Warning! This article contains spoilers for The Invincible Iron Man Vol. 5 #6 Hawkeye.

In The Invincible Iron Man Vol. 5 #6 by Gerry Duggan, Andrea Di Vito, and Bryan Valenza, Tony Stark sits alone in his storage facility, as that is the only place he has left to call home following the hostile takeover of his company. While at perhaps one of his lowest points in life (at least, financially speaking), Tony decides he’s going to write a book about his life. So, he sits down at his computer and begins typing, recollecting a training exercise/technology test where a United States military official was using mind-control tech on some of Iron Man’s fellow West Coast Avengers, forcing them to attack him. The entire exercise was totally above-board, but it still pitted Iron Man against his teammates, which included Hawkeye. When ing facing Barton that day, Tony comments that Hawkeye always had a trick arrow up his sleeve, and that trying to beat him when he had a bow in his hand was essentially a death sentence.

Even Iron Man is Worried Hawkeye Could Kill Him

While the comics regularly showed how incredibly deadly Hawkeye could be in a way that was free of irony or self-parody, the MCU didn’t always go that route. Sure, the series Hawkeye displayed his skill in a more serious and badass fashion, but his role on the Avengers wasn’t the most valued, even by himself. For instance, in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Clint jokingly tells Wanda Maximoff that it makes no sense that he’s fighting killer robots with a bow and arrows, but that he does it because it’s his job. The scene played as almost a meta joke on how ‘ridiculous’ Hawkeye is as a superhero, but really it just demeaned a character that truthfully didn’t deserve it, and Iron Man just proved why.

It’s an immense compliment that someone like Iron Man would fear for his life when going up against Hawkeye. Iron Man has armor that can bust the Hulk, wield the Infinity Stones, and even kill gods, yet Hawkeye with his trick arrows is a very real concern for him in battle–and he isn’t wrong to think this way. Hawkeye has proven time and again that there is nothing he can’t hit with his arrows, so if he’s using trick arrows, then he has the potential to deliver explosive and unexpected payloads that give even Iron Man zero advantage in battle.

Hawkeye may seem like a joke to some (even to the MCU, in some of the films), but the potential he carries with each trick arrow mixed with his unparalleled accuracy makes him a way deadlier member of the Avengers than the movies pretend, and Iron Man itted as much himself.

The Invincible Iron Man Vol. 5 #6 by Marvel Comics is available now.