BIOGRAPHY - Page 3
This death emotionally broke Clint, and Kate reached a breaking point with her mentor over his tendency to retreat into himself and not lean on others for help in tough situations. She decided to leave for Los Angeles and took Clint’s dog Lucky with her. When Kate arrived to the fancy hotel, she was taken aback that the credit card her father paid for was declined. She must not have put together that her father had canceled the card after she had balked at the suggestion of sailing around the world in his yacht with him and her excessively young step-mother. While relaxing by the pool, she met a beautiful woman named Whitney Frost, but their bonding was interrupted when Lucky alerted Kate to the bellhops rummaging through her luggage and towing her car. Whitney decided to be nice and buy Kate lunch before suggesting the hapless teenager stay at her place. However, Whitney subtlety hinted that she was secretly Madame Masque when she asked if Kate smoked cigarettes.
Still not completely convinced if Whitney was truly her arch-nemesis, Kate went to her mansion and faked drinking the drugged wine. She pretended to fall asleep before snooping around and confirming her suspicions while also finding her car and weapons in a garage full of Madame 
Masque robots. Despite almost being caught by Whitney and her goons, Kate managed to escape by blowing up her car with a remote bomb arrow. Madame Masque vowed that Kate would die in California for this affront. Meanwhile, Kate managed to convince a couple of old ladies that, despite having no working experience and her life falling into disaster since coming to L.A., she was the right person to house sit their trailer and look after their cat while on vacation. [Hawkeye Annual #1]
The lifestyle of Los Angeles suited Kate, except that she was still getting used to being broke. She decided her only useful skill was being a hero, so she would become a Hero for Hire. Having designed a flier for her fledgling business, she knocked on her neighbors’ door to borrow a printer when she overheard the two men’s disrupted wedding plans. Deciding that recovering their stolen orchids would be her first detective case, she quickly tracked down the suspect, local weed dealer Flynt Ward. After going to the police, she found herself chewed out by local Detective Caulder for interfering in an ongoing investigation. Thus, Kate decided she would break into Flynt’s compound herself and steal back the orchids. Her plan went poorly and she was quickly thrown out by their superior manpower. Next, she tried to photograph Ward selling his product in order to blackmail him. This broke his patience to the point that he tried to run over the annoying Kate. She managed to survive the attack and photograph his hit and run, leading to his arrest. While she only recovered a single orchid, the couple were simply happy that they were finally able to marry. [Hawkeye (4th series) #14]
The next case in Kate’s career in progress involved finding a seemingly homeless and mentally ill man wandering a busy highway. This man was Will Bryson, whom her neighbors recognized as a famous and wealthy musician from the 60s. Men employed by his brother Grey found and took Will back to his mansion, despite Will’s insistence that Grey was out to ruin his legacy. After she managed to find the Bryson brothers mansion, she located Will, who explained that he had been creating a musical masterpiece for the last four decades. However, he did not want this work shared with anyone and a dying Grey felt he had the right to release it after supporting his artistic brother for so long. Kate realized this situation was too complicated for her to solve but she was delighted to attend a one-time secret concert by Will Bryson performing some of his masterpiece. [Hawkeye (4th series) #16]
The final case of Kate Bishop involved a mysterious man named Harold whom Kate would occasionally run into at the grocery store where they would both buy cat food. The man asked her to take his cat so he could leave L.A. but that was quickly determined to be untenable. Her neighbors gave her a ride to Harold’s address to return the cat and found him heavily wounded, claiming that he would die in this city after all. He espoused his back-story, which involved him as a reporter in the 90s uncovering the criminal dealings of Madame Masque and her father Count 
Nefaria. Their racket involved supplying younger bodies for the rich and famous and, once Harold found this out, he was beaten and told he could never leave the city. Anytime he tried to leave, they would find him. Moved, Kate was determined to get him out. While waiting for the outgoing airplane to arrive, Kate monitored Harold and saw Flynt Ward show up with some henchmen to kidnap her client. Kate managed to beat up Flynt but seemingly failed to prevent the others from killing Harold with one of her own arrows. Finally, to cap off this terrible night, she arrived back at her trailer to find it burning down. [Hawkeye (4th series) #18]
However, it turned out that Harold was not dead, as Whitney had transferred his consciousness into a new body. She worked together with Harold and her neighbors to infiltrate Whitney’s compound and download the client list and bank information required to shut down the operation. Unfortunately, Kate found that her own father was among the clients involved in this illegal operation but had little time to process this before needing to make her escape. She got one final revenge, setting Whitney’s house on fire and would have been killed by the army of Life Model Decoys (LMDs) that swarmed out if not for the arrival of S.H.I.E.L.D. They were there to shut down the LMD business that Whitney had been operating and Kate later found out that Harold had been using her as a distraction to save his life and bring S.H.I.E.L.D. into the city. Discouraged, she said her goodbyes to her neighbors and started back to New York to help save Clint from the plan to kill him she had found in Masque’s files. [Hawkeye (4th series) #20]
The siege on Clint’s apartment building was well under way when Kate arrived. She cleared some of the mob in the stairwell with an explosive arrow and had Lucky find Clint up on the roof. The two Hawkeyes teamed-up once more to take down Kaze “The Clown” and Tracksuit Mafia head member Ivan. After Kaze shot Lucky, Clint tackled him while Kate dealt with Ivan by shooting an arrow through his hand. Kate managed to save Clint from a bullet through the head but was beaten by Kaze before Clint took him down with a head-butt. The recovering Hawkeyes and their dog wrapped everything up and seemed to be stable partners once again, unaware that the crime boss families, including Kate’s father, had decided to target the pair of them for permanent removal. [Hawkeye (4th series) #22]
Deadpool busted into the lives of the two Hawkeyes on Halloween after a hacker with a list of every S.H.I.E.L.D. agent was found dead in Clint’s neighborhood. Kate walked into Clint’s apartment to find him and Deadpool at the conclusion of a brawl and thus smashed a coffee pot over the intruder’s head. The two men left Kate to go fight some villains, so Kate used her detective skills to find S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Adsit in the killed hacker’s old apartment. Thus, Kate was incorporated into the S.H.I.E.L.D. mission to recover the list of agents from top suspect Black Cat. After fighting Black 
Cat’s enforcers, including Typhoid Mary, the Hawkeyes ended up back at Deadpool’s place, where they played Super Marvel Kart and Kate was hit on by the ghost of Ben Franklin. Kate noticed how many pictures the hacker took with his cat and thus they were able to find the USB drive containing the list on the collar of his cat, located at his next-door neighbor’s apartment. However, soon Clint revealed he had been brainwashed and stole the drive after taking out Kate and Deadpool.
Thus, Kate teamed up with Deadpool to rescue Clint and recover the drive. This involved Deadpool driving a bike pedal cab as Kate shot at an escaping Clint. When the pair finally caught up to him, the brainwashed man threatened to commit suicide on a bridge, thus Deadpool convinced Kate to let him leave with the drive. Deadpool bought some weapons from a guy he knew and Kate got to shoot off a rocket launcher at the power station, preventing the data from being downloaded by Black Cat. The whole caper ended when Kate and Deadpool rescued Clint and then the trio recovered the drive at the expense of Black Cat escaping. Kate recognized Deadpool as a good dude and admitted that shooting the rocket launcher was pretty awesome. [Hawkeye vs Deadpool #1-4] The Hawkeyes would team-up with Deadpool again at the holidays where they apprehended a pickpocket and forced him to return all the wallets he stole. She-Hulk was throwing a party that Kate and Clint were invited to but not Deadpool, so the trio chose to stick together by going to a diner instead. [Gwenpool Holiday Special]
The next Hawkeye and Hawkeye adventure started in a Hydra base with the pair surrounded. Kate didn’t make the exit and had to circle back to find an alternative. She found a door labeled "Project Communion," housing three young and deformed children. Once she freed the trio, Hydra agents swarmed in and were immediately killed by the powerful psychic attack from the terrified children. The children asked Kate to take them home, to which Kate promised to get them out. Clint found the four of them and together they managed to reach the S.H.I.E.L.D. extraction point.
Back on the Helicarrier, Maria Hill explained to Clint and an enraged Kate that the children needed to stay with S.H.I.E.L.D. However, she heavily implied that she didn’t agree with her orders and all but invited the two heroes to fetch the children before they were transported off the 
Helicarrier. An impassioned Kate went to rescue the kids, followed by a reticent Clint, who thought Kate was becoming too attached. They managed to gather the kids and escape using a S.H.I.E.L.D. flying car but, with nowhere else to go, they ended up back at Clint’s apartment, where they spent a few peaceful hours before a Hydra ambush occurred. This attack ended with the children blasting apart a squad of the agents, much to Kate’s despair. With Clint’s reasoning that they couldn’t possibly control such powerful underage weapons, Kate very reluctantly let the next batch of Hydra agents contain and leave with the kids. [All-New Hawkeye (1st series) #1-5]
An aged version of Wolverine from an alternate future came looking for Clint while Kate was house sitting for the away Avenger. Kate was surprisingly calm, taking in the information concerning the villains rising up and killing most of the heroes in the dimension of this “old man” Logan. She had seen some weird stuff already in her life and she became more convinced that his future was different, given the inconsistencies of the present with his recounting. She offered to help him find the next name on his hit list, Mysterio, but was taken aback when she learned that Logan wanted to kill the man. In the process of her disagreement over this part of the plan, she lost two of her favorite bows to Logan’s claws. However, she still decided to tag along when Captain America arrived to show Logan the adamantium-covered corpse of this timeline’s Wolverine. This appeared to help the man realize that this was indeed a different dimension, not doomed to repeat his past. [Old Man Logan (2nd series) #3-4]
The working relationship between Kate and Clint became strained after the events of Project Communion. Kate sabotaged Clint’s plan to take down Hammerhead by arriving early and taking 
the building single-handed, much to his frustration. Kate then delivered the news that their dynamic no longer worked for her and she needed to be “Hawkeye” alone. Slightly directionless, Kate met up and partied with her friend America Chavez which led to her hooking up with a random nice guy, to who she immediately told to get lost the next morning. A phone call with America made her realize her attempts to avoid attachments made her sound like the wrong Hawkeye. Luckily, Clint showed up ready to rectify their mistake and rescue the three children.
Clint staged a rescue mission with S.H.I.E.L.D. to get the kidnapped Project Communion kids back from Hydra. After a seemingly failed attempt that ended with the truck transporting the kids exploding, S.H.I.E.L.D. left. It was then revealed that two of the Hydra agents were actually Kate and Clint’s brother Barney, and they had switched the kids into a different truck. The three kids were now considered dead by all parties and were safe to live out their lives on Barney’s private island home. The mission healed the wounds between the two Hawkeyes but Clint understood that Kate needed to establish herself as a hero out on her own. They parted as friends. [All-New Hawkeye (2nd series) #1-6]
When Kate’s best friend Cassie Lang returned to life, her mother moved the now-powerless teenager down to Miami to have a normal life. Kate chose to visit her friend while on a mission to take down members of the villain group, the Secret Empire. Cassie secretly followed Kate and ended up captured, but Kate was able to rescue her. The two girls had a heart-to-heart conversation in which Cassie admitted she was feeling powerless and jealous of Kate, who never needed to rely on powers to be acknowledged as awesome. Kate told Cassie that she would probably be a hero again eventually, given how things usually go, and told her to just enjoy this well-earned break from the craziness. [Astonishing Ant-Man #6]
On her way back from a concert, Kate’s car broke down and she suddenly found herself trapped in a spooky castle with three other young women. After taking the lead in trying to escape, they found a storeroom of weapons to battle the various monsters they encountered and Kate was disappointed that one of the other girls insisted on taking the bow. Eventually, the mastermind behind the kidnapping revealed himself as a male vampire intending to make the four girls his harem, to which the women strongly objected. Kate took and used the bow and arrow to reduce the misogynist to dust and the quartet learned to their horror upon exiting the castle that they were in New Jersey. [A Year of Marvels: October Infinite Comic]
