That’s the plan going into Disney+’s Hawkeye, at least, and it’s quickly derailed by the snooping-related shenanigans of Hawkeye fan and world-class archer/gymnast/shenanigan-instigator Kate Bishop (Dickinson’s Hailee Steinfeld), who steals the Ronin suit from a bad guy auction and wears it while beating up a bunch of tracksuit-wearing goons, ending up all over the local news in the process.

Hawkeye leaves this as mostly subtext, but Clint’s time as Ronin hangs over his head pretty clearly in the show’s first two episodes, so it seems like it’s going to be the thing that drives him as the show goes on.

Comic book Clint didn’t become a secret murderer as Ronin; he was just Hawkeye in a different costume and with a greater emphasis on sword stuff.

She seems like a bad guy so far on Hawkeye, but maybe Kate and Clint will show her the error of her ways, maybe she’ll serve as the justification for the introduction of the Kingpin to the main MCU timeline (for now, Netflix’s Daredevil, though MCU-adjacent, isn’t canon), or maybe she’ll kick off a vigilante mission of her own

Whatever happens, it seems like the Ronin suit and the people Clint killed while wearing it aren’t going to be swept under the rug just yet