BIOGRAPHY - Page 5
After the event known as Secret Empire, in which a brainwashed Captain America took over America in the name of HYDRA, Deadpool was on the run from the authorities for the crimes he committed at Steve Rogers request. His attempt to infiltrate the Deadpool task force disguised as Clint Barton went awry when the real Clint and Kate showed up. The two Hawkeyes chased down and attempted to reason with their friend, who was emotionally hurt that they had not tried to reach out to him during the Secret Empire affair given his mole status. Kate was knocked out with a toilet seat cover before Deadpool took a hostage and escaped their custody. [Despicable Deadpool #299]
Kate’s adventures in Venice Beach were not yet over. Soon after her climatic battle with Madame Masque, she recruited Clint and several of her friends to become a new version of the West Coast Avengers. The two Hawkeyes co-led the group, consisting of Kate’s best friend America Chavez, her boyfriend Johnny (now called Fuse) and her one-time team-up partner Gwenpool, who happened to be the least terrible of a group of interviewed local wannabe heroes. Finalizing the line-up would be the obnoxious and arrogant mutant Quentin Quire, the Kid Omega, who was 
tolerated due to his reduced but still very useful Omega level telepathic powers and his financial backing. A film crew had tapped Quire for a new documentary style superhero show but were ready to abandon it when they discovered he wasn’t part of a superhero team. Kate had little choice but to accept Quentin and the film crew’s presence, given the income flow and new headquarters they offered.
The inciting incident for starting the team involved a school of land sharks terrorizing the populace of Venice Beach. While the team managed to herd them into the ocean, it was not long before another threat surfaced in the guise of a Kaiju-sized feral Tigra, an original West Coast member. 
The team was not as successful in taking down this massive problem but it soon became apparent the identity of the perpetrator of these attacks. For B.R.O.D.O.K. (Bio-Robotic Organism Designed Only for Kissing) showed up with long flowing locks, washboard abs and rocket boot feet, to conveniently subdue the giant Tigra. Everyone, especially Gwenpool, knew this was definitely M.O.D.O.K. trying desperately to look like a hero to appeal to the opposite gender. The lucky lady in his sights was Kate, who not only was not interested but was in a good place with her boyfriend Johnny. However, Kate still invited him back to the headquarters to be watched by her teammates while she and Clint broke into A.I.M. (Advanced Image Mechanics) headquarters to find out what nefariousness B.R.O.D.O.K. was plotting. They unsurprisingly found files and machinery that suggested that females who had rejected B.R.O.D.O.K.’s advances had been turned into giant monster women. [West Coast Avengers (3rd series) #1-2]
When B.R.O.D.O.K. discovered these files which Kate had brought back with her, he wasted no time in calling in his half dozen Kaiju women to attack the team. While the other members were barely holding their own against the giant monster ladies, Kate went back to A.I.M. to find the cure for their condition. Unfortunately, B.R.O.D.O.K. found her and subjected her to the same treatment as 
the other women, turning her into a giant-sized Kate-Hawk. At first Kate-Hawk attacked her friends, forcing America to take her down. However, once Clint reversed the ray gun machine used to transform the women, he shot B.R.O.D.O.K. with it, returning him to his normal M.O.D.O.K. body. Kate then regained her mental faculties and chucked M.O.D.O.K. like a baseball. Next, Kate engaged in some Kaiju style monster battles until the reverse ray could return all of the women, including Kate and Tigra, to normal. However, Kate advocated for allowing one of the women to stay transformed, as she preferred being in a cool, giant, dragon body. [West Coast Avengers (3rd series) #3-4]
The villain Gridlock was next to harass the team and his ability to combine cars into one giant robot inconvenienced the Los Angeles residents with a bit more than the traffic they were accustomed. The villain posed little threat though and was apprehended quickly by a team that seemed to finally be getting the hang of working together. Next, Clint was tricked into taking the team to an amusement park to be trapped by Madame Masque and a collection of other villains with a grudge against the heroes, including Satana and M.O.D.O.K. However, after the rest of her teammates were captured, Kate was astounded to find that her mother was both alive and offering her assistance. Eleanor led her to the surface and tried to convince Kate to escape, but she told her mother that she truly didn’t know her daughter very well if she thought she would ever abandon her friends.
On her way back to free her team, Kate ran into her ex-boyfriend Noh-Varr, who had infiltrated the cabal of villains disguised as classic West Coast Avengers villain Graviton. While not 
explaining his motives for this ruse, he was more than willing to help Kate in her goal of freeing the other heroes, which she performed while Noh distracted the villains. Using sonic arrows, she managed to block the signal of a power-dampening device long enough for her team to break free and take out the machine and the villains. However, they all managed to escape, including Eleanor, on whom Kate had wisely planted a tracker. [West Coast Avengers (3rd series) #5-7]
Back at the headquarters, Noh-Varr was now staying with them, which made Johnny quite 
uncomfortable. Noh did finally explain his original mission, which was that a cult Masque had been connected to called the Temple of the Shifting Sun was up to something potentially cataclysmic. Kate split the team into two, with Quire and Gwen searching Masque’s compound and the rest infiltrating the Temple as potential new recruits. Unfortunately, they were immediately recognized and led into a trap underground. They put up a good fight before being overwhelmed by the acolytes, who turned out to be vampires.
Luckily, Kate and Clint were underestimated by the cult, who had strung them upside down along with other non-powered victims. Kate managed to free the pair of them with some bomby-pins she stored in her shoe and the two Hawkeyes managed to hold off the horde long enough for their teammates to escape and join the fight. This included Eleanor, who had been found and brought along by Quire and Gwen. As they started to gain an advantage and make their way to a captured and unconscious America Chavez, Eleanor surprised everyone by revealing she was herself a half-vampire. She started to drink the blood of America and, when stopped, she explained that she was trying to prove to the cult of vampires that they were mistaken about America’s blood having fated properties to make them Daywalkers, unaffected by the sun. All of this information from her mother was taking an emotional toll on Kate but she managed to pull herself together long enough to help her team gain victory over the cult at the expense of her mother escaping once again. The team managed to return to their recently completed headquarters and gave one final interview to the TV crew, where Kate realized that her boyfriend and ex-boyfriend seemed to be attracted to each other. [West Coast Avengers (3rd series) #8-10]
Kate went back to detective work after this and one of her cases involved figuring out which of a half dozen mall Santas killed one of their own. She received help from Quentin Quire, whose psychic powers failed to identify one of the Santas as a Skrull, who was quickly subdued by the two heroes. [Season’s Beatings]
When Malekith, the leader of the Dark Elves, attempted to take over Midgard, Kate was recruited by Thor’s brother Balder the Brave for a quest to protect his baby sister. Among the half dozen heroes, Kate was apparently the only one who could drive and thus was forced to sit behind the wheel of an RV throughout the long cross-country road trip. Balder also recognized her as a great leader and she unofficially took that role. The eclectic team found a trailer park full of Skrulls, an old west town full of cowboy ghosts and attended a convention for Henchmen. All the while, the God of War Ares chased them and, upon achieving his goal of capturing the infant, was quickly subdued and humbled. The team realized that the baby girl had been subtlety influencing their stops to help gather an army to turn the tide of the war. [War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #1-5]
The original Young Avengers reunited briefly in New York to celebrate Patriot getting into law school. They suited up in their classic attire for old times’ sake. [Marvel Comics #1000] Kate also came to the aid of Wiccan and Hulkling when they had a run in with the bounty hunter Death’s 
Head and joined them in raiding a villain’s lab full of Death’s Head duplicates. [Death’s Head (2nd series) #1-4] Soon after this, Kate attended Wiccan and Hulkling’s wedding Here she got very emotional, as she was so happy for her longtime friends whom she had originally met at a wedding. [Empyre: Aftermath Avengers] Still in Los Angeles, Kate, America and Alloy took out some giant mutant moles before America received some bombshell news about her biological family. Kate gave America some encouraging detective advice about tracking down this previously unknown link to America’s past. [America: Made in the USA #1-2] Kate also showed up when called by Black Widow to help take down a villain named Apogee with a team of other superhero women. [Black Widow (8th series) #10] One evening, Kate ordered some pizza using an app on her phone. However, her dog Lucky could not wait for the delivery, so he stole her phone and used it to track down the pizza delivery guy to get the delicious pizza faster. [Lucky the Pizza Dog Infinity Comic]
Upon heavy begging from her best friends America and Cassie, Kate decided it was finally time to move back to New York. She had her reservations, given how much she had grown as an 
individual while in L.A. However, after helping Detective Rivera capture a group of thugs and saying goodbye to Ramone and Johnny, who was now just a friend, Kate was ready to travel back to New York with her trusty dog. First, though, she was going to take a mysterious case at a resort in the Hamptons. Upon arriving, Lucky ran over to a young woman whom Kate recognized as her older estranged sister Susan. She had lured Kate here in this indirect manner because she knew Kate would not have come otherwise, but Kate agreed to retrieve her sisters lost ring from the shady resort center. [Hawkeye: Kate Bishop #1]
Before she could even get started on figuring out why her sister had lost her ring and memory the last time she had visited this resort, one of the other guest’s distress over their kidnapped daughter sidetracked her. She managed to track down the young girl, still on the premises, and realized in the process that the kidnapper and most of the other guests were being mind-controlled through their ID bracelets. After taking down some mind-controlled service employees, she determined that the perpetrator of this scheme, Pascale, used hypnosis techniques as she was the niece of the Ringmaster from the Circus of Crime. Additionally, she was aided by Fifi, another member of the circus that had a personal grudge against Kate from when she was knocked out and impersonated by her back in the early team-ups with Clint. [Hawkeye: Kate Bishop #2-3]
The ring that Susan wanted back so badly turned out to be a key to a vault housing a fragment of a cosmic cube that she had hidden from her evil father. Thus, Pascale made sure to capture and 
brainwash Susan with the intention of taking the ring to obtain the fragment and gain massive manipulation power. In order to cover her tracks, she had the guests light the building on fire, making it look like a gas leak. Kate managed to snap the antagonistic guests out of their mind-control long enough for her and her sister to evacuate the building and rescue Lucky. She texted America and Cassie to meet them at the Bishop mansion to help recover the cube, and the sisters and dog managed to save themselves from the exploding resort by jumping down into the pool. [Hawkeye: Kate Bishop #4]
These events all culminated back at her original home, the Bishops’ mansion. Using her knowledge of the house and, with the help of her friends and sister, they managed to formulate a plan to retrieve the cosmic cube fragment before Pascale. Kate ran across Fifi and, after a heated bow-against-bow battle, Kate triumphed by launching a surprise attack with Cassie. Unfortunately, Pascale had managed to locate and utilize the fragment in order to trap the heroes in a mirror 
universe, where reality made little sense. Kate faced visions of her past self and multiple judgmental versions of her sister. However, Lucky managed to save the day by biting Pascale’s hand and taking the fragment from her. Pascale managed to get away while Kate prioritized checking that her sister was unharmed. The whole ordeal ended with Fifi and the other Circus members captured and Lucky happily using the cosmic cube to spawn lots of toys and pizza. Kate resolved to visit her sister more and have heroic adventures with her superhero friends in New York. [Hawkeye: Kate Bishop #5]