Laura Barton... Agent 19??
There has been a lot of controversy about this.
The problem stems back to the Barton family. It seems that the family and Laura’s character were originally added to the MCU without much thought or insight. MCU Clint Barton still doesn’t have an origin story (omg why), so Clint’s family and his wife also don’t have a background story, bedsides being used to show how Clint is more “normal” compared to the other Avengers.
Fast forward 6 years later, MCU seems to want to move away from the “normal” angle. In attempt to make Laura more interesting and validate her role as Clint’s wife, MCU decided to skim through the comics and say since Bobbi was previously married to Clint then let’s use part of that story to enhance Laura’s character.
I don’t know how Laura Barton fans feel about this change because Laura being Agent 19 is a completely opposite and different character than how Laura was originally presented in MCU. If you love Laura for who she was before, do you still love her now that she’s a different person?
I feel for Bobbi Morse fans. MCU is now disrespecting and destroying another marvel comic character. If you look at the comics or agents of shield (I know it’s not canon), Laura does not come close to representing who Mockingbird truly is. This just comes off as a quick fix to early mistakes made by MCU.
If you want to create original MCU characters, then MCU should take the time to develop origin stories for them and do not steal or alter marvel comic characters without first understanding who those characters are to begin with.
As always, some people will agree with all of it, some of it, or none of it. Others won’t even care. Let’s just agree to disagree.
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