My personal pet theory of what happened to Clint is that the Teseract knocked him into an extended and intensified version of sniper focus. You know when you're doing target shooting (or an especially tricky bit of surgery, or other extremely precise and important physical tasks) there's this feeling where time sort of slows down, and you're really intensely focused on the thing you want your body to do, and nothing else really registers? I imagine working as a sniper is sort of like that.
There's this bit where Loki asks Clint what the Tesseract showed him, and he says "My next target", so I think that Clint maybe got stuck in that mode, where nothing matters but the next target and how to hit it. And I think that getting back into that state the next time he tries to take someone out from a distance might trigger a return to that state, or, conversely, Clint might panic and knock himself out of sniper mode because it feels too similar to what he felt like with Loki. Both of which would massively interfere with his ability to do his job, of course.
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Date: 2012-05-18 03:29 pm (UTC)There's this bit where Loki asks Clint what the Tesseract showed him, and he says "My next target", so I think that Clint maybe got stuck in that mode, where nothing matters but the next target and how to hit it. And I think that getting back into that state the next time he tries to take someone out from a distance might trigger a return to that state, or, conversely, Clint might panic and knock himself out of sniper mode because it feels too similar to what he felt like with Loki. Both of which would massively interfere with his ability to do his job, of course.