History ComicBook / Hawkeye2012

* Fauxreigner: In issue #2, the Circus of Crime's Ringmaster and some students of Clint's old mentor the Swordsman masquerade as fake Frenchmen in a Cirque du Soleil-style revue/criminal operation. Clint knows that the Ringmaster is Austrian, and upon hearing the Swordsmen's accents immediately recognizes them as fakes.

The fourth volume of ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'' was written by Creator/MattFraction and drawn by David Aja, published by Creator/MarvelComics from August 2012 to July 2015. It is the first (and to date, only) ongoing ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'' title to feature [[Characters/HawkeyeClintBarton Clint Barton]] in the title role.

After years of serving as a stalwart [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avenger]], Clint embarks on his most treacherous mission yet: managing an apartment building in [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn]]. But with the previous landlord and [[TheMafiya his gang]] breathing down Clint's neck, not to mention loads of personal baggage for him to deal with, the job will be much easier said than done. Good thing he's got backup in the form of the ''other'' Hawkeye, [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]], and their canine companion, [[Characters/HawkeyeSupportingCharacters Lucky the Pizza Dog]].

* TheSixties: Despite being set in 2012/2013, the series has undertones of Sixties style to it. The Tracksuit Mafia drive original Minis, Kazimierz Kazimierczak/Clown wouldn't look out of place in ''TheItalianJob1969'', all the women wear Sixties dresses, and Kate might as well have joined a different [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Avengers.]]

* TheSixties: Despite being set in 2012/2013, the series has undertones of Sixties style to it. The Tracksuit Mafia drive original Minis, Kazimierz Kazimierczak/Clown wouldn't look out of place in ''TheItalianJob'', all the women wear Sixties dresses, and Kate might as well have joined a different [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Avengers.]]

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Clint internally refers to Jessica as his "friend-girl". This notably bites him in the ass as she considered herself to be in a monogamous relationship with him and breaks up with him after he cheats on her with DistressedDamsel Cherry.

The fourth volume of ''Hawkeye'' was written by Creator/MattFraction and drawn by David Aja, published by Creator/MarvelComics from August 2012 to July 2015. It is the first (and to date, only) ongoing ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'' title to feature [[Characters/HawkeyeClintBarton Clint Barton]] in the title role.

* SleeperHit: The series did not have exceptional hype around it before release, only mild intrigue for its premise -- taking a well-known, but not quite spotlight-stealing Avenger, focusing on his everyday life when he's ''not'' being a superhero, taking cues from quirky indie movies and featuring a minimalist, stylized art-style far removed from the more realistic "house style" seen throughout Marvel. Then it was released to massive acclaim, and rapid word-of-mouth quickly turned the 22-issue series into a smashing success, arguably surpassing ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' as leaving [[AudienceColoringAdaptation the biggest impact on Clint Barton's character]] (greatly inspiring much of [[Series/Hawkeye2021 the eventual live-action TV series in 2021]]) and becoming one of ''the'' definitive works of Marvel's [[TheNewTens New Tens]].

* WatchedItForTheRepresentation: Many people picked up the series because they co-headlined Clint Barton (which emphasized Clint's deafness) and his LegacyCharacter protege, Kate Bishop.

The fourth volume of ''Hawkeye'' was written by Creator/MattFraction and drawn by David Aja, published by Creator/MarvelComics from August 2012 to July 2015. It is the first (and to date, only) ongoing ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'' title to feature [[Characters/HawkeyeTitleCharacter Clint Barton]] in the title role.

* TheSixties: Despite being set in 2012/2013 Volume 4 has undertones of Sixties style to it in. The Tracksuit Mafia drive original Minis, Kazimierz Kazimierczak/Clown wouldn't look out of place in ''TheItalianJob'', all the women wear Sixties dresses, and Kate might as well have joined a different [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Avengers.]]
* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Used nontraditionally, in Volume 4 Clint's neighbor Grills has an accent that keeps him from hearing the difference between Hawkeye and Hawkguy.

** Volume 4, #6 takes place [[ChristmasEpisode mid-December]], but #7 is an issue about [[RippedFromTheHeadlines Hurricane Sandy]], which occurred in October 2012. The second trade paperback instead opts for straight chronological order, with the issues ordered 7, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11.
** Volume 4, #6 itself is also in anachronic order, jumping around one week of December and presenting the reasons for certain situations as they come up: December 18, 13, 17, 14, 15, 19, 15, 16, and 19.
* ArcWords: "Okay... this looks bad." The phrase starts just about every issue of the Matt Fraction run, and it usually involves Clint falling to his doom or in some other horrible situation. Eventually there's an issue that starts with him being held at gunpoint with his pants around his ankles, and the phrase becomes, "Okay... this looks... completely ridiculous."
* ArtShift: This run is mostly drawn by Aja, with some exceptions. "The Tape" is drawn by Javier Pullido, while "L.A. Woman" is drawn by Annie Wu.

* BigApplesauce: Even more than most Marvel titles set in the city. This run's version of New York probably feels as close as to the real thing as you're gonna get in a Marvel comic.

** The HDMI cables that Clint has trouble with in #6 returns in the final issue to restrain the Clown.
* ContinuitySnarl: Several in issue 9 of Hawkeye volume 4, mainly in relation to his and Bobbi's relationship. They sign divorce papers despite being considered divorced as early as New Avengers The Reunion and Jessica claims that he ran away when things got tough, but they had made multiple attempts at getting back together and the last one failed due to a combination of them both suffering from severe PTSD and them both feeling that they couldn't be together at that point. But, the last one may just be poor research on Jess's part.
* DeconReconSwitch: The series does this to {{Trick Arrow}}s within a single issue. They're AwesomeButImpractical, and a big waste of time due to them being tailored to specific situations. Plus Clint never bothered to label any of them so when caught in a car chase, he's firing arrows of varying degrees of usefulness. By the end though, many of the arrows that Clint uses become more and more effective in fighting the Tracksuits and keeping him alive, and the Boomerang Arrow that Kate mocks in the beginning of the issue does wonders to get Clint out of a hairy situation.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In ''ComicBook/Hawkeye2012'' #9, this is subverted when Spider-Woman finds out that Hawkeye had slept with another woman, despite being in a sorta-relationship with her (it's not made clear exactly, but the implication is that Clint didn't think they were in a serious, closed relationship). She then slaps him twice and tries to hit him a third time, but he stops her and says that, while she's angry, she doesn't get to do that. Should be noted that Spider-Woman has super-strength and could easily crack his skull, while he's a BadassNormal with no defense.

** Much of Matt Fraction's run was about the realities of a non-powered BadassNormal superhero, particularly what their life would entail when ''not'' saving the world. The result: Clint is near constantly exhausted, bruised, and in some degree of pain during the series because his "day job" has him constantly getting tossed around and hurt.
** Part of the reason for the infamous "incompetence" in the series is just showing the realistic outcome of one man fighting a much larger group of people. They don't use lasers or super powers, they just ZergRush him and jump him when he's not expecting a fight, and thus doesn't have his arsenal of Trick Arrows to take them down without doing serious damage. This also effects Kate later, who not only has the disadvantage of being outnumbered, but is also a ''very'' tiny woman who lacks Clint's physical strength. She can take down a guy twice her size without a problem, but fighting ''several'' is going to be a problem.

* GoodIsNotNice: Clint talks about how much of TheParagon ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is, how he truly believes in Clint being capable of doing so much good and Clint feeling good about proving him right. That said, Clint makes a point to Ivan how Captain America is ''not'' there and how he's completely at Clint's mercy.

* MondegreenGag: "Hawkguy" is what Matt Fraction's son kept calling Hawkeye. It eventually shaped the character's portrayal in the new series, made its way into issue #6, and has become the unofficial nickname of Vol. 4.

** In issue #2, Clint notched three arrows, pulled back the string, took aim at a target, and hit the target in the head, stomach, and groin in the time it took Kate to say "that's so cool."

* InMediasRes: Many issues in this run begin with a plot already in progress, and Clint acutely noting that whatever is happening to him looks bad.
* TheMafiya: The Tracksuit Draculas.
* MsFanservice: Jessica Drew, Kate Bishop, Black Widow, and Mockingbird all appear in loving detail in the books. [[AuthorAppeal Strangely, all of them dress in pseudo-1960s fashions as well as hair styles.]] Cherry also qualifies for this.
* MythologyGag: The opening page of the series shows Clint falling backwards off a building, firing a grappling hook arrow, recreating a shot from the climatic battle in ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: It's quite obvious that "futz" is only around to keep the comic at PG-13 levels.
* NoDialogueEpisode: Issues #11 and #19 are largely free of traditional dialogue, and this is used in both to different thematic effect. #11 is told from Lucky's perspective and any dialogue between human characters is rendered to reflect Lucky's inability to understand it, while #19 reflects Clint's deafness.

* OnePhoneCall: When Kate is arrested on suspicion of murdering Harold H. Harold, she demands her one phone call. She then uses to call Detective Caudle… who is in the same room with her.

* PaintingTheMedium: One of the main running themes of Volume 4.
** Foreign languages go untranslated; instead, they're replaced by whatever language Clint thinks they're speaking in.

** Several sound effects aren't onomatopoeiae, but instead descriptions of the actual sound--for example, "(Roar of blood in head transmutes to smudgy backwards talking in a cup or something [[BuffySpeak I dunno]])". If there ''are'' {{Written Sound Effect}}s, half the time they're {{Unsound Effect}}s like "KGLASSSSS" for a shattering window.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Clint and Kate's close relationship is cemented in this series, after the two of them only really being acquaintances prior.
* ProductionThrowback: The RunningGag of Clint being mistaken for ComicBook/IronFist is not only lampshading David Aja drawing both almost exactly the same, but also a reference to Fraction and Aja's previous work on ''The Immortal Iron Fist'' with Creator/EdBrubaker.

** “L.A. Woman” ends with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents taking over the case of Madame Masque selling Life Model Decoys, locking Kate out of the matter she discovered and was intending to shut down with her detective skills.

** Firstly, all Clint wanted was some tape to label his trick arrows with, but then he ends up buying a car, sleeping with its owner, and getting into a shootout with his former landlord's gang, and ends up in a hostage situation. Secondly, he was tying to go to Madripoor to reclaim a tape of him killing a dictator. Instead, he gets detained at the airport, robbed in the cab, loses his money and Avenger ID, then gets kidnapped by Madame Masque, only for this to be Kate pretending to be Masque. The second half they manage to IndyPloy their way out though.
** Issue 8 doesn't work out too well for him either. Clint and Cherry manage to steal the Red Safe, but Clint gets arrested and they end up losing the combination.
* SmallReferencePools: In-universe in vol. 4 #6; Hawkeye says his line of work is like being in the NFL year-round. Wolverine compares him to Mel Hein, which Spider-Man scoffs at. "Mel Hein? What are you, a hundred years old?" Wolverine is, of course, actually a bit older than that.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Jessica Drew angrily lampshades to Clint how he could easily have simply called the cops or the Avengers to help. Clint admits to her that he'd really just wanted to do something right on his own for once.

* ThatCameOutWrong: In ''Hawkeye'', vol. 4, #15, Bobbi asks Clint about the strip club he busted up. He is surprised that she knows about that and attempts to defend himself:

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Clint is having a light-hearted argument and barbecue with the tenants of his apartment building. S.H.E.I.L.D agents suddenly then swoop in and drag Clint away for a mission. Barbecue continues as usual.
* VagueAge: Kate Bishop was supposed to be a teenager in ''Young Avengers'' but is old enough to live on her own and run her own business with no sign of school in ''Hawkeye.'' Also, she's old enough that while Clint shoots down any possibility of a romance, Kate is annoyed at the dismissal (even if uninterested).

* WireDilemma: Parodied in issue #6. The issue starts with Clint standing over a bunch of wires, thinking carefully, and finally cutting the green wire... and then it turns out they're the wires to all the electronics in his apartment, which have gotten hopelessly tangled.

* HeroesLoveDogs: Clint makes sure to get a severely injured dog who went to his rescue treated. And when one of the responsibles for wounding him arrive at the vet to attack Clint, he yells "Who throws a damn dog into traffic --" while punching them.

* MondegreenGag: "Hawkguy" is what Matt Fraction's son kept calling Hawkeye. It eventually shaped the character's portrayal in the new series, made its way into issue 6 and has become the unofficial nickname of Vol. 4.
* {{Multishot}}: In issue #2 Clint notched three arrows, pulled back the string, took aim at a target, and hit the target in the head, stomach, and groin in the time it took Kate to say "that's so cool."

* WireDilemma: Parodied. One issue of the Matt Fraction run starts with Hawkeye standing over a bunch of wires, thinking carefully, and finally cutting the green wire over Tony Stark's objections... and then it turns out they're the wires to all the electronics in his apartment, which have gotten hopelessly tangled.

* DistressedDamsel: Cherry is married to a member of the Tracksuit Mafia and rescued by Clint. She proves to be a lot more cunning and more manipulative than this trope usually implies.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: ZigZagged. Clint lets Jessica slap him a couple of times for sleeping with [[spoiler:Penelope]], but the third time she tries, he stops her and tells her she's not allowed to do that anymore.
* FightMagnet: The Tracksuit Mafia.

* {{Multishot}}: In issue #2 he notched three arrows, pulled back the string, took aim at a target, and hit the target in the head, stomach, and groin in the time it took Kate to say "that's so cool."

-->--Clint Barton a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, [[OnceAnEpisode once an issue]]

Creator/JeffLemire and Ramón Pérez's ''All-New Hawkeye'' immediately followed this run, inheriting the tone and visual flair set by their predecessors. It actually picked up so quickly after Fraction & Aja's run that it was collected in trade as the fifth and sixth volumes of ''Hawkeye'', despite having a different title and not sharing any of the same creative team. Creator/KellyThompson & Leonardo Romero's ''ComicBook/HawkeyeKateBishop''[[note]]published monthly as ''Hawkeye'' but collected in trade with the subtitle[[/note]] is a {{sequel series}} to the "L.A. Woman" arc, following Kate as she works as a private investigator in Los Angeles. The [[ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers2018 2018 run]] of ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'' could also be seen as a {{stealth sequel}} to both the Fraction/Aja and Thompson/Romero runs, as it prominently features Clint and Kate together again. Finally, Creator/MatthewRosenberg & Otto Schmidt's ''Hawkeye: Freefall'' contains callbacks to this run, once again proving just how influential Fraction & Aja were to the character during their time on the title.

* PaintingTheMedium: Issue #19 mostly tells its story as though the reader is as deaf as Clint. Dialogue is missing or hypothetical (due to Clint reading lips) or exchanged through sign language graphics.

** "[[OncePerEpisode Okay. This looks bad.]]"
** Grills repeatedly referring to Clint as "Hawk''guy''".

* ThatCameOutWrong: When Bobbi asks Clint about the strip club he blew up, he tells her he wasn't there for the girls, he was there for the guys.
-->'''Clint:''' No, wait...

* WhamEpisode: Clint and Barney realize that the Tracksuits have been managing to sneak past them and enter the apartment building. Not long after this realization, the Clown cripples them both: he deafens Clint by stabbing him in the ears and shoots Barney, paralyzing him.

Released as part of the ComicBook/MarvelNow initiative, Creator/MattFraction & David Aja's ''Hawkeye'' offered a completely new take on the character, recontextualizing him as {{the everyman}} in a universe full of superheroes with amazing powers. Clint's adventures in this run tend to more closely resemble that of the {{slice of life}} genre than traditional cape comics, focusing on his personal relationships and home life rather than the world-shaking adventures common to his fellow Avengers. The look of the book also notably stood out in Marvel's publishing slate at the time, favoring a unique aesthetic inspired more by indie comics than the house style they usually went with. This approach earned the title widespread acclaim, winning Aja four Eisner Awards for his art on the series, as well as Best Single Issue/One-Shot for issue #11, “Pizza Is My Business". Furthermore, it quickly became [[AudienceColoringAdaptation the definitive version of the character]] moving forward, informing not just how Clint would be portrayed in later appearances by creators but also how the audience perceived him and his role in the MarvelUniverse. Fraction & Aja's ''Hawkeye'' ran for twenty-two issues total over three years, with frequent delays leading to inconsistent release dates and story arcs not running linearly. The final issue of ultimately came out in July 2015.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Clint internally refers to Jessica as his "friend-girl".