Helga K. Sinclair

**Lieutenant Helga Katrina Sinclair:**

(Lieutenant Helga Katrina Sinclair is the secondary antagonist of Disney's 2001 animated feature film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. She serves as Commander Rourke's second-in-command of the expedition to find the lost city of Atlantis and additionally serves as the personal assistant to Preston Whitmore. Helga has green eyes and blonde hair.)

**Helga's Physical Appearance:**

Helga is a tall, attractive, fair-skinned German woman with a slim and athletic build, green eyes, arched brows, a mole under her left eye, and dons ruby-red lipstick. Her most distinctive feature is her long blonde hair, tied into a side braid with two brown hair ties. Her normal attire features a black turtleneck over a white tank top, with a large brown utility belt around her waist. She also wears a set of brown gloves, dull-olive military-like cargo pants, and brown knee-high, high-heeled boots. She sometimes wore an olive-green trench coat over her outfit.

**Helga's Bio:**

As the oldest of six children (and the only girl), Miss Sinclair grew up fighting with her fists and wits. Born in Frankfurt, Germany as the daughter of career officer U.S. Army Major Alexander Sinclair. Extensive travel at an early age, as well as exposure to a variety of cultures and customs (Frankfurt 1884-87, Mannheim 1887-89, Stuttgart 1889-92, Torii Station 1892, Vicenza 1892-93, Camp Zama 1893-94, Yongsan 1894-97, Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1897-1901). Miss Sinclair exhibited exceptional athletic skills at the age of four and was encouraged by her mother to pursue dance. Instead, with the influence of her father and brothers, Miss Sinclair began learning the combat arts. While stationed in Maryland at age seventeen, she was introduced to Commander Rourke. After relocating to Fort Dix, she began tactics and firearms training under him at the behest of her father. Her skill impressed Commander Rourke and her potential (in Rourke's opinion) as a covert agent and spy. She toured briefly with Commander Rourke in August 1903 to continue training. Married in 1907 to U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Christopher Jenkins. Presumed widowed 1908. First approached by Whitmore Industries (at the recommendation of Commander Rourke) in April 1911. Took a position as bodyguard and chauffeur for Preston Whitmore on December 5, 1911. Currently employed in the aforementioned positions by Whitmore Industries.

**Helga's Skills:**

Miss Sinclair is skilled as a coordinator and drill instructor. She also possesses an analytical mind ideally suited for strategy, tactics, or campaign planning. Her charisma, combined with her intelligence and aggressive nature, makes her an excellent trainer and enforcer. Helga is Commander Rourke’s right-hand woman; when her commanding officer issues an order, Miss Sinclair makes it her business to see to it that everyone in her command follows it to the letter. She is levelheaded in a crisis (see attachment re San Domingo, 1904) and highly skilled in many forms of small arms combat; studied Aikido in the Philippines under Morihei Ueshiba 1904-07, attaining the rank of Yudansha-Yodan. Expert in the disciplines of Henka Waza, Tanto Dori, and Tachi Dori. Skilled in tactical combat, knife fighting, Colt throwing knife, bo staff, kama, field tanto, katana, and most conventional small arms. She has been taught rifle and shotgun at Quantico, Virginia, in 1911.

**Helga's role in the Disney film (Atlantis: The Lost Empire):**

Helga participates in the expedition that locates the Shepherd's Journal in Iceland. Being Commander Rourke's most trusted ally, she is privy to his secret objective in locating a giant crystal pictured in the book and selling it on the black market for a hefty price. Whitmore sends her to retrieve Milo James Thatch so that he would step in for his deceased grandfather Thaddeus Thatch in guiding the expedition to find Atlantis. Serving as second-in-command of the expedition, Helga carries out Rourke's orders and later operates the Aqua-Evac carrying the executive members of the expedition when escaping the Leviathan after it destroys the Ulysses. Upon the discovery of Atlantis as a still thriving civilization, Helga expresses hesitation about the mission now that there are living people present, and when the fireflies start burning their tents, she tries to extinguish them with water. Nevertheless, she continues to follow Rourke in proceeding with locating the giant crystal, discovered to be the Heart of Atlantis and the power source keeping the city alive. Helga is present in witnessing Princess Kidagakash being infused with the Heart of Atlantis and remains loyal to Rourke even after Milo convinces the rest of the expedition to reconsider their actions. She and Rourke later board the Gyro-Evac that would carry them and the crystal back to the surface when Milo and the others return to engage in battle. After Milo crashes his Ketak into one of the balloons, it begins to descend. After emptying the Gyro-Evac in an attempt to lighten the load, Rourke suddenly tries to throw Helga off to get the balloon ascending. Helga manages to swing back on and kick Rourke around for breaking their partnership, but Rourke quickly and easily overpowers her, grabbing her foot and with the words "nothing personal", throwing her off the balloon, making her fall from an enormous height. She manages to survive long enough to get even with Rourke by firing a flare gun at him.