Dinah Lance
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"Maybe we should call her the "Yellow Raven." – Chloe
"Black Canary has a better ring to it." – Clark
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| Dinah Lance | |
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| Family | From a family of cops; |
| Occupation | Talk show host |
| Powers and Abilities | Sonic scream |
| Played By | Alaina Huffman |
| Status | Alive |
| Appeared In | Siren, Odyssey, Doomsday (episode) |
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 (Siren). That team disbanded after Black Canary's and Aquaman's identities were discovered by LuthorCorp (Odyssey) but has since re-formed (Identity).
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[edit] Physical Appearance
Dinah has short blonde hair and wears fishnet stockings as the Black Canary. She wears a dark wig as apart of her civilian disguise as Dinah Lance.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
Black Canary also seems to have 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.
[edit] Season Seven
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.
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.
[edit] Season Eight
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 inflitrated 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.
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.
[edit] Quotes
- 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 sticking 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.
[edit] In the Comics
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). In the most recent incarnation of the Justice League of America, she was elected as leader and Chairperson.
[edit] Notes
- Clark and Chloe gave Black Canary her name.
- In the comics Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) eventually marries Dinah Lance (Black Canary)
- 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.
- Dinah appears in photographs on the Isis foundation computers in Hex
- Two other live action versions of Black Canary appeared on the short-lived show "Birds of Prey". The first was Dinah Redmond (nee Dinah 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.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] External Links
- Black Canary on DCAU
- Black Canary on wikipedia
- Black Canary on DC Comics Database
