Hawkeye's Pizza Dog Is Meaningless Without His Origin Story

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Lucky, A.K.A. Pizza Dog, is a beloved character in both Marvel comics and onscreen in the Disney+ series, Hawkeye. In the MCU show, Kate Bishop runs into Lucky while fighting the Tracksuit Mafia. He tries his best to help her prevent the Tracksuits from stealing an important item from the Avengers compound. After the dog is pushed into oncoming traffic, Kate saves his life and chooses to adopt him. He soon becomes a beloved pet to both Hawkeyes. However, in the comics, Pizza Dog proves that he is far more than just a furry companion.

First introduced in Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye run in 2014, Pizza Dog went by the name Arrow and belonged to the Tracksuit Mafia. He was abused by the group and treated more as a weapon than a pet. Arrow’s first encounter with love is when Clint Barton offers him a slice of pizza. When the Tracksuits come after Clint, Arrow leaps in front of the gunfire to protect his new friend. Arrow takes quite a beating from the tracksuits, who injure his leg and leave him blind in his left eye. After being taken to the vet, Clint renames him Lucky—though the nickname Pizza Dog also sticks—and he becomes a valued companion for a lonely man fighting crime in New York.

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In Hawkeye #11, Pizza Dog receives an entire issue devoted to his point of view, as he solves a murder case. After one of Clint's tenants, Grills, is tragically killed, Lucky goes to sniff out the perpetrator. He finds The Clown and a member of the Tracksuits on the rooftop, the scene of the crime, and avenges Grills by pushing the Tracksuit off the building. The Tracksuits create several problems for Clint throughout the series, but the Clown poses an even greater threat.