Hawkeye

A man who wants to spend Christmas with his children is dragged back into the worst thing he ever did by a twenty-two-year-old who thinks he is the greatest archer alive.

Clint Barton is in New York for the holidays and would like to be left alone. Kate Bishop has been idolising him since she watched him fire an arrow into an alien during the Battle of New York, and she has found the suit he wore when he was murdering people across three continents.

It is the smallest-stakes entry in this part of the catalogue and it is much better for it. Nothing here threatens a city. What is at risk is a man’s chance of getting home, and whether he can stop the person he is mentoring from becoming him.