Hawkeye Episode 6

Marvel’s Hawkeye season finale is here, and it’s the perfect capstone to a virtually perfect MCU series. Heavy on action, with just the right amount of humor, and a heaping helping of the brilliant Vincent D’Onofrio returning as Wilson Fisk, Hawkeye went out strong. Maybe not with as many explicit Marvel Easter eggs as in previous episodes, but a lot of fun nonetheless. Here’s everything we found. And if you spot something we missed, let us know in the comments!

SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS?

The episode’s title, “So This is Christmas?” is taken from the opening line of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s holiday standard, “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” which opens with the singer asking “So, this is Christmas…and what have you done?”

THE OWL

Clint encounters an owl in the Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree. In 2020, an owl was actually discovered in the enormous Christmas tree brought to New York City from Oneonta upstate. She was dubbed Rockefeller (“Rocky” for short), rehabilitated and released back into the wild. She’s now the subject of her own Christmas childrens’ book: The Christmas Owl.

PIZZA DOG

This episode doesn’t have enough Pizza Dog for our taste, BUT…we do finally hear him get referred to by his actual name from the comics: Lucky. Pizza Dog is just a code name, of course. We love you, Lucky!

THE ROLEX WATCH AND AGENT 19

The mystery of the Rolex watch from the black market auction is solved in this episode, and it belongs to none other than Laura Barton. It’s engraved with a “19” on the back, which confirms some of our suspicions from a few episodes back: Laura is a retired SHIELD agent. But if she’s Agent 19, that’s the same SHIELD agent designation held by Bobbi “Mockingbird” Morse in Marvel Comics. The only possible problem? Laura can’t be Bobbi Morse, because Bobbi already exists in the MCU, having appeared in Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD TV series. However, to the best of our memory, she was never referred to as “Agent 19” there. In the comics, Hawkeye and Mockingbird were married, but there was never any romantic relationship between Adrienne Palicki’s Bobbi and Jeremy Renner’s Clint. Making Laura a retired “Agent 19” nicely ties a little piece of comics continuity to this show, without eliminating an element of Agents of SHIELD from continuity.

THE POST-CREDITS SCENE 

We finally get the full rendition of “Save Our City” from Rogers: The Musical in the post-credits scene. We already unpacked that in detail here, but the NYC-based members of the DoG Marvel crew would like to just draw special attention to lines like “the rent and the garbage are both sky high” and “we lived through the ‘80s and this too shall pass.”