Helena is the older sister of Apollo, and a female member of the Mythos cyborgs in the OVA crossover Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman. She features in the prologue sequence in the first episode.
Appearance[]
Helena is a young woman with short, spiked up blonde hair, a blue bead tiara, two gold armbands on her left upper arm, a pair of gold wristbands, a white cloak fastened by a large gold pin on her left shoulder, a sleeveless white ankle-length chiton gown, a pair of brown sandals with foot straps, and a dark brown belt with a gold belt buckle.
Personality[]
Assuming that the first episode takes place after the manga's Mythos arc, Helena's personality is based on her manga incarnation after she betrayed the Black Ghost organization.
Compared to her brother, Helena is gentle and lenient towards Joe Shimamura, not wishing to see him harmed and despairing of the fight between the two men.
This ultimately led to her decision in sacrificing her own life to save Joe from being killed by Apollo, which resulted in her death and Apollo's.
History[]
Though not mentioned in the OVA, Helena and her brother Apollo were specially-created humans who developed psychic powers, described as "intentional mutants". They were born in a secret Black Ghost facility in Canada, where they grew up without any traditional family structure and wondered why they had no parents. Helena was merely known by the codename H-0014W at this point, while her brother was known by H-0017W. They grew up alongside another pair of fraternal twins that they shared similarities with in their power scale and brainwaves, P-0015W and P-0018W.
When Dr. Gaia and Dr. Uranus came to the facility, its director Dr. Adams Teufel offered them a look at his different creations and allowed them to choose which of his current best candidates would be useful for their Mythos Cyborg line. H-0014W and H-0017W appealed to them most, and they decided the twins would be renamed "Helena" and "Apollo", and that they would be brainwashed to believe they were truly Gods.
Two years later, the 00 cyborg team were called to the island of Magma to battle the completed Mythos Cyborg team. Although the exact details of their conflict are vague, since the OVA's prologue is based on the manga's Mythos arc, Helena presumably became enamored with Joe, aka 009, and later betrayed the Mythos cyborgs.
As Joe received a brutal beating at the hands of Helena's brother Apollo, Helena confronted Apollo herself and stopped him from delivering the fatal blow, and ends up immolated by her Apollo's pyrokinesis, all while pleading for her brother to stop his violent actions.
Seconds after this, the ground gave way due to Magma Island's volcano in the process of erupting, causing both Helena and Apollo to fall into the volcano. The very island of Magma would soon wind up destroyed by the volcanic eruption, and sink.
Abilities[]
Unlike her manga counterpart with her Trojan horse mecha, no special abilities are witnessed from this incarnation of Helena due to the abridged content of the "Mythos Cyborgs" story, so it cannot be confirmed whether or not she has the horse.
Although she has no abilities on display, she is referred to in the light novel as an "intentional mutant" that Black Ghost exploited and developed as a cyborg. This foreshadows the existence of esper-based and more supernaturally powered cyborgs such as 0017 and 0018. In the novel, she is described as having telepathy and other psychic powers, but that they are rather weak, being complemented by her brother's stronger abilities.
Unlike her manga counterpart, who appeared to instantly die upon encountering her brother's flames, Helena is able to withstand them somewhat, though clearly pained and near-death from the intensity of the heat.
Trivia[]
- This would be the first time Helena would be seen in an adaptation since the 1993 Mega-CD video game. This would also mark the very first time an animated incarnation would follow the manga version of the character, even if loosely (as the Helena in "Monster Wars" was code-named "Cyborg 0010" and a merger of Helena and Helen, and the one in the Mega-CD game was a merger as well).
- The fight and sacrifice of Helena and Apollo is meant to foreshadow and parallel the eventual twist between Eva and Seth (hence Eva's surname even being "Parallels"), down to how Eva was even given the mysterious woman-style eyes that Helena and other similar types of Ishinomori women have.