HUNTRESS BIO

Name: Helena Bertinelli
Relatives: the Bertinelli crime family (deceased)
Birthplace: Gotham City
Occupation: College student, adventurer
First Appearance: The Huntress #1, April 1989
Base of Operations: Mobile (Gotham City)
Marital Status: Single
Group Affiliation: Young Justice
Vital Statistics: blue eyes, black hair, 5'11" tall, 130 lbs
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black
Base of Operations: Gotham City
"Real-Life" Occupation(s): English teacher
Special Skills: excellent martial artist and dead shot with a crossbow.

Affiliations: Past member of the JLA -- kicked out by Batman for conduct unbecoming a superhero. Worked with Black Canary (and got her into scads of trouble) shortly after Dinah's breakup with Oliver and encouraged her in a highly questionable (and thankfully brief) costume change (which is also now out of continuity). This may be why both of them acted as if they'd never met when they ended up pursuing the same supervillain (Braun) for entirely personal reasons during an early Birds of Prey case. Due to her long and rocky association with the Gotham home team, she has often worked (though usually indirectly) with Oracle and came close to getting herself shot by the former Batgirl when she presumed to take on the identity for herself.

Friends, Family & Allies:
Steel, Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Oracle, Batgirl, Catwoman, Black Canary
Powers: Possessing no superhuman powers, the Huntress is nevertheless an accomplished marksman, athlete and martial artist. Her personal arsenal includes various crime-fighting tools, throwing knives, and wrist-firing Carbon Dioxide-propelled crossbows.

Recruited after the Young Justice's near disastrous conflict with Lex Luthor's Injustice Gang, the Huntress joins an elite cadre of fellow costumed adventurers to complete the team's charter of twelve permanent members. Having endured a brutal kidnapping as a child and witnessing her mafioso family savagely murdered, the Huntress now takes an "eye for an eye" approach to crime-figthing, meting out justice with a harsh edge. It is Batman's hope that her inclusion in the world's greatest pantheon of super-heroes will provide the Huntress with role models more in line with his own vision of how heroes should behave. Concealing his hopes and concerns, the Batman observe's the Huntress with the greatest of scrutiny.
The only surviving member of the Bertinelli family, the Huntress exists, in her mind, to do nothing but destroy the mafia, the same organization she was born to, the same group ultimately responsible for the murders of all her relations.
While The Huntress doesn't like the idea of Batman keeping an eye on her, she nonetheless finds herself enjoying her membership and learning from the team despite herself. Her Unerring aim with her crossbow kept the Young Justice's awesome arsenal at full strength following the departure of Green Arrow and Arrowette.