It has been nearly a month since the finale episode of the Hawkeye series on Disney Plus. It is currently unclear if Hawkeye has concluded with its individual season or if another season is in the works, but Marvel’s Avengers players can now get their hands on a Kate Bishop cosmetic inspired by her look in the show.
Recently, Clint Barton received a Hawkeye skin adapted from the show. This further urged fans to express their wishes for a Kate Bishop skin, which had then felt inexplicably left out of Marvel’s Avengers. But whether Marvel’s Avengers always had plans to release a Hawkeye skin for her, or if fans’ requests were heard at last, the wait is finally over.
Marvel’s Avengers has finally appeased fans as it announced that Kate Bishop’s purple-and-black tactical garb from Disney Plus’ Hawkeye is officially added. Players can now synchronize their Kate Bishop’s outfit in tandem with Clint Barton’s outfit to complete the Disney Plus Hawkeye aesthetic for both characters. Kate’s Hawkeye outfit is now available in the Marketplace after a considerable wait and fans are surely pleased to see it arrive in Marvel’s Avengers.
However, one common concern has been shared about the Kate Bishop skin since its announcement. Kate’s hair is unaltered in the character model, which has become a consistent expectation of fans lately with outfits adapted from the MCU. In the series, Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop has a distinct hairstyle with wavy strands pulled down to the sides of her face while the rest of her raven-black hair is tied back in a ponytail. Marvel’s Avengers’ Kate Bishop, rather, maintains a fully tied-back hairstyle with a headband to pin it down.
Fans appreciate the detail and fidelity put into these outfits, but there have been issues shared with how Marvel’s Avengers’ character models keep their default hairstyles or other features the same. This ultimately disrupts immersion for a lot of players who would prefer a wholesale redesign of the character to match their MCU counterpart fully. This may change as previous MCU skins have, but for now it is a nice surprise to see the outfit finally make its way to Marvel’s Avengers.
There are many other identifiable looks for Kate Bishop from the Hawkeye series that fans would love to see adapted to the game, so it will be interesting to see if Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix dip into that well further for Marvel’s Avengers’ cosmetic ideas in the future.
Marvel’s Avengers is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
