How Many Arrows Does Hawkeye Carry?

Warning: SPOILERS for Hawkeye Episode 3 - "Echoes."

Clint Barton's (Jeremy Renner) arsenal of trick arrows was showcased in Hawkeye episode 3 but how many arrows does the Avenger carry? Hawkeye draws a reluctant Clint back into action as he's caught up in a criminal conspiracy that also ensnared Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), who is also one of the world's greatest archers. Kate and Clint run afoul of the Tracksuit Mafia and their leader, Maya "Echo" Lopez (Alaqua Cox), but Barton's quiver of arrows enables the two archers' escape to safety.

Hawkeye modestly says that his primary weapons are "two sticks and a string," but Clint Barton is as deadly as any man alive with a bow and arrow. As a former agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and an Avenger, Clint is skilled with a sword and all manner of guns and weaponry, but his claim to fame as Hawkeye is his bow and arrow. As he told Vision (Paul Bettany) in Captain America: Civil War, he "can't seem to miss," even if he's just playing golf. However, despite his quiver full of arrows, including all manner of trick arrows, Hawkeye's arsenal does have a limited capacity. Unlike Black Widow's (Scarlett Johansson) guns, which don't seem to run out of bullets, or Iron Man's (Robert Downey Jr.) armor, which has seemingly unlimited weapons, Clint can and has run out of arrows. This happened in The Avengers when Barton emptied his quiver while fighting the Chitauri during the Battle of New York.

In The Avengers, Hawkeye's quiver visibly only carried 32 arrows, grouped into 16 on each side. Clint often goes after a target he's shot, retrieves the arrow, and re-fires it, but his quiver's capacity is ultimately less than three dozen arrows. The fact that Barton went into the Battle of New York and faced an invading alien army with only 32 arrows is startling but it didn't limit Hawkeye's overall effectiveness. In Hawkeye episode 3, "Echoes," Clint actually brought even fewer arrows with him, although many of them were trick arrows. By the time Barton and Kate Bishop escaped from the Tracksuit Mafia, the two Hawkeyes fired 21 out of the 23 arrows in Clint's quiver.

In Hawkeye episode 3, Clint shot nine regular arrows at the Tracksuit Mafia and fired one arrow to release Kate from her bonds so they could escape the warehouse. After Barton and Bishop stole a car, Kate took over firing his trick arrows at the Tracksuits while Clint drove the getaway vehicle. Barton confiscated three arrows from Kate because they were too dangerous, and two of them were acid arrows that Bishop later used to shoot down traffic lights. Kate shot a Play-Doh arrow, an explosive arrow, a plunger arrow, a wire arrow, a gas arrow, a USB arrow, and a regular arrow that Clint enlarged with Hank Pym's (Michael Douglas) Pym Particles arrow. There was also one unidentified arrow Kate missed hitting the target with during the car chase. Clint told Kate to use a putty arrow to shoot out the Tracksuits' tires, but Kate never did, although it's possible the Play-Doh arrow was actually the putty arrow Clint referred to.

By the time Clint and Kate made their daring dive off the bridge, Barton's quiver was visibly empty of arrows. Hawkeye actually ran to Maya's demolished Charger and retrieved the plunger arrow as part of his escape. When Barton and Bishop jumped off the bridge, Hawkeye fired a grappling hook from his bow that enabled the two heroes to swing onto a subway train, and Clint used the plunger arrow to latch onto the speeding train carriage. As for why Clint even had a quiver full of trick arrows with him when he was on vacation with his children, it's likely that Hawkeye's SHIELD and Avengers training has him always prepared for an emergency. There's also a good chance that Barton has a safe house in Manhattan with equipment like Kate guessed. Either way, Clint decided to face down the Tracksuit Mafia in Hawkeye with less than two dozen arrows instead of his quiver's maximum capacity of 32.

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