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Dinah Lance

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Dinah Lance


Family	Dinah Drake-Lance (mother), Larry Lance (father)
Occupation	Talk show host, Member of the Justice League
Powers and Abilities	Sonic scream, Super dexterity, Skilled hand-to-hand combatant
Played By	Alaina Huffman
Status	Alive
Appeared In	Siren, Odyssey, Doomsday, Salvation, Icarus, Collateral

"Maybe we should call her the "Yellow Raven"?"

"Black Canary" has a better ring to it." - Chloe Sullivan and Clark Kent about Dinah, Siren

Dinah Lance is the alter-ego of the superheroine Black Canary. Dinah was a conservative talk show host who worked at the Daily Planet, before joining Oliver Queen's hero team.

The team disbanded after Black Canary's and Aquaman's identities were discovered by LuthorCorp but has since re-formed.

1 Physical Appearance
2 Powers and Abilities
3 Season Seven
4 Season Eight
5 Season Nine
6 Season Ten
7 Appearances
8 In the Comics
9 Other faces of Dinah Lance
10 Trivia
11 Notes
12 Quotes
13 References
14 External Links

Physical AppearanceEdit

As Dinah Lance, she use to wear a dark wig as part of her civilian disguise.

Recently, Dinah has allowed for her blonde hair to grow out and no longer wears her brown wig when out of her Black Canary costume.

She often wears black and yellow clothing.

As the Black Canary, Dinah has blonde hair and a slender build. Her costume is composed of a black leather bodice, leather jacket, wears fishnet stockings, and leather boots. Rather than wearing a mask to cover her face, Dinah wears black and yellow make-up that somewhat resembles feathers.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Black Canary has a background in martial arts; she is trained with throwing knives, and was able to rappel off the roof of the Daily Planet at high speeds. In her appearances she has showed to her have an above-peak human level of agility, and can jump extremely far.

Sonic scream: Black Canary has a subsonic scream which generates a powerful sound wave, which can disintegrate arrows, shatter glass and knock people unconscious. When she uses her subsonic scream the sound around her becomes muffled in order to project her "Canary Cry". Her scream caused Clark Kent's ears to bleed; it's possible he was especially vulnerable due to his super hearing. According to Toyman's files, her Canary Cry is strong enough to shatter metal.
Super dexterity: Black Canary is quite agile and mobile in her movements, as she has shown to be able to do flips and jumps easily.
Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: Dinah is a very talented hand-to-hand combatant and fighter, who is able to overpower most, though not all, opponents, in fights. Where she learned her skills remains vague.

Season SevenEdit

Dinah was first seen as a mysterious blonde woman who watched Chloe Sullivan steal a file from Lex Luthor and burn the information onto a DVD. She was paid by Lex to steal the disc and attacked Chloe to obtain it. When Chloe got to the roof to wait for Green Arrow, Dinah fought Green Arrow and escaped. She gave the DVD to Lex Luthor, and he offered to "make it worth her while" if she brought Green Arrow to him.

Out of her disguise, Dinah took great pleasure in informing Lois Lane that her old flame Oliver had come back to town. She then broke into Chloe's desk and, seeing that she had called Oliver, deduced that Oliver and Green Arrow were one and the same. She donned her uniform and as the Black Canary, used her power to blast open the glass to enter the Queen Tower. She held Lois and Oliver hostage and refused to listen when Oliver tried to explain that Lex was deceiving her. She informed Lex to wire the money to her account for getting Green Arrow.

However, Clark Kent and Chloe had discovered her identity and stopped the transfer. Black Canary met Clark and the two fought. However, she began to have doubts about Lex's motives and investigated, learning that he was lying. She went to see Lex and demanded that he prove that Green Arrow was a terrorist. Lex shot her in response but she was saved by Clark, who sped her away, but knocked her out in the process.

As Dinah, she apologized for fighting them and declared that she would no longer be the Black Canary. Oliver, impressed with her skills, asked her to consider joining his team. She agreed to meet his team mates. It is unclear if she still works at the Daily Planet, or if she quit to work for Oliver's team of superheroes.

Season EightEdit

Dinah as Black Canary went in search of Clark when he went missing along with Aquaman and led by Green Arrow. They went to the arctic to see what the LuthorCorp base had found and infiltrated it with Green Arrow distracting and killing any threats while Black Canary destroyed their equipment with her Sonic Scream. Aquaman then burst up through the ice as he was causing the distraction. They went back to the Isis Foundation to collect all the data they had on Clark's whereabouts and they then set off again to find him.

Green Arrow went and tried a Russian Labor Camp, while Aquaman tried another place but was captured by LuthorCorp and Black Canary was also captured by LuthorCorp, who was using Chloe's new ability to locate the Justice League. They were strung up at LuthorCorp's base in Montana but were rescued by Green Arrow and Clark. Clark, Dinah, AC and Oliver all met at night in Metropolis to say they should disband to avoid Tess after their identities were exposed.

Finally, Dinah and Bart were summoned to the Kent Barn by Clark Kent to aid him in stopping Doomsday his way by burying him underground, as they later discovered from Clark that Oliver murdered Lex Luthor. However, the League still sided with Oliver to stop Davis/Doomsday once and for all and betrayed Clark.

However, they were still no match against Doomsday after he was split from Davis. The League later attended Jimmy Olsen's funeral. Following the funeral, Chloe told Clark that Dinah, Oliver and Bart were all missing now.

Season NineEdit

When Chloe and Roulette teamed up to convince Oliver Queen to retake the Green Arrow mantle, Chloe re-assembled Dinah, Bart and Victor to help in the efforts. Although Dinah was not shown, she used her Canary Cry to aid Oliver.

When Chloe and Clark began investigating the murder of Sylvester Pemberton, they discovered that Sylvester had been keeping files on the Justice League, Dinah included. Later it was revealed that Oliver and Dinah had been flirting through emails but Oliver claimed that the emails between him and Dinah were purely platonic.

Black Canary joined the League's group of heroes to discuss the war against Kandorians, along with John Jones, Cyborg, Hawkman, and Stargirl. She was hesitant when she first heard of Clark's plan to leave Earth, but later agreed. She saluted him as a final goodbye and returned to the field.

Season TenEdit

The VRA began their witch hunt for all the known existing vigilantes after they framed Oliver for a terrorist attack. Dinah established contact with the rest of the team, via satellite communications, to find out how they were going to proceed now that they were all targets by the government and citizens. Clark decided that the team would go underground until he could find a way to deal with the situation, so he shut down Watchtower.

When Hawkman died heroically in battle, Dinah was present among an entourage of heroes at his funeral in Egypt.

Dinah and the other heroes were ambushed by a mysterious obelisk that rendered all of them unconscious. After three weeks, they were placed into a dream world of virtual reality, where they had no special skills or powers by Trotter and the VRA.

They had some memories of Chloe Sullivan above them that looked like she was putting them under experimentation,, when in actuality, she was trying to free them without killing them, Chloe entered the virtual world to help free them, after seeing this, Dinah distrusted Chloe and the two of them had a heated confrontation, resulting in a fight, which ended in a stalemate as Dinah could not defeat Chloe due to the Virtual Avatar being able to enhance Chloe's martial art skills. Dinah and Oliver joined Chloe and two members of the Suicide Squad in stopping the VRA as well as saving the others.

The Toyman was handing out assignments or missions to his super-villian group, the Marionette Ventures, so they could eliminate each member of the Justice League, and Solomon Grundy's target was Black Canary.

AppearancesEdit

In the ComicsEdit

In modern comics, the Black Canary is a mantle possessed by two characters, the senior Dinah Drake Lance (a member of the Justice Society of America) and later, her daughter Dinah Laurel Lance who would become a member of the Justice League of America. In the Black Canary's first appearance, she appeared to be a villainess but it was later revealed she was infiltrating a criminal gang from the inside. Both characters are naturally dark-haired but either wear a wig or dye their hair to enhance their disguise.

While the senior heroine used only her fighting physical prowess, her daughter was born a metahuman and possessed the power to a emit a devastating ultrasonic "Canary Cry". Trained by her mother's teammates on the JSA, most notably Wildcat, Dinah became an accomplished crimefighter of the highest tier. On the JLA, to which she is now retroactively regarded as a founding member, she and later recruit Oliver Queen (the Green Arrow) would become lovers, and she would become a surrogate mother to his adopted son Roy.

Dinah's career was revitalized after joining the League, when Barbara Gordon, the former Batgirl and later "the Oracle" recruited her to become her crimefighting partner as one of the Birds of Prey. Her tour of duty defined the team, on which she served alongside the Huntress before resigning the team to look after her adopted daughter Sin. Shortly later, she and Green Arrow were finally married, but the wedding did not go as planned as Oliver was kidnapped and held hostage on the island of Themyscira, by the villainous New God Granny Goodness. As Ollie's wife, she is now the mother to his progeny, Roy Harper (the Red Arrow) and Connor Hawke (the other Green Arrow).

After Green Arrow murdered the villain who destroyed Star City in an explosion that killed Roy Harper's daughter Dinah left Green Arrow for hiding the truth from her, further destroying the fragil trust they had rebuilt since his resurrection. Oddly enough, she returned to him the diamond engagement ring, but not the wedding band, implying perhaps she has not fully given up hope.

Regardless, Dinah returned to Gotham, where she, Huntress and Lady Blackhawk were reassembled by Oracle and thus the Birds of Prey were reformed.

Unlike the Smallville version of the character, Dinah's political leanings have often appeared more towards liberal views than conservative. Furthermore, Dinah has never shown any interest or history of being a newscaster, but instead owned a small floral shop in Seatle named "Sherwood Forest" which shut down when her life began to fall apart. She now owns a new floral shop in Gotham City named "Sherwood Florist II".

In 2011, DC Comics announce that they would be revamping and rebooting the DC Universe, altering and shortening the history and continuity of characters. Black Canary will play a leading role in the revamped Birds of Prey series, although the details of her origins and any continuity changes are currenly unknown.

Other faces of Dinah LanceEdit

TriviaEdit

Dinah Lance first appeared in Justice League of America #219 (October 1983), while her mother Dinah Drake had first appeared in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947).
According to Sylvester Pemberton's files, Dinah is a martial arts master; Her fight skills include Dragon style Kung Fu, pressure point fighting, Amazon martial arts, boxing and judo. She was trained by a former heavyweight boxing champion. She also possesses a meta-gene that gave her a potent sonic attack.
Dinah is 5'7", 130Ibs in Sylvester's files, but is said to be 5'4", 124 Ibs in Toyman's files.
She has virtualy "flirted" with Oliver via emails.^[1]
She's also known as "Pretty Bird" or "Tori". Tori is of Japanese origin, and its meaning is "bird".^[2]
Black Canary's number is 604-555-0189 (Odyssey)
Dinah's base of operations is revealed to be Platinum Flats. In the comics, this was temporarily the base of operations for the Birds of Prey.

NotesEdit

According to Toyman's files, Dinah is from Platinum Flatts, is 5'4", weighs 124 pounds, has blue eyes and blonde hair
Clark and Chloe gave Black Canary her name.
In the comics Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) eventually marries Dinah Lance (Black Canary). However due to the Oliver's relationship and marriage with Chloe, it can be assumed that this relationship will never occure in the Smallville continuity.

In the comics Dinah had short dark hair, while Black Canary has long blonde hair (She now dyes it, thus it is always blonde). Smallville's version gives Dinah long brown hair and Black Canary short blonde hair. Her hair is long as of Salvation, thus aligning herself with her comic book counterpart.
Dinah appears in photographs on the Isis Foundation computers in Hex and in Sylvester Pemberton's book in Absolute Justice, Part 1.
Two other live-action versions of Black Canary appeared on the short-lived show Birds of Prey. The first was Dinah Redmond (nee Lance), who was one of the core characters of the series. However, while she had the name of Dinah, she lacked all of her history (having been abandoned by her mother and later taken in by Oracle), powers (she was a telepath and telekinetic as opposed to a sonic scream) and never took on the codename of Black Canary. The second interpretation was that of Dinah's mother Carolyn Lance officially codenamed the Black Canary. While the first name differs, she resembles her comic counter-parts (both Dinah and even her mother) far more closely, including her history with Batgirl/Oracle and she also retains her Canary Cry sonic scream.
In Season Nine's Absolute Justice, a painting of the original Justice Society of America depicts the original Black Canary, implying that Dinah is the second woman to carry this hero identity. Whether or not this woman is Dinah's mother, Dinah Drake-Lance however, has not been established yet. According to writer Geoff Johns, "they had a discussion that this is Smallville Black Canary's mother", and planned to have "that whole mother/daughter thing", but because Alaina Huffman was unavailable at the time, that was off.^[3]
In the comics Al Pratt and Ted Grant looked after Dinah when she was younger and even trained her in combat. In Absolute Justice, Dinah is seen via photograph in Sylvester Pemberton´s book and the text implies that she maybe was indeed trained by Ted Grant.
She is the first full-time female member of the Justice League. Chloe, Courtney Whitmore, Tess, Lois and Zatanna Zatara would later join after her.
Dinah is always seen sporting a different hair-style as Black Canary since her first appearance on the show; this partly because her hair has grown in length inbetween each episode she has appeared in.
Dinah was not shown on-screen interacting with Tess.

QuotesEdit

Lois: (sees Dinah on the elevator) Dinah Lance. The word of justice, the right-wing hawk of the airwaves. You're all dressed up. Heading to an execution?

Dinah: (scoffs) If you ever did any fact checking Lois, you'd know that the state outlawed those years ago.

Lois: I'm sure you'll get over it someday.

Dinah: I don't take to the morally murky.

Lex: Unless they pay you.

Dinah: You know my standards. No matter how rich you are, you don't deserve to be robbed.

Clark: (referring to Dinah) This blonde woman. Chloe said she shattered your arrows.

Oliver: Not my proudest moment, but... yeah. She must have some sort of sound frequency control. All the noise went muffled right before it happened.

Chloe: (upon realizing that Dinah is the Black Canary) This makes so much sense. I mean, Dinah's slogan is the "word of justice." Family of cops, hard line view of crime and corruption.

Clark: Green Arrow isn't the villain here, Lex is.

Dinah: Even tycoons who buy out the press deserve justice.

Dinah: (walks onto roof of Daily Planet, where Clark and Oliver are waiting) Hey. Thanks for coming. I guess I need to eat a little crow huh. Is it too late to ask for an apology?

Clark: Apology accepted. Assuming you stop moonlighting for Lex.

Dinah: That won't be a problem, I've decided to hang up my fishnets. I think I was a little out of my league, I'll just stick to being the Word of Justice. At least I can't hurt anyone over the airwaves.

Oliver: Well as long as they're not subsonic. Still, I gotta say umm... it kinda seems like a a waste.

Clark: Besides Oliver and his boys could always use a den mother.

Oliver: It's true.

Dinah: I'm really not much of a team player.

Oliver: Really? That's perfect, you're gonna fit right in.

Dinah: (nods)

Dinah: (to Oliver) Has anyone ever told you you have lousy taste in women?

Oliver: Yah.

ReferencesEdit

↑ This can be seen in Absolute Justice, Part 1
↑ This could be a reference to Black Canary's other alias of the comics. In the comics, Dinah is also known as "Siu Jerk Jai", that means "Little Bird". Both aliases are of Japanece Origin
↑ http://www.kryptonsite.com/geoff-johns-absolute-justice.htm

External LinksEdit

Black Canary on DCAU Wikia
Black Canary on wikipedia
Black Canary on DC Comics Database
Black Canary on Young Justice Wikia

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