[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by GGG

There’s no way the evil step dad is actually evil. He is too stereotypically evil to be the actual Villian. The mom is clearly the bad guy and since the real father never was shown to die was either killed by the mom or is still alive.

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I don't know Hawkeye backstory from the comics very much but I do that one of his main adversaries in the comics is called The Swordsman, so...99% sure the evil step dad is actually evil. Whether they try and make him sympathetic evil or not remains to be seen.