Dinah Drake

*"John, living in the shadows is when all the worst things happen. Oliver going to prison, Vince first undercover, and then... That's the real reason, because as much as I believed in Team Arrow, I had to move on. I had to be a different kind of hero for this city."*
―Dinah Drake to John Diggle[src]Captain **Dinah Drake**, formerly known undercover as **Tina Boland**, is a meta-human superheroine. She was an undercover detective for the Central City Police 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. She became a detective in the Star City Police Department and helped Team Arrow fight Prometheus. Dinah became close friends with its members, particularly John Diggle, Rene Ramirez, and Curtis Holt. During the final battle with Prometheus on Lian Yu, Dinah met her rival, Laurel Lance/Black Siren.

During the team's fight against Cayden James, Dinah found out that Vincent was still alive and operating as "Vigilante" and eventually rekindled their relationship. After learning that Oliver, Diggle, and Felicity Smoak had violated her privacy, along with Rene and Curtis, to learn who betrayed Oliver to the F.B.I., Dinah left Team Arrow. She, Curtis, and Rene eventually formed New Team Arrow. After Vincent was truly killed by Laurel, Dinah returned to her vengeance ways, putting her at odds with her former teammates. It wasn't until Ricardo Diaz became a bigger threat than the two teams could handle alone did Dinah, Curtis, and Rene finally reconcile with and rejoin Team Arrow to take him down. In the process, Dinah began to move on from her vendetta against Laurel.

After Quentin Lance's death at the hands of Diaz and Oliver's sentence to prison, Dinah became the new captain of the SCPD after her predecessor, Kimberly Hill, was arrested for being on Diaz's payroll. She maintained a strained relationship with Laurel and chose to leave to the vigilante life behind until realizing that sometimes, going outside the law is needed to help the city. Dinah now works alongside Oliver (who was recently released from prison), John, and Rene in the SCPD.

While searching for the serial killer Stanley Dover, Dinah's throat was slit, leaving her voice damaged. Upon recovering, Dinah learned that the damage to her vocal cords was so severe that she couldn't use her sonic scream anymore. However, she continued to operate as the Black Canary in the team's fight against Oliver's half-sister, Emiko Adachi, and the Ninth Circle. After teaming up with Felicity and Sara Lance to stop Laurel from becoming Black Siren again, Dinah completely let go of her mistrust towards the former meta-human criminal and the two became friends.

After the destruction and restoration of the multiverse, J'onn J'onzz restored her Earth-1 memories and she helped to stop the Anti-Monitor. She attended Oliver’s funeral to honor her friend. Dinah decided to move to Metropolis to start a new life. However, the day after the funeral, Dinah was mysteriously taken to the new future of the year 2040, and her prior history as a vigilante was erased from the timeline. She remained there, opening a bar and living a normal life, retiring from vigilantism and her job as a SCPD captain.

When Laurel appeared, needing her help to avert a dark future, Dinah came out of retirement, becoming Black Canary once again. She chose to fight alongside Laurel Lance/Black Canary and Mia Queen/Green Arrow to defend Star City as a member of a heroine team in 2040.