WHAT IF?: Possible First Look At Tom Holland's Peter Parker As Hawkeye In Disney+ Animated Series

WHAT IF?: Possible First Look At Tom Holland's Peter Parker As Hawkeye In Disney+ Animated Series WHAT IF?: Possible First Look At Tom Holland's Peter Parker As Hawkeye In Disney+ Animated Series

A screenshot from what is purportedly a featurette for Marvel's upcoming What If...? animated series might just provide us with a first glimpse of Tom Holland's incarnation of Peter Parker as Hawkeye...

By MarkCassidy - May 25, 2020 06:05 PM EST
Filed Under: What If

A recent recap of some What If...? footage that debuted at last year's SDCC reportedly revealed that one episode of the Disney+ animated series is going to feature Tom Holland's Peter as Hawkeye, and now it looks like we might have confirmation.

ComicBook.com's Brandon Davis shared a screenshot from the Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe featurette on Twitter, and he reckons this is indeed our first look at Parker sporting the costume and hairstyle more closely associated with Clint Barton in the MCU.

It certainly could be, but there's also speculation that we're simply seeing an animated take on Jeremy Renner's archer.

Check out the image below and let us know what you think.

If Parker becoming Hawkeye is to be the focus of one of the What If...? episodes, it's certainly an intriguing premise. "What if Peter Parker became Hawkeye instead of Spider-Man" may not be an alternate universe story fans have been clamoring to see, but without more context it's difficult to form much of an opinion one way or the other.

Work continues remotely on What If...?, which will consist of 23 episodes and is set to premiere on Disney+ sometime in 2021.

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regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 5/25/2020, 7:40 PM
Could’ve taken the picture straight up but that’s cool confirmation. Still hope there’s more to this show than “what if X-Hero was Y-Hero instead?”

There’s a lot more they could do with the premise than that.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 5/25/2020, 7:50 PM
It also looks like Jason Segal, Zac Efron, and a thumb with a quiver.
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 5/25/2020, 7:53 PM
BD needs to take a chill pill lol of all the cool things they could've done, and they went with what if this character was this character. That's pretty lame
TheWarThor
TheWarThor - 5/25/2020, 8:25 PM
@Dredd97 - I completely agree, out of all the fascinating What If's you could do with Peter, they give us the most uninteresting one.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 5/25/2020, 7:56 PM
What If Mbaku won challenge day is an interesting concept

What if Ultron worked and fought Thanos invasion is an interesting concept

What if Star Lord joined Ego is an interesting concept

Heck, what if Spider-Man never gave Mysterio EDITH is an interesting concept

What if Spider-Man shot arrows is not very creative, and makes me worry about how much they're sticking to the heart of the What if comics assuming this ends up being legit
dracula
dracula - 5/25/2020, 8:05 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - How about
What if Bruce Banner had been cured?
Starting at the end of The Incredible Hulk when he falls out of the plane to fight the Abomination, obviously someone else would have to stop Abomination, but how would things go after without Hulk.

What if Captain America had become the winter soldier?
Basically if Hydra had gotten their hands on frozen cap before Shield.

What if Star Lord was delivered to Ego?
Basically if Yandu had actually taken Quil like he was suppose to.

What if Killmonger had been taken?
Basically if he had been raised with T'Challa, and his father was taken alive.

What if the other avengers survived?
basically Infinity War/Endgame with the snapped heroes surviving instead
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/25/2020, 9:31 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - that ultron vs thanos concept

AbidNaga
AbidNaga - 5/25/2020, 10:40 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - A more recent revival, but still not without precedent of similar ideas:

But yeah, you're right. At the end of the day, this series succeeds or fails for me at least on how they approach each what if?
Tpo81
Tpo81 - 5/26/2020, 8:12 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - I don’t understand or can even fathom how peter Parker could become Hawkeye?Seems like a stupid idea.And definitely doesn’t seem at all what they’ve been telling us this series was going to be
Origame
Origame - 5/26/2020, 10:40 AM
@Tpo81 - yeah. It kinda defeats the purpose of what if where the idea is a change to the story we already know. This is just elseworlds, which is interesting on its own, but isnt what you promise with what if.

The only thing i can think of for this is that peter looked up more to hawkeye then tony, so he used his spider powers to become more of an archery based hero than tech based. But even then its just ignoring the character and what anyone would do to make him hawkeye.
itzayaboy
itzayaboy - 5/25/2020, 8:02 PM
The what if I wanna see is Star Wars. What if Anakin never turned? What if Luke did turn? What if Qui Gon survived? I cannot believe Lucasfilm has not done that yet.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/26/2020, 12:50 AM
@zachman2013 - thats something I really wanna see too. So many interesting possibilities
Hyperborean
Hyperborean - 5/26/2020, 4:49 AM
@zachman2013 - They did that with the comics back in the early 2000s, a four issue series for each of the original trilogy films. Luke misses his shot at Yavin, Luke dies on Hoth, etc. Some interesting stuff.
The best bit is in the first one, Like misses his shot on the Death Star, Leia is captured. Han ends up bringing Luke to see Yoda on Dagobah for his training. Yoda tries to pull his same ESB antics and Han is just like “What are you stupid, Luke? This dude is obviously Yoda.”
itzayaboy
itzayaboy - 5/26/2020, 1:47 PM
@Hyperborean - I read those comics. Those were great. It would have been awesome to see that onscreen. If lucasfilm would just do Clone Wars or rebels animation style the what if would be amazing.
Stinkor1
Stinkor1 - 5/26/2020, 4:14 PM
@zachman2013 -
LeonNova
LeonNova - 5/25/2020, 8:03 PM
I'm a little curious, but mostly indifferent to this show right now. A lot of the premises aren't that interesting to me. I've never once wondered what if T'Challa was Star-Lord or Peter Parker was Hawkeye, these scenarios do nothing for me. I'll definitely give the show a chance though, hopefully they'll do good work.
dracula
dracula - 5/25/2020, 8:04 PM
How about
What if Bruce Banner had been cured?
Starting at the end of The Incredible Hulk when he falls out of the plane to fight the Abomination, obviously someone else would have to stop Abomination, but how would things go after without Hulk.

What if Captain America had become the winter soldier?
Basically if Hydra had gotten their hands on frozen cap before Shield.

What if Star Lord was delivered to Ego?
Basically if Yandu had actually taken Quil like he was suppose to.

What if Killmonger had been taken?
Basically if he had been raised with T'Challa, and his father was taken alive.

What if the other avengers survived?
basically Infinity War/Endgame with the snapped heroes surviving instead
DarkDetective
DarkDetective - 5/25/2020, 8:08 PM
Thats Renner
dracula
dracula - 5/25/2020, 8:09 PM
I can see how T'challa could become Star Lord, its simple, he was taken insted. I can see how Peggy becomes captain America, she was given the sirum instead, but how does a science nerd become a master archer
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