Hawkeye Reveal: This is where Echo’s superpowers come from

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December 07, 2021 at 8:01 pm

Where the superpowers of Maya Lopez / Echo in “Hawkeye” come from, the series makers have now revealed. Netzwelt knows more about it.

• Maya Lopez / Echo draws her superpowers from her supposed weaknesses in “Hawkeye”.
• The deaf figure can perfectly imitate the movements of the other person.
• Maya also skillfully uses her prosthetic leg in combat, as shown in episode 3.

Antagonist Maya Lopez / Echo is currently causing a sensation in “Hawkeye” on Disney +. The deaf superhero is embodied in the MCU series by newcomer Alaqua Cox, who, like her character, is deaf and wears a prosthetic leg. And exactly these 2 properties are, according to the serial producers, the source (s) of Maya’s superpowers!

According to the “Hawkeye” director duo Bert and Bertie (via TVLine) Maya uses her 2 “handicaps” to her strengths. Deafness can already be found in the Marvel template comics. For this reason, Echo has photographic reflexes and is able to perfectly imitate every movement or fighting style of its counterpart. That makes them extremely dangerous.

But actress Alaqua Cox’s prosthetic leg doesn’t even appear in the Marvel Comics. The directing duo Bert and Bertie made the extra decision to include this in the show on Disney +.

This is how Maya / Echo uses their prosthesis for their strength

This is also very nice to see in episode 3 of “Hawkeye”. In a long fight scene at the beginning of the episode, Maya first uses her prosthesis to fend off or block a hit with a billiard stick from Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner). A “normal leg” made of flesh and blood would not have put that away so easily.

Then Maya again knocks Hawkeye almost unconscious, by using her prosthetic leg like a baseball bat. She hits Clint in the temple and he goes down.

Bert and Bertie then also explain that the prosthesis contributes to the “superhuman nature of Maya”. Just like her deafness, which the actress and character share: “This is her superpower. Everything she’s learned in life comes from what we see as a ‘disability’ … but that is exactly why she is like that bad-ass“said the” Hawkeye “directors.

And actress Alaque Cox is, according to Bert and Bertie, “a heroine from real life”. By the way, Cox will also get her own series on Disney + in the future. We have already told you more about this elsewhere: “Marvels Hawkeye”: That’s why an absolute newcomer gets her own MCU show.