Talk:Huntress (Helena Wayne)

The statement in the notes section about Helena's parents not being meta is not entirely correct in two different ways. First, the version being referred to was from the Birds of Prey TV show, and the show bible bio for Huntress (as well as being mentioned in dialog and in Alfred’s intro spiel every show) clearly state that she is "half meta, half human". In order for that to be true it naturally follows that one of her parents was meta, and it is clearly stated in "Prey for the Hunter" that it was not Batman who was the meta.



That brings up the second point: the silver-age and pre-crisis bronze-age Catwoman was often portrayed as having subtle powers and cagey enough to keep people guessing whether she really did have them or not. Her nine-lives power was often referred to by name and was the most blatant, but she was shown doing other things that would be impossible for a not particularly large woman to do; like springing across alleyways from a crouch on the parapet where Batman has to get a running start to jump across to follow her, keeping up with big cats as they run and jump, and casually doing things that would be difficult for a professional weightlifter to do much less do without noticeable strain (like carrying a bag of solid gold figurines that would weigh at least five or six hundred pounds one handed like it was a sack of laundry). Then there is the hundred or so story fall to the pavement that Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman survived (and she was the version that the BoP TV series used according to the series creator and the distinctive stitched patent leather cowl Huntress brought out on the “porch” at the end of “Primal Scream” supports that).



She has even been portrayed as being able to see in the dark and has cat-slit eyes at times in closeups, and while the usual answer to that is a vague reference to some kind of “special lenses” in her mask (and even her earlier cowl from the purple suit) she has been shown from time to time idly spinning both the cowl and the glasses-like mask around her finger through the eye-holes in them (not to mention the cowl lays flat like silk or very supple leather when she takes it off) so where are these “lenses” supposed to be? Sure there is always the mundane explanation that the artists simply goofed, but the meta possibility adds to her air of mystery, something the current plain-vanilla Catwoman sorely lacks. BC01 (talk) 10:49, October 17, 2015 (UTC)