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Helena

Helena from Dead or Alive 3
Profile
Full Name Helena Douglas
Known As Inherited Destiny
Fighting Style Pi Qua Quan
Nationality French
Birthday January 30th
Age 21
Blood Type AB
Height 170cm
5'7"
Weight 49kg
108 lbs
Body Size B90 W56 H86cm
B35" W22" H34"
Occupation Opera Singer
Hobbies Walking her dog
Favorite Food Blanc Manger
Debut Dead or Alive 2
Japanese Voice Yuka Koyama
English Voice Zoe Galvez(DOA2 HC)
Karen Strassman (DOAX 2)



"Only victory can bring me to the truth"
—Helena

Helena is a character that debuted in Dead or Alive 2. Helena is an opera singer and the daughter of Fame Douglas, the head of the Dead or Alive Tournament Executive Committee (DOATEC), and Maria. Helena enters the tournament to find who killed her mother during her opera recital. She assumed Ayane was the murderer but in the end, it turned out to be Christie who assassinated her mother.

Helena Douglas relates to the whole Dead or Alive storyline because her father was the head of DOATEC and she affiliates with the ninja characters more than any other character. She became the lead character of Dead or Alive 4 when she took control of DOATEC. Helena hasn't made a lot of appearances outside of Dead or Alive, besides DOAXBV and DOAX2. It was rumored that she would appear in the next Ninja Gaiden game, however this was completely false.

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[edit] History

[edit] Dead or Alive 2

Helena is the illegitimate daughter of Fame Douglas and his mistress Maria, a world class soprano opera singer. Seemingly distant from her father and his work, when he was murdered, Helena was hardly affected.

Helena followed in her mother's footsteps, becoming a famous opera singer in her own right. While performing at the Great Opera House, she was targeted by an unknown assassin using a sniper rifle. Maria, who was present with her, spotted the rifle at the last second and dove in front of her daughter. Maria was killed instantly. The assassin fled, leaving Helena alone and covered in her mother's blood.

Helena set out for vengeance. While searching for the culprit, she discovered that the murders of her parents, and attempt on her own life are somehow related to the Dead or Alive World Combat Championship. Helena entered the tournament to discover the truth.

Although never explained in the series, Helena appears to have learned or known information pertaining to DOATEC, most notably the ill-fated 'Project Epsilon' when she encountered Hayate suffering from amnesia. She confuses the amnesiac Hayate (or Ein) about the Epsilon project. She defeats him. She then faces Gen Fu. Gen Fu wondered why Helena joined the tournament, but Helena wouldn't answer and decided to fight him instead.

During the tournament, she also encounters Ayane. In this encounter, she accuses Ayane of being her mother's murderer. Ayane neither confirms nor denies having killed Helena's mother and teases her, after which a fight breaks out between the two. Helena lost to Ayane and was knocked out of the tournament. Helena was not brought down by the defeat and still wanted to avenge her mothers death.

[edit] Dead or Alive 3

After the 2nd tournament, Helena was captured by Donovan and imprisoned. Although Helena, the reluctant heiress, states that she doesn't have any connection with DOATEC, Donovan tells her that the only way to obtain her freedom and know the truth behind DOATEC is to win the third tournament.

In the meantime, Donovan assigns Christie to keep an eye on Helena by acting as a servant to her and, should the need arise, kill her if she discovers too much. She tells her to keep winning the tournament if she were wanting freedom. As the tournament goes, Helena soon confronts Christie where she admits that she is an assassin sent to kill her. Helena defeated her and was able to be set free. Her ending reveals that Helena is far away, just having a little vacation where she smiles, happy that she's free.

[edit] Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

Just like the other girls, Helena came to Zack Island upon hearing from Zack that the 4th tournament would be held there, and becomes trapped on the island for 2 weeks.

[edit] Dead or Alive 4

Helena and her mother, Maria

In Dead or Alive 4, Helena, as the daughter of former chairman Fame Douglas, takes control of DOATEC. But she still did compete and won the fourth tournament but she gave up the title to Zack. She invites the assassin Bayman to the DOATEC Tritower in order to hire him to take out Donovan, but he declines. That night the Tritower comes under attack by the Mugen Tenshin ninja clan. Helena comes across Lisa, who admits she tricked the ninja into attacking to stop Donovan.

Helena finally finds out that Christie killed her mother and confronts her. The end result to their fight is left unknown, except that they both survive. In her CG Ending, Helena decides to go down together with DOATEC and subsequently sets the Tritower complex on self-destruct. Plagued by flashbacks of her deceased mother, she moves up to the helipad between the three towers that make up the complex. Meanwhile Ayane, Hayate, and Ryu Hayabusa are using ninpo powers to destroy the towers and the DOATEC security forces, while Kasumi battles her clone, ALPHA-152.

Helena, willingly giving up her life, was about to be consumed by the flames of the burning buildings, when Zack suddenly saves her, flying in with a chopper.

[edit] Dead or Alive Xtreme 2

Helena is a rising star in the opera world. Remembering the debt that Zack had saved her life previously, Helena goes to New Zack Island hoping that she and Zack can form an agreement to rebuild DOATEC after it was destroyed by the ninjas.

[edit] Stats

  • Power - 2/5
  • Technique - 5/5
  • Defense - 4/5
  • Jump - 3/5
  • Speed - 5/5

Helena lacks in power. But other than that she has incredible speed and defense. Because of her good technique she has a variety of attacks which make good combos.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Ayane

Helena entered the DOA2 tornament to discover the killer of her mother. She came upon Ayane in the semi finals and accused her of assassinating her mother. Ayane gave an ambiguous answer. Helena was defeated by Ayane. They've been on bad terms since, as shown in DOAX by their friction and hatred towards each other.

[edit] Bayman

While neither friends nor partners, Helena has met Bayman in ALPHA-152's lab during the events of Dead or Alive 4, trying to hire him to kill Victor Donovan. Bayman's response is that, given his abundance of funds at that time, he wants to see if her 'resolve' is strong enough, leading to their battle.

[edit] Christie

In Dead or Alive 3, Christie was hired by Victor Donovan to assassinate Helena. However the plan failed and Helena had her freedom. Way before Dead or Alive 2, Christie was hired to assassinate Helena at her opera recital, but Helena's mother took the bullet and was killed during the act. Christie later revealed to Helena that she was the true assassin and Helena's lust for vengeance grew stronger and fiercer than ever. Although Christie was the assassin who killed Helena's mother, Helena seems to have a strong bond with Christie. This is shown as she has unique tag throws with Christie. Not only that, she is also friends with Christie in DOAX2.

[edit] Gen Fu

They were partners in DOA 2 and worked together during their story mode. Gen Fu asked Helena why she joined Dead or Alive 2 and instead of replying to the question, Helena said it's none of his business. However, Helena seems to care for Gen Fu and think of him as a father figure even offering to pay for his granddaughters operation.

[edit] Kokoro

Fame Douglas and Miyako were in love and after Kokoro was born, Miyako had left for Japan and raised Kokoro and she doesn't know Helena but Helena seems to recognize Kokoro and they met each other at Tritower Heliport at Kokoro's story mode.

[edit] Lisa

Lisa worked under DOATEC producing the Epsilon project. Lisa later released the Epsilon project out of contempt and hatred for the company. As they came across one another on the Tritower, it is seen that Helena feels indifferent towards Lisa. Helena implied self destructing the tower which Lisa tried to stop unsuccessfully.

[edit] Status

Ayane - Hate

Bass - Neutral

Bayman - Dislike

Brad Wong - Neutral

Christie - Hate

Eliot - Neutral

Hayate - Neutral

Gen fu - Like

Hitomi - Like

Jann Lee - Neutral

Kasumi - Like

Kokoro - Like

Leon - Neutral

Lei Fang - Like

Lisa - Neutral

Hayabusa - Neutral

Tina - Dislike

Zack - Neutral

[edit] Personality

Helena is outwardly haughty and unconcerned with other people. She brushes off everyone else as not mattering to her, even other fighters in the tournament, as shown when talking to Kasumi in Kasumi's gameplay. She is rather overconfident, doubting other fighter's abilities and making sport of her fights. Above all else, she is obsessed with revenge against her mother's killer. She is very patient with her search, yet totally unrelenting. At the end of Dead or Alive 4, Helena is shown developing suicidal tendencies, proven by her envy to die in a fire. She fights five people at DOATEC those being Christie and Kasumi at the DOATEC building, Bayman at the Alpha 152 lab and Kokoro and Lisa at the Tritower Heliport. However Helena is not cruel and has the ability to make friends and be kind and even forgiving. These are shown by her friendships with Kasumi, Lei Fang and Gen Fu. She shows her kindness by wishing her opponents good luck and she seems to forgive Christie, telling her to flee the building. Helena is also the most graceful character in the game, shown by her fighting, the way she walks and her clips at the end of fights. Overall Helena is a very sad woman who has death all around her and needs an escape before anyone else she cares about dies.

[edit] Gameplay

Helena's fighting style, Pi Qua Quan, is flowing and smooth (not sharp and solid like Karate); many of her attacks are graceful and move in a windmill-like formation. This is accompanied by the sheer speed of her attacks thus advantageous, and allocates dominance in a match when facing slower opponents, such as Bayman, Leon, Tina, La Mariposa, and Bass. Her key stance is her Bokuho stance, from which she can execute a number of moves, and her mix-up game, execution time-frame, and air juggles are excellent due to her combo variety. Her varying attack ranges make up for her lack of brute power; it can often prove difficult to counter against her at times because of this aspect. However, she must be used in a combo-based fashion to execute sufficient damage, as her launchers and single strikes lack a high damage ratio. While her throws lack strength, they are some of the most quickly executed in the game, and can even be performed while in the aforementioned Bokuho stance. She is quite compatible in tag-team battle with Christie, Gen Fu and Lei Fang possibly due to the fact that they each utilize Chinese fighting styles and thus would share a number of principles and philosophies.

[edit] Performance in the Series

Dead or Alive 2 - Semi-Finals

Dead or Alive 3 - Semi-Finals

Dead or Alive 4 - Winner

[edit] Musical Themes

[edit] Other Appearances

[edit] DOA: Dead or Alive

Helena from the movie

Helena (played by Sarah Carter) also makes her appearance in DOA: Dead or Alive. Her personality in the game has been disregarded and she is now a happy, bubbly twenty one year old. She seems to like roller skates and is boy crazy. even making Christie ask "Is there any boy you don't like?" She appears to be best friends with Tina, Kasumi, and somewhat a friend of Christie. She fights Christie in one scene in the movie where Helena was overpowered by Christie. During fight, Christie finds out that Helena is the key, the key to open the Douglas vault that is somewhere in the island. Helena is one of the first to fight Donovan after he downloads the moves of Tina, Christie, Kasumi and Ryu. She is defeated but comes back with Christie, Kasumi and Tina to finally defeat him.

[edit] Endings

[edit] Dead Fantasy

Helena appears at the end of Dead Fantasy III. After the fight scene with Hitomi and Tifa, a scene is shown where Helena walks into a lab, which is probably DOATEC. She walks to the visible computer and on the screen it said "Life Span: 14 hours". Helena appears sad and she releases the Kasumi clones, which appeared in Dead Fantasy IV.


[edit] Trivia

  • Pi Qua Quan is the sister art of Ba Ji Quan, which is Kokoro's fighting style. This makes sense because Kokoro and Helena are half sisters, like Kasumi and Ayane.
  • Helena seems to know that Kokoro's mother Miyako was one of Fame Douglas' mistresses. This could be explained by the fact that she took over DOATEC, which may have given her access to secret files.
  • Helena's favorite color is Pearl White.
  • Helena's favorite food is blanc manger, which is a French dessert.
  • Helena loves dolphins.
  • Helena's swimsuits in DOAX2 are named after alcoholic drinks.
  • Surprisingly, despite the fact Helena's favorite color is white. She has only very limited amount costumes which are white in color in the whole video game series.
  • In DOA4, Helena is seen wielding a handgun in her ending and in Kasumi's cutscene.


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