10 Comic Book Characters Who Keep Changing Identities

Fans who aren't all that familiar with Hawkeye from the comics may have watched Avengers: Endgame thinking he was simply sporting new duds while slashing apart bad guys in Japan. Those folks who are more familiar with his time in the comics knew, that was a completely different identity for the hero.

Back in 2007, Clint Barton shed his previous identities and began calling himself Ronin. He even shifted away from using a bow and arrow, and instead, he preferred to slice and dice bad guys with a sword and other edged weapons requiring close combat.

2007 wasn't the only time Barton stopped calling himself Hawkeye, which was the name he debuted with in 1964's Tales of Suspense #57. Five years later, he began going by the name Goliath, which involved taking over Hank Pym's powers and superhero identity.

Barton had one other superhero identity, which fell in-between his Goliath and Ronin personas. In 1974's Captain America #179, Barton showed up as a villain named the Golden Archer. He adopted the persona to trick Steve Rogers, aka, Captain America, into resuming his superhero crime-fighting career. The disguise was used and abandoned but later picked up by Wyatt McDonald of Squadron Supreme.