Marvel Characters - Hawkeye

As a child Clinton Barton was an orphan who went to join a traveling carnival. At the age of fourteen, Jacques Duquesne, also known as the Swordsman, trained him by showing the young teenager how to throw knifes. Soon later, the Swordsman came to learn that he was already a master archer, and brought him over to man who's alias is Trickshot, who is also an archer.

Later on in life, he saw Iron Man in a brawl. It was so aspiring that he decided to use his bow and arrows to fight the world's enemies. While tring to stop a robbery, he was understandably thought to have been the villain, and Iron Man fought him. Later on, he started to really commit crimes to impress his new girlfriend, Natasha, also known as the Black Widow. However, he later realized that what he was doing was wrong, and left her.

After this, Iron Man allowed Clinton to join the Avengers, and years later, he was killed prior to the events that took place in House of M, along with other Avengers. The deaths eventually caused the Avengers to go apart, though later on Tony Stark (Iron Man) proposed that they restart the Avengers, and thus the New Avengers were born.

Currently, Kate Bishop, a member of the Young Avengers, is the new Hawkeye.

Ultimate Universe

In the Ultimate Universe, Hawkeye is a member of the Ultimates (the Ultimate Universe's Avengers). In the universe, he was a partner of the Black Widow, though once he found out that she was a trator who was one of the people responsible for Hawkeye's family being killed, he tracked her down and shot an arrow in her head.