BIOGRAPHY
At ten years old, Kate Bishop had already begun demonstrating significant maturity for her age. She found the other rich girls at her boarding school to be boring and was determined to be someone more like her successful father.
However, upon returning home from school, her excitement to see her father turned to disappointment when he told her that he did not have the time to spend with her as she hoped. The next day, she went to her private ballet class and was seriously bored until her father showed up, which reinvigorated her enjoyment of dancing for him. However, his real reason for coming was to explain that he could not have dinner with her, again making her feel more alone than ever. Her idolization of her father finally broke when she sneaked a peak into his office to find him brutally beating a man involved in his less than legal business.
The next morning, she almost felt that she dreamed the incident and barely reacted to the news from her father that her long-absent mother would not be coming home anytime soon. Insulted that her father thought so little of her that she would not notice her mother had been separated from her father for over a year, she became determined to find out what her father was up to herself. She stowed away in the trunk of his car and witnessed his meeting with a super-villain named the Matador, whom he had hired to forcibly evict the residents of some properties he wished to develop. However, after her father left, Kate was discovered by the Matador’s henchmen, which gave him the idea to blackmail her rich father. After the phone call to her dad, Kate attempted to escape and was almost caught, if not for the timely arrival of the Avengers.
Specifically, she was saved from a pursuer thanks to one of Hawkeye’s arrows, which Kate 
managed to find and keep. Although she thought the other Avengers were amazing too, she thought more so of Hawkeye, who managed to save her with only a bow and arrow. Her conversation with her dad after the police showed up was strained. She admitted to lying to the police about his involvement and suggested they keep out of each other’s business from now on. She went home and drew an arrow in her diary, resolving not to be like her dad but something better. [All-New Hawkeye (2nd series) #4-6]
Kate Bishop first met the Young Avengers during her older sister Susan’s wedding, which by happenstance was being held up by terrorists. The villains wanted to cash in on the wealthy guests by holding them at gunpoint and Kate immediately showed her fearless and heroic nature 
by whispering that the 200 guests could take the 5 gunmen. When the Young Avengers crashed in through the window, Kate attempted to grab a dropped gun but was taken hostage by the leader of the terrorists. While the Young Avengers argued over the best approach to save her, Kate used the throwing star weapon of young hero Patriot to stab her captor in the leg and punch him out herself. Patriot, who had been held captive himself before the distraction, failed to thank her, because he stated he didn’t need the assistance.
While waiting at the hospital for a check-up after the ordeal, Cassie Lang showed up to ask her if she knew where the Young Avengers had fled. When they pieced together that they must be heading towards Avengers Mansion, Kate decided to follow Cassie there, as she was intrigued about her wanting to become a Young Avenger. When they arrived, Kate demonstrated some athletic prowess by jumping over the gate and bonded with Cassie over her story of her recently deceased father Ant-Man. Before they could look for her father's Ant-Man suit, the Young Avengers found them and asked them to leave. Kate pointed out that Cassie had more right to be here than them and that they both wanted to join the team, despite not having powers. However, it was then immediately discovered that Cassie did have the power to increase her size. [Young Avengers (1st series) #1-2]
When the Avengers showed up with Young Avenger Iron Lad to find the passed-out Cassie, Kate was quick to quip that she wasn’t yet a Young Avenger, due to the strict, sexist, "no girls" policy. Patriot and Kate flared a fresh argument after this until Captain America surprised Kate by knowing her name and heroic deed at the wedding. She let Patriot know she would be the first of many to ask him why he couldn’t be more like Captain America. Soon, an attack by the Growing Man, followed by Iron Lad’s future self, Kang the Conqueror, showed up, causing everyone to forget about Kate. Only when the threats had been dealt with and the Young Avengers had been 
tricked into being locked in the training room did Kate return to let them all out. Not only that, she had used the time to rummage around the mansion and create an ad-hoc costume for herself out of various, past Avengers equipment formerly belonging to Hawkeye, Mockingbird and Swordsman. She even provided Patriot with a shield, despite him calling her the less than desirable nickname "Hawkingbird." She also voiced the unpopular opinion that Iron Lad should go back to the future to become Kang if it meant the past would be so drastically changed otherwise. [Young Avengers (1st series) #3-4]
Soon after, the team had their confrontation with Kang, in which Patriot saved Kate from a plasma rifle blast. She was both thankful and a little annoyed that they were now even. The foresight that Iron Lad should remove his armor, as it could be controlled by Kang, also came from Kate and she managed to use her bow and arrow to damage Kang’s trans-temporal armor. After Patriot failed a head-on charge, Kate attempted to battle Kang but instead was held at sword-point, forcing Iron Lad to agree to go with Kang into the future. However, this turned out to be a ploy by shape-shifting teammate Hulkling to get in a sucker punch and the whole team rallied in time for Iron Lad to ram the sword through his future self’s back.
The damage to the time-stream was almost immediate and Iron Lad ultimately had to make the 
decision to go back to his time without his memories. However, before this, he copied all of his memories into the husk of the Vision. Afterwards when the Avengers insisted that the young heroes break up the team, Kate was the one to convince everyone that they should continue to congregate together in secret. Over the next several weeks, Kate’s enthusiasm led to her using her father’s money to design everyone new costumes and secure a headquarters out of a defunct Bishop owned warehouse. [Young Avengers (1st series) #5-6]
With the Young Avengers now performing heroic deeds in public, the Avengers quickly learned that the kids were defying their orders to break up. In a conversation with Cassie about whether they should tell their parents before Captain America did it for them, Cassie embarrassed Kate by implying that she and Patriot had feelings for each other. While she denied this, she was especially shocked and worried to discover that Patriot had been using the drug Mutant Growth Hormone to give himself powers. The dealer of MGH was Mister Hyde, who used Kate as a human shield after her brave but ineffectual attack. Luckily, she was saved with a spell cast by teammate Wiccan, and the fight was ended by a massively dosed-up Patriot. Kate understandably had a lot of concern over what Patriot had been doing to himself and was shocked when he quit the team in shame. [Young Avengers (1st series) #7-8]
Reporter Jessica Jones interviewed Kate along with her teammates soon after this incident for an article about the Young Avengers. Kate revealed to Jessica that she had never been comfortable 
with her father’s wealth and more followed in her recently deceased mother’s footsteps of helping the needy. It was also revealed that she started intensive self-defense and weapons training after a man in the park attacked her, which was strongly implied to be a sexual assault. Ultimately, the members of the team agreed to do the full interview and lay out all of their truths for the public. [Young Avengers Special]
Kate was leading the charge to convince Patriot to come back and lead the team when suddenly the Super-Skrull showed up and abducted Hulkling. Although the team saved him and regrouped at Wiccan’s house, the Super-Skrull followed them. There he revealed that Hulkling’s mom was a Skrull before killing her and capturing Hulkling. The team then went to the Avengers for help but found that only the Vision was present. Vision wanted to help them out, given his Iron Lad memories, and was able to help them locate another potential member named Tommy, currently in prison. This boy was a super-speedster that looked remarkably similar to Wiccan but with less scruples about killing. When Kate stopped him from getting payback on the captors that experimented on him, the two obviously felt an attraction towards one another, much to Patriot’s annoyance. [Young Avengers (1st series) #9-10]
Next, the team found themselves in a conflict between the Kree and Skrull over Hulkling and his apparent royal heritage to both races. The Avengers showed up in time to help broker a peace but Captain America refused to give up Hulkling to either side. Patriot then took a blast meant for Cap and Kate looked on in horror at her gravely wounded leader. A major fight occurred after this but it managed to end with the Super-Skrull posing as Hulkling and agreeing to go with both the Kree and Skrulls in a shared, pseudo “custody” deal. Patriot got a blood infusion from his Super-Soldier grandfather, granting him powers for real, and Kate assured the Avengers that their team would continue to help people, with or without their support and training. Jessica Jones found the team later rebuilding the statues of the fallen Avengers at the mansion and delivered the deceased Clint 
Barton’s bow and arrows along with the advice from Captain America that she should use his old code name. Tommy showed back up, sporting the new moniker Speed and suggesting that he was interested in Kate, despite Patriot. With the team fully formed, Hawkeye and her teammates wasted no time officially jumping into action. [Young Avengers (1st series) #11-12]
The Young Avengers felt especially strong about the politics of the superhero Civil War, given that they themselves were young heroes that Iron Man felt should not be allowed to exist without registering with the government. They participated in several of the big battles throughout the conflict but tried to go it alone after seeing S.H.I.E.L.D. target a fellow teenage group of heroes, the Runaways. Despite his reticence, Kate pushed Eli to go to Los Angeles to help the group, and so when the two teams fought before properly communicating, Kate found herself blinded by one of Nico Minoru’s magic spells. The teams eventually found common ground when the brainwashed teenage Kree warrior Noh-Varr was used to kidnap the extraterrestrial members from both teams. Kate found her arrows particularly useless against this Marvel Boy and found herself saved from a snapped neck by Nico. The missing team members were successfully recovered and Marvel Boy was deprogrammed in the process. The Young Avengers could not convince the Runaways to join their anti-registration cause but they parted on amiable terms. [Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways #1-4]
Additionally during the Civil War, Kate, Eli and the Vision decided to go on patrol and take down a HYDRA base. However, they were stopped by the Winter Soldier, who was Bucky Barnes, recently returned from a presumed deceased status. HYDRA discovered them anyway and the four teamed-up to take down the base. When the teens followed Bucky to a graveyard, Kate showed little tact when asking him personal questions about his painful past. [Winter Soldier: Winter Kills]
After Captain America died in the aftermath of the Civil War, Tony attempted to convince a 
recently resurrected Clint Barton to take up the shield and mantle of Captain America, even showing him the pair of Patriot and Hawkeye in action. When Clint confronted the pair in an alleyway dressed as Captain America, he asked Kate the reason she thought she could call herself Hawkeye. She replied that she did it to honor the former dead Hawkeye and that the real Captain America offered her the name and bow. [Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America #3]
The relationship fostered between Eli and Kate with Winter Soldier soon resurfaced. The two heroes convinced the grounded Wiccan to mystically locate and teleport them to Bucky’s location. They found him in the middle of a fight and lent a hand. After it was over, Kate was relieved to learn that the three soldiers Bucky had shot in the head were just drones. When he ditched the teens before Eli could talk to him, Kate pointed out that he cared for them, which she found irritating but also hot. Eli made sure to point out that he was way too old for her. [Young Avengers Presents #1]
When Kate and Eli finally went on a proper date, Kate no longer felt the chemistry. The date mercifully ended when a man in a ninja costume attacked the pair. However, Kate quickly realized the man was testing her, after which he handed her a card and told her he wanted to see her shoot the next day. When a knocked-out Eli recovered, insult added to injury when Kate had the awkward “just friends” talk with him. When Kate went to the address on the card, she found Clint Barton at the hideout for the New Avengers. She doubted that Clint could pull off the “Robin Hood shot” of splitting an arrow down the middle and was baited into a bet in which she lost her bow after Clint made the “impossible” shot.
Back at the Young Avengers clubhouse, Eli was more than willing to make Kate feel awful for 
losing her bow, and a frustrated Kate quickly agreed to a date with Speed to get back at him. While the date went well, Tommy was a bit of a bad influence and convinced Kate that they should break into the New Avengers headquarters to steal back the bow. They were successful but did not escape the detection of Clint, who later showed up to give his approval to Kate for pulling off such a “cute stunt.” With her confidence restored, Kate found and kissed Eli, telling him to just to give her some time. [Young Avengers Presents #6]