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Hawkeye and Black Widow just seemed lame and unnecessary;
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Well, yeah I can agree with that to a point - for those that aren't followers of the comics...and yes, in this movie they certainly seemed to be up against things that their "mere mortal" selves wouldn't really do too well against.
Though, Black Widow
did mindfuck Loki into unintentionally revealing his plan - she played a God, a God who's thing it is, is to fuck with peoples heads.
Hawkeye on the other hand...shot arrows at things in the movie, caused a little bit of damage. Was (IMO) largely only there to put a human side on things with his love interest. That and, someone that wasn't super-powered to have another fan service "in house" fight with the Black Widow.
Though really?
As a fan of the comic I have to say that Hawkeye wouldn't have lasted anywhere near as long as he did.
Black Widow is actually powered. Not so much as the others, but she's got like soviet assassin training and she's also underwent experiments that have left her pretty much forever youthful, with enhanced strength and recovery.
One comic said she'd be about half as strong as Captain America.
Hawkeye, has always been the underdog - this is why he "fits" into the comic, maybe it's so that the readers can relate to someone that always feels the need to prove themselves, and can be blindly/stupidly heroic...which is pretty much what his character is, the kid that plays with the big boys.
For the plot of the movie, I didn't really like his involvement...it seemed that he was only there for fan service to the on-again-off-again relationship he's had with the widow in comics...
Personally though, I think it was too soon to put either of them in the movie anyways. Both of them were originally villains, stories we're now unlikely to see.