The Huntress, (Helena Rosa Bertinelli), is a fictional character in the DC Universe. She is one of several DC characters to bear that name. Helena was also for a time one of the versions of Batgirl and was a longtime member of the Birds of Prey.
In the 1989 Huntress series, Helena Rosa Bertinelli, who was born into one of Gotham City's most prominent Mafia families, is a withdrawn girl. At the age of six, she was kidnapped and raped by an agent o...
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The Huntress, (Helena Rosa Bertinelli), is a fictional character in the DC Universe. She is one of several DC characters to bear that name. Helena was also for a time one of the versions of Batgirl and was a longtime member of the Birds of Prey.
In the 1989 Huntress series, Helena Rosa Bertinelli, who was born into one of Gotham City's most prominent Mafia families, is a withdrawn girl. At the age of six, she was kidnapped and raped by an agent of another Gotham crime family. Her parents, Guido and Carmela, send her to a boarding school and assign a bodyguard for her protection. After she witnesses the mob-ordered murder of her entire family at the age of 19, she crusades to put an end to the Mafia. She travels, accompanied and trained by her bodyguard Sal, before returning to Gotham to make her debut as the Huntress. This origin story is heavily revised in the 2000 limited series Huntress: Cry for Blood.
Batman rarely accepts the Huntress, regarding her as unpredictable and violent....
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