Helena Bertinelli

Helena Bertinelli, also known as the vigilante the Huntress, is the daughter of former crime boss Frank Bertinelli, the former fiancé of the late Michael Staton, and the psychopath ex-girlfriend of Oliver Queen. who set on destroying her father's crime empire. She and Oliver become a couple at the end of the episode after a long night of hard sex. "Muse of Fire". At the end of "Vendetta", she was shot in the shoulder from a crossbow by her own father, but managed to survive with assistance from Oliver. She then left the city.

Taking down her father
Before the death of her fiancé, Helena tried to turn her father into the FBI. However, her father mistook the evidence collected by Helena with her fiancé and had him killed. Following this, Helena decided to use her skills to take down her father by killing people close to him as the Huntress. Along the way she met Oliver Queen.

Oliver tells her about him being the Arrow and even trains her. Seeing that she is bent on revenge, Oliver tries to get Helena down the right path and avoid murdering innocents, but ultimately fails. Helena, realizing that Oliver is no longer on her side, leaves the city.

She returned in The Huntress Returns" to track down her father, who turned state to the F.B.I. In "The Huntress Returns", Helena questions and kills the former lawyer of her father. She then extorts Oliver in to helping her by threatening to injure Tommy.

Attacking the transport carrying her father, Helena gets arrested by Detective Lance. However, Oliver quickly breaks in and frees her, then orders her to leave the city. Ignoring him, she forces Felicity to track down her father's location. She invaded the safehouse and killed the US Marshals assigned to protect him. Before she can off her father, Oliver interrupts her. After a brief standoff, Oliver tries to shoot Helena and she catches the arrow. Furious that he tried to kill her, she attacks him. She disarms him and temporarily overwhelms him, before Oliver can recover his bow. They were interrupted by McKenna who tried to arrest both of them, but was shot by Helena. Helena promptly fled the scene, not to be seen again.

Personality
Not much is known about her personality, before her father killed her fiancé Michael. It can be assumed she was once a good, kind, caring, compassionate, reasonable person, who tried to send her father to jail, because she knows he is a monster. Her personality changed completely to adapted to the harshness of her mafia world she was brought up in. Cold, beyond reason, vengeful, a murdereress who has no morals, or remorse, for killing innocent people, and doesn't have a problem killing people and will kill anyone, who gets in her way or if she has no use for them and a manipulator who will go to great lengths, to achieve her goals.

In other sense Helena is showed to still have feelings, but doesn't become attached to them as she has displayed other than negative emotions in private. As she was driven by Michael's death to become the Huntress.

Michael Staton
Michael Staton was Helena Bertinelli's fiancé. it is unknown what their relationship was, before he was murdered by her father, except that the two of them were deeply in love with each other, and his death is what turned her into the person she is today.

Oliver Queen
Oliver Queen is Helena Bertinelli's ex-boyfriend/enemy. oliver unofficially met helena, after she shot one of her father's employees, and accidentally shot his mother, oliver believe helena was a man, because she was wearing a motorcycle helmet, oliver officially meets helena, when he goes to her father's mansion, pretending that he wants to make a deal with him, helena's father tells her to take oliver to dinner, and to close a business deal, when mr. russo is being harassed, by the unreasonable nick salvati and his men, for more protection money, nick orders one of his men to break mr. russo's fingers before one of his men has a chance to do it, oliver comes in as arrow and saves him, helena comes in as well, oliver recognizes her immediately as the person who shot his mother, because of the same uniform he is wearing, and attacks her they start to fight, oliver knocks her helmet off, sees the person who shot his mother is helena, he is shocked and wonders why, she is attacking her father's business, when he finds out that her father killed her fiancé michael, because he found a laptop believing michael was gathering evidence destroy him, and to send them to jail, and was talking to the FBI, but it was actually helena's laptop, she was the one who was trying to send her father to jail, and talking to the FBI, oliver partly saves her from nick salvati, helena immediately finds out oliver and arrow are the same person, not just because of the way he fights, but because of the look in his eyes, that she saw when they fought against each other earlier, helena and oliver become a couple after a long night of hard sex, oliver takes her under his wing, and tries to put on the right path, by showing her there is a better way than killing, when helena discovers laurel, is the woman that oliver used to be in love with, and was talking about, she breaks up with oliver, and goes back to her old ways, believing oliver is still in love with laurel, and is just using her, oliver tries to stop her from killing her father, well she is distracted by oliver, her father shoots her with her own crossbow, oliver manages to save her, and tells her that laptop of hers that has evidence police found it on him, and her father is going to jail for the rest of his life, she is not grateful for any of those things, oliver tries to convince her to stay, but she leaves starling city anyway, helena returns to starling city to kill her father, because he has cut a deal with the justice department, to testify again's the east coast family, oliver is shocked to see her, he ask her where have you been, she tells him where she has been, and wanted to forget who she was, and how much she missed oliver, helena ask oliver for his help, he refuses and tells her to leave the city, after she threatened his best friend tommy, and the lives of his family, he is forced to help her, but warns her if she kills any innocent people, then her father, he will not hesitate in putting a arrow through her, after it turns out to be a trap by the police, and she gets arrested oliver is force to rescue her, because he was afraid she my reveal his secret identity arrow to the police, helena believes oliver still has feelings for her, oliver gives her a plane ticket and new passport to rome, so she can start a new life, then orders her to leave the city ignoring him, she forces felicity smoak to find the location of her father's safehouse, when oliver finds out that helena force felicity, to find her father's safehouse for her, he goes to the safehouse, to stop her from killing her father, when oliver gets there he discovers she has killed innocent US marshals, he now has no choice but to kill her, he tried to kill her by shooting a arrow at her, she catches it much to his surprise, helena is furious that oliver tried to kill her, she attacks him, the two of them begin to fight, at first it seems like she is a better fighter than oliver, but he gets the upper hand, proves that he is a superior fighter, than helena, and then oliver recovers his bow, helena tells him, you not a murderer, oliver tells her but you are, If I let you go that blood is on my hands, (meaning if he lets her live, who knows how many innocent people she will kill), but is force to let her go after she shoots mckenna, and oliver has to get mckenna, to the hospital, It can be assumed the next time oliver sees helena, he will not hesitate in killing her, and will not make the same mistake twice.

Abilities

 * Expert (Advanced) hand-to-hand combatant: Helena has shown to be very proficient and formidable in hand to hand combat. She fought and killed Nick Salvati by snapping his neck. Her martial skills seem to rival Oliver's, as she fought him to a standstill three times, disarming him on two occasions, however Oliver got the upper hand proves he is a superior fighter than Helena and has more hand-to-hand combat training and experience than she does.
 * Above Average Human Physical Condition: Helena is physically fit, as she managed to break her father's right hand man's neck, and has demonstrated very good reflexes. She caught an arrow Oliver shot at her (a feat so far only demonstrated by the highly skilled Billy Wintergreen).
 * Expert markswomanship: Helena is proficient with both firearms as well as crossbows. She took out several US Marshals using a single crossbow.
 * Expert manipulator: Helena has shown to go to great lengths to achieve her goals. She even went as far as to threaten Oliver’s family and Tommy, and using his feelings for her to help him.

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #23
 * Arrow #25

Trivia

 * Helena favors the color purple, which is the color of Helena's comic costume.
 * Helena has shown to be a very formidable street fighter; she was able to fight Oliver on even terms, but was still defeated by Oliver twice do to the fact that Oliver, has more hand-to-hand combat training and experience than she does.
 * Helena Bertinelli is the third person to discover Oliver's secret identity, Arrow.

Concept artwork
Helena Bertinelli