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A vigilante in Ronin’s suit just ruined Clint Barton’s Christmas plans.
Marvel Studios dropped the first trailer and poster for “Hawkeye” on September 13, 2021, giving fans their first real look at the Disney+ series set to premiere November 24. Set against a post-Blip New York City draped in Christmas lights, the two-minute teaser plays Andy Williams’s “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” over a mix of holiday warmth and street-level brawling, signaling a tonal shift from the cosmic stakes of recent MCU entries toward something scrappier and more grounded.
- Former Avenger Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) promises his kids he’ll be home for Christmas, only for news footage of a masked figure in the black-and-gold Ronin suit to pull him back into action.
- Tracking the vigilante leads Barton to 22-year-old archer Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), a self-proclaimed fan who gets forced into an unlikely partnership with her idol.
- The series premieres exclusively on Disney+ on November 24, 2021, with Jonathan Igla as executive producer and showrunner.
The Ronin Problem Barton Can’t Outrun
The trailer’s inciting hook is simple and effective: someone is running around New York in the Ronin suit, the violent alter ego Barton adopted during the five-year Blip depicted in “Avengers: Endgame.” News coverage of the vigilante’s exploits catches Barton’s attention right as he’s trying to close the door on that chapter of his life, and it drags him straight back into a world he thought he’d left behind. What he finds instead of a rival is Kate Bishop, an archer with serious skill and zero hesitation about calling herself his biggest fan.
A masked figure in Ronin’s black-and-gold suit is exactly the kind of Christmas surprise Clint Barton was hoping to avoid.
From there, the trailer leans hard into action-comedy territory: street-level hand-to-hand combat, trick-arrow car chases, and archers swinging off bridges fill out the back half of the footage. Underground criminal syndicates with ties to Barton’s past complicate the mission further, giving the reluctant duo more to deal with than one impersonator in a familiar costume.
Cast and Creative Team Behind the Bow
Renner and Steinfeld anchor a cast that also includes Vera Farmiga as Eleanor Bishop, Tony Dalton as Jack Duquesne, Fra Fee as Kazi, Zahn McClarnon, and Brian d’Arcy James. Newcomer Alaqua Cox makes her screen debut as Maya Lopez, known to comic readers as Echo. Rhys Thomas directs several episodes alongside the directing duo Bert and Bertie, with Jonathan Igla running the show as executive producer and showrunner — the same team responsible for shaping the series’ shift toward a lower-stakes, character-driven corner of the MCU.
That approach fits neatly alongside other recent Disney+ efforts expanding the franchise’s tone, much like the shift Marvel Studios previewed in its Moon Knight trailer, which similarly promised a stranger, more personal take on a lesser-known hero.
A Holiday Setting Stuffed With Easter Eggs
Beyond the Ronin mystery, the trailer packs in details clearly meant for longtime MCU-watchers. An in-universe Broadway production called “Rogers: The Musical,” celebrating Steve Rogers, makes an appearance, as does Lucky the Pizza Dog, the one-eyed mutt who’s followed Kate Bishop through the comics for years. Both moments signal a series willing to have fun with its own mythology rather than treat every scene as a stepping stone toward the next cosmic threat.
It’s the kind of world-building that streaming platforms have leaned into across genres this year, not unlike the tonal groundwork laid out in the trailer for Halo the Series, which similarly used its first footage to establish setting and stakes before diving into plot.
Barton’s Christmas deadline, the Ronin footage, and Kate Bishop’s arrival all point toward the same date: November 24, 2021, when “Hawkeye” lands on Disney+ and answers exactly who’s been running around in that suit.
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