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I personally don't consider anything that is not addressed directly in the manga (or any guidebook) to be canon and, as such, I care little about any of it. Weak as I am, however, I'm aware of pretty much every media Fullmetal Alchemist has been featured in. Still, perhaps it'd be interesting for visitors to know about Hawkeye's roles in them. Beware my cynicism and/or spite towards this side of the franchise.

Although still not canon by my standards (after all, they're not written by Arakawa herself), the official light novels are the canon-est product to have been released, in my opinion. The stories are certainly subpar, but they still retain the manga characterisation for the most part.

Hawkeye is, unfortunately, featured little in all of them (sometimes not at all) and her impact to the storyline is merely anecdotic. The military-centered side story in the first novel, The Mystery of the 13th Warehouse, was however loosely adapted for episode 37 of the first anime series. It features the Mustang group investigating an apparently "haunted" warehouse, which turns out is merely a playground for Hawkeye's dog, Black Hayate.

The same lack of protagonism can be applied to the drama CDs, sadly.

Funnily enough, Hawkeye has a stronger presence in the released videogames than in the novels. For starters, she's featured in all five of the prologues Arakawa has drawn for the games — Broken Angel, Curse of the Crimson Elixir and Kami o Tsugu Shôjo for Playstation 2; Prince of the Dawn and Daughter of the Dusk for Wii. She also has pretty imaginative roles in all of them, such as infiltrating places as an undercover agent, assasination attempts against neighboring contries' princes and wearing purple Chinese dresses at parties.

Other than these RPG type videogames, Hawkeye can also be seen in the rest of action/fighting style games — Dream Carnival (Playstation 2), Stray Rondo, Sonata of Memory (Gameboy Advance), Dual Sympathy (Nintendo DS) and Senka wo Takuseshi Mono (PSP). In some of these she's even a playable character, so you can choose her and kick some sorry ass around. Awesome.

Well, you can't in Dual Sympathy, but that game sucks ass anyway.

In 2003, Studio BONES decided life was perhaps too peaceful for our own good and decided to do something about it. Thus they reached the conclusion that Fullmetal Alchemist would be a good investment for them (it was) and set out to do a 51-episode anime "adaptation" of it. What could go wrong?

Well, given that the manga was up to about volume 6 by the time this anime started, everything. Hawkeye was relegated to an expression-less existence, getting hit by rocks thrown by angry Ishvalites, acting jealous at some nurse and peeling apples. Then there was this movie, Conqueror of Shamballa, in which she ran after a hot air balloon.

Michiko Neya was the one in charge of voicing Hawkeye in this series. Despite the amount of fail contained in the scripts, she did a remarkably good job with what she had. Other works include Full Metal Panic!, Chrono Crusade and You're Under Arrest. You can see a full credits page here at Anime News Network.

Not happy with their previous incursion into Fullmetal Alchemist, in 2009 Studio BONES decided we may had already forgotten about their past glorious deeds. And so they decided to produce yet another anime adaptation, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood), this time based on the manga completely, because apparently some people liked it.

This time, Hawkeye had expression in her face and a decent storyline. Except for those times when her scenes are missing. Or that time when all the Ishval flashbacks were condensed into one single episode. Oh, and don't forget about those memorable moments in which her lines are changed just because. She's also kind of bitchy for no reason.

At least there are no nazis in this one. There's always that.

This time it was Fumiko Orikasa the one chosen to give voice to our First Lieutenant. Not all characters were cast again, but Roy and Hawkeye were among the ones who were, probably to give them younger voices more in accordance to their actual ages and personalities. And Orikasa does a really nice job, especially when the script is accurate. Other works include Bleach, Hellsing and Scrapped Princess. Full credits page here at Anime News Network.