He's not an idiot. He saw what went down with Ghost in the Shell and didn't want to spend the next two years of his life trying to defend the inevitable casting choices the studio was gonna impose.

I was watching the trailer reactions for Civil War and it's a bunch of people like "Oh shit! Black Panther just jumped over a moving car and shrugged off a barrage of bullets! Spider-Man stole Cap's shield! Iron Man and Cap beating the shit out of each other! Oh hey Hawkeye's shooting an arrow again…oh shit there's…

You could work around that by making it a prequel. Show Clint Barton before he became an Avenger when he was just some dude with an apartment and a dog.

I think part of what makes them work is their isolation. It'd feel REALLY out of place if Agent Coulson or Lady Sif showed up in an episode of Daredevil.

With a damn hunk of wood!

I was hoping so too, but it doesn't sound like it. Someone asked the directors if the movie would involve the Inhumans from AOS and they both seemed genuinely confused and said they hadn't been keeping up with the show.

It sounds like the registration act in the film is focused more on the Avengers and not superhumans as a whole.

It's also gentrified as shit right now, not the crime ridden hellscape it was in the 1970's when the comics were written. Though using the alien invasion was a good angle to explain why the neighborhood would be in bad shape in this universe.

Evans is also one of the few Avengers you could still do pretty easily on a TV budget.

That would actually be a really cool idea.

They missed their window with this. They should have tried something to show off Hawkeye's usefulness before they thrust him into three big team up movies filled with more impressive characters.