WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Hawkeye: Freefall #3 by Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt, and VC's Joe Sabino, on sale now.

Nick Fury has always been a character with more than a few cards up his sleeve. In fact, he usually has an entire deck of aces. Marvel's top super-spy always seemed to have a contingency plan, a secret bunker or a stash of weapons hidden away somewhere. On top of this, Fury knew enough secrets about Marvel's heroes that he almost brought many of them to their knees in the Original Sin crossover that turned him into a villain.

Even if Fury knew enough to make Thor unworthy of his hammer, there are some things that one would think he still wouldn't know. However, Hawkeye learns that Fury knew enough about him to make an anatomically correct Life Model Decoy of him in Hawkeye: Freefall #3.

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The concept Life Model Decoys were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1965's Strange Tales #135. In their original incarnation, these S.H.I.E.L.D. robots were seen as models of Nick Fury to act as decoys during a Hydra attack. The models are so lifelike and so adept at imitating the speech and mannerisms of Fury -- and later other heroes -- that it is nearly impossible to detect the fakes. And as Clint Barton mentions in this issue, Fury had Life Model decoys made for all of the Avengers, just in case S.H.I.E.L.D. ever needed to convince the public that they were still alive.

Throughout Hawkeye: Freefall,  Barton has gone back to operating as the vicious vigilante Ronin. While he's still maintaining his presence as the respectable Avenger Hawkeye, he's moonlighting as the hooded vigilante in secret. However, he probably should have chosen a new alter-alter-ego because people naturally suspect that he's the one under the hood. To fool the world by having Ronin and Hawkeye appear in the same place at the same time, Barton steals the Life Model Decoy of himself.

But when he opens the box that it's in, the decoy emerges comes out of the box fully naked, and Barton admits to its unsettling anatomical accuracy, which begs several questions from Nick Fury.

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Hawkeye Life Model Decoy

Apparently, the models need to be stored in a cool environment, but this one wasn't. Accordingly, the decoy emerges dim-witted and confused. The whole scene is played for laughs as the decoy stands naked in Barton's apartment eating the leaves off of his house-plant and spouting nonsense. However, things get a little less funny when his girlfriend shows up and finds his new assistant hiding with the naked Life Model Decoy in the closet. That is, unsurprisingly, the last straw for that relationship.

The comic concludes with Ronin taking out a group of the Hood's men at a Maggia warehouse only to find that the villain has left a pile of dead bodies and a message on the wall written in blood asking where Ronin is. Shocked by the carnage that he has indirectly caused, Barton pulls off his mask and sinks to his knees on the floor. He walks outside still at a loss for words to find Daredevil, who now knows full well that it's Clint Barton under the hood. However, the question stands, is it the real Barton or the a-little-too-lifelike decoy.

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