Dinah Drake (Earth-180)

## Dinah Drake

* Civilian
* Black Canary

Captain **Dinah Drake** (born 2336), formerly known undercover as **Tina Boland**, is a female meta-human superheroine. She was an undercover detective for the Central City SCIS Department, until her partner and boyfriend, Vincent Sobel, was murdered. She sought revenge for his death after becoming a meta-human due to the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion with the power to produce sonic screams.

Dinah was eventually recruited into the ranks of Team Arrow by Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, who was searching for a successor to the **Black Canary** mantle. (*Black Canary*)

## Biography

### Early life

In 2336, Dinah was born to the Drakes. They raised her in Central City and she became a detective with the Central City SCIS Department as an adult, becoming a detective specializing in undercover jobs. Dinah's first undercover assignment was with the street gang called the Pilgrims, where she was trained in bo-staff fighting. Another one of her undercover missions involved working with a gang of safe crackers.

During one of Dinah's undercover ops, she learned of the Quadrant, a massive criminal organization that spanned all over the United States, but no one was able to confirm their existence. When the criminal organization known as Blockbuster's gang tried to expand their activities from Blüdhaven to Central City, Dinah infiltrated their ranks and prevented a turf war with the other crime families of Central City.

Dinah has been engaged to be married multiple times, though all of these relationships dissolved.

Years ago in 2364, Dinah met Typhuss James Halliwell and had a child with him. Typhuss was young and couldn't be a father, not with his problems and Dinah broke up with him. Dinah raised the baby on her own.

#### Undercover with Vincent

In 2376, Dinah was an undercover SCIS officer going by the name "Tina Boland" to protect her family and in order to go after Sean Sonus. She was called to Captain David Singh's office for her newest job. They were joined by a fellow undercover SCIS officer, Vincent Sobel, who took an instant liking to Dinah, as she did him. Singh assigned Dinah to help Vincent take down drug dealer Sean Sonus, whose gang Sobel had been undercover in for a while. Vincent warned Dinah that Sonus was dangerous, but she still accepted the assignment. Over the next three years working together in Sonus' gang, Dinah and Vincent fell in love and began an intimate relationship.

One night during their undercover mission, Tina was helping Sonus stay in the dark regarding the funding for his operations. She asked for a little bit more information but quickly backed off before Sonus got suspicious. After leaving for the night with Vincent, the two discussed what Tina's discovery from his books that Sonus had some money hidden away. The two then shared a kiss.

After Vincent found out that Sonus caught wind of a SCIS officer had infiltrated his organization, he suggested to Tina that they call Singh and bust Sonus' operations now. However, Tina disagreed, reminding Vincent that they don't have enough on Sonus' illegal dealings to take him down. Vincent was worried that Sonus discovered one of them was the mole, to which Tina assured him that had Sonus found out, either one of them would've been dead already. Vincent then agreed to go along with Tina's plan.

The following night, Tina was playing cards with Sonus' right-hand man, Declan Lin, when Sonus came over and asked her to look over some numbers before his deal with Alvarez. When Dinah opened to page 12, she was horrified to find her SCIS photo on it. A gun was then pointed at her head.

#### Becoming a meta-human

Sonus discovered that Tina was an undercover SCIS officer and he tortured her for two weeks, trying to get information from her. Sonus captured her partner Vincent Sobel and "killed" him. The S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator exploded subsequently, which gave Sonus, Vincent and Dinah their powers. She screamed as the particles from the accelerator went into her system, giving her sonic screaming abilities. In her grief over Vincent's "death" she used her sonic scream, attacking Sonus.

She handed in her badge after her partner's funeral and went rogue becoming a vigilante all across America never settling down her roots. While doing this, she always kept track of Sonus' movement and began systematically targeting his gang. She also occasionally acted as a vigilante, attacking criminals to protect innocents.

By January 2389, Dinah tracked Sonus to Hub City. One night, she was at a bar and witnessed two male patrons harassing a waitress. Dinah intervened, claiming she found the attackers' actions to be cliché. When the two men started bothering her instead, Dinah simply smiled to herself before screaming them out of the bar.

#### Recruited into Team Arrow

Tracking Declan, Dinah intended to attack a meeting he was in when she was halted by the vigilantes of Star City; Green Arrow, Wild Dog, Red Arrow and Mister Terrific. Dinah was amused to see them and demanded to know what they wanted. When Green Arrow offered her a place on his team to call home and better hone her powers, Dinah refused and warned them that if they got in her way again, she would "send [them] back to Star City with [their] nuts in a sling". Dinah then jumped off the roof and fled.

Afterward, Dinah was able to capture Declan and brought him to her apartment room 511. There, Dinah inflected the same torture on Declan which he did to her, demanding to know Sonus' whereabouts. During this, Green Arrow and Wild Dog barged in. Before they could do anything, Dinah screamed at Declan in close range, snapping his neck. Wild Dog managed to dampen Dinah's powers with a sonic dampener. The three were soon attacked by Sonus' men. While Green Arrow and Wild Dog were distracted, Dinah escaped out the window. However, Green Arrow chased after her and shot a dummy arrow to knock her to the ground. Helping her up, Green Arrow continued to try and persuade Dinah to let them help her take down Sonus without anyone dying in the process. Green Arrow tried to explain they aren't so different, as they've both struggled to cope with trauma in their lives. Unfortunately, Dinah still wasn't interested, and knowing they were out of the sonic dampener's reach, used her powers to escape.

Finally tracking Sonus to his hideout, Dinah swiftly dispatched his men and entered his office. Sonus, however, wasn't afraid to see Dinah again and revealed that he was affected by the particle accelerator explosion as well, using his sonic wave ability to disorientate her. Just before Sonus could finish Dinah off, Green Arrow and Wild Dog showed up and saved her.

Waking up a few hours later, Dinah proceeded to continue her vendetta. But Green Arrow, in his persistence, asked Dinah again to let them help her. She denied them once again and left. As Dinah was leaving on her motorcycle, the Green Arrow appeared in front of her, revealing his identity as Oliver Queen. Oliver tried to relate with Dinah by telling her about a man in Star City who's trying to convince him that he is beyond redemption. Dinah refused to let Oliver put his issues on her, but he claimed to not want that. Oliver finally asked Dinah to let the team help her and she'll never have to see them again afterward, which she agreed to.

Following Dinah's lead, the team tracked Sonus to a rooftop, bringing in a large shipment of a new drug called Slide. With Mr. Terrific's help on comms, Dinah, Green Arrow, and Wild Dog interrupted the meeting. After dampening Sonus' powers, taking down his men, and destroying the inbound helicopter, Dinah held Sonus at gunpoint, ready to kill him. Green Arrow tried to talk her out of it, asking her what Vincent would've wanted. However, Dinah pulled the trigger and killed Sonus, saying Vincent would've wanted that. She then left the scene.

Ultimately not feeling any better than before, Dinah tracked down Oliver and learned he was the mayor of Star City. Entering his office, Oliver was surprised to see her again. Dinah expressed her disappointment in not getting closure after killing Sonus and wondered how Oliver does what he does, to which he admitted to still be working on it himself. Dinah then revealed that she and Vincent were lovers and she hated herself more than Sonus for not preventing his death. Oliver assured her that his team is about finding redemption, revealing Wild Dog, Red Arrow and Mr. Terrific's true identities as Rene Ramirez, Typhuss James Halliwell and Curtis Holt in the process. Feeling she could trust Oliver, she revealed Tina Boland was an alias for her undercover work and her real name was Dinah Drake. Seeing how Oliver was affected by the name, Dinah asked if it meant anything. Oliver revealed that a friend of his was named Dinah, and she was the reason he sought her out. Dinah then joined Team Arrow.

After joining Team Arrow and moving to Star City, Dinah started living in the abandoned H.I.V.E. headquarters.

##### Becoming Black Canary

While Oliver and Diggle were out talking to Prometheus's mother, three of the team's old foes break out of a prisoner transport to Iron Heights Prison: Liza Warner, China White, and Aviva Metula. When Oliver and Diggle returned and gave Felicity information on Prometheus, Dinah caught them up on the breakout. After giving orders to find them, Oliver reminded Dinah of her swearing-in ceremony at the SCIS. Diggle took the time to congratulate her, which she appreciated. Oliver proceeded over the ceremony and welcomed her as an SCIS officer.

After learning the three escapees were after the late Tobias Church's money spot, Felicity was able to track them to Oak Hill Memorial. Before Dinah could go out with Wild Dog and Mister Terrific, Felicity stopped her, suggesting she wear a mask. When Felicity gave her Laurel Lance's Black Canary mask, Dinah was overwhelmed, feeling she wasn't ready to fill her predecessor's shoes. Felicity assured her it was just the mask.

Wearing her vigilante suit, Dinah used her scream to stop Warner, China White, and Shadow Thief from escaping with Church's money. When the escapees' hired men showed up, Dinah took China White on by herself. After a brief battle, Dinah managed to scream China White away from her and into Green Arrow's grasp. The rest of the SCPD soon showed up, led by Captain Frank Pike, and took the criminals into custody. Later at the precinct, Dinah spotted Quentin coming out of Warner's interrogation room. When Quentin talked about her taking up Laurel's mantle, Dinah confessed she wasn't ready to replace her. However, Quentin assured her that Laurel didn't want a replacement, but someone to carry on her legacy.

### Leaving Team Arrow

After being a member of Team Arrow for years, Dinah left the team and went on her own to act as a hero in Star City.

### Joining Team Black Canary

When Laurel formed her own vigilante team, Dinah joined Team Black Canary and fought alongside Laurel to protect Star City.

### Powers

* **Meta-human physiology:** After Dinah was struck by the energy of the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion, her DNA and cells were altered to augment her vocal cords, allowing her access to her powers.
	+ **Superhuman sonic scream:** Dinah obtained the ability to produce supersonic vibrations through her scream called the "canary cry" and focus it in concentrated directions, which can reach a range of at least 183 decibels. Drake's sonic scream is highly potent in combat situations, as she is known for disabling opponents by hurtling backward them through the air or inducing internal hemorrhaging at close range with concussive force alone. At a higher magnitude, her scream was powerful enough to stop a moving train, which is comparable to over 900,000 newtons of force. Dinah's scream was stated to be more refined than Laurel Lance's.
* **Sound immunity:** Dinah is immune to her own powers or any other meta-human with similar sonic scream-based powers.

#### Abilities

* **Peak of human physical condition:** As a SCIS captain and superheroine, Dinah is in top physical condition. Her strength allows her to take on and swiftly incapacitate much larger adversaries. Dinah is even strong enough to flip her opponents over her shoulder and her reflexes allows her to easily dodge sonic screams. Dinah has sremarkable durability and resilience since she was able to recover with no visible injuries after being knocked down by an explosion from a sonic scream battle and pinned underneath heavy rubble. Her conditioning allows her to recover from most injuries very quickly, though not superhumanly.
	+ **Acrobatics/Free-running:** Dinah is very nimble, having developed free-running and acrobatics skills. She can drop from a height of several feet without injuring herself.
	+ **Honed senses:** Dinah has sharp hearing and sight, as well as keen skills of perception. She is able to pick up an incoming danger and react extremely quickly; for example, she instantly deduced a sniper's presence and was able to save the target.
* **High-level intellect/Expert detective/Expert tactician:** Dinah is a sharp-witted individual and a highly skilled tactician, as an undercover cop, she has excellent skill in subterfuge, having successfully worked underground in and dismantled multiple criminal gangs/organizations, Dinah even spent three years undercover in Sean Sonus's gang without being caught, as a SCIS detective, Dinah is an experienced tracker, having formulated a network to figure out where Sonus was hiding, she was even able to track down Laurel Lance on her own in her pursuit of revenge, Dinah is also an excellent investigator, as she worked with Quentin Lance and Curtis Holt to root out the corrupt SCIS officers in the SCIS. Dinah gained multiple skills from her undercover work, which she utilizes as a vigilante.
* **Safe-cracking:** Dinah has considerable knowledge in safe-cracking, having once worked undercover in a safe-cracking gang. Using these skills, she came up with the idea to use hydrochloric acid to weaken the titanium hatch of an EMP-impacted Arrowcave to rescue Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak, which would also ensure that the high levels of leaking methane gas wouldn't be ignited.
* **Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** As a SCIS captain and vigilante, Dinah is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, in one such sighting, she subdued three much larger men with relative ease, after taking on the mantle of Black Canary, Dinah is now able to defeat several criminals at once with or without weapons, hold her own for a while against China White, and effectively hit Vigilante, she was implied to have put up a good fight against Prometheus's team before being captured, Dinah could also battle against Laurel on equal footing and managed to stalemate her in their first duel on Lian Yu, but Laurel managed to best her on three subsequent occasions, after a few more months of training and Vincent's death, Dinah's skills have greatly improved, albeit partially fueled by rage; she easily pummeled John Diggle while his right arm was injured, disarmed and knocked down Quentin (though he didn't want to fight her) and put up a stronger fight against Laurel in their first encounter, in their second encounter, Dinah fought Laurel unarmed, eventually managing to overpower and pin the latter against a car, though it's possible that she caught Laurel off-guard, alongside Curtis and Rene Ramirez, Dinah managed to go head-on against and briefly push back Earth-X Oliver, but the trio was eventually bested, she also stood firm against Silencer, a member of the Longbow Hunters twice and was able to gain the upper hand for a while before being defeated, Dinah even managed to briefly push Silencer back in their second encounter, she also was able to subdue several of James Midas' men on her own with pure ease, and fought evenly against Aviva Metula, eventually besting her with little effort, while trying to help Sara Lance, Dinah was able to briefly fight off Laurel on her own while using her bo-staff, though Laurel managed to quickly knock her down. Dinah's fighting style appears to include boxing, karate, kickboxing, kung fu, judo, krav maga and tae kwon do.
	+ **Expert markswoman:** Having been a high-ranking SCIS officer in two different cities, Dinah is highly in the use of firearms. During a shootout with Sean Sonus' men, she was able to effectively fire even while dodging incoming shots. Dinah was also able to shoot Laurel in the stomach despite being pushed back by the latter's sonic scream.
	+ **Master stick-fighter:** Dinah learned stick-fighting during an undercover mission with the Pilgrims. She used a bo-staff while sparring with John, who praised her skills. Since joining Team Arrow, stick-fighting has become Dinah's signature tactic in battle against her adversaries. During a fight with Silencer, Dinah used a metal wrench to battle her, but was ultimately bested. Later, Dinah's skills improved to the point where she could instantly defeat several assassins without assistance.
	+ **Expert knife-wielder:** Dinah is accomplished in using knives, as she was prepared to fend off Laurel with a dagger.
* **Indomitable will/High tolerance for pain:** In spite of Dinah's personal demons, she is a very resilient and driven women, having spent three years alone hunting down Sonus. When Vincent was murdered by Laurel, Dinah was relentlessly determined to get revenge, driving her to overpower Laurel in their last two encounters. Dinah also has a very high tolerance for pain; despite two weeks of brutal torture from Sonus' men, she remained defiant throughout and refused to tell them anything. After crashing into a rail with pottery due to a sonic scream shockwave and struggling to move for a couple minutes, Dinah soon got back up on her feet and continued fighting alongside her team. Similarly, she quickly stood up after being thrown against some cars by Laurel's scream and pinned underneath large debris by Cayden James' bomb.
* **Stealth:** Due to her experiences in law enforcement, Dinah is skilled in stealth. She was able to ambush Vigilante as he tried to kill Emily Pollard and Laurel as she attempted to flee Star City.

## Equipment

* **Black Canary suit:** Dinah wears a protective black leather suit as Black Canary to hide her identity from her enemies when she goes out fighting crime. She was presented by Felicity Smoak with a mask to wear in the field to better protect her identity. Later Dinah received a new mask and suit.
* **Bulletproof vest:** Dinah wears bulletproof vests whenever she is out on the field with the Star City SCIS Department and while she was assisting Felicity, Rene Ramirez, Typhuss and Samanda Watson in tracking down Ricardo Diaz.
* **Expandable batons:** As Black Canary, Dinah uses a pair of black expandable batons in battle, which are capable of combining into a bo-staff.
* **Phasers:** Dinah often uses one or two phasers when operating in the field.
* **Gloves:** Before being recruited by Oliver, Dinah wore gloves suitable for her in fist-fighting.
* **Bo-staff:** Dinah carried a bo-staff as her signature weapon along with expandable batons.