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Helen Heyer is an antagonist in the V for Vendetta limited comic book series, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd.
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Helen is the domineering and narcissistic wife of Conrad Heyer, the head of visual surveillance in England's Norsefire dictatorship. She is emotionally and sometimes even physically abusive towards her husband, constantly demeaning him and denying him affection and sex while forcing him to cater to her every need and whim. The reason she stays with him is revealed over the course of the narrative to be naked self-interest: Helen seeks power but is unable to take it for herself in the misogynistic Norsefire government, instead seeking it out through her subservient husband.
During the riots caused by V, Helen hears that Peter Creedy of the secret police known as the Finger has recruited gangster Alistair Harper to lead a gang of thugs on the Finger's payroll and realizes that Creedy is preparing for a coup against the Leader, Adam Susan. Seeking to exploit this, she approaches Harper and bribes him to turn against Creedy when the time comes and support her husband for leader instead, allowing her to rule over England with backing from Harper's thugs. She begins an affair with Harper, exulting to him how her husband is obsessed with watching everything on his cameras but they no longer work thanks to V, and deliberately has sex with Harper in front of the camera in their room in order to gloat that her husband will never see her naked because the camera doesn't work. Unfortunately for her, the cameras actually still work and just send the footage to V instead of Norsefire, making V aware of her affair. He sends the footage of Helen and Harper to Conrad in order to spur him into attacking them.
After Susan is assassinated by Rosemary Almond, Creedy usurps his power to the Finger only to be betrayed and killed by Harper at Helen's instigation, allowing Harper to assume control of the Finger and direct them to allow Conrad to take power. Helen tries to find Harper to celebrate with sex, but is unable to find him until she sees his car parked outside her house. Going inside, she starts to berate him for being late only to find him lying dead on the floor next to a mortally wounded Conrad, with the footage of her and Harper together playing on Conrad's viewscreen. Conrad explains that he killed Harper after finding out about the affair but Harper managed to cut one of his veins and he needs a doctor quickly. Helen angrily refuses, berating him for ruining her plans, and links up the viewscreen to the camera in the room, giving Conrad a live feed of his own death in order to satisfy his pathological need to watch everything, before abandoning Conrad to die.
With the fall of Norsefire and the ensuing collapse of society, Helen tries to flee London but is mobbed by tramps and robbed of all her possessions. Former police inspector Eric Finch comes across Helen outside of London and finds that without any powerful men to manipulate she has been reduced to living as a vagrant and bartering sex for food in order to survive. Recognising Finch, Helen tries to use her looks to manipulate him to her side in a bid to gain some measure of control over the vagrants and rebuild society with her at its head. By now too jaded to care, and not receptive to Helen's charms, Finch rejects her without saying a word and leaves her angrily cursing him out as he abandons her to her new life on the street.
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