Previously in Marvel’s “Agent Carter,” we had a 30-second scene where Peggy Carter met Dorothy Underwood from Iowa, who came to New York City to be a professional dancer.
Now we know her name isn’t Dorothy Underwood, and she isn’t from Iowa. She is, in fact, a Russian trained from a young age to be a ruthless spy/assassin in the Black Widow program (cf. Scarlett Johansson’s character in “The Avengers”). Perhaps we should be glad the writers didn’t name-drop a town in this case, although there is an Underwood, Iowa…
Between that, an ex-agent of SHIELD who was killed before the first commercial break, and a “valedictorian in Iowa City” targeted by HYDRA, the Hawkeye State isn’t doing too well in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In the comics at least, the character Hawkeye is from Waverly, but that has not been established in the MCU. And then somehow Clutier (!!!) got dropped into the comics as a town full of Nazi sympathizers (!!!). I was going to say the title of this blog post was tongue in cheek but now I’m not so sure!