Because I like to stick to canon where I can, I'm saying that a) the blow to the head jarred something loose, such that Hawkeye and Selvig both start oscillating between states, and then b) there's a bit we didn't see, where SHIELD's doctors injected Clint with something before he woke up. It made him temporarily imprint on the first people he saw (Natasha and Cap), and that was enough to get him through the battle, but afterward he relapses to Selvig's condition, which goes back and forth between lucidity and Renfield-hood. The rest of the deprogramming takes place post-movie.
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Date: 2012-05-17 08:29 pm (UTC)