Old Man Hawkeye

> "End of the road Clint, what a mess."
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> Old Man Hawkeye

**Old Man Hawkeye** (**Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton**) is a playable character in *Marvel's Avengers*. He is an alternative version of the Avengers' Hawkeye from timeline where the Kree invaded Earth. Old Man Hawkeye serves as a supporting character in the Future Imperfect operation, though is briefly playable and can be equipped as an outfit for missions.

## Biography

Old Man Hawkeye's past seems to be the same has his younger prime counterpart from the Avengers' universe. However, he retired from heroics and left the Avengers for unspecified reasons. Due to this, he was not involved in the war between Earth and the Kree Empire, which resulted in the deaths of billions of humans and the annihilations of Earth. Barton was also not involved in the Avengers' battle with Maestro which resulted in the deaths. Among these was his protégé Kate Bishop, whom Clint felt responsible for bringing into the team. Guilt-ridden from his inaction, Hawkeye spent the next decades trying to help the surviving inhabitants and keeping them far away from Maestro's wrath.

### Events of *Marvel's Avengers*

#### Future Imperfect

Years after the Kree's apparent defeat, Clint searched the Wastelands for Nick Fury. After detecting a signal, he began tracking it to discover the remnants of Hank Pym's Roy systems. Discovering that it contained a message from Fury to any surviving Avengers, Clint searched the Wastelands for another access point, during which he fought against the remnants of AIM's robots. Eventually locating and fixing another Roy interface bot, he discovered that it contained a holographic message from Nick Fury, which indicated that they needed to make contact with the past Avengers to save the future. Directed to the remnants of the Ant Hill by Roy, Clint discovered the Time Bridge built by Pym and the Resistance. After activating it, Hawkeye watched as a Quinjet flew through.

Upon meeting his younger counterpart, Clint explains that Fury's last known location was Substation 99. He and his younger self then battled the crazed Maestro, then found what was remained from the Kree Invasion. With it sealed within a temporal field caused by Project Omega, housing Nick Fury, Maria Hill, and Monica herself among other AIM and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, ending the war and invasion. Clint realizing that he's failed his timeline, tells his younger counterpart to not give up on the Avengers and that they need him. Young Clint promises that he won't make the mistakes his older counterpart has, as Old Clint promises that they'll see each other again.

#### Beating the Odds

During the Beating the Odds Villain sector, Old Man Hawkeye is stuck in a time bubble that connects him to the prime timeline, due to how unstable the Cosmic Cube is. When the battle with Monica is reaching its end, Clint warns Monica to drop the cube. He then shoots an arrow toward her before she stops it and destroys it with the Cube. Monica then fires cosmic energy at Clint, causing him to lose his bow in the process. Before Monica can finish Clint off, his younger counterpart fires and lands a hit on Monica whilst her back was turned. Old Clint, seeing no other way to stop her, jumps and ties his arms around her as they both descent below into a large time hole, disappearing, with the only thing left from the two being his glasses and the cube itself. Although Monica was later revealed to have escaped via cloning, Old Man Hawkeye's fate was unknown.

## Notes

* This version of Hawkeye is heavily based on his Earth-807128 counterpart, first seen in *Wolverine* (Volume 3) #66. Hailing from an alternate future where superheroes were wiped out and outlawed, the comic Old Man Hawkeye was a member of a resistance group who sought to overthrow the supervillain led regimes. The character also starred in his own comic series, where he hunted down the Thunderbolts for betraying the Avengers. Old Man Hawkeye was either losing his vision or blind, owing mainly to cataracts.
* Old Man Hawkeye is the first alternate-timeline/universe character to be playable in a mission. He will replace his Avengers' timeline counterpart in Condition Critical, though will not be playable afterwards. However, the character's appearance can be bought as a cosmetic outfit for use in missions.

## Also See

* Hawkeye
* Kree Timeline
* Hawkeye on the Marvel Comics Database