yeah, he made him stupid enough to run out and get shot in the back.... and edgy enough to use steel tipped arrows on everyone ...... AFTER he spent years in the Thunderbolts telling everyone that killing is a bad thing
(where were his net/TNT/sonic/electro/whatever, arrows?)
Clint has less chance of accidentally killing someone with a broadhead to the shoulder than with a blunt to the head. If Clint had been trying to kill Nightcrawler or the Scarlet witch, they wouldn't have been alive long anough to cry out in pain. As it was, pain was exactly what he had in mind. None of Kurts wounds were to critical spots, the only way he'd die might be blood loss, and SHIELD providing EMT service is something of a given in that situation. Wanda's hit was more extreme, that looked like a punctured lung (difficulty breathing/speaking, coughing up blood). That would have been fatal without surgery (or reality warping), but again, how faw away are the best doctors in the world in Magneto's palace?
If Hawkeye wanted to kill Wanda, that arrow would have entered through the back of her skull and poked out of her face. There's a chance he might've followed up with a mercy-kill if he thought it was hopeless, but we'll never know...
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Damn. Not only does he shoot him, he shoots him at exactly the right time and exactly the right spot to twist him perfectly around the bullet. I like it.
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Alas that I no longer have the issue, but at the end of WCA Annual #2, the Grandmaster had taken Death herself prisner and had taken everyone but Cap and Hawkeye off the field or mind controlled them. Grandmaster was about to set off these devices that would destroy the universe and remake it according to his whims.
As they were about to be overwhealmed by the army of controled deap supers, Hawk challenged Grandmaster to a game. Hawk pulls two arrows from his quivver, one with a head and one without, and holds the tip closed in each of his hands. He tells GM, pick the one with the headon it and you win, we give up, do what you want. Pick the one with no head and GM quits his game and they all go home.
Grandmaster cant resist and snatches a grabs a shaft from Hawkeyes hands and is stunned to find that it has no head on it. Taking advantage of his double take, Death breaks free and goodguy winnage ensues.
Clint had, in fact, cheated. He kept the head in his hand when GM took the arrow away. That boy's got stones.
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in issues 1-6 of the [most recent, i presume] hawkeye series, he performs a number of feats i'd love dearly to scan, including but not limited to:
issue 1
-causing a bar-wide series of minor events [much like a domino effect] which lead to his quarry falling to his knees, simply by flinging a spoon at a woman's drink. using a hair-tie as the bow.
- flicking a bottle cap straight up into the air, then catching it again on his unmoved thumb. then repeating.
- tossing a deck of playing cards, one at a time, from at least 2-3 stories up [by the looks of it,] and causing them to land in a perfectly neat stack at the end of the diving board below.
- continually performing a tiger woods-style ball juggling trick from the golf clubhouse out to the tenth hole. then smacking the ball out of midair and into someone's face.
issue 2
- he shot an arrow, through the woods, into the muzzle of a rifle.
- caused another chain reaction, shooting out a tree branch to make a squirrel panic and attack a man, who then accidentally smacked his friend in the face with the butt of his rifle.
- throwing his cards 52 pickup style, barton rolled under them, armed himself with his bow, and picked out the three of hearts, which he then shot and pinned to the wall. his diving board trick ended with the two of hearts, so it's possible the guy's just going in sequence.
- disabling an attacking butler with a glass of lemonade, tossed behind him, to the face; followed by a kick which left a welt for days [if not weeks] to come. the butler dropped his billy club after being struck, which landed in another glass of lemonade which splashed all over some ***** clint didn't quite care for. he said it was the closest he could get to spitting in her face.
- from memory, drawing a vietnamese dragon which he'd seen tattooed on a man days earlier. the tattoo artist who saw the drawing referred to clint as a rembrandt. this is a guy who has shelves and shelves of books filled with art on his wall. this would be a damn hard guy to impress.
issue 3
- knocking out three "third generation bay of pigs losers" within a cramped elevator. they were said to be "born angry. piss and venom passed down like inheritance." then he bundled them up and tossed them onto the hood of a car.
- then he shot an arrow into the muzzle of a pistol.
- then he used three trick arrows to disable the three recovered thugs, who were positioned behind him. he shot forward.
issue 4
- set up another elaborate domino effect, in which a thrown ashtray would knock over a precariously-poised broom, which would wrap around an unhooked telephone, causing it to flip and knock a salt shaker off the counter, crashing it into a now-deceased woman's hand to disarm her. sadly, another player in this sick game caused the woman, a stripper, to misfire and be killed by the ricochet.
- firing a blunt-tipped arrow from at least 100 yards away, knocking out a guard, then firing again and breaking the light of a lamp [without hitting the lamp] deeper within the room. then firing four more arrows, which pinned the collar of a man [bailey mathius, the stripper's former lover] to the chair he sat in.
- tossing a stapler across the room and into bailey's open mouth. he did this hoping to stop bailey from accessing the hollowed-out tooth filled with cyanide those in "the unity" had implanted. bailey had had his removed, however.
issue 5
- along with two vietnam vets, clint hikes through the jungles of laos. he's the only one who realizes, very nonchalantly, that they're being followed by "too many" snipers. "too many's just enough to make it a fair fight."
- firing a single, photonic arrow into the air. that might not sound impressive, but what is impressive is that he fired it so that it would explode, mimicking the exact position of the sun on february ninth, 1967 [also 2007,] at 4:44 pm. he figured it out. "okay, february 9th, 2007 -- calculate Earth's rotation -- axis drift -- crap -- me the math major." this shot is referred to, using clint's mentor's lingo, as "the high, hard shaft." the impossible shot. the "fake sun" his arrow created triggered a light-activated lock on a temple in laos, causing it to open as it would for ten minutes only once every forty years.
issue 6
- using his various arrows, hawkeye [almost] single-handedly takes down no less than fifty sniping archers. some of whom he didn't even look at. one archer, hidden no less than one hundred yards away and concealed in a grove of trees, was disabled when a single shot from hawkeye snapped his bow like a twig.
- after the "big secret" was stolen, hawkeye tracked down its whereabouts using a thirty-year-old record of payment to a hong kong art dealer.
- blackmailing a virtually invulnerable vet into helping him, despite this man having stolen the "big secret" only a week prior. earlier, hawkeye had threatened him, saying "i have thirty-three arrows left, and you only have two eyes. next time -- and there will be a next time -- don't think for a second that i can't hurt you." now, hawkeye's threat goes as such: "i destroy the column now and you get nothing. or you help me take down belinda and you get to look in the mirror again." it was both literal and figurative...
- despite his religious beliefs, clint destroys the "big secret," using sonic vibrations to destroy the grout holding the thousands of tiles in place. those arrows are mighty fancy.
the "big secret" in this arc was a column, covered in tiles which depicted an image of jesus christ offering salvation to the people of laos. the temple was erected to protect the outside world from this secret, as it would act not only as a beacon of hope to christians, but could cause incredible turmoil in the religions not based around christ. hawkeye's decision to destroy it showed respect for that principle, and conviction in denying the world something that would prove holy to some but disastruous to others.
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