DC Gold/Black Canary

Black Canary is a comic series created as part of GazzaB9's DC Gold project.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* Dinah Drake/Black Canary - the daughter of police lieutenant Richard Drake who taught Dinah how to defend herself but was sadly shot to death while tracking a gang. Determined to honor his memory, Dinah became a masked vigilante and began taking on the gangs and super-criminals of Gotham City, owning a flower shop in her civilian identity. She is sassy, witty, and an incredible fighter, having been trained by various martial artists from a young age. She is also a metahuman, able to create a sonic scream with enough force to send people flying.
=== Supporting ===
* Detective Larry Lance - Dinah's serious, no-nonsense, and intelligent partner who is a respected officer of the Gotham Police Department. Despite most of the police disliking or being weary of Black Canary, Larry is a frequent helper of her and is considered the only cop she likes besides her own father. Dinah often flirts with Lance and intentionally pushes his buttons since, despite his solemn attitude, he is easily flustered by it and she finds it funny.
* Detective Samuel "Slam" Bradley - a hard boiled and cynical detective who lost his faith in the police system as he operates as a private investigator, being somewhat of a rival to Black Canary, although he finds her to be somewhat interesting, being unafraid of getting his hands dirty when he needs it.
* Ted Grant/Wildcat - Dinah's best friend, mentor, and frequent partner who is a boxer that was friends with Dinah's father before he died. He is one of the people who taught Dinah how to fight and, when he was framed for the murder of one of his opponents, she convinced him to don a secret identity to clear his name. Unlike Dinah though, Ted prefers thinking with his fists, which sometimes causes the two to bicker.
* Johnny Thunder - a cocky yet friendly teenager who has unnatural luck. He has frequent team-ups with Black Canary throughout the series, but he is unaware that this is mostly because she hopes he'll use the genie attached to him to stop the criminals. Afraid of what Johnny would do with that level of power, Canary attempts to keep him unaware of the genie's existence and trick him into saying the magic word to summoning it: "Cei-U", which is pronounced like "say you".
** Yz/The Thunderbolt - the all-powerful genie which has been attached to Johnny. Yz never speaks, allowing his incredible magic to speak for him. He was mystically attached to Johnny after he accidentally fulfilled a ritual where the seventh child of a seventh child must be born on the seventh day of the seventh month at exactly 7AM.
* Andrew Bennett/I, Vampire - a vampire who lived since Victorian era England who regretted the actions he has caused during his youth as a vampire as he becomes a vampire hunter, fighting those that he claims is responsible for, heading to Gotham after tracking down a priest that he bitten, being revealed to be the villain Mad Monk as he befriends Black Canary and becomes an ally to her.
* Richard Grey, Jr/Black Condor - a world trotting vigilante and superhero who is capable of flight and has access to multiple weapons as he is a childhood friend of Dinah's, sometimes visiting her in Gotham and helping her out, while bragging about his worldwide exploits. Despite his ego, he is quite kind-hearted and hates the sight of tyranny.
* William Perkins/The Mouthpiece - the District Attorney of Gotham City and a frequent partner and rival to Black Canary. Having lost faith in traditional justice, William took up a costumed identity and began hunting the criminals he could not put behind bars for one reason or another. However, his methods are infamously brutal and violent, something that brings him into conflict with Black Canary on more than one occasion.
=== Antagonists ===
* Mortimer Gloom/The Weeper - a gang leader, serial killer, and terrorist whose nihilism causes him to commit crimes in an attempt to make people as miserable as him. He believes life is pointless and is self-confessed as wanting to drag people down with him. He is heavily implied to have some kind of neurological disorder, though it is unexplained what it is, which has given him a pseudobulbar affect that results in sudden bursts of crying, which earned him his villain name.
* Franz Zytle/Count Vertigo - a member of the Vlatava royal family who hopes to bring his country back to it's conqueror roots by starting a war between it and America. He possesses diplomatic immunity which he claims will only be revoked if he were to commit an act against his own people, which makes him a particularly persistent and annoying thorn in Black Canary's side. He is best known as having invented the vertigo devices, a staple of his country's weaponry, which cause the victim to immediately be afflicted with vertigo.
* Paula Brooks/Huntress - an international assassin of mysterious origin who rivals Black Canary in her fighting abilities. Initially hired to kill her, she became obsessed with her after their initial fight, considering her one of her very few equals. She is so obsessed with fighting and potentially defeating Black Canary that she will concoct elaborate schemes just to either get a chance to fight her or blackmail her into doing so.
* Diane Winnings/Bonfire - a superhuman anarchist who believes that society is inherently corrupt and that the only way to bring peace to Earth is by burning the government down, being capable of controlling fire itself as she commits numerous acts of terror just to get humanity to abandon the government and start anew.
* Twelve Brothers in Silk - twelve brothers and assassins who were born and raised by their father in different months of the year to become the most powerful and dangerous killers alive as they operate out of Gotham City, often being hired to target Black Canary, with most of them finding her to be their most dangerous threat.
* Abigail Lodger/Gravity Woman - a scientist who has been working on a suit that allows her to control gravity as she soon gets fired from her job working for Wayne Tech after concerns of her device being too dangerous as she decides to become a criminal terrorist, hoping to destroy her former employer, the city that propped them up, and anyone in her way.
* Gregor Dosynski/NKVDemon - an agent of the NKVD and known as one of the most dangerous among their ranks. He was experimented on by them and given superhuman strength, durability, and reflexes, which only further amplified his already incredible abilities. He is often sent on or heads missions from the Soviet government, ranging from infiltrations, to high stakes thefts, to political assassinations.
* Nicolai Tepes/The Mad Monk - a former religious prophet from 18th century Russia. Having originally been a scammer and conman, he took these skills a step further when he was transformed into a vampire, using his new supernatural abilities to form a cult, all of whom believe that he will turn them into vampires if they do as he says. His followers are demented enough that they will continue to follow him even when he feeds on one of their ranks until they die.
** Dala Vadim - a young Hungarian woman who was one of the Mad Monk's first disciples and was transformed into a vampire due to her undying loyalty to the Mad Monk, being quickly promoted to his second-in-command and aids him in running this cult and driving loyalty into his followers.
* "Boss" Moxie Mannheim - the unquestioned head of crime in Gotham City, Moxie views himself as superior to the up and coming super-criminals and mystery men that have been rising in the world. He is also known for his large size and immense strength, enough to supposedly crush a person's ribcage.
** Thaddeus Killgrave - a dwarfish mad scientist who works under Boss Moxie to develop weapons for Moxie's mob, creating somewhat enhanced tools as he believes what he is doing is the best for science, not caring that he will be responsible for the deaths of humans.
** Frank Sixty - Boss Moxie's second in command and personal bodyguard. As per his own request, he had several of his bodyparts removed and replaced by cybernetics, increasing his strength and allowing him to fire a beam of super-heated plasma from one of his eyes.
*Richard Sionis/False Face - an enforcer and hitman who is best known for his ability to almost perfectly disguise himself as anyone that he wants, even being able to mimic their voices. Following an unfortunate encounter with Black Canary, his face was disfigured and he was forced to wear a prosthetic mask, something he holds against her throughout their subsequent encounters.
*William McElroy/King Tut - a teacher at Gotham's Miskatonic University who, due to a mental break, began to believe that he was the reincarnation of King Tut and that Gotham was Thebes, the ancient capital of Egypt. Donned in traditional pharaoh attire, he commits various horrific acts and attempts to reshape Gotham, under the belief that the people must let him due to him being their supposed king.
*Marshall Deacons/Shame - an eccentric yet violent former police officer who was fired due to his violent methods as after watching a Western Show, decides to become a violent and murderous vigilante, fashioning himself as a cowboy and believing the only way to stop crime is to kill the criminal.
== Issues ==