Ron RoweHawkeye vs. Green Arrow
July 29th 2008 20:41
Each is the top archer in his respective comic book universe. Each has a long history and cool trick arrows, but which is the better character?
Origin: Green Arrow – Oliver Queen was a wealthy young man who fell overboard on a cruise and found himself alone on an island, ala Robinson Crusoe. In order to survive, he develops his archery skills, eventually encountering a band of pirates, defeating them, and returning to civilization as a superhero.
Hawkeye - Young Clint Barton ran away from home & joined the circus, where he was trained by not one, but two super-villains. After a brief foray into the dark side, he decides to become a hero.
Winner: Green Arrow. Both started out with pretty hokey stories. I’m giving this one to GA just because his came 20 years before Hawkeye’s.
Arsenal: Both have similar quivers filled with explosive arrows, glue arrows, stun arrows, bolo arrows, etc. Hawkeye’s one-time-only-ace-in-the-hole arrow is a pure vibranium arrow, given to him by the Black Panther. Green Arrow’s one-time-only-ace-in-the-hole arrow is a fake uranium arrow.
Winner: Point to Hawkeye, because to my knowledge, he has never used a boxing glove arrow or a fake uranium arrow.
Supporting Cast: Green Arrow is married to super-hottie Black Canary. His ex-side kick turned junkie turned superhero turned government agent turned superhero again currently goes by the name Red Arrow. His new sidekick is an HIV positive teenage girl. His son is brain dead and missing. His baby’s momma is long gone. His other baby’s momma is another super-hottie Japanese archer named Shado.
Hawkeye’s got a dead wife and a wolf-boy. Whatever happened to the wolf-boy?
Winner: Green Arrow’s got this one locked up.
Notches on the bedpost: Green Arrow gets his share. He has fathered at least two children and is currently married to Black Canary.
Hawkeye is the Scott Baio of the Marvel Universe. Just in the last year or so (in elastic comics time), he has bedded Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Wasp, the Scarlet Witch, and Echo.
Winner: Hawkeye
Secret Identity: Green Arrow is really Oliver Queen, sometimes millionaire, sometimes poor man, sometimes mayor. He is always in the public light, but nobody notices that Queen and Green Arrow are the only two people on the planet that have the same impossibly quaffed goatee.
Although he does wear a mask, Hawkeye really doesn’t go out of his way to hide his identity. You wouldn’t hide it either if you were the guy that slept with Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Wasp, the Scarlet Witch, and Echo in the last year. Clint Barton doesn’t seem to have any visible means of support when he is not on the Avenger’s payroll.
Winner: Hawkeye. Not that he has the greatest secret identity, just that the goatee factor takes GA out of the running.
Costume: Green arrow wears a modernized Robin Hood costume. Hawkeye wears a purple circus costume; sometimes it has a skirt. When he was Goliath, he dressed like a gay S&M master.
Winner: GA by a landslide. To be fair, Hawkeye’s current Ronin costume is cool, but it was not a factor because of the whole ‘not-Hawkeye anymore’ thing. Which brings us to…
Replacement: When Green Arrow died, he was replaced by his son, Conner, who conveniently popped up around the time of his death. When Hawkeye died, he was replaced by Kate, a rich teenage girl.
Winner: Hawkeye. While I did like Conner, he’s currently brain dead and missing, while Kate is still up and kicking.
Death: Hawkeye died saving the Earth from an alien invasion. Green Arrow died saving nobody from anything. He was just too stubborn to let Superman save him & the city at the cost of Green Arrow’s hand.
Winner: Hawkeye, easily.
Resurrection: Hawkeye was brought back to life by a former ally-turned-enemy-turned-ally again wracked with guilt and possessing the power to warp reality. Green Arrow, on the other hand, was brought back to life by a former ally-turned-enemy-turned-ally again wracked with guilt and possessing the power to warp reality.
Winner: Gotta call this one a tie.
Close one. This really could have gone either way. But the final tally is 3.5 for Green Arrow and 4.5 for Hawkeye.
Green Arrow
Origin: Green Arrow – Oliver Queen was a wealthy young man who fell overboard on a cruise and found himself alone on an island, ala Robinson Crusoe. In order to survive, he develops his archery skills, eventually encountering a band of pirates, defeating them, and returning to civilization as a superhero.
Hawkeye
Hawkeye - Young Clint Barton ran away from home & joined the circus, where he was trained by not one, but two super-villains. After a brief foray into the dark side, he decides to become a hero.
Winner: Green Arrow. Both started out with pretty hokey stories. I’m giving this one to GA just because his came 20 years before Hawkeye’s.
Arsenal: Both have similar quivers filled with explosive arrows, glue arrows, stun arrows, bolo arrows, etc. Hawkeye’s one-time-only-ace-in-the-hole arrow is a pure vibranium arrow, given to him by the Black Panther. Green Arrow’s one-time-only-ace-in-the-hole arrow is a fake uranium arrow.
The old "Fake Uranium Arrow
Supporting Cast: Green Arrow is married to super-hottie Black Canary. His ex-side kick turned junkie turned superhero turned government agent turned superhero again currently goes by the name Red Arrow. His new sidekick is an HIV positive teenage girl. His son is brain dead and missing. His baby’s momma is long gone. His other baby’s momma is another super-hottie Japanese archer named Shado.
Hawkeye’s got a dead wife and a wolf-boy. Whatever happened to the wolf-boy?
Winner: Green Arrow’s got this one locked up.
Notches on the bedpost: Green Arrow gets his share. He has fathered at least two children and is currently married to Black Canary.
Hawkeye is the Scott Baio of the Marvel Universe. Just in the last year or so (in elastic comics time), he has bedded Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Wasp, the Scarlet Witch, and Echo.
Winner: Hawkeye
Secret Identity: Green Arrow is really Oliver Queen, sometimes millionaire, sometimes poor man, sometimes mayor. He is always in the public light, but nobody notices that Queen and Green Arrow are the only two people on the planet that have the same impossibly quaffed goatee.
Although he does wear a mask, Hawkeye really doesn’t go out of his way to hide his identity. You wouldn’t hide it either if you were the guy that slept with Mockingbird, Moonstone, the Wasp, the Scarlet Witch, and Echo in the last year. Clint Barton doesn’t seem to have any visible means of support when he is not on the Avenger’s payroll.
Winner: Hawkeye. Not that he has the greatest secret identity, just that the goatee factor takes GA out of the running.
Costume: Green arrow wears a modernized Robin Hood costume. Hawkeye wears a purple circus costume; sometimes it has a skirt. When he was Goliath, he dressed like a gay S&M master.
Does this costume make me look fat?
Winner: GA by a landslide. To be fair, Hawkeye’s current Ronin costume is cool, but it was not a factor because of the whole ‘not-Hawkeye anymore’ thing. Which brings us to…
Replacement: When Green Arrow died, he was replaced by his son, Conner, who conveniently popped up around the time of his death. When Hawkeye died, he was replaced by Kate, a rich teenage girl.
Winner: Hawkeye. While I did like Conner, he’s currently brain dead and missing, while Kate is still up and kicking.
Death: Hawkeye died saving the Earth from an alien invasion. Green Arrow died saving nobody from anything. He was just too stubborn to let Superman save him & the city at the cost of Green Arrow’s hand.
Winner: Hawkeye, easily.
Resurrection: Hawkeye was brought back to life by a former ally-turned-enemy-turned-ally again wracked with guilt and possessing the power to warp reality. Green Arrow, on the other hand, was brought back to life by a former ally-turned-enemy-turned-ally again wracked with guilt and possessing the power to warp reality.
Winner: Gotta call this one a tie.
Close one. This really could have gone either way. But the final tally is 3.5 for Green Arrow and 4.5 for Hawkeye.
The Winner!
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