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Chapter 9: The Secret Avengers

Captain America asked Clint to head up the Secret Avengers, the Avengers' covert ops squad devoted to secret missions. Clint augmented the team to serve his ends. Squad members included Beast, Giant-Man, Captain Britain, Valkyrie, Black Widow, Venom, Human Torch (the android one), Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady), and Barton. They fought against Father, a crazed product of Project Descendant, a division of the UK version of Weapon Plus.

After fighting numerous machines, and losing one of their own to the hordes, the team beat the robot revolution. Later, after the fight between the Avengers and X-Men over the Phoenix Force, Nick Fury put together a newer incarnation of the Secret Avengers, with Clint still employed. However, this team didn't know they were a team, as they were mind-wiped by SHIELD after most missions because they were too secret to even know about.

But none of those things cemented Hawkeye as the second-best Avenger. They put him pretty high, but not over the top yet.

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