#yes Hawkeye jokes a lot but he has plenty of moments of sincerity

[drpierceandmrhyde]

It bothers me that we never see Millie while she’s alive. By only seeing people talk about her and not actually seeing her, she gets reduced to the Dead Woman Man Pain trope. She’s just a means for Hawkeye to learn a lesson, a lesson that in hindsight he didn’t really need to learn.