Amélie Lacroix (Earth-5180)

"Every hero has a story, not that I'm some kind of hero. But there comes a point when to survive, the hunted must become the hunter."

- - Widowmaker

Amélie Lacroix is the daughter of a infamous Gotham City mob bosses Franco Bertinelli and Maria Panessa, who witnessed their brutal assassination at the hands of Steven "Tombstone" Mandragora. Planning her vengeance for years, she became the Widowmaker, an expert assassin and vigilante with the help of the Question who punished all criminals in search of her parents' killers. Amélie had a change of heart after fighting Batman, and turned into a member Oracle's Birds of Prey.

Early Life
Amélie Lacroix was born in February 21st, 1983, in Gotham City, New Jersey, to crime boss Franco Lacroix and movie director Maria Panessa. Even though François was a ruthless man with his criminal dealings, he was a family man among his family, protecting Amélie and Maria from danger and distancing them from his life.

One day, however, all changed. The rival crime lord Steven "Tombstone" Mandragora arrived at her family mansion, and brutally beat François, and later proceeded to rape and kill Maria at his front, before killing him with a shot on his skull. Amélie witnessed all of it while hidden in a closet, to which Tombstone and his men did not see. After he left, she was even unable to morn for their deaths and quickly left, as Mandragora's henchmen burned down the house.

The young Lacroix started to live on the streets as a beggar, asking for money and food in bus points and alleys, to no response from bystanders. One day, she decided to give up and attempted to kill herself, but she was saved in the last minute by a mysterious man. He took her to his home, and revealed his name as Ben Kovacs, a private investigator and detective. He recognized her as Amélie Lacroix, revealing he was investigating about Tombstone's crime empire. He proposed to help her, training the girl to become an assassin and enact her vengeance; she quickly agreed.