What?!Īll of her appearances after the launch of the Cry For Blood have this version of her history as the origin story. She grows up believing Franco Bertinelli to be her father, but her father is actually Santo Cassamento, the don of a rival mafia family, who was carrying on an affair with Helena’s mother, Maria. In this version Helena Rosa Bertinelli witnesses the murder of her entire family (not just her parents) at age 8. In 2000 her character was given a revised history in Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood limited series. She then faces The Joker in battle and barely survives after being saved by Batman and Nightwing.

Between clashes with Two-Face and disagreements with Batman she decides to give up the character and resume her role as The Huntress. in that storyline we also see her assume the character of Batgirl. We see this version of the character appear in the No Man’s Land storyline arc. She eventually returns to Gotham and makes her debut as The Huntress. When she is 19 she witnesses her parent’s mob-ordered murder and decides to put an end to the mafia. Her parents send her to boarding school with a bodyguard named Sal who protects her but also teaches her all forms of combat to protect herself. In that iteration of the character, she was kidnapped as a young child and raped by a rival mafia don purely to psychologically torture her father, which turns her into a traumatized withdrawn child. Helena Rosa Bertinelli is the daughter of famed Gotham City mafia bosses Guido and Carmela Bertinelli in the original 1989 Huntress comic book series. I’ve always been a proud geek, but this is the year I learned about all of the other things to fangirl over the world that I may be missing out on. One thing I have vowed to change in 2020 is my limited knowledge of other fandoms. I was always a huge Batman fan, but I definitely leaned more towards the Marvel Universe as I got older. I don’t know about most of you, but for me growing up you were either “Team Marvel” or “Team DC”. Yesterday I profiled Renee Montoya and she covered Harley Quinn! Today, as a primer for us all, I wanted to share with you everything that I learned about the origin story of the character The Huntress! Rachel is covering Black Canary over on her page. Myself and Rachel from Pretty In Baby Food are taking on profiling the characters from the new “ Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn” and diving in to learn more. Birds of Prey’s The Huntress: Helena Bertinelli Origin Story

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