Little is known about Clint Barton's background in the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes reality. He first appears as part of an elite SHIELD troubleshooter squad brought in to bring down the Hulk. Watching the Hulk save his teammates, followed by Bruce Banner's warnings about the darker purposes SHIELD had for gamma-enhanced prisoners made Hawkeye begin to question his superiors. When he stumbled across evidence that his partner the Black Widow was a double agent he chose to pursue her alone, only to be double-crossed and falsely accused of being a double agent himself.
Hawkeye spent several months on the run and even clashed with the Avengers before joining them to bring down his former partner and her Hydra allies. Since then he has been a reliable member of the team, providing fire support to the more frontline fighters.
Clint has a very determined, organized personality heavily influenced by his years as part of SHIELD. He finds his new team is taking some getting used too. With the exception of Captain America, Clint doesn't think of any of the Avengers as professionals and their more loose and easy style runs counter to his more formal ideas of team discipline. However, he can't argue with results and is taking a "one day at a time" approach to their varied personalities.
Everyone relax I'm here to save the world! Again.
Hawkeye's accuracy with ranged weapons is almost perfect. Against normal targets he virtually never misses and even against super humans his arrows rarely miss their mark. He carries a collapsible bow and a quiver filled with specialized munitions. His arrows pack a wide variety of effects and can even be used as thrusting weapons in close combat if necessary. Hawkeye typically likes to move to a high position and rain arrows down on the opposition. Against slower moving opponents he will often rapid fire his arrow, striking multiple targets in one phase or hitting one tougher opponent with multiple arrows. He is even able to shoot down other projectiles in mid air (in game terms he should have GM permission to make block attempts with his arrows).
Clint's hand to hand abilities are above average but not quite up to superhuman levels. Against Hydra or AIM scientists he is very effective, against a highly exceptional hand to hand opponent like the Black Widow or Mockingbird he is generally out of his league without his arrows. He doesn't even attempt to take on superhumans in close combat.
Designer's Notes:
- Hawkeye has an almost bottomless reserve of arrows and always seems to have whatever arrow he needs, but does seem to run out after long battles. To reflect this his entire arrow arsenal is bought with a large number of charges rather than breaking each "slot" down into individual units.
Clint is a well-built man in his late 20s with a powerfully built upper body.