Why do you think Huntress always ends up as 'the *bad* kind of vigilante who maybe eventually proves her worth' whenever she's adapted? Do you think that's an integral part of her characterization or just a one-note, surface level approach?

Part of it is fear of the uncontrolled woman. Honest to god, I hate to say it…but uncontrolled male characters, like, say, Wolverine, are not given babysitters as a rule, the way females with an edge usually are. Such female characters are usually there to be tamed and lectured to…that’s part of what made Xena so damn innovative. Helena does work best as untamed. That much, I agree with and she shares a long legacy with lots of great rebel heroes, But when it comes to needing to be leashed and muzzled, that’s just a complete misunderstanding of the character.

EDITED TO ADD: Someone below said that Barbara tried to muzzle Huntress in my run of BOP. And YES, that’s exactly the point. My goal was to subvert that trope. Barbara TRIES to do what I gather Ollie was trying to do in Arrow, to control Huntress.

But she fails utterly and Huntress remains Huntress. More than that, she realizes she screwed up. She apologizes. She realizes she was wrong. And Huntress remains untamed.

It’s the opposite of what I’m talking about above.