treadstoned:

fairestcat:

Stephen Strange: Just look at me.
Clint Barton: So?
Stephen: Wow.
Clint: Wow? That’s what I get? I get a wow?
Stephen: Clint Barton, you are very healthy. And you are very much alive…in every sense of the word.
Clint: I was dead though, right?
Stephen: Let’s have some tea.

From New Avengers v1, #26, by Brian Michael Bendis, art by Alex Maleev (in which Clint Barton inexplicably comes back from the dead.)

#THIS ISSUE MAKES ME CRY #and ugh how have I never talked about my feelings concerning this? #okay so #Clint dies #is brutally killed by someone he considered one of his best friends in the world #and when he comes back NOT ONLY does he hide his return from the other Avengers in favor of going to track down Wanda #but even when he rejoins the New Avengers he CHANGES HIS FUCKING IDENTITY #Clint has been Hawkeye since he was a teenager #yeah briefly he was Goliath but that is a whole other conversation #but when he comes back from this horrible ordeal he changes who he is #drops Hawkeye and becomes Ronin because Hawkeye is dead #Hawkeye was betrayed AGAIN and killed by somone he loved #and Clint can’t take that so he becomes someone else #FEEEEEEEEELS