All Of Hawkeye's Trick Arrows In The MCU Explained

The shockwave arrow is one of the most effective weapons in Hawkeye's arsenal, which makes its rare usage all the more disappointing. The trick first appeared in 2014's "Avengers: Age of Ultron," during the team's first proper fight against Ultron at an African salvage yard. 

Tracking Ultron across the planet, the Avengers managed to track the robot down after he finished purchasing Vibranium from Ulysses Klaue and his mercenaries. It didn't take long for a fight to break out between all three factions, and while Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man engaged Ultron's various robotic bodies and the superhuman Maximoff Twins, it was largely up to Black Widow and Hawkeye to take down Klaue's soldiers. 

While Black Widow engaged a group in an isolated corridor, Barton managed to defeat the bulk of their forces with one well-placed arrow. Fired at a bridge in the middle of the yard that was surrounded by Klaue's troops, the shockwave arrow released a powerful pulse that simultaneously incapacitated every soldier in the vicinity. 

The arrow is briefly seen once again in "Hawkeye," Episode 6, "So This is Christmas?", when he uses it to dispel a large group of guards with ease. Though still clearly a shockwave of concussive force rather than an explosion, this one seems far more powerful than the one used against Klau's mercenaries.