Helena Bertinelli

**Helena Bertinelli**, nicknamed **the Huntress** is a former rogue psychotic vigilante. She is the daughter of the late Franco Bertinelli. Helena was set on destroying her father's crime empire as revenge when her father had ruined her life. In 2023, she was recruited by Evelyn Crawford to purge all crime in Gotham. She later became the part time protector of the East side of Gotham.

## Biography

### Early Life

Whenever Helena would get a boyfriend, her father killed them in front of her as they weren't "good enough" for her.

### Meeting Batman

When Helena tried to kill her dad the first time, Batman interferes and stops her. After she tries to kill her dad the second time she succeeds. This terrifies Batman as he thought she could be redeemed.

About 5 months later, Helena is called back to Gotham by Bruce Wayne. When she first talks to him, she's apparently figured out he's Batman. After she assists the Bat-Team in stopping Hush, she later becomes an ally.

On May 17th, 2021, after defeating Hush and sending him back to Arkham Asylum, Helena went to Bludhaven to Coast City to heal from her past.

#### The Reign Of Darkseid

During the Reign of Darkseid, Helena as well as everyone on Earth-0 except for seven specific heroes became affected by the Anti-Life Equation, only to be freed two weeks later after the Justice League stopped Darkseid.

### Agent of Birds

At some point in 2023, Helena was recruited by Evelyn Crawford to purge all crime in Gotham City but not as villains. After the team's former leader was arrested, Helena and Selena relocated to the east side of Gotham to protect the rusty side.

## Personality

It can be assumed that Helena was once a kind, caring and reasonable individual, who tried to send her father Frank Bertinelli to jail legally and discreetly, because she knows he thrives on other people's suffering. Helena's personality changed completely, after she has enough of her father. Swearing to take her father's world apart and see him suffer, she turned unstable, vengeful and volatile. She has no humane morals or remorse, meaning she is more than ready to hurt and kill people, even if innocent, if they get in her way of her exacting her revenge. She also readily manipulates and threatens innocent people if it means seeing her goal fulfilled.

## Abilities

* **Peak of human physical condition:** Helena is in remarkable physical form, with her physical strength being noteworthy as she was able to break her father's neck with her bare hands and break a block a concrete with a single kick. She also has impressive reflexes. allowing her to catch a Batarang that Bruce threw at her, a move that she could have practiced a lot.
* **Expert hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** Helena is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, able to easily beat multiple opponents be it thugs or trained police soldiers.
	+ **Expert markswoman:** Helena is proficient with various types of firearms, but her skills are noted to be rudimentary at first. She is known for her crossbow.
	+ **High-level intellect/Expert tactician/Manipulator:** Helena is proven to be willing to go to great lengths to achieve her goals, willing to use sex, threats, and even physical violence to get what she wants and force others to help her. She is also intuitive, as she was able to repeatedly anticipate her enemies plans and deceive them with misdirection.

## Equipment

* **Crossbow**: Helena uses a Cobra 80lb Self Cocking crossbow as The Huntress
* **The Huntress suit:** Helena wears a suit as her villainous alter-ego The Huntress, to achieve her goals of vengeance against her father and stay anonymous, despite her identity eventually being uncovered.

## Appearances

### Batman

#### Season 1

* The Hunt
* Enter Hush
* The Clown of Jokes
* The Ties That Bind (mentioned)
* Rouge Time
* Dark Knight

#### Season 2

* Caped Crusader (mentioned)
* Drink Me

#### Season 3

* Taken (mentioned)
* Starling
* Canaries
* The Mission

## Quotes

* "my father's just one piece of the puzzle."- the Hunt
* "bye bye daddy"- the hunt

## Behind the scenes

* Helena Bertinelli of the DC comics is the third Huntress, created to replace the second, Helena Wayne, daughter of the Golden Age Batman and Catwoman, after the *Crisis on Infinite Earths* negated the character. In the DC comics, Helena Bertinelli became the Huntress to avenge the death of her family at the hands of the mafia at the age of 19 (later retconned to 8). While excessively violent, she was in fact a hero, not the murderer and villain portrayed in the Arrowverse. In the animated series Justice League Unlimited, Huntress had been fired from the JL during the episode Double Date for nearly killing crime lord Steven Madragora.
* The original Huntress was a golden age villain named Paula Brooks. She was later retconned as being named Tigress and the original golden age Tigress retconned as being her mother. Her daughter, Artemis Crock, is the third Tigress. Much as Helena Bertinelli was rewritten as a villain for *Arrow*, the third Tigress was rewritten as a hero for the animated series *Young Justice*, using the codename "Artemis" until she went undercover as "Tigress".