10 Most Emotional Comic Book Moments Of The Decade

Hawkeye has long been the outlier of the Avengers - the one who doesn't really run by the same set of rules, and who doesn't concern himself with perhaps the same values as the others do. In many ways, this is why he still has popularity today - because he's a slightly more realistic, more practical hero.

But this doesn't mean he can't also have heartwarming moments, as Matt Fraction's run writing Hawkeye definitively proves. In fact, it proves it from the offset, when Hawkeye pursues a Russian mobster in order to force him to sell his housing estate to Clint, as the gangster had intended to up the prices and kick everyone out.

From this perspective, it doesn't sound like that heartwarming a deed - especially because he does more or less threaten said gangster to get the block of flats - but it's crucial to mention that Clint himself lives in these flats. As such, he sees the inhabitants pretty much every day, and it's his realisation that most of them would end up out on the streets that leads him jumping into danger headfirst, all to make sure that these almost-strangers have a warm roof over their heads.