Hawkeye and Mockingbird #3 ended with Crossfire and Phantom Rider doing the slow-mo walk while a building explodes in the background. The building was supposed to contain Hawkeye, Mockingbird, and Dominic Fortune. Odds are we'll find out next week it didn't contain them, because they made some narrow escape.
I think it'd be more fun if they were blown up, then as ghosts, proceed to make the villains' lives miserable. They should have powers like Phantom Rider. Not necessarily the same powers, but ghostly powers nonetheless. That would put them on equal footing with that pain, and Crossfire would be completely outclassed. What's he going to do, shoot at them some more? Sic his robot drones on them?
See Phantom Rider figures once Mockingbird is dead like him, she'll be his forever. So the key is to make him realize just how unappealing being around someone who hates your guts for an eternity can be. Especially when her ex-husband is along for the ride, plus another fellow who probably isn't happy he was just collateral damage in all this. Basically, make the Rider's afterlife a nightmare, until he uses all his vague spectral powers to somehow restore them to life, just to be rid of them. Then he realizes by surrendering the person he was pursuing for so long, he has no unfinished business, and he gets dragged to Hell. Meanwhile, Crossfire's been driven to madness by their persistent haunting, and does something stupid and reckless which gets him captured and thrown into prison.
Plus, our heroes all learn to appreciate life now that they've lost it and regained it. Well, phrase it in a less schmaltzy manner than that, but Bobbi could see the need to step back from her work, decompress, and Hawkeye could perhaps see the wisdom in not always trying to fix things without asking the people involved. Being Hawkeye, that wisdom would last for about five minutes, much like the time Spider-Man died for one issue*. But perhaps he could do something good in those five minutes.
* While in the realm of the dead, he realizes how he was always worrying too much, and he needed to enjoy life more. Once he's alive again at the end of the issue, he promptly resumes worrying about stuff again, the lessons learned in the afterlife having not carried over.
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This sounds like a perfectly workable plot!
sallyp: Thank you! I can't figure out how, short of something like this, the heroes are going to beat Phantom Rider. He's a ghost, their abilities involving punching and/or shooting things. Seem like the wrong tools for the job.
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