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Revision as of 16:13, 22 April 2013
Helena Bertinelli, also known as the vigilante the Huntress, is the daughter of former crime boss Frank Bertinelli, 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.
Biography
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 competly 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 have 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.
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
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.
Gallery
Concept artwork
