#marvel: ok...what if we give you Only a breechcloth and it has to be drawn by land

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all-out avengers #4

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Rank the Hawkeye costumes best to worst

clint’s had loads of iterations, so i’m gonna go with the big ones and skip one-issue appearances and slight variations and so forth

that’s still a lot of questionable outfits so click the cut for his purple glory:

classic duds:

the best superhero costume. i will not be taking questions. the pointed mask. the H on his head so you know who he is. the breechcloth as the only modicum of modesty in his life so he doesn’t flash everybody with spandex on the crotch like everyone else does, giving him more motion and thus more personality in all his acrobatic feats-

it’s obviously had a lot of variation over the years, mainly with mask size, breechcloth length, and sleeves (short, one, scale armor or not, even going crazy and putting two whole sleeves)

but the core remains the same: purple, blue, and the perfect amount of ridiculous for an acrobatic showman who was wearing a fringed buckskin outfit at his last job and now shoots sticks at dinosaurs sometimes for a living

@ marvel please bring back my boy’s iconic outfit

house of m:

the best version of clint with pants. effectively removes the breechcloth by adding a zipper for contrast. keeps the purple, but changes the secondary color to black. i dig the boots. big ol’ H on his head for hawkeye

nu-hawkeye:

streamlined, utilitarian, sensible…boring. i get to see his face, which is nice. but his hair is also usually boring

pictured: hair that is not boring and longer sleeves for variety (thanks tales of suspense!)

rip clint’s long hair 2004-2005 and shaggy stint 2009-2011

originally it had a lot of pouches and some ribbing:

costume’s first issue appearance ~6 months prior to the movie (i remember thinking in 2012 “gee i wonder how long after marketing dies down until they switch his costume back.” this marketing campaign is taking much longer than i thought)

but they whittled it down to a more minimalist approach, which is basically clint running around in a t-shirt. because of its simplicity, it’s surprisingly the least consistently drawn costume. is it spandex-leather material? are the pants a separate color, cargo? are his boots laced or all-leather? how many pouches does he have and where? straps???

it looks fine…but clint is a circus performer! this is a comic book! i need a big ol’ H on his head to tell people who he is, which based on the only guy left with a letter on his head, is haptain hamerica.

the og:

aka clint’s tennis skirt. automatic points for being his debut outfit, but the cyan clashed with the ensemble. luckily they changed it to purple a few issues into his avengers tenure, along with toning down the slightly obnoxious shoulder fins/pads into rings. his mask was much smaller, which, combined with his tunic (for robin hood vibes), make him look more classic but less bombastic than his iconic outfit

goliath:

perhaps objectively awful, but amazingly shirtless

force works era:

the 90s were hard on all of us. it takes away his iconic breechcloth, so there’s this uninterrupted expanse of blue. at least put a belt on it for some contrast!!!

onslaught preamble:

the 90s were especially hard on clint. rhodey is clearly lying- this is hideous. the shoulder fins (we had already fixed this!!!). the exposed hair hole a la goliath without the gratification of shirtlessness. awkwardly placed white highlights and lack of contrast for the whole trunk. i thought a belt would help but clearly it didn’t. please bring back the tunic

although it actually looked ok (at best) when they added a sleeve and took away the shoulder fins

heroes reborn:

the 90s personally murdered clint barton. this doesn’t count because it was supposed to be wolverine and technically designed by a 6-year-old

we don’t talk about heroes reborn.

what they had at the european circus where clint’s spaceship crash-landed and no one came to pick him up with a spare pair of pants, aka…

the miniskirt:

truly the worst. awful. terrible. horrible. why is this happening. who thought this was a good idea? no one, that’s why it lasted a dozen issues. pointless headband. zero protection. imagine the tanlines. zero utility, save for perhaps flashing villains as a distraction. exposed navel. wavy hair for style. legs for days because he has no pants– wait, the distraction theory is making more sense. is this strip of cloth the best costume?

no, it’s still terrible. cap’s eyes say it all. conclusion: the best of the worst