Huge Hawkeye BTS Reveal Hints Kingpin Was Never Shot
A detail in Hawkeye's behind-the-scenes documentary hints that Kingpin was never shot. Maya faced off against him in the show's finale and aimed her gun before the camera panned away. A flash of light and booming noise suggested that Kingpin was then shot off-screen, but viewers never actually saw what happened to him, and a moment in Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye fuels doubts that he was killed.
The Disney+ Hawkeye series repeatedly emphasized Kingpin's unnatural strength much more than his previous appearances in Daredevil ever did. In Hawkeye, Kingpin was able to walk away from being hit by moving vehicles, explosions, and Clint Barton's arrows, so there was always a good chance he would've survived a gunshot as well. However, he may not have had to.
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A change in the closed captions for the Hawkeye documentary suggests Kingpin may never have been shot in the first place. The original caption at the end of Hawkeye said "gunshot" when Maya pulled the trigger, but the behind-the-scenes documentary changes the subtitles to read "explosion" during that scene instead. It's a very odd change to make, raising the question of why anyone would bother making such a minor adjustment at all if it did not affect the Hawkeye show. A gunshot is, after all, a kind of explosion, but why would the creators move away from the specificity of the word gunshot to something more generic?
Hawkeye's caption change could signify that there was an outside interruption to Maya and Kingpin's showdown. Something may have prevented her from pulling the trigger in the first place, thus granting Kingpin time to escape, but which sounded similar enough to a gunshot that unsuspecting
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