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After the Death ofCaptain America , the Marvel Comics mankind was devastated as the public and the superhero community grieve and attempted to come to grips with its significance and what it would mean for the world going forrard . One person , Iron Man and Executive Director of SHIELD , Tony Stark saw it his responsibility to check that the world would have a Captain America and that human being was going to be … Clint Barton , the former Avenger known asHawkeye .
Already a recollective - meter and consistent Avenger , Clint Bartonperished during the upshot of ' Avengers disassemble ' due to the case due to Scarlet Witch ’s mental breakdown . Clint remain dead until the realism - altering events ofHouse of Mtemporarily regenerate and killed him again , again all due to the fluid powers of Wanda Maximoff . When the man had been restored to some sense of normality , it was suggested that Clint ’s death was no longer certain with later issues of theNew Avengersproving that the former Hawkeye was indeed active once more . After confronting a naive and de - powered Wanda , Clint disappeared until he reappeared inFallen Son : The Death of Captain America , a miniskirt - series based on Elizabeth Kubler Ross ' Five Stages of Grief which showed how various character of the Marvel universe dealt withthe reality of Steve Rogers demise .
In the issue write byJeph Loeb(based on an idea from J. Michael Straczynski ) and illustrated byJohn Romita Jr. , Hawkeye contend to get Tony Stark ’s care but his desire to have a conversation with Iron Man about Steve Rogers destruction bring him knock out by his aghast mate . After verifying it was indeed the genuine Clint Barton , Tony and Clint talk about Steve ’s death and what they project to do about it . Somehow Tony is able-bodied to convince Clint to take Steve ’s old shield out for a test discharge where the iconic archer has no trouble maintain something that injured slews of former applicants beforehand . Seeing Barton has both the skills and experience , Tony offers him the cape of being Captain America , starting forthwith .
Clint scantily has any fourth dimension to squeeze into Steve ’s old uniform before him and Tony intercept Elijah Bradley andKate Bishop , the Patriot and Hawkeye from the Young Avengers . With Tony disabled due to an EMP pointer from Kate ’s armory , Clint break their escape but his debut is come across by shock and scandalisation by Elijah and Kate . When Clint tries to question Kate ’s unauthorised use of Hawkeye ’s identity , he is surprised to learn that not only did Steve Rogers insist thatKate take over the Hawkeye name but that she did so to honour him , not copy or replace him .
Realizing his error , Clint blocks Iron Man from nab both the heroes and as they escape , he chastises Tony for manipulating him into being a replacement that was more to absolve him of his guilt over Steve ’s death rather than what was best for the American people . He hands Steve ’s buckler back and leave of absence telling Tony that he ’ll send the uniform back to him when he can . Tony ’s threats of check him if he side with the anti - registration heroes still out there sustain no response and Iron Man is left in the dark , in the rain , none the wiser or better .
Although his career as Captain America was a literal one - shot , it still illustrated the point that other betray Captain America ’s did in the past . You could never supercede Steve Rogers , he was one of a variety and the effective that you could do is follow his example as best as you could while forging your own path . Stark would have good success at convincing theWinter Soldier , Steve ’s sure-enough wartime sidekick Bucky Barnes , in becoming the next Captain America and Clint Barton would find a family with the New Avengers wherehe’d take on the costumed identity of Ronin . We ’re not sure if Jeremy Renner ’s Clint Barton in theMCUwould ever get such a chance but at least we be intimate that if push come to shove , Hawkeyewould have made a fineCaptainAmerica .
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