February 1986. Incredibly bleak: Earth-2's Helena Wayne (The Huntress) and Dick Grayson (Robin) survived the cataclysmic events of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #10 (January 1986), only to find in the following issue that the world into which they awakened afterward had no record that they had ever existed. Both were then killed by falling debris during the final battle in CRISIS #12 and subsequently laid to rest by their JSA comrades, almost the only people on the reformed Earth who still remembered them. Earth-2's middle-aged Dick Grayson was a relatively minor character even before the Crisis, but the fate of the Huntress was a bitter pill, although at least she was spared the awful post-Crisis origin revamps of Power Girl and Fury (the daughter of Earth-2's Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor).
I wouldn’t say Helena Wayne was spared from getting a post-Crisis revamp since she was later rebooted as Helena Bertinelli.
If anything killing her off and later reviving her as Bertinelli created the much bigger problem of later having TWO Huntresses named Helena with very little to distinguish them apart from personality differences and having vastly different origins.
Since both versions of Helena have equally passionate fanbases, DC has been reluctant to completely retcon the Bertinelli Huntress to properly restore Helena Wayne as the original Huntress. This resulted in more confusing retcons for both characters.
Bertinelli now exists as a shell of her former self without a clearly defined history and even less of a purpose for existing in a universe that brought back Helena Wayne as a native of Earth-0 instead of Earth-2.
Wayne herself is now on her third origin revamp with more of her conceptual originality removed to accommodate the main Earth versions of Batman and Catwoman as her parents—two characters who are not destined for permanent change and quite literally lack the character developments her origin actually requires for her existence to make sense.
The other issue that’s coming out of the third revamp is that Bertinelli now comes first in the timeline, effectively erasing Wayne’s status as the original Huntress.
Similarly, placing her origin in the far future places too much of an age gap between her and Power Girl, and the original JSAers she originally worked alongside. Historically, Wayne is a second generation JSAer who comes before Infinity Inc, Stargirl and Jakeem Thunder, and their roles are now reversed in the new timeline.
Given what the Huntress has gone through as a consequence of the Crisis reboot, I would argue Fury and Power Girl got the better end of the deal.
