, are concerned, Clint still hated Tony (and the others who were on his side in CW), and that remained until the very end of phase 3.
Maybe they made up off screen, when he was back at the compound. Maybe, if I question the Russos, they’ll assure me I’m 100% wrong and they did, actually, have a teary heart-to-heart ending with a hug or smthn (because, ofc, that’s the most in-character thing to do)
But we didn’t get to see it.
And that’s what made all the difference.
This scene, though? We see Clint kneel first. The others kneeled because they saw him doing it, and decided that they ought to do it themselves.
But Clint? He kneeled of his own accord. Because the father in him, the husband in him, almost instantly recognised the massive sacrifice Tony made.
The hero in him recognising a fallen soldier.
That’s his big moment of forgiveness, of guilt, of understanding. It’s when we see a whole seven years’ worth of anger slip away. Seven years of character development finally evidenced in that one second. Not quite as a friend mourning a friend, no.
But one Avenger mourning the loss of another.
That was the moment that Tony and Clint, just for a brief second, weren’t merely on the same side of the war. They were on the same team.
That was the moment Clint Barton was at his most human.
And they cut it.
THIS
I would have watched 8 hours of this film, I didn’t care if it had an intermission. They fucked up.
