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| “ | As an Avenger, you showed me that you don't need superpowers to be a hero. | „ |
| ~ Kate Bishop to Clint Barton. |
| “ | Some people have actually called me the world's greatest archer. | „ |
| ~ Bishop to Hawkeye. |
Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Bishop, later known as Hawkeye, is the deuteragonist of the 2021 Disney+ series Hawkeye and a minor character in the 2023 film The Marvels.
She is a young yet skilled girl who is a fan of Hawkeye, and seeks to become a super heroine like him one day. One day, however, she met with him and became involved in a conspiracy, about the whereabouts of a retired vigilante known as Ronin (who was actually Hawkeye himself) and the murder of a man she met in a party of her mom's.
She is portrayed by Hailee Steinfeld (who also played Mattie Ross in True Grit, Megan Walsh/83 in Barely Lethal, Charlie Watson in Bumblebee, and voiced Gwen Stacy in the Spider-Verse trilogy and Vi in Arcane), and by Clara Stack as a child.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Bishop was born in 2002 to Derek and Eleanor Bishop, coming from a wealthy family that lived in New York. In May of 2012, Kate witnessed the Chitauri invasion led by Loki, and Bishop was saved from one of the aliens by Hawkeye. She was deeply touched by Hawkeye's heroism, and started to idolize him as one of her favoirte superheroes. While attending her father's funeral, Kate became inspired by Hawkeye to become a superhero, telling her mother that she would protect them and that she also needed a bow and arrows. During her school years, Kate focused on training herself in archery and martial arts in case another invasion would happen, and earned numerous medals and a black belt by the time she was fifteen.
In 2018, Kate survived the decimation caused by Thanos but it's unknown if her mother was a victim of the snap, but all victims of the snap would be revived by the Hulk in 2023. Afterward, Bishop would graduate from high school and started to attend college while also continuing her training.
Hawkeye[]
When she was a young adult in 2024, she made a bet with her college friends about what part of the bell moved to make the sound, and used a arrow to make the bell rings (the tower of the circle's bell), but the tower the bell was in ruptured and fell. Her friends ran away, leaving to Kate the consequences
While her mother became irritated with the stunt, she decided to leave this aside, and asked Kate to appear in the party she was going to do. Kate went, and met Armand the Third, uncle of Jack, a man who was, unknowing to Kate, the groom of her mother. When she went to the lower side of the mansion, she heard Armand shouting to her mother, in what looked like a threat. She was mistaken by a waiter, and then she got to a clandestine auction that was happening in the basement of her mother's mansion. The auction was about very valuable items, most of them found in the rest of the Avenger's complex. One of the items was Ronin's suit, along Ronin's sword.
While Kate was fascinated with this, the Tracksuit Mafia, a organized crime group, invaded the auction, looking for a watch. Kate got Ronin's suit for herself, while Ronin's sword was taken by Jack, who was attending at the auction along with Armand. Kate took down some of the Mafia's goons, and got out of the Auction. She saved a dog, that was fighting with one of the Mafia's operatives, and took him to her house. She later went to Armand's house, breaking in with Ronin's suit, just to discover Armand, laying in the ground, dead. She ran away from the house as fast as possible, but was intercepted by the Tracksuit Mafia, who had scores to be settled with Ronin, but she was saved by Clint Barton, the Hawkeye, that was trying to retrieve the suit that was once his, but when discovered Kate was girl, took her to her house, and settled the whole story with her.
While she discussed what to do with Hawkeye, the Mafia attacked and burnt her house, but Kate ran, along with the dog and Clint, they hid in Kate's aunt's house, and then Hawkeye asked Kate to go to her mother's house, where it was safer. She did so, as she was going to have a dinner with her mother's groom. She then asked to do a sparring of fencing, as Jack was a fan of blades. While she won most rounds, she though he was letting her win, and fatally attacked him in the face, to make him defend himself like a professional. The plan did well, but mother didn't like it, but Kate's suspicions that Jack was the one who killed Armand just grew stronger.
Hawkeye went out to settle things with the Tracksuit Mafia, and was purposefully captured to retrieve information, but before he could do his plan, Kate fell from the ceiling, as she was trying to save him. However, they both were captured by the Mafia, and Echo, leader of it, tried to interrogate them about Ronin. Clint escaped, and later helped Kate scape, but they were pursued by the Tracksuit Mafia. With the help of many special arrows from Clint, and then fixed Hawkeye's hearing device, that was broken during the fight. They broke in Kate's mother's house, to find information about the Tracksuit Mafia in the criminal database of her mother, but Hawkeye was threatened by Jack with the Ronin sword, before the episode ends.
Confronted by her mother, Kate explained that she was partners with Clint, but Eleanor ordered him to leave upon learning her daughter was trying to access her security. After going shopping with Lucky, Kate met with Barton, whom learned that Duquesne was part of Sloan Limited, which acted as a money laundering scam for the mafia. While bonding with her idol, she learned that he was Ronin, having become an a ruthless assassin after losing his family upon the decimation. Despite this, Bishop believed that Clint was still a hero and that everyone suffered from Thanos' plot. The next day, Barton tasked her with finding his trick arrows with the larpers, and reunited with Clint after he learned of the location of his wife's watch.
Seeing that the watch is within Echo's apartment, Bishop works with Barton to infiltrate the building to retrieve it, but sets off a silent alarm. When Echo arrived to stop the trespassers, an assassin named Yelena Belova arrived, intending to eliminate Barton. She was stopped by Bishop's arrival, but Clint told his fan that they weren't partners and to stay away from him. Returning home, Kate is consoled by her mother, and tells her about Duquesne and his company. Afterward, she returned to her apartment where she encountered Belova, whom wanted to know why she protected Clint.
Later on, she returned to her mother and learned that Jack was arrested, and then decided to reconcile with Barton by leaving voicemails on his phone. Managing to trace his phone down, Bishop discovered him fighting Echo, and came in at the last second to assist him. After Echo left, Kate and Clint did as well, becoming partners once again. Afterward, Bishop is informed by Belova that she was hired by Eleanor to eliminate Barton, and that her mother was working with the Kingpin. Wanting to stop Kingpin and her mother, Bishop and Barton prepared themselves to fight against the mafia. At the holiday party, Bishop confronted her mother on the information and encounters Yelena in the elevator, attempting to stop the latter from going after Clint.
After being defeated by Yelena, Bishop regained her bearings and witnessed Jack assist the duo in fighting against the Tracksuit Mafia. During the battle, Kate witnessed the Kingpin attempt to stop Eleanor, and threatened the criminal to get away from her mother. Echo soon arrived and wounded Kingpin after learning that he killed her father, and Bishop witnessed her mother be arrested before reuniting with Barton. Now alone, Clint decided to invite his partner to come to his home for Christmas to meet his family. During the celebration, Kate met with Barton near the grill, with the latte asking her to light it to burn the Ronin suit. Finally destroying the suit for good, Bishop came up with superhero names to use, but Clint decided to instead share the codename "Hawkeye" with her.
The Marvels[]
Bishop eventually found a new place in New York City for her and Lucky the Pizza Dog to live in as she continued her heroics as Hawkeye. One night, when she returned home, she was surprised to find someone waiting for her inside.
The individual, a teenager named Kamala Khan, asked her about being a kid superhero, which Bishop corrected by saying she was twenty-three. Khan proceeded to show a file she had on Bishop and stated that she had become a part of a larger universe, referencing the existence of Cassie Lang. When Bishop once again questioned Khan's presence, she revealed that she was putting together a team of young superheroes, and that she wanted Bishop as her first recruit; a prospect that intrigued Bishop.
Personality[]
| “ | You showed me that being a hero isn't just for people who can fly or shoot lasers out of their hands, it's for anyone, who's brave enough to do what's right, no matter the cost. | „ |
| ~ Kate Bishop to Clint Barton. |
Kate is determined, observative, curious and excited. She, due to being a fan of superheroes, especially Hawkeye, is a very justice guided person, who dreams to become a superhero one day, not to gain money or fame, but to help people. Due to her inexperience, however, she can be sloppy and hurried, and this could compromise her skills and abilities. Despite that, she always tries to increase herself as person, and with Hawkeye's help, she became a professional superhero. She is also very determined and harshly gives up, as when she tried effortlessly to find a way to discover who killed Armand the Third. Due to her inexperience, she can be frightened by some overly tense situations, but always calm down, and is an overall brave and courageous person.
Powers and Abilities[]
Abilities[]
- Extreme Accuracy: Kate is extremely accurate, and probably one of the persons with the best aim in the world, capable of ringing a bell by throwing an arrow in its rope. Even Hawkeye, one of the world's most talented archers, considered her statement that she is an excellent archer accurate.
- Bow and Arrow Proficiency: She is also one of the best archers in the world. Her abilities with the bow and arrow, mixed with her accuracy, makes her an archer that goes almost at Hawkeye's level.
- Martial Arts and Fighting Skills: Kate trained martial arts and other fight sports during years, and became a professional, capable of taking down a non-expertise combatant easily, and hold a fight with a expert fighter for some minutes. Though able to hold her own against the likes of Echo, she was quickly defeated by Yelena during two fights.
- Gifted Intelligence: Kate is a expertized tactician, and very intelligent.
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Trivia[]
- In the comics, Kate lost her mother, and was raised by her father, while in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's the other way around.
- Olivia Cooke and Taissa Farmiga were in the running up for the role before Hailee Steinfeld is cast.
- Amusingly, had Taissa been cast, she would've played the daughter of a character played by her sister, Vera Faminga.
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