Dinah Laurel Lance

This woman has one of the most powerful voices in history.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Etymology
  3. Spec’s
  4. Details/History
  5. Powers and Abilities
  6. Paraphernalia
  7. Dinah & Auz
  8. Justice League (Images Begin)
  9. Other Art
  10. Her
  11. How She and All Hotties Prefer I (Auz) Cum on Her Tongue, Especially While Others Watch
  12. 2023 July Update:  Sexy Mask She Likes Wearing for Our Fuck-dates
  13. 2024 October/+:

 

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Introduction:

The original went into action in the late ’40s through ’60s, at which point she had a daughter.  Her daughter went into action in the ’80s through 2000s.  By the time she was near the point of retiring from crime-fighting, the Rapture hit, and she was one of the first to be ushered to Ushuaia to get to the Leviathans far beyond.  The following includes some of the many tellings and reboots of her tale.  It’s up to you to figure out which parts are true.

 

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Etymology:

  • Dinah means “judged”, “justified”, or “vindicated”.
  • Laurel means “laurel tree” (symbolizing victory, achievement, honor, and eternal life) or “bay tree” (symbolizing love, strength, victory, and courage).
  • Lance is from the Old English word lans, which means “land” or “territory”.

 

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Spec’s:

  • 5’6″
  • 128 lbs.
  • sunny-blonde
  • Caucasian (white) skin
  • icy/sky-blue eyes
  • perfect feminine face and figure
  • perky C-cups, cleavage always showing
  • always wears fishnet stockings/leggings in under-knee tall-collared combat-boots
  • wears fishnet onesies (also with her boots) for King Auz

 

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Details:

Black Canary is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by the writer-artist team of Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino, the character debuted in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947). One of DC’s earliest super-heroines, Black Canary has appeared in many of the company’s flagship team-up titles including Justice Society of America and Justice League of America. Since the late 1960s, the character has been paired with archer superhero Green Arrow, professionally and romantically.

At her Golden Age debut, Black Canary was the alter ego of Dinah Drake and participated in crime-fighting adventures with her love interest (and eventual husband), Gotham City detective Larry Lance. Initially, the character was a hand-to-hand fighter without superpowers who often posed as a criminal to infiltrate criminal gangs. Later stories depicted her as a world-class martial artist with a superpower: the “canary cry”, a high-powered sonic scream which could shatter objects and incapacitate and even kill powerful foes such as Superman. When DC Comics adjusted its continuity, Black Canary was established as two separate entities: mother and daughter, Dinah Drake-Lance and Dinah Laurel Lance. Stories since the Silver Age focused on the younger Black Canary, ascribing her superhuman abilities to a genetic mutation. However, since the launch of the New 52, the two identities have been merged, with Dinah Drake possessing a metahuman cry.

 

Publication History

Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino created the character in 1947 to be featured in Flash Comics as a supporting character. Appearing first as a clandestine crime-fighter who infiltrates criminal organizations to break them from the inside, Black Canary was drawn with fishnet stockings and a black leather jacket to connote images of a sexualized yet strong female character.[2] She appeared as a character in a back-up story featuring “Johnny Thunder“:

I was drawing Johnny Thunder, which was not much of a character. I suppose he could have been better because his ‘Thunderbolt’ was interesting, but the situations they were in were pretty juvenile. Bob Kanigher wrote those stories, and he had no respect for the characters. These stories were nowhere near as good as ‘The Flash’ stories. DC knew it—they knew ‘Johnny Thunder’ was a loser, so Kanigher and I brought the Black Canary into the series. Immediately she got a good response, and it was, ‘Bye, bye, Johnny Thunder.’ Nobody missed him.”[3]

— Carmine Infantino

According to Amash & Nolen-Weathington (2010), Black Canary is “really” Carmine Infantino’s “first character.”[3] According to the artist: “When Kanigher gave me the script, I said, ‘How do you want me to draw her?’ He said, ‘What’s your fantasy of a good-looking girl? That’s what I want.’ Isn’t that a great line? So that’s what I did. I made her strong in character and sexy in form. The funny part is that years later, while in Korea on a National Cartoonists trip, I met a dancer who was the exact image of the Black Canary. And I went out with her for three years.

Bob didn’t ask me for a character sketch [for the Black Canary]. He had a lot of respect for me, I must say that. He always trusted my work… Bob loved my Black Canary design.”[3]

Dinah Drake

Blonde woman jumping through hoop held by two other superheroes

Cover of Flash Comics #92 (February 1948); art by Carmine Infantino

Dinah Drake made her debut in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947) as a supporting character in the “Johnny Thunder” feature, written by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Carmine Infantino. She initially appeared as a villain.[4] Johnny is instantly infatuated with her, and is reproached by his Thunderbolt. Dinah is later revealed to have been infiltrating a criminal gang.

In Flash Comics #92 (February 1948) she has her own anthology feature, “Black Canary”, replacing “Johnny Thunder”.[5] The new series fleshed out Black Canary’s backstory: Dinah Drake was a black-haired florist in love with Larry Lance,[6] a Gotham City Police Departmentdetective. She first meets the Justice Society of America in All Star Comics #38 (December 1947-January 1948),[7] joining them in All Star Comics #41 (June–July 1948).[8]

Black Canary was revived with the other Golden Age characters during the 1960s. In these stories, it is retroactively established she lives on the parallel world of Earth-2 (home of DC’s Golden Age versions of its characters). Married to Larry Lance since the 1950s, Dinah participates in annual team-ups between the Justice Society and Earth-1‘s Justice League of America.[6]

In a 1969 JLA/JSA team-up against the rogue star-creature Aquarius, who banished Earth-2’s inhabitants (except the JSA) to another dimension, Larry Lance is killed saving Dinah’s life and Aquarius is defeated.[9] Grief-stricken, Canary moves to Earth-1 and joins the Justice League. She begins a relationship with JLA colleague Green Arrow and discovers that she has developed an ultrasonic scream, the “canary cry.”[10]

Black Canary teams with Batman five times in The Brave and the Bold[11][12][13][14][15] and once with Superman in DC Comics Presents.[16]Appearing frequently as a guest in the “Green Arrow” backup feature of Action Comics,[17] she was a backup feature in World’s Finest Comics #244 (April–May 1977) to #256 (April–May 1979) (when the title was in Dollar Comics format).[18] Black Canary’s backstory was featured in DC Special Series #10 (April 1978).[19] After the “Black Canary” feature in World’s Finest Comics, she appears as a guest in its “Green Arrow” feature and in Detective Comics.[17]

A story in Justice League of America #219-220 (October and November 1983) served to explain the origin of Black Canary’s new sonic scream powers, and further, why she continued to appear youthful despite being active since the late 1940s (thereby making her nearly 60 years old). It was established that during the 1950s, she and Larry had a daughter, Dinah Laurel Lance, who was cursed by the Wizard with a devastating sonic scream. Her mother hoped that Johnny Thunder’s Thunderbolt could cure her, but the Thunderbolt was only able to keep the younger Dinah in suspended animation in his own dimension. To ease their pain, the Thunderbolt altered the memories of the tragedy, leaving all to believe Dinah’s daughter had simply died. Following the battle with Aquarius, Dinah discovered she was dying from radiation exposure, and she asked to see her daughter’s grave one last time. Shown the body of her daughter—still in suspended animation, but now grown to adulthood—Dinah wished that she could somehow be her successor. The Superman of Earth-1 and the Thunderbolt conceived a solution and transferred Dinah’s memories into her daughter’s body so that she could continue fighting as the Black Canary.[6][20][21]

A Black Canary miniseries by writer Greg Weisman and artist Mike Sekowsky was planned in 1984. Although its first issue was pencilled, the project was shelved due to the character’s use in writer-artist Mike Grell‘s high-profile Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters series. Elements of the project were used in Weisman’s short film, DC Showcase: Green Arrow.[22]

Dinah Drake assumed the mantle of Black Canary again in 2011, when DC rebooted its continuity with The New 52.[23]

Dinah Laurel Lance

“Laurel Lance” redirects here. For the Arrowverse version of the character, see Laurel Lance (Arrowverse).

Blonde woman in fighting stance on yin-yang symbol

Dinah sparring with Rabbit of the Twelve Brothers in Silk; Birds of Prey#82 (July 2005), with art by Joe Bennett and Jack Jadson

Following the universe-altering events of Crisis on Infinite Earths (concluding in March 1986), Black Canary’s history was revised again. The mind-transplant story of 1983 was discarded; in this version of the story, the present-day Black Canary is Dinah Laurel Lance, who inherits the identity from her mother, Dinah Drake Lance. Although some references (for example, those in James Robinson’s Starmanseries) tried to distinguish the two Canaries by calling the first “Diana”, recent accounts have confirmed Dinah as the mother’s given name.

The two Canaries’ origin stories were told in full in Secret Origins #50 (August 1990). In this story, Dinah Drake is trained by her father, detective Richard Drake, intending to follow him on the Gotham City police force. When she is turned down, her disillusioned father dies shortly afterwards. Determined to honor his memory, Dinah fights crime and corruption by any possible means. She becomes a costumed vigilante, using her inheritance to open a flower shop as her day job.[24] Dinah marries her lover, private eye Larry Lance, and several years later their daughter, Dinah Laurel Lance, is born (Birds of Prey #66 (June 2004) would establish that they took the name “Laurel” from a librarian Dinah befriended during a case[25]).

The younger Dinah has her own “canary cry”—in this version, the result of a metagene absent from both her parents—which (unlike the Silver Age Black Canary) she can control.[24] Growing up surrounded by her mother’s friends in the disbanded JSA (seeing them as uncles and aunts), she wishes to be a costumed hero like her mother, but the elder Dinah discourages her, feeling that the world has become too dangerous for her daughter to succeed. Regardless, Dinah finds fighters (including former JSA member Wildcat) who help her hone her skills, and after years of dedication and training, she assumes the mantle of Black Canary despite her mother’s opposition. Like her mother, Dinah operates out of Gotham, with a day job in the family floral business.

In an early Birds of Prey issue, writer Chuck Dixon has Dinah briefly married and divorced at a young age. Although ex-husband Craig Windrow seems to need her help, he actually wants to reconcile after he embezzles from the mob.[26] Dinah’s early marriage and ex-husband are not mentioned again until the 2007 Black Canary limited series.

After joining the Justice League, Dinah meets Green Arrow (Oliver Queen). Although she dislikes him at first, they become romantically involved despite their age difference; opposite the earlier depiction, in the Modern Age stories Oliver is considerably older than Dinah. Dinah is a League member for about six years, including a brief stint with Justice League International (JLI, which she helps found). After her mother’s death from radiation poisoning received during her battle with Aquarius, Dinah feels that her time in the JLA is over. She moves to Seattle with Green Arrow and opens a flower shop, Sherwood Florist.

When Dinah belonged to the JLI during the 1980s she wore a new costume, a blue-and-black full-body jumpsuit with a bird motif and a slightly looser fit instead of her traditional, skin-tight black outfit with fishnet stockings. The change was poorly received and short-lived, and later artists restored her original look.[17]

Birds of Prey

Main article: Birds of Prey (comics)

When former Batgirl Barbara Gordon is seriously injured by the Joker, she reestablishes her crime-fighting career as Oracle, information broker to the superhero community. After briefly working with the Suicide Squad, she forms a covert-mission team. Since Barbara thinks that of all the superheroes Dinah has the most potential, Oracle asks Black Canary to become an operative.[24][27]

Black Canary reinvents herself, trading her blonde wig for bleached blonde hair. Her relationship with Oracle is rocky at first, since her impulsiveness clashes with Oracle’s organization. Gradually, they learn to work together and became friends. When Oracle flees from Blockbuster Dinah rescues her and meets Barbara Gordon,[28] deepening their friendship.

Infinite Crisis gives Earth a new timeline, with Wonder Woman again a founding member of the Justice League. In a Week 51 back-up feature of 52, Black Canary is at the battle which forms the League. Its core is Black Canary, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), the Martian Manhunter, the Flash (Barry Allen), Aquaman, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. In the 2007 Black Canary miniseries, she and Green Arrow join the Justice League after its founding and are tested by founding member Batman early in their membership.

During publication of the Infinite Crisis limited series, most DC Universe comic books advanced one year. After this “One Year Later” jump, Dinah trades life experiences with Lady Shiva to soften the warrior and begins a harsh training regimen in an unidentified Vietnamese shanty town. The regimen replicates Shiva’s early life and training, and Shiva assumes Dinah’s role in Oracle’s group.

During Countdown, several series include tie-ins and run-ups to the wedding of Dinah and Ollie.[29] The Black Canary Wedding Planner details the preparations; in Birds of Prey#109, Dinah and Barbara discuss the wedding (and Ollie). Countdown: Justice League Wedding Special, and Justice League #13 deal with the bachelor and bachelorette parties. A plot thread throughout is a plan by the Injustice League to attack the wedding.

Dinah resigns as JLA chairwoman after the team’s confrontation with the Shadow Cabinet. After learning that Ollie began his own Justice League with Hal Jordan, she confronts him when he arrives at the Watchtower to warn her of an attack on the world’s superheroes.[30] Prometheus arrives and attacks the team, severing Red Arrow’s arm and maneuvering Dinah into the path of an energy bolt fired by Mikaal Tomas.[31] After Prometheus is defeated, he destroys Star City with a teleportation device.[32] In their search for survivors, Dinah and Ollie discover the bloody body of Roy’s daughter, Lian.[33] Dinah goes to Roy’s hospital bedside with Donna Troy to break the news about his daughter when he emerges from his coma.[34]

In Blackest Night, Dinah travels to Coast City to fight Nekron‘s army of Black Lanterns. According to Nekron, he can control the heroes (including Ollie) who have died and been resurrected.[35] Dinah fights her husband, now a Black Lantern, with Mia and Connor. Ollie regains control of his body long enough to miss his wife with a shot which severs a hose containing liquid nitrogen. Dinah orders Connor to use the hose on Ollie, freezing him solid, and the three join the rest of the heroes in battle.[36]

When Ollie returns to normal, it is discovered that he secretly murdered Prometheus and left his body to rot at his headquarters. After Barry Allen and Hal Jordan confront Ollie and Dinah with the news, Ollie escapes. Dinah, Hal and Barry search the ruins of Star City for him, finding him looking for one of the men who worked for Prometheus. Ollie overpowers them, leaving Dinah in a restraining fluid.[37] After Green Arrow surrenders for Prometheus’ murder, Dinah visits him in jail and realizes that he wants to be left alone. She removes her wedding ring, leaving it with him, and does not attend his trial.[38]

In Brightest Day, Dinah returns to Gotham in a relaunch of Birds of Prey with Gail Simone. In Birds of Prey #1 (July 2010), she is sent to save a child with Lady Blackhawk. After receiving a call from Oracle, the team (including Huntress) is reunited. They are confronted by a new villainess, White Canary, who has a grudge against Dinah and exposes her civilian identity.[39] After capturing White Canary (the vengeful sister of the Twelve Brothers in Silk), Dinah learns that Lady Shiva is behind the attack on the Birds.[40] Dinah and White Canary travel to Bangkok; when the Birds arrive a short time later, Dinah attacks them dressed as White Canary.[41] Later, Dinah reveals that Sin and her foster parents are being held hostage, their lives threatened unless Dinah challenges Lady Shiva to a fight to the death. Huntress offers to take Dinah’s place instead, reasoning that she has too many people who love her. However, this gives Dinah the opportunity to rescue Sin with the help of one of White Canary’s students, Terry, and race back to halt the duel between Helena and Shiva. While the duel is understood to be a matter of duty and honor, Dinah brings to their attention that there was no time mentioned and for now the fight must end, and to be resumed at a later time. While White Canary is displeased, Shiva sides with Black Canary and the Birds and the fight is over.[42]

Bloodspell

Although the Black Canary–Zatanna graphic novel Bloodspell, written by Paul Dini and drawn by Joe Quinones, was scheduled for a 2012 release, it was delayed until May 2014.[43] The story centers around the meeting of 16-year-old Dinah and Zatanna.[44]

The New 52

Main article: The New 52

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC’s continuity. In this new timeline, Dinah Drake is Black Canary (she later marries Kurt Lance).[23] Dinah founds the Birds of Prey and recruits the team, beginning with her friend Ev Crawford, known as Starling. Eventually Katana and Poison Ivy join the team. Initially reluctant to join, Batgirl becomes a regular addition to the cast by the fourth issue of the series.[45] Dinah joins Team 7 in a flashback [46] and is drafted into the Justice League to assist in the “Throne of Atlantis” crossover, after which she remains a reserve member.[47]

Post-Flashpoint, Dinah Drake was born the child of a teenage single mother, handed into foster care at the age of four. Considered a troublemaker, she moved from foster home to foster home and finally ran away at the age of ten. Taking to the streets of Gotham, she was caught dumpster-diving by Desmond Lamar, an ex-Special Forces agent and martial arts sensei, who took her in and offered her a job to clean his dojo after classes. In return, he would provide her with food and a safe place to sleep. At her request, Lamar took to teaching her the same skills he provided his students, and she became his regular. When Lamar contracted fatal brain cancer, he left her his dojo. Unfortunately, he was the only one who could keep the local gangs from getting protection money out of them. Dinah’s martial arts prowess could only keep them at bay for so long. Eventually, she began losing students who feared the possibility of their retaliation. Flashbacks show that during Zero Year, Dinah’s dojo was destroyed in a fire. It was at this point, John Lynch, impressed by her martial arts prowess in taking down several ninjas during an attack, recruited her into Team 7.[48][49]

During her tenure with Team 7, Dinah works as a covert ops agent in charge of infiltration.[50] She is given the codename Operative Canary. It is during this time that Dinah secretly marries her longtime partner, Kurt Lance. Her powers are subsequently awakened after being tested metagene-positive.[51] Toward the end of the Team 7 run, during a mission to retrieve Pandora‘s Box, Dinah’s sonic scream surfaces and are amplified by Kurt’s, the after-effect of which ultimately destroyed the island of Gamorra. In the aftermath, Kurt is presumed dead, and Team 7 is mothballed, leaving Dinah a fugitive on the run from authorities and an outlaw codenaming herself Black Canary.[52]

After Team 7, Black Canary continues freelance covert operations, hunting the terrorist network known as Basilisk,[53] and later attempts to form a team recruiting Starling, Katana, Poison Ivy, and later Batgirl. The team is ambushed by treachery from Poison Ivy[54] and eventually Starling,[55] pressuring Dinah to question her leadership. As the team roster progresses and evolves following the departure of Katana[56] to include Strix and Condor, Dinah’s questioning reaches its peak to erupt trust issues and notably with Batgirl when she discovers her powers are being manipulated by an apparently alive Kurt Lance.[57]

Throughout her missions with the Birds, Dinah encounters and protects an elderly woman, Miss Ettie, later revealed to be known as Mother Eve, a centuries-old woman hunted by Ra’s al Ghul for her immortality which takes place in the form of her metamorphosis into her youth after every life. She claims that in nearly every life, she was a mother and outlived her children, some of whom have developed unique abilities genetically, and believes that Dinah might have gained her abilities through a genetic link to her.[58]

When Dinah’s husband Kurt is found to have no memory of his past life with her, and she realizes Amanda Waller is involved, she summons Waller to find answers during a mission against the Suicide Squad.[59] Confronting Waller, she is informed that Kurt was revived by a Samsara Serum, and the resurrection process damaged his memory. With the truth of Dinah’s past and her setting up of this meeting with Waller shared with the Birds, Batgirl confronts Dinah on her leadership and angrily disapproves of Dinah’s actions in keeping it from the team. As a result, the Birds of Prey part ways.[60]

After a long rift, Dinah returns to apologize to Barbara and is forced to move in with her when her dojo is burned down (which was partially Barbara’s fault).[61] It is later revealed that Dinah has become the lead singer of a band called Ashes on Sunday.[62] Black Canary’s appearances on Batgirl lead to the spin-off Black Canary, which focuses on Dinah’s attempts to balance a musical career with the frenzied life she leads as a vigilante. After her stint with Ashes on Sunday, Dinah received an offer from A&B Records for an album and go on tour [63] and joins a rock band she named Black Canary.[64] As the lead singer of Black Canary, Dinah attempts to leave her past life behind and takes to the stage name D.D., joining the likes of drummer Lord Byron, keyboardist Paloma Terrific and mute guitarist Ditto, all of whom are accompanied by the band’s tour manager, Heathcliff Ray. However, when her friends’ lives are threatened, Dinah dedicates herself to training them in battle.[65] Over the course of the title, Dinah learns more about her powers, which derive from an alien girl named Ditto, and finds that the frontwoman she replaced, Maeve, has been given identical powers by a criminal syndicate. The series ends with issue 12.

DC Rebirth

In Geoff Johns‘ DC Rebirth #1, Wally West reflects, from outside the universe, on how Black Canary and Green Arrow hardly know each other any more, when they should be husband and wife, as a result of sinister alterations to the timeline. The comic shows the pair briefly meeting, by chance, and then separately staying up at night, contemplating what is missing from their lives. They meet again in Green Arrow Rebirth #1, and instantly hit it off. In the ensuing Green Arrow series, Dinah is the first to notice something awry with Oliver’s apparent suicide (in fact, an attempted assassination by Shado) and disappearance. She is also a current member of the Birds of Prey, as well as the Justice League of America. In Birds of Prey: Rebirth, it is revealed that Dinah and Barbara (Batgirl) have been good friends for a few years now, while just meeting Helena Bertinelli(Huntress). In Justice League of America, she is seen fighting Caitlin Snow (Killer Frost), and is later recruited by Batman due to the skills she possesses.

Powers, Abilities and, Equipment

Although depictions of Black Canary have varied over the years, she is often portrayed as a prodigious hand-to-hand combatant, having mastered styles such as Aikido,[66]Boxing, capoeira, hapkido, Judo,[67] jujutsu, kung fu, krav maga, Muay Thai, Shuri-te,[67] and Wing Chun.[68] She has been trained by other top-tier fighters, such as Wildcat, Lady Shiva, Cassandra Cain, Wonder Woman, as well as having bested Batman, from time to time, in hand to hand combat. In addition to her martial arts skills, Black Canary has been depicted as an expert motorcyclist, gymnast, covert operative and investigator. She is also an excellent leader and tactician, having served as the field commander of the Birds of Prey and the leader of the Justice League and League of Assassins for a time.

Her superpower, the canary cry,[69] allows her to create ultrasonic vibrations whenever she screams, allowing her to severely damage both organic and inorganic objects. Her canary cry has been depicted as having ten-fold the capabilities of most sonic weapons and has even been depicted as breaking metals and having the resonance to affect and shatter the Earth.[39] In the New 52, her canary cry now grants her the ability to glide and propel herself across long distances in by screaming downwards.[70] Despite its power, Black Canary often relies on her martial arts skills instead, preferring to use her canary cry only during urgent situations, such as against superpowered opponents.

The origin of Black Canary’s canary cry has been retconned over the course of her character history, with it being originally depicted as magical in origin due to being cursed by the Wizard. Later, the cry is depicted as an inborn metahuman ability. As of the New 52, her ability is result of human experimentation by the executive leaders of Team 7 involving her being treated with genes from an alien girl named Ditto.[71]

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Origins

Dinah Laurel Lance was born into a family of crime fighters. Her father Larry Lance, was a police officer, while her mother (also named Dinah) was the original Black Canary.

The younger Dinah chose to become a crime-fighter at the age of nineteen, despite her mother’s wishes to the contrary. Following a rigorous training program under the watchful eye of a former colleague and life-long friend of the original Black Canary, Ted Grant, also known as Wildcat, Dinah took up her mother’s identity and adopted her costume as her own.

According to her origins during the Silver Age, Dinah’s ‘Canary Cry’ was the result of her being cursed by the Wizard during her childhood. This explanation has been retconned for the current continuity, however. These sonic powers are now the byproduct of her possession of the metagene, making her a metahumansince birth. Dinah’s metahumanity distinguishes her from her predecessor; in fact, no other member of her family is known to have possessed the metagene at all.

Justice League

 

Main article: Justice League Origins

Not long after her debut as Black Canary, Dinah Lance became a founding member of the Justice League of America. It was Dinah who suggested the newly-formed name of the League, in deference to her mother’s having been a member of the Justice Society of America.[2] It was through her new association with the Justice League that she first met the love of her life—Oliver “Ollie” Queen, also known as the Green Arrow. Black Canary’s membership in the JLA lasted for many years. Her friendship with Oliver Queen developed during this time as their feelings for one another became romantic. When Oliver chose to quit the League in order to continue his efforts in Star City on his own, Dinah decided to join him there soon after.

Hard Traveling Heroes

Whilst Green Arrow and Green Lantern went on a road trip to rediscover America, Dinah too was motorcycling near Mount Rainier, Washington when she was attacked and run down by a motorcycle gang. Left unconscious in the road, she was rescued by a man named Joshua. The stranger was really a white supremacist cult leader who hypnotised her to his cause. Only when put in the position of executing her lover Ollie, was the hypnotic hold broken.[3] Ashamed of being involved in such a despicable group—albeit against her will—Dinah worked with the Native Americans on the reservation that Joshua had intended to murder.[4]

Dinah rekindled her romance with Ollie and joined the two on other exploits, including attending the trial and sentence of their Guardian companion,[5] thwarting Sinestro and his sister,[6] stopping an evil man exploiting a metahuman child,[7]and helping Speedy through his withdrawal from drug addiction.[8]

After Green Arrow accidentally killed a man, he abandoned his heroic persona, along with his civilian life in Star City.[9] Hal sought Dinah’s help to locate their missing friend. Her investigation inadvertently led her to a secret hate gathering, organised by none other than Joshua’s sister. She was discovered and outnumbered by the angry mob who threw her off the roof of the building, but was fortunately saved by Green Lantern.[10] Continuing Black Canary’s spate of bad luck, a drugged driver crashed into a phone booth when she was making a call. Badly injured and losing a lot of blood, Hal knew Ollie was one of the few people with her rare blood type that could save her. Hal had heard of the discovery of the Arrowplane wreckage, and from there, soon tracked him down in an isolated monastery. Despite his own shame and his contempt for society, it only took the mention Dinah’s predicament to get Ollie to return home, where the transfusion was successful.[11]

Justice League International

Following the events of Legends, she becomes a founding member of the new Justice League Internationalestablished by Maxwell Lord. Under Batman‘s leadership, they gained approval from the United Nations.[12]

The Longbow Hunters

 

Main article: Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters

Oliver and Dinah set up a flower shop in Seattle—”Sherwood Florist“—as well as continuing to fight crime. Oliver was having something of a midlife crisis, however, just as he was about to turn 43. He wanted to marry Dinah and have a real family with real children of his own—he loved Roy, his ward, and Roy’s daughter Lian, but wanted his own biological children. Dinah turned down the idea, citing that their lives were too dangerous. During this time, Dinah was kidnapped by a drug dealer she was investigating. She was brutally tortured, causing her to lose her ‘Canary Cry’ and rendering her incapable of having a child. Ollie killed the man who tortured her, and that act lead to a turning point in the life of the Emerald Archer.[13]

When Dinah came out of the hospital, she was still emotionally traumatized by the incident. Oliver was with her as she entered counseling. She was initially hesitant to fight crime during the first few weeks after leaving the hospital but it was when she stepped up to stop some muggers on a bus (taking a few hits in the process) she felt back to her old self, knowing that her biggest fear was that she would not be able to fight back anymore, and that fear was gone. She and Ollie were closer than ever.[14]

She continued to fight crime off and on, eventually breaking up with Oliver, feeling he would never commit to her completely after catching him kissing their young assistant Marianne.[15]

Run of the Arrow

Dinah was shocked when Connor Hawke, Oliver’s son and the new Green Arrow, told her Oliver had died over Metropolis while fighting some eco-terrorists.[16]

Birds of Prey

Dinah was contacted by Oracle (Barbara Gordon) to work in Gotham City, which she accepted, and the pair formed a partnership as the Birds of Prey. Dinah took this role with great satisfaction. And with that came the feeling that she needed a few changes required in this fresh new chapter of her life, deciding to abandon her traditional blond wig and bleach her hair blond whilst growing it longer instead. During her time operating with Oracle, Dinah operated using an electronic form of her Canary Cry: a weapon that would do the ‘crying’ on Canary’s behalf, called Canary Cry Bombs. After a battle with Ra’s al Ghul, she took a dip in the Lazarus Pit at Oracle’s urging. Doing so healed her injuries and restored her Canary Cry as well as her ability to have a child.[17]As time went on, the Birds expanded their number with Dinah as the backbone of the team, operating alongside notable female agents such as the Huntress, Gypsy, and Lady Blackhawk. Following that, Oracle shows Canary the retail space that later houses a reopened Sherwood Florist.

JSA

Dinah helps found a new incarnation of her mother’s old team, the Justice Society of America, following the death of JSA founding member Wesley Dodds. She serves as a member of both the JSA and the Birds of Prey for a time.[18]

Quiver

 

Main article: Green Arrow: Quiver

A short time later, Dinah resigns from the JSA when she discovers that Oliver Queen has been resurrected. She travels to Star City, where the two former lovers are happily reunited. Their renewed relationship is short-lived however, as Dinah feared that Oliver might try to take advantage of his young female ward, Mia Dearden. Dinah leaves Star City and returns to Gotham City where she continues to function with the Birds of Prey.

Perfect Pitch

Following the “One Year Later” jump, Dinah trades life experiences with Lady Shiva in hopes of softening the warrior, undertaking a harsh training regimen in an unidentified Vietnamese bidonville, or shantytown. The regimen replicates Shiva’s early life and training; Shiva, meanwhile, assumes Dinah’s role in Oracle’s group and demands that her associates call her the “Jade Canary”.

When Dinah realizes following Lady Shiva’s path will require her to fundamentally change who she is as a person, she ends the training and returns to the United States. She brings with her a little girl, Sin, who also had begun the harsh grooming process to be Lady Shiva’s successor[19] and Oliver Queen uses his connections to allow Sin to immigrate into the country. Dinah hopes to balance her duties as a superhero with the responsibilities of being a surrogate mother/sister to the child.

Raising Sin

Dinah informs Oracle that she is quitting the team, having decided to devote herself to raising Sin.[20] and the two leave Metropolis for Star City;[21] Dinah jokingly tells Sin that she can rip out Ollie’s beard if he isn’t nice to her.

Tornado’s Path

After leaving the Birds of Prey, Black Canary joins with Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and Red Arrow on a mission to locate the Red Tornado‘s body (stolen by T.O. Morrow and Solomon Grundy). The three heroes join forces with Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl, Black Lightning, and Vixen to defeat Amazo.

Lightning Saga

The assembled heroes re-form the Justice League of America; Dinah is made the Chairwoman, due to her strong abilities and strategic mind. The team’s first mission with Dinah as leader sees the JLA and JSA discover that members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (a team that lives in the 31st Century) have been located in the 21st Century.

Dinah eventually returned to Star City to aid Oliver, Connor and Mia against Roadblock and Merlyn. During the course of their mission, Dinah rekindled her relationship with Oliver yet again, feeling that he had truly changed and that all the parts of him that she hated seemed to be gone. Oliver admitted to Dinah that many of the changes he made over the last year were due in most part for her, because he wanted to be a better man. As the battle concluded, Oliver at last proposed to Dinah. Dinah however, did not give him an answer right away.

Road to the Altar

Shortly thereafter, Ollie and Speedy helped Black Canary when Merlyn abducted Sin. To save her life, Ollie was forced to fake the young girl’s death, keeping the knowledge of the plan between himself and Mia, even at the risk of losing Dinah forever. After Sin was placed into safekeeping, Ollie told Dinah what he had done. Recognizing that he was willing to sacrifice his own happiness to save a life, Dinah finally agreed to marry him.[22]

The Wedding

 

Main article: Green Arrow and Black Canary’s Wedding

After a great deal of compromise and strife, Dinah and Ollie agreed to get married inside the Secret Sanctuary, the original cave headquarters of the Justice League of America. Wedding guests included nearly everyone within the superhero community who were asked to attend the ceremony in-costume. The wedding was interrupted by a phalanx of supervillains, who attempted to take out as many heroes as possible in one fell swoop. Nearly all of the villains were apprehended except for Deathstroke, who managed to escape. Despite the interruption, the ceremony concluded and Dinah Lance and Oliver Queen were married.[23]

Following Dinah’s marriage to Ollie, the duo fought crime alongside one another, facing new challenges such as the villains Cupid, a mentally ill vigilante stalker with an obsession for the Green Arrow; and Discord, a man deafened by Canary’s scream during the first fight with Dregz.

Shortly after, Darkseid attacked Earth and took control of it. Dinah planned an attack on Darkseid from the Justice League Watchtower but her plan was thwarted by a mind-controlled Green Arrow and she was forced to fight the one she loved.[24]

After Darkseid was defeated, Dinah was summoned to Gotham City along with other heroes to join the Network, a group dedicated to maintain order after Batman’s death.[25] There, she teamed up with Huntress to aid Nightwing against I-Am-Batman.[26]

Cry for Justice

 

Main article: Justice League: Cry for Justice

Canary had soon resigned from her position as chairwoman of the Justice League, and later Hal Jordan and Ollie start their own Justice League. Discovering this, Dinah confronts Ollie in anger when he returns to the Watchtower to warn her and the other former League members of an impending attack on the world’s superheroes, after which Prometheus arrives out of nowhere and attacks the team, severing Red Arrow’s arm and defeating Dinah by maneuvering her into the path of an energy bolt fired by Starman (Mikaal Tomas). The now defeated Prometheus then destroys Star City via a teleportation device. While searching for survivors, Dinah and Oliver find the body of a dead, bloodied Lian, the daughter of Roy Harper. Dinah is then seen at Roy Harper’s bedside at the hospital with Donna Troy, preparing to deliver the tragic news of his daughter’s death when he awakens from his coma.

Blackest Night

 

Main article: Blackest Night

In the events of the Blackest Night, Dinah fights off an army of Black Lantern Corps under the supervillain Nekron. Nekron reveals he has the power to control all the heroes who have died and been resurrected, one of which, is the Green Arrow. With the aid of Mia Dearden and Connor Hawke, Dinah fights her husband (who has been transformed into a Black Lantern) while he tells her that he has been secretly in love with Shado since she raped him and that she is a fool for thinking he has changed, all out of his control. In the short time he is able to regain self-control, Ollie deliberately misses a shot he had aimed at Dinah, instead severing a hose containing liquid nitrogen. Connor, under Dinah’s instructions, reluctantly uses the hose on Ollie, freezing him solid. The three then join the other heroes in battle.

Fall of Green Arrow

After Ollie returns to normal, it is discovered that he had secretly murdered Prometheus and had left his body to rot in the villain’s own headquarters. After Flash and Hal Jordan confront Ollie with this revelation, Ollie goes on the run. Dinah joins Hal and Barry in searching the ruins of Star City for him, and eventually finds the archer scouring the city for one of the men who had worked for Prometheus. He easily defeats all three of them, leaving Dinah trapped in a specialized fluid designed to restrain her. Following this chain of events is Dinah’s realization that all Ollie wants is to be left alone and so she tells him during her visitation at his jail cell after he turns himself in. With that said, she decides their marriage is over, leaving her wedding ring with him.

Brightest Day

 

Main article: Brightest Day

During the events of the Brightest Day, Dinah returns to Gotham City, where she along with Huntress, Lady Blackhawk, Hawk and Dove are assembled to reform the Birds of Prey.

Flashpoint

This section of the history takes place during Flashpoint, a massive crossover event set in an alternate timeline to the mainstream DCU. History was completely changed when Professor Zoomfinally found a way to erase his nemesis the Flash without harming his own legacy.
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The Flash drastically altered the Timestream in an attempt to stop his nemesis Professor Zoom from killing his mother resulting in Flashpoint.[27] This completely changed the course of history.[28] Dinah was never shown to have become Black Canary, as her mother’s incarnation of the Justice Society had been unsuccessful.[29]Eventually the timestream was restored, although Pandora fixed it into an entirely new timeline[30] after being manipulated by another being.[31]

Powers

  • Canary Cry: Dinah possesses a metagene that gives her a potent sonic attack, able to damage and stun foes or objects, to the point of shattering metal. She possesses a incredible degree of control over her vocal cords. This enables her to mimic sounds and generate any sound she desires, even developing several abilities. The Canary Cry has been able to reach 300 decibels, which is enough to make a person’s ears start bleeding even if they’re not the attack target.

Abilities

Equipment

  • Body Armor
  • Oracle Tech: Necklace and earrings used as communication devices from Oracle.

Transportation

Weapons

  • Various Martial Art Weapons
  • Canary Cry Bomb (Formerly) During the time she was without her actual Canary Cry, Dinah carried round bombs that would emit a similar loud sonic sound.

 

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Dinah & Auz:

This blonde bombshell was invited to Inisfree before she even disembarked from the Leviathan ship she was on.  After completing the city’s official 41-day tour, she began to help as a consultant at its training facilities for enforcement, fire-fighting, and search & rescue, such as the dojos and training tower.  Her body-scan helped the Inisfreeans upgrade the ICV equivalent of vocal chords, as well as the sonic modules in their vambraces, ST suits, and ‘mechs (including the Trumpeter Triplets at the edge of the city’s Welcoming Square).

Dinah is the only member of the Justice League allowed to represent it by entering Inisfree.  This is because the two other members of the Justice League permitted within the city are Wonder Woman, who represents her hidden island, Themyscira, and Hawkgirl, who represents planet Thanagar.  All three get along well, at least when inside the Inisfreean territory.

 

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2023 July Update:  Sexy Mask She Likes Wearing for Our Fuck-dates:

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