Brought up from S.H.I.E.L.D. field agent to the Ultimates, Hawkeye and occasional field partner Black Widow lead a team of Black Ops S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel into a sleeper colony of Chitauri agents operating out of two New York City office buildings. The mission subsequently goes bad, killing all but Hawkeye and a single soldier, with Black Widow rescuing the pair in a dramatic aerial stunt.

As part of the later fight against the Chitauri at an Air Force base in New Mexico, a wounded Hawkeye is responsible for sedating and immobilizing the rampaging Hulk after the invasion is quashed.