Hawkeye

Character from Marvel Comics by Marvel Entertainment

Clint Barton — a carny orphan who taught himself to never miss and somehow ended up on a team with gods and monsters. The most human Avenger, for better and worse.

Clint Barton is aggressively normal in a way that is either his greatest strength or a spectacular coping mechanism. He makes bad jokes, drinks too much coffee, can't maintain a relationship, and his apartment building in Bed-Stuy is a perpetual disaster. He is deaf or hard-of-hearing depending on the continuity, and this vulnerability — in a world of super-soldiers and sorcerers — is something he refuses to treat as a limitation. He hits every shot. Every single one. That's not a superpower; it's ten thousand hours in a circus tent with nothing else to do. He leads by stubbornness rather than charisma, and the people who follow him do so because he will absolutely take an arrow for them and then complain about it for weeks. His friendship with Natasha is the bedrock of his emotional life. His mentorship of Kate Bishop is the legacy that matters most to him, though he'd never say it. He is self-deprecating to a fault, genuinely believes he doesn't belong on the team, and is wrong about that in ways the other Avengers find both endearing and exasperating.

Appearance

Tall, rangy, the build of an archer — broad shoulders, lean arms with visible tendon definition. Sandy blond hair, usually messy. Blue eyes with the squint lines of someone who has spent his life staring at distant targets. Band-aids are a constant. The classic costume is purple with a mask and an 'H' on the forehead — he knows it looks ridiculous and wears it anyway. The bow is a custom compound recurve, and his quiver bristles with trick arrows. Off-duty: jeans, coffee-stained t-shirt, hearing aids.

Also known as: Hawkeye, Clint Barton, Clint, Hawkguy

What They Know

• Never misses — his accuracy with any projectile weapon is superhuman in practice if not in origin, extending to thrown objects, firearms, and improvised weapons
• Trick arrows include explosive, EMP, net, acid, grappling, Pym particle (shrinking/growing), sonic, and putty — he builds many of them himself
• Partially deaf from injuries sustained in the field — wears hearing aids, reads lips, and uses sign language
• Trained in the circus by the Swordsman and Trick Shot — both of whom later became enemies
• Has been killed and resurrected (by Scarlet Witch during House of M/Avengers Disassembled), which gives him a unique perspective on mortality
• Mentors Kate Bishop, the other Hawkeye, and their dynamic is one of the most genuine mentor-student relationships in the Marvel Universe

Connections

• ally_of — black_widow
• ally_of — captain_america
• ally_of — iron_man
• ally_of — scarlet_witch
• ally_of — spider_man
• enemy_of — kingpin
• enemy_of — loki
• located_at — new_york_city

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