In addition, while the comic book Bertinelli has a few flings over the years, romance isn't a driving factor for her, but in the Arrowverse, she leaps into bed with Oliver almost immediately, and her story arc as a whole is very romance-driven. Her motivation as a whole is reduced from childhood trauma and vengeance for the loss of her entire family, to being angry that her father killed her lover. DCEU: Which Version Of Black Canary Was Better?ĭespite the fact that she gets a solid story arc and some fantastic ass-kicking scenes, there's one major problem with the Helena Bertinelli of the Arrovwerse: she exists almost entirely to react to men, and to showcase Oliver's own development, rather than as a truly independent female character with motivations and purpose beyond that which relates to the men in her life.
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And, of course, with a series there is always more space to really explore a character, as she has significantly more screen-time in the series than the film, by virtue of the format. Seeing him find someone who was also on a revenge mission was a great way to explore where his limits were, and where he would draw the line on what was appropriate and what wasn't. Making her someone who trained as a killer as an adult creates parallels between her story and Green Arrow Oliver Queen's, which made her an excellent foil for him in the first season.
The Helena of the Arrowverse is an interesting twist on the original character, especially as she is seeking vengeance against her family, not for it! In addition, several changes were made in order to better include her with the Green Arrow mythology, rather than the Batman stories that she appears in in the comics. She ends up with Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and company largely by accident, as she is hunting down Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina), and finds him as he is, in turn, hunting down Harley Quinn and Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco). The women join forces to take on an army of thugs, before Harley speeds away with Cassandra, and the film ends with Helena founding the Birds of Prey with Montoya (Rosie Perez) and Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell). Now, she's back in Gotham to avenge her family's killers. She was supposed to die too, but a kind-hearted henchman smuggled her out and sent her away to Italy, where she was trained as an assassin. In Birds of Prey, Helena Bertinelli (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has only recently returned to Gotham, having seen her crime family murdered as a child. Eventually, she turned against Team Arrow and was imprisoned, although in the Arrow comic series, she broke out and her whereabouts are currently unknown. She also fell for Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), sleeping with him for a while and making an arch-nemesis of another ex of Queen's, Sara Lance (Caity Lotz). Reacting to this as any woman would, Helena fled to Sicily, trained as an assassin, and came back to kill her father.
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