Hawkeye/Legends

"Ponds, Hawkeye, Trapper, come with me!"

- Mace Windu "Hawkeye" was the nickname of a clone trooper who fought for the Grand Army of the Republic during a battle fought against the Separatists on the planet Malastare during the Clone Wars. Following the battle, Hawkeye was part of a scouting mission sent to find several other clone troopers, who had vanished into a sinkhole created by an electro-proton bomb used against the Separatist forces. Upon locating the troopers, Jedi Master Mace Windu selected Hawkeye, another trooper known as Trapper, and Clone Commander Ponds, to further investigate what could have caused the sinkhole. During the search, they unknowingly climbed upon the Zillo Beast, an ancient beast thought to be extinct. When the beast awoke, the all of the scouting party successfully fled to nearby gunships, with the exception of Hawkeye, who was killed by the beast.

Biography
Hawkeye was a clone of the male Human bounty hunter Jango Fett, and was born on planet Kamino to serve in the Grand Army of the Republic. In 22 BBY, he was serving as a clone trooper during the Clone Wars fought between the Galactic Republic and Separatists. That year, the planet Malastare had a large fuel supply that both the Separatists and the Republic wanted for themselves, which sparked a battle on the planet. The Republic sent a force of clone troopers and Jedi to stop an army of droids in order to keep the fuel supplies secure, with Hawkeye being a part of the Republic group. The Republic also launched a new superweapon, an electro-proton bomb, which was capable of deactivating mechanical objects like speeders, computers, and droids, but had no effect on organics. The bomb worked, but as a side effect, a huge sinkhole was created in the center of the Droid Army. In addition to the Separatist forces, the sinkhole also trapped some clone troopers from the Republic front line who fell into it.

The Republic dispatched a group of people to investigate including Hawkeye, Jedi Master Mace Windu, Trapper, Ponds, and some other clone troopers to form the search team that went down into the sinkhole. When they managed to find some of the lost clones, the search group learned from them that something else was down in the sinkhole with them. General Windu then led Hawkeye and the other searchers to investigate the area further. In their search, he and the rest of the squad found themselves on a hard surface, which they discovered was actually the back of a giant and ancient creature known as a Zillo Beast. While the rest of the team barely escaped to a gunship with the help of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, Hawkeye fell behind and was crushed by the feet of the beast as it chased the rest of the group.

Personality and traits
As a clone of Jango Fett, Hawkeye was 1.83 meters tall.

Equipment
Hawkeye wore Phase I clone trooper armor and wielded a DC-15S blaster like many other clone troopers.

Behind the scenes
Hawkeye first appeared in "The Zillo Beast", an episode of the second season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series that aired on April 3, 2010.When originally released, it was not revealed whether the clone trooper who died was Hawkeye or Trapper, as both wore the same armor. Trapper later appeared in "Landing at Point Rain," which was confirmed to take place after "The Zillo Beast" by the eighth part of the Chronicling The Clone Wars blog series. Therefore, Hawkeye was the clone trooper who died in "The Zillo Beast." He was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, who voiced all of the other clone troopers on the show. Hawkeye's name is a nod to the well-known character, "Hawkeye" Pierce, from the television sitcom M*A*S*H, which aired in the 1970s through early 80s.