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(cameo)
Modern Comics: Avengers Vol 1 1
(first full appearance)
History
I just can't seem to miss, huh? Not even once...
- — Clint Barton
- — Clint Barton
Early Years
Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton was born to Harold and Edith Barton in late November of 1978. He grew up working in his father's Butchers shop in Waverly, Iowa with his older brother, Barney. Their father was routinely abusive, especially when he drank and continually beat the young boys; Barney taught Clint how to fight and helped him to improve his aim. Harold's drinking eventually cost him his life along with his wife when both died in a car accident. Clint and Barney were sent to numerous foster homes; while running away from one of them, they encountered and joined a traveling circus where the pair worked as roustabouts. While a member of the circus, Clint was trained by the Swordsman and Trickshot, who were later revealed as professional criminals, international terrorists, and black-marketers who were only known to have been targeted by the Homeland Security.
Clint felt unappreciated and alone at the circus; his act, the "Hyperactive Hawkeye" got little attendance, not knowing until later that the very circus he was working at for a few years was merely a front for his mentors' criminal activities. Much to his dismay, his performance was ignored which prompted him to snap and quit in his first week, when he stumbled upon a group of people across the street who viewing a Captain America documentary from outside a newly opened television store near the circus. After seeing the legendary Captain America in action on the television and learning the fact that he sacrificed his own life for the greater good of this country, Clint was inspired to use his archery skills to fight crime rather than use it for crime and since opting to run away from his dangerous and manipulative mentors, he even enlisted for the Olympics around 2002 as part of his first steps to start a new life.
However, his plan to show the world his prowess in archery that very day was intervened when he had to face Trickshot one last time, who threatened to kill the rest of archery team along with other audience, if he didn't come back. Driven to save innocent people from his dark past, Clint was forced to utilize his archery skills with this near-death experience as they fought arrow to arrow. Proving to best his old mentor in long-range combat, Clint spared an injured Trickshot and left him for the authorities, warning his other mentor Swordsman — whom Clint had momentarily disarmed — to leave him and his brother alone, who unfortunately parted ways with Clint since they planned to leave Swordsman and Trickshot. In the following day, Clint's actions to defend himself and save civilians without much unwanted public attention got him an unexpected offer from an espionage recruiter to join their extra-governmental military counter-terrorism and intelligence agency, S.H.I.E.L.D., whose heads were extremely impressed by his skills since he helped apprehend Trickshot.
Joining S.H.I.E.L.D.
As he trained, learned, and matured under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s wings, Barton developed exceptional marksmanship skills and used them to great effect in the military arm of S.H.I.E.L.D., in which he was given the codename of Hawkeye, a nod to his former stagename during his circus days, by then Director Nick Fury. Around the time he worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. in the late 2000s, he was partnered up with fellow agent and partner named Bobbi Morse, codename Mockingbird, whom he would form an undeniable romantic relationship with that still blossomed, endured, and matured through the years as he would later proposed to her, despite the countless of situations wherein different missions had caused them to be separated from time to time.
Later, he was tasked to carry out the assassination of a young Russian agent code named Black Widow, who was part of the discreet and dangerous Red Room Program. However, instead of killing her, he opted to let her live, and discovered her true name, Natasha "Natalia" Romanova. The relationship between the two developed into a lasting partnership and one of the best known friendships no one has imagined would work, all when it started through Clint bringing her in to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. Together, they had missions in Budapest, Abidjan and many other locations which involved taking out or apprehending dangerous fugitives and criminals deemed as a grave threat to the United States and its ally countries.
Avengers Initiative
Assigned by Director Nick Fury to watch over the Tesseract, he was brainwashed by Loki during the destruction of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. However, after the Attack on the Helicarrier, he was freed from Loki's mental control by Black Widow and joined the newly-established superhero team known as the Avengers, to fight off against Loki and the fleet of the Chitauri army in the Battle of New York, ending the Chitauri Invasion.
He then later continued to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. until its momentary collapse, after which he and the Avengers worked to try and bring down the remnants of the rising terrorist organization known as Hydra and the psychotic and megalomaniac artificial intelligence unintentionally created by their loyal and trustworthy teammate Henry Pym, the mighty and powerful Ultron.
Daddy Clinton
Bobbi and Clinton, on the very night of their unexpected and romantic elopement
Almost two months after the following events of the brief but brutal Ultron Offensive in the cities of New York state and approximately three weeks before the Ultimate War. which was in early 2015, Clint and his now-fiancée Bobbi, decided to finally elope instead of getting married through a wedding ceremony, since they've realized that their lives gonna be full of "unexpected crap that's gonna come in their way," now that their ranks have been extremely increased as agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. since after all, they are now officially a married couple.
Around late 2016, at some point after Civil War, the beloved couple eventually had conceived their first two children, the twins Cooper and Nicole, but they have also seeded two more children in the following years: Nicole around 2018, and their youngest Jack around 2020, whom they had frequently raised, alongside Bobbi's mother Susan Morse, and sometimes the rest of her family during occasional visits, in the couple's Homestead located in the rural community, where they could live off the grid to avoid disturbances, scandals, and controversies among the face of the public eye and most of the authorities. Despite this, Clint and Bobbi would still continue their careers, both as Hawkeye and as Mockingbird respectively and as agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and members of the Avengers, keeping the country and the entire world safe from every possible threats coming upon their way, and their entire family, which would be the couple's greatest responsibility aside from being agents of peace.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
As Hawkeye or Ronin, Clint possesses no superhuman abilities. Although, because of his abilities, Nick Fury's intel classified him as power level 9.
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Abilities
- Master Archer
- Expert Marksman
- Expert Acrobat
- Expert Martial Artist
- Skilled Tactician
- Weapons Proficiency
- Bilingual
Strength level
Class 9+
Weaknesses
- 80% Deafness
- Reliance to Hearing Aids
- Reliance to Hearing Aids
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Hearing Aids
- Avengers Identicard
- Ronin Armor (formerly)
Transportation:
- Grapple Hook and Zipline Arrows
- Cherry: 1970s Dodge Challenger
- Various S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicles
- Quinjets
- Sky-Cycles
Weapons:
- Hawkeye's Quiver and Bow
- Katana
- Collapsible Nunchakus (Bo)
- Shurikens
Notes
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- ↑ Modern Comics: Avengers Vol 1 1
Trivia
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See Also
- Appearances of Clinton Barton (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Clinton Barton (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Clinton Barton (Earth-61615)
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Links and References
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