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Matthew Wilkie
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In the recent Hawkeye books much is made of his deafness and how this came about because he was beaten by his father as a child; however, I am sure that when I was first reading Avengers' books back ion the 80s, it had been caused by an accident in his first mini-series.
Has history been rewritten or am I simply mis-remembering?
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Paul Kimball
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I remember it the same way Matthew.
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Andrew Bitner
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It wasn't an accident. He destroyed his own hearing with a sonic arrow to keep a supervillain's sound-based brainwashing machine from affecting him. When he was resurrected after House of M, his hearing was restored. He was rendered deaf again in his own series, but the Hawkeye we see in AVENGERS doesn't seem to suffer any hearing loss...or at least not so we can tell.
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History's been re-written.
(BTW, Busiek established that he got his hearing back during Heroes Return; don't know if other writers missed that, though.)
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Yeah, he bit down on the tip of the sonic arrow as I remember, sending the soundwaves reverberating through his head. Then,a s I recall, he couldn't hear Mockingbird proposing to him or something... Then they got jiggy in a jacuzzi, larging it up with a bottle of Cristal.
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Matthew Wilkie
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Thanks all.
Anyone remember the days of character consistency?!
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Brian Hague
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Not really, no... But I do remember when those changes took place organically over time, and not because some hipster wanted to shake things up and make his mark, like the guy ahead of him and the guy ahead of that guy were allowed to do.
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Has Hawkeye ever actually been written as a deaf person? Really written as a deaf person?
So, on an op, been unable to communicate with the rest of the Avengers who were not in sight line?
Talk with the speech patterns of a deaf person?
To whit, I would say, no (possibly now but I'm not reading now). I actually didn't know he was deaf until I read this thread.
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Not that I recall. I didn't know he was deaf from the comics I read, just
from his description in a Marvel role playing game.
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I downloaded the Hawkeye series from a couple of years ago off Comixology,the 15 or so issues i read,he wasn`t deaf.Does being deaf add anything to the character? As James,said,are they protraying him as a deaf person accurately? If not,what is the point?
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Matthew Wilkie
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Has Hawkeye ever actually been written as a deaf person? Really written as a deaf person?
So, on an op, been unable to communicate with the rest of the Avengers who were not in sight line
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In the currently solo run emphatically yes, arguably too much. Much is made of his hearing aid falling out and his inability to hear a sound.
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Hawkeye was never totally deaf. He lost most of his hearing, and needed a hearing aid.
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