Real name: Kate Bishop
Alias: Hawkeye (aka Lady Hawkeye/guy)
Age: 17
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Abilities: Skilled in most forms of weaponry: Using what her father’s vast fortunate she has open to her, Kate learnt various styles of martial arts, fencing and use of firearms. She is also a good shot with a bow, improving greatly since she became Clint Barton’s apprentice.Heir to the Bishop fortune.Brief bio: The daughter of publishing tycoon Derek Bishop, Kate was born into the lap of luxury and had whatever she wanted. But since he father was never home and Kate couldn’t stand his self-serving attitude, she took after her mother, who was selfless and contributed to various charities. Unfortunately for Kate her mother died while working overseas while she was young. While her father left her in the care of her older sister, Kate learnt to chart her own course in life.
A few months after her mother’s death Kate was assaulted while walking in Central Park. She was left traumatized and hated how helpless she felt. She got therapy to help cope with the ordeal. There she learnt to turn the grief, shame and helpless into something positive and vowed never to be a victim again and begun a vigorous training regime. Her father’s vast fortune allowed her to access whatever she wanted and she could hire the best tutors.
She first met a number of heroes at her older sister’s wedding when the church was taken hostage by the Joker out of impulse. His associate Harley Quinn rigged the building with Joker gas bombs while the Joker was waving around a loaded machine gun, threating to open fire on everyone if their insane demands weren’t met. Kate managed to get the detonator off Harley and subdue their two goons, using her compact bow (having gone to the archery range before remembering her sister’s wedding). Joker nearly pulled the trigger on the bride and groom only for an arrow to jam it. Hawkeye (Clint Barton) made his entrance before revealing Cyborg had managed to hack into the bombs remotely and disarmed them before Kate had even made her move. The madman however sprayed Hawkeye with his laughing gas. Though the dose was nonfatal, The Joker was reading to stab Hawkeye with one of his own arrows but Kate came to his rescue. Cyborg witnessed everything (having hacked into the security cameras as well) and was able to tell Hawkeye what had happened once he recovered.
Impressed, Clint took Kate on as his apprentice and granted her access to S.H.I.E.L.D. training facilities. When Clint became Goliath for months he gave her the mantle of Hawkeye during that time. When Clint had enough of relaying on Pym Particles, Kate refused to give up the Hawkeye mantle, so Clint took it back anyway and they both operated under the Hawkeye name.