

Huntress refuses to follow Batman's exact orders and gives up the Batgirl costume. However, Batgirl fails to protect Batman's territory from Two-Face and his gang of more than 200 criminals, leading to an argument between her and Batman. To bring order to the city, Huntress assumes the mantle of Batgirl, and she discovers criminals fear her more as Batgirl than they do as Huntress. The United States government declares Gotham City a "No Man's Land," and Batman disappears. In the 1999 No Man's Land storyline, an earthquake levels Gotham City. However, she is later forced to resign after Batman stops her from killing the currently-incapacitated Prometheus. Under the guidance of heroes such as Superman, Helena grows in confidence, even playing a key role in defeating Solaris during the DC One Million storyline- inspired by the time capsules students in her class had been making recently, she realised they had over eight hundred centuries to set up a plan that would result in Solaris's defeat in the future-, as well as helping the League defeat foes like Prometheus and encouraging Green Lantern to fight the Queen Bee's hypno-pollen during her invasion of Earth. This would not be her only involvement with the League.ĭuring the League's restructuring following the Rock of Ages crisis, Batman sponsors Huntress' membership in the Justice League, hoping that the influence of other heroes will mellow the Huntress, and for some time, Huntress is a respected member of the League. However, besides League members helping her on one of her own cases and getting a tour of the group's New York embassy, she never officially joined the team.

Impressing the League, she was invited to join. Huntress briefly became involved with the Justice League International when she happened upon a brainwashed Blue Beetle attempting to murder Maxwell Lord. Early in his career, he worked with the female vigilante, and later clears her name in a murder case. Others in the Batman family feel differently for instance, Tim Drake has a good relationship with her. However, when James Gordon questions Batman about his attitude towards the Huntress, Batman replies " You know exactly why I don't approve.You're not the only one she reminds of Barbara" - in reference to Gordon's crippled daughter who had previously fought crime as Batgirl. Art by Dale Eaglesham.īatman rarely accepts the Huntress, and usually claims that this disavowal is due to her unpredictable and violent behavior.

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This origin story is heavily revised in the 2000 limited series Huntress: Cry for Blood.Ĭover to Batman Chronicles #18. She travels, accompanied and trained by her bodyguard Sal, before returning to Gotham to make her debut as the Huntress. After she witnesses the mob-ordered murder of her entire family at the age of nineteen at a wedding, she crusades to put an end to the crime families. Her parents, Guido and Carmela, sent her to boarding school and assigned a bodyguard for her protection. At the age of six, she was kidnapped and raped by an agent of another Gotham crime family. 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. 1.1.3 Outsiders and Birds of Prey membershipįictional character biography Origin.
