Clinton Barton

* Clinton Barton
* Hawkeye
* Thor

**Clint Barton**, better known as **Hawkeye**, is a founding member of the Avengers and a former Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

## Biography

### Early Life

Agent Clint Barton was originally a "solo act", preforming entertainment using his master archery skills under the stage name Hawkeye, that is until he was recruited into the Circus of Crime by Jacques Duquesne and Buck Chisholm and became a thief under the new alias; Trick Shot.

At some point they became acquainted with Scott Lang who sold them equipment, however he had sabotaged them (one being a cable arrow that blew up in Clint's face) when he found out that they weren't a legitimate Circus. Clint on the other hand believe he betrayed them and ran off with the stolen money. Clint has committed multiple crimes during his time with the Circus but his conscience never felt good about it, so during their biggest heist ever to rob Stark Industries, he triggered the alarm on purpose and were soon arrested. All except for Clit whom Nick Fury saw something in him, he gave him a chance walk down the right path and never look back, thus he became a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and assigned his old alias Hawkeye as his code-name. Over his career he has worked closely with Natasha Romanoff aka the "Black Widow".

Years later Clint left S.H.I.E.L.D. and was recruited to join the Avengers to stop an alien invasion along with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Hulk. Together for a long time they handled threats no one could handle, up until they eventually disbanded.

### Hawkeye

Hawkeye teams up with Spider-Man to take down the Beetle. Now working together, each tries to show off their technology and skill, when they heard word of the Beetle. They raced across the city, only to be attacked by a Beetle drone. They take them out, only to be confronted with the real Beetle. They try to take him out, but are bound together with Hawkeye's adhesive arrow. They barely dodge his missiles, but the Beetle escapes and they are forced to get a cab to Jersey, much to the annoyance of the cab driver. At the construction site, the Beetle is planning to destroy the Tri-carrier. Now free from the adhesive binding, thanks to Beetle's laser, they are able to take him down, and he is taken away by S.H.I.E.L.D. After working together, the two heroes developed a grudging respect for each other, but when they high five, Spider-Man's web-shooters explode, binding them together again.

Before S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers, Hawkeye used to be a member of the Circus of Crime under the alias of Trickshot. He and the Circus met Ant-Man and stole money from his town with Ant-Man helping. Ant-Man realized they were criminals, though, and betrayed them, causing Clint to take an exploding arrow to the head. Clint holds a grudge against him for this. Later, Clint betrayed the criminal team during one of their biggest heists, causing them all to be caught, but Fury saw something in him and offered him a place at SHIELD, which he accepted.

Hawkeye later joined the Avengers. Leaving the team after it was disbanded by Tony Stark, he took to being a solo superhero. After stopping the Frightful Four on his own, he received the Avengers Protocol and laughed at it, questioning if it was a joke and expecting Iron Man to emerge with hidden cameras. However, Iron Man insisted that it was not and told him that the Avengers needed him. After arriving at the Avengers Mansion with Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor, Hawkeye made fun of Iron Man's leadership skills, stating that he might be able to lead them to Las Vegas before being told by Iron Man that their situation was serious and to stop joking for the moment. He then revealed to Hawkeye and the others that Captain America had been killed in the line of duty fighting against Red Skull, who vaporized him. Hawkeye and the others watched the archived footage of Captain America's death and decided to join Iron Man in defeating the Red Skull after he revealed to them that he could not do his battle against him alone, with Hawkeye telling him as he rejoined that all he did was point and shoot. Hawkeye departed with the other Avengers to the Arctic, Red Skull's base of operations. While aboard the Quinjet, Hawkeye was threatened by Hulk to be dropped due to his insults towards the latter and thanked him for holding him outside of the jet, as he was able to view their enemies. While fighting the HYDRA agents, Hulk and Thor started to talk over their battle strategies. Hawkeye asked them if they mind and told them that he was fighting there before Hulk told him to fight somewhere else as he grabbed him.

Though Hawkeye told Hulk not to do it, the brute threw him across the battlefield and in front of several HYDRA agents, with Hawkeye telling them that he was not with the Avengers. Hawkeye and the other Avengers soon met up with Black Widow, who had been following them and wanted to make sure her assistance was required. After Black Widow suggested to Iron Man that the Avenger scan for M.O.D.O.K.'s skull to find him, Hawkeye told her that he was impressed before Black Widow told him that of course, he was. Hawkeye and the other Avengers were left behind when Iron Man moved on Red Skull's signal, being pinned down by a multitude of HYDRA agents. Hulk placed Hawkeye and Black Widow in a pod and told them that they could thank him while having his speech being cut off by a hit from one of the HYDRA agents, causing Hawkeye to jokingly remark that he did not get what he was saying.

In the meantime, Iron Man had discovered that Red Skull and Captain America had switched bodies under the villain's instruction after Iron Man was struck across the head by Red Skull in Captain America's body. Hawkeye and the rest of the Avengers met up with Falcon and soon came to aid Iron Man in defeating Captain America. However, the Avengers soon found themselves desperately trying to help him when he was captured by M.O.D.O.K., who stripped him of his arc-reactor and armor and gave it to Red Skull.

Hawkeye on his day off went to a carnival with Falcon, who was unimpressed by Hawkeye spending the majority of his time there acquiring stuffed bears by winning them as prices for his success in the games. While Falcon left him be, Hawkeye was grabbed by the grapple of Black Widow, who informed him that Molecule Man had returned, causing him to remember an earlier encounter with the foe. Hawkeye planned to tell Iron Man about it, even though Black Widow stopped him initially, conceding when she warned him of what Iron Man might do with the technology associated with Molecule Man upon the villain's capture though Hawkeye predicted that Iron Man would be angered, being overheard by a returning Falcon who asked what they were talking about. Hawkeye and Black Widow unsuccessfully tried to convince him that they were speaking about a "surprise poker party", though he did not fall for it and left. Hawkeye scolded Black Widow over coming up with a "surprise poker party" as their excuse before the two went off in pursuit of Molecule Man.

When the Avengers split in 2 different teams he chose to stay with Tony, alongside Thor. His reason was that he preferred to do things by his own book like Iron Man, instead of following the book of Captain America and SHIELD.

### Ghost of a Chance

The Avengers battle Space Phantoms, extra-dimensional beings who can replicate them right down to cellular level. The creatures replace them one by trapping them in Limbo. But Falcon is able to save the team, and working together, they take down the alien invaders.

### The Serpent of Doom

The Avengers battle Doctor Doom as he uses the Asgardian weapon Codgel to release the Midgard Serpent, hoping to use it to conquer the globe. The creature is too powerful, and would continue to grow until it consumes the Earth. After a battle with the Avengers, he and the creature are banished to the Realm Below using the extra-dimensional portal used by Ulik.

### Blood Feud

The Avengers battle Dracula, who had kidnapped the Black Widow and turned her into a vampire. They travel to Transylvania and confront him at Castle Dracula. He reveals that he was an ally of Captain America during World War II, working together to defeat the invading Hydra forces. He wants the Super-Soldier Serum in Cap's blood, which will allow him and his subject the ability to go out in the sunlight. During the fight, he drinks the Hulk's blood, absorbing his powers and turning the Hulk into a vampire. However, the Hulk gamma cells act like tiny suns, and he burns away the infection, which also weakens Dracula. In his defeat, his minions drag him underground to safety.

He was captured along the other heroes by The Collector, but later freed by She-Hulk and Skaar.

### Super Adaptoid

Justin Hammer sends a video message to the Avengers, inviting them to come to his company, so he can show off his new invention: The Super-Adaptoid. The Avengers make quick work of the Adaptoid, prompting Hammer to rebuild the robot and send it to Avengers Tower to attack the team. After a lengthy battle, Captain America and the Avengers manage to destroy the Super-Adaptoid again.

## Personality and Traits

Cocky, quick-witted, arrogant, and impulsive, it is quite hard to imagine someone like Hawkeye being part of the Avengers due to his more negative aspects, like his brashness, smart mouth, childishness and frequent attempts to pull pranks on his teammates. However, he frequently sacrifices himself for others, showing that underneath that arrogant exterior, there's a heroic and selfless man. He's also quick to point the problems in a situation, as seen in *Head To Head*, where he's the first to realize that fighting like they're the person they've switched minds with would help them. He dislikes Ant-Man for a time before he drops his grudge against him for the incident with the Circus of Crime. He also deeply regrets his past as a member of the Circus of Crime and even hides this detail of his past from the Avengers for a time. In *Under Siege*, it was shown that he makes his own arrows, spending entire days in the lab to perfect them, showing a slight glimmer genius intellect. He also seems to have a strange liking for pickles and gets angry whenever Hulk eats them all. In fact he finds it annoying when Hulk 'hogs' all the food in the fridge.

## Relationships

### Black Widow

Hawkeye's ex-partner, Natasha and Clint are good "friends", though an attraction between them is heavily implied. She seems to be the only one who can put up with his behavior, probably because she's known him the longest. Hawkeye trusts her intuition, while she knows how to work with him best. They also tease each other a lot and are quite protective of each other. Black Widow is quick to jump to his aid, as seen in Beneath The Surface , when Hawkeye gets eaten by Giganto, she quickly calls the rest of the Avengers to help her save him, or in Back To The Learning Hall when she sees Loki holding Clint by his throat, she quickly attacks the god and save her partner. They are also quick to compliment each other on how they do the job.

### Hulk

Hawkeye and the Hulk have a complicated relationship. Half the time they're bickering over everything and the other half of the time they're good friends. They argue constantly, but in the end, care a great deal about the other, and can be seen playing video games together occasionally. They also work well together.

### Thor

Hawkeye and Thor are good friends and rivals and can be seen betting between them for the control of the television remote for a weekend. When the Avengers split in two teams, they both joined Iron Man, and because Tony's armor was not working properly and the Avenjet was destroyed, Thor was transporting Hawkeye, to the latter's chagrining. They do seem to get along better than with the Hulk, however.

### Ant-Man

As seen beginning their own rivalry on *One Little Thing*, Hawkeye and Ant-Man dislike each other. It was revealed in *The New Guy* that Hawkeye, back when he was still with the Circus of Crime as Trickshot, took an exploding arrow to his face courtesy of Ant-Man when he learned they were criminals and betrayed them. Hawkeye has held a serious grudge against him, leading Ant-Man to dislike him due to constantly being on his bad side. Hawkeye doesn't like having to work with Ant-Man and seems the most displeased at having him joining the Avengers at the end of *The Ultron Outbreak*. Ant-Man doesn't like Clint either and has no problem leaving him at the mercy of one of his ants that seemed to like Hawkeye in Small Time Heroes. They do makeup in The New Guy when Clint learns the reason why Ant-Man betrayed the Circus and Scott realized that Trickshot was Hawkeye.

### Captain America

Hawkeye enjoys to tease Steve in his relationship with Tony, as seen in several episodes such as In Deep and Exodus.

### Iron Man

Hawkeye has a huge respect towards Tony Stark and usually sides with him whenever there is a confront within the team members or someone doubts Tony's leadership, even standing against Black Widow to express his trust in his leader. When the Avengers divided in Avengers Disassembled, Clint stayed by Tony's side.

### Falcon

Altough Sam and Clint don't start their friendship with the right foot, they learn to respect each other in Downgraded.

## Powers and Abilities

#### Abilities

* **Master Archer:** Barton has trained himself to become a master archer specializing in the use of regular bows, longbows, compound bows, and crossbows with near-perfect accuracy. He is capable of firing multiple arrows at a single target in a few seconds, hitting multiple targets in a few quick strokes, and directly hit small targets in the greatest of distances. Barton has even been known to hit an apple in the center of it.
* **Master Marksman:** Barton is known as the world's most skillful and accurate archer. He is able to ricochet pretty much anything with extreme accuracy and has been shown to be able to aim without looking and still hit his target as seen .
* **Peak Human Condition:** Clint's bodily functions at the peak-level athlete with exceptional strength, endurance, speed, and stamina
* **Expert Acrobat:** Barton is an athletic person with natural agility. For this combined with training as an aerialist and acrobat, it makes him capable of doing numerous complex acrobatic maneuvers.
* **Master Martial Artist:** Clint is an excellent martial artist.
* **Weapons Proficiency:** Although he is not known to use melee weapons, Barton's incredible reflexes and hand-eye coordination allow him to easily master most weapons. He has stated that anything can become a weapon to him, which is why he does not mind running out of arrows because he'll just grab the first thing that comes by and use it.

## Trivia

* This version of Hawkeye first appeared in the *Ultimate Spider-Man* TV series episode "Hawkeye".
	+ In his first appearance episode of *Ultimate Spider-Man*, he had a different hairstyle and wore black and red instead of black and purple.
* Hawkeye’s being blind during Secret Wars in the Old West Battleworld territory is a reference to his Old Man universe counterpart.
* He appears in the *Disney INFINITY* games as a playable character and figurine.
* In the comics, Hawkeye first appeared in *Tales of Suspense #57* and spent his first few appearances as an opponent of Iron Man due to a misunderstanding with police officers (the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent aspect is from the Ultimate universe). His backstory was fully explored in *The Avengers #19*, which reveals he was trained in archery by the Swordsman, however, this later revealed to be a half-truth in Solo Avengers #1 and 2, where his full origin was revealed.
* He is quite similar to DC comics Green Arrow.

## References

1. ↑ "The Avengers Protocol, Part 1". Man of Action (writer) & Eric Radomsky (director). *Marvel's Avengers Assemble*. Disney XD. May 26, 2013. No. 1, season one.
2. ↑ "Molecule Kid". Man of Action & Danielle Wolff (writers) & Tim Eldred (director]]*Marvel's Avengers Assemble*. Disney XD. August 11, 2013. No. 8, season one.
3. ↑ *The Final Showdown*
4. ↑ *Beneath The Surface*
5. ↑ *Thanos Triumphant*

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