Clint Barton

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

Hawkeye (Codename)
Agent, Mister, Sentinel (Titles)
Bowslinger, Bowman, Clint, Hawkguy, Legolas, Robin Hood, The Marksman, Sharpshooter (Nickname)

### Relatives

Harold Barton (Father, Deceased)
Edith Barton (Mother, Deceased)
Charles "Barney" Barton (Brother)

### Affiliation

Shield (Agent)
Sentinels (Former Member)
Tiboldt Circus (Former Member)

## Biographical Information

### Marital Status

Single
Exes (Natasha Romanova, Ex-Lover)

## Background Narrative

### Clint Barton: 1967 - 1978

Clinton "Clint" Barton is the second son of Harold and Edith Barton. He grew up working in his family's butcher shop. Clint and his older brother Barney were often made victims to their father's drunken abuse which only grew increasingly brutal. Though Barney would protect himself from the worst of this, a ten-year-old Clint was hospitalized when his father threw him down the basement stairs.

### Clint Barton: 1978 - 1980

After Clint recovered, Barney began teaching Clint how to fight. When an especially drunken Harold tried to hurt an eleven-year-old Clint, the boy took some lumps, but he gave it as good as he got. It would be the last time Harold would lay a hand on Clint. Within a year of this, Harold and Edith would be dead while a drunken Harold was driving their car home after celebrating their anniversary.

### Clint Barton: 1980 -1983

Clint and Barney were sent to a foster home. They had a good three years, but after their foster mother struck Clint for breaking a window while the boys were playing catch, Barney woke Clint up in the middle of the night suggesting that they run away to join the circus which was in a neighboring town. Clint did not want to go, but when he realized Barney was serious, he fled with his brother rather than be without him.

### Clint Barton: 1983 - 1988

While Barney was working as a roustabout for the circus, Clint trained under two of the circus' performers, Jacques Duquesne and Buck Chisholm, in fencing, knife-throwing, and archery. Clint would also do some training with other performers in the circus, learning some acrobatics and animal handling. Clint was particularly adept at archery, and he and Barney would soon perform their own archery act.

After years with the circus, Clint was approached by SSD agents Maria Hill and Phil Coulson during the circus' European tour. The agents told Clint that the circus was under investigation for trafficking weapons and carrying out a series of crimes in the towns they went through. The agents tried to recruit Clint as an informant in exchange for immunity for Barney, who the agents said had been recruited into the criminal element of the circus. Clint refused to believe his brother had any part in such activity and he ran away from the SSD agents to go warn his brother.

Clint told Duquesne, Chisholm and Barney about the agents. Hearing a portion of Clint's story, Duquesne struck Clint and demanded to know what he told the SSD. Caught off-guard, Clint was defenseless and dazed. Clint's ears were still ringing as his interrogation began, leaving him unable to comprehend what was being asked of him. When Chisholm joined in on the beating, Clint was only further confused, bringing more violence to him when he could not understand their inquires enough to give answers. Before Clint was beaten to death, Barney convinced the men that they should flee and so they did, leaving a broken and bloodied Clint for death.

### Clint Barton: 1988 - 1989

Clint recovered in the custody of an SSD safe house for his own protection. However, Clint was hesitant to provide any information to help our investigation. When I visited to oversee his departure, I observed Clint practicing his archery. I was impressed and decided to conduct the young man's debriefing myself. In the course of a long walk and talk on a nature path, I observed Clint's sharp senses in action. Rather than let Clint go, I decided to recruit him.

For his first field assignment, I chose to put Clint on a protective surveillance detail in Hungary. There was a peaceful dissolution of communist control in the area, and I needed to make sure that it stayed peaceful. However, the Russian Red Room had other ideas and sent their operatives to destabilize the region. While Clint and other agents worked to counter the Red Room agents, word came in where there was a sighting of Natalia Romanova — an ex-Red Room operative believed to have retired. After he encountered her in the field, Clint suspected she wasn't going for the bad guys and took an interest in finding out what she was doing in the area.

Clint managed to find and get through to Natalia, though in doing so, he landed himself in the middle of a Red Room trap meant for her. With Clint's help, Natalia survived the ambush. Imagine how impressed I was when this rookie Sentinel brought me the world's most wanted ex-assassin looking for a job.

## Shield Analysis

### Special Value: 3

* **Eyesight:** Barton possesses naturally extraordinary eyesight. His eyes are more acute than normal humans. This incredible eyesight has contributed to several of his other skills.
	+ ***Hearing Loss:*** Barton has significant loss of hearing in his right ear caused by his childhood abuse.
* **Physical Conditioning:** Barton has trained his body to peak athletic levels. He has exceptional strength, endurance, speed, and stamina fitting for a man of his size, mass, and build.

### Heuristics Value: 6

* **Reflexes:** Though Barton is a fully "normal" human being, being neither augmented or aberrant, his reflexes are better than 99% of the rest of the human race. He can't dodge bullets, but if he notices a gun barrel being swung toward him or trigger finger getting itchy, Clint can move fast enough to make you swear he did actually dodge bullets.
* **Archery:** Through a combination of intense training and natural talent, Barton is a master archer that specializes in the use of standard bows, longbows, compound bows, and crossbows with near-perfect accuracy. He can utilize a number of outstanding feats and incredible trick shots. In order to keep his skills honed, Barton generally practices several hours each and every day.
* **Martial Arts:** Barton is an excellent martial artist. He was trained in various forms of martial arts, through his usual preferred hand-to-hand style is his own brawling style.
* **Thrown Weaponry:** Barton is known as one of the world's most skillful and accurate archers, but he has trained himself to make precise shots with other weaponry including throwing knives, bolas, and boomerangs. Similarly to his use of a bow and arrow, Barton can use these weapons to employ a variety of trick shots and unconventional techniques.
* **Weaponsmaster:** Barton's incredible reflexes and hand-to-eye coordination allow him to master most weaponry. With his professional training in fencing, Barton is considered to be one of the world's best swordfighters.

### Intellectual Value: 5

* **Cunning:** Though lacking much formal education, Barton is an unconventionally smart and clever individual. He gets out of a lot of dangerous situations through wits and his iron will.
* **Strategy:** Barton is a highly competent strategist, tactician, and field commander.

### Expertise Value: 3

* **Acrobatics:** Barton is an extraordinary skilled gymnast, acrobat, and aerialist.
* **Weapons Designer:** Barton is capable of crafting master-grade arrows, bows, blades, darts, throwing irons, bolas and axes. He has developed many of his own custom trick arrows.

### Logistics Value: 3

* **Linguistics:** Barton speaks English fluently and speaks some Italian and Russian. He knows American Sign Language.
* **Vehicle Operation:** Barton is a master motorcyclist. His great eyesight and reflexes have also lended themselves well to his training with the piloting of the prototype Shield Quinjet.

### Director's Value: 7

* **Hawkeye:** "Despite how useful I have found Clint to be, I am continually met with significant resistance to granting him security clearance beyond this level due to connections to multiple criminal agents and his past relationship with a Russian assassin."

### Threat Assessment

* **Special Value:** 3
* **Heuristics Value:** 6
* **Intellectual Value:** 5
* **Expertise Value:** 3
* **Logistics Value:** 3
* **Director's Value:** 7
	+ **TOTAL:** 27

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* Clint Barton resides in Subsidiary-Reality M, within Murum Locus.
* Hawkeye is a character originating from *Marvel Comics*.

## Gallery

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## Fury Files

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Clint Barton

1. ↑ Fury Files: Clint Barton