Sara Lance

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**Sara Lance** (December 25, 1987-October 8, 2014; November 2015-2021) was a female Human who was a former member of the League of Assassins, a vigilante, and a former member of Team Arrow. She was also the daughter of Quentin and Dinah Lance, the younger sister of Laurel Lance, and the ex-lover/close friend of Oliver Queen.

After the Queen's Gambit went down in November 21, 2007, Sara was presumed dead. After being rescued by Anthony Ivo and spending almost 2 years on the Amazo, and Lian Yu, she was recruited by the League of Assassins. She left the organization and returned to Starling City under the vigilante moniker **The Canary**, a translation of her League name as ***Ta-er al-Usfar*** (Arabic: الطائر الأصفر; for *Yellow Bird*), and stayed to protect her sister, Laurel, before she was forced to leave due to the League following her, trying to bring her back. She was eventually released from the League of Assassins by her former lover, Nyssa. Following this, she joined Team Arrow and began a relationship with Oliver. Sara soon rejoined the League as her part of a deal for their help in defeating . Sara eventually returned to Starling following Malcolm Merlyn, but was killed by Thea Queen's hand, manipulated and drugged by Malcolm.

## Biography

### Early life

Sara Lance was born on December 25, 1987 to Quentin and Dinah Lance and has a older brother named David Lance and an older sister named Laurel Lance. When Sara was 10 years old, her father bought her a canary pet which she loved, but it drove everyone else crazy. During her high school years, Sara was bullied by some of her classmates because she was making a move on one of her classmate's boyfriends. The frequent occurrences of her getting bullied caused behavior issues from Sara, and caused her grades to drop. This led to her father teaching her and Laurel how to defend themselves. Sara was a rebellious teenager when she was growing up. She and her father were estranged for for some time. At some point Sara met Tommy Merlyn and Oliver Queen.

According to Sara, she dated numerous guys who tried getting her drunk in the hopes they could coerce her into having sex. However, this never did turn out that way. Sara proved herself to have an abnormally strong tolerance for alcohol; she always drank the guys under the table.

When she was a kid, she played as Peter Pan in a play in, when she came out her mind went blank in which she decided to tap dance and then ran off crying.

Sara developed a crush on Oliver and even snuck out of the house to go to a secret party that Tommy held; however, she was pulled in by the cops and grounded by her father. Sara would later believe that it was Laurel that tipped off the cops so as to ruin Sara's chances with Oliver as one month later, Oliver and Laurel began dating; however, it remains unclear as to whether or not Laurel actually did this. In late 2007, Laurel wanted to move in together with Oliver which freaked Oliver out so he started cheating on her with Sara.

Later, Sara returned home to her family for a three-day weekend from college but was secretly texting Oliver. Laurel talked to her and told her about moving in with him and Sara tried to talk to her about Oliver’s reputation for sleeping with everyone, but Laurel took this as Sara being a bitch. Sara then agreed to Oliver’s offer and decided to go with him on the Queen's Gambit voyage with him. Before she left, her mother came home early and saw her pack her “Starling Rockets” cap in a bag. Dinah tried to convince Sara not to go but after telling her that she was in love and had to do what she felt was right, Dinah let her go. During their sail at sea, the ship was sabotaged (by Malcolm Merlyn) and sank and Sara was pulled under causing Oliver to believe that she had drowned. However, Sara managed to swim to the surface on the other side of the wreck and was marooned on a piece of the ship for days.

Sara's apparent death had multiple effects on the Lance family. For Laurel, she found herself unable to grieve because Sara betrayed her by sleeping with Oliver but found herself unable to be angry because she had died. Quentin fell into a deep state of depression which saw him become an alcoholic and would often pass out in the bar and became obsessed with his work to ignore the pain and took every case without pause. Sara was also the first and last thought of Quentin's mind everyday and took him years to get past that point. His drinking and work obsession leads Dinah to divorcing him and left for Central City.

### The Amazo

A few days after the wreck accident Sara was found by a ship called the Amazo who took her on board the ship but they instead put her in a cell where other people were held. Later the crew dragged her out of the cell and were going to take her away, but they were stopped by a grey haired man who took Sara to his quarters instead. This man introduced himself as Dr. Anthony Ivo who told Sara when she asked that she was going to save the human race, and asked if she would join him. Anthony told Sara that he was looking for a serum created by the Japanese in World War II called Mirakuru (Japanese for Miracle) which could increase muscle strength, enhance senses and regenerate cells but the submarine sunk somewhere in the chain of islands nearby. For the next year Sara would be protected by Anthony from the cruelty of his men and would teach her many skills in the field of biology and technology but would assist Anthony in torturing his men and was secretly glad that she wasn’t one of them. However, Sara would still feel a sense of loyalty towards him for saving her life no matter how dark it seemed he got. One year later she meets a confused Oliver, but kicks him stating that prisoners do not speak and walks away. She helped Oliver slightly whilst he was a prisoner on the Amazo. However, that was soon realized to be a ruse to see if his friends Slade Wilson and Shado were still alive on Lian Yu. However, when the ship captain tried to kill Oliver, Sara instead suggested keeping him alive to find the gravesite, which Anthony agreed to.

### Time on Lian Yu

She went with Oliver, Dr. Anthony, and the crew of the Amazo onto the island to the plane, and watched as Anthony ordered his men to attack Slade and Shado after Oliver screamed for them to run before Anthony left a bomb in the plane and had Oliver lead them to the gravesite.

When they arrived at the cave, the guards started torturing Oliver for the hōzen on the bodies, but Shado and Slade ambushed the crew at arrow and gun point and demanded Oliver back. When Anthony released him, Oliver punched the Captain in the face, grabbed Sara, and escaped.

The hōzen Oliver found had coordinates on it, which was revealed to house the location of the submarine Anthony discovered with the cure to save all of mankind. After Sara revealed this to them, Oliver asked if it could cure Slade. They used the hōzen to find the sub and they did. They boarded it and they found the Mirakuru. Oliver injected Slade, even when Sara told him that Slade would not survive it, Slade began to react to the serum and had no heartbeat. Then Anthony and his men came inside the room and captured them. Anthony took Sara and Shado hostage and held them in front of Oliver, telling him to pick who would die between Shado and Sara, threatening to kill them both if Oliver didn't decide within 30 seconds. Oliver chose to save Sara and Anthony killed Shado just as Slade awakened and saved Oliver and Sara. She covered for Oliver by saying that Anthony just shot Shado for no apparent reason.

They buried Shado and Sara warned Oliver not to tell Slade why Shado died, because he now has the Mirakuru inside of him so he is unpredictable and learning the truth behind Shado's death would not end well. As they were walking, they asked Slade where they were going and he said that he is going back to the plane to get weapons to kill Anthony. But Sara told him he would not be able to take them on alone and he grabbed Oliver by the neck and began to choke him and Sara had to hit Slade with a stick to make him stop. Later Anthony called them on their radio and gave them ten days to deliver the Mirakuru to him and in return he would give them safe passage off the island. Sara then came and told Oliver that Slade is gone and took the Mirakuru with him.

Sara and Oliver went to the plane to find Slade, but he was not there. Sara suggested they could accept Anthony's offer but Oliver turned it down immediately. As they argued, Sara explained that she learned a lot and Oliver said he did too: "you can't trust anyone". Later they talked and Oliver, feeling guilty, apologized for what had happened to them. When Oliver fell asleep, Sara took the communication and walked out and talked to Anthony. Anthony tried to persuade her to come back to him. Sara explained that when he took her in she felt like he was her savior and she felt part of something bigger, but it was only because she didn't want to see how he was torturing the people on the boat and how she was glad she was not one of them. Then she told him that she would rather die than be part of it. She then ended the call, only to see Oliver had listened to the conversation and she had now earned his trust.

They used the sensor grid to find Slade and they discovered that Slade is at the caves and when they got there, he was gone and they found a drawing on one of the walls and Oliver remembered that they where calculations for the missile launcher and Slade intended to open fire on the freighter with it. They ran to find Slade and they did and Slade held Oliver at gun point, but Oliver convinced him not to destroy the freighter by telling him that Shado would have wanted him to get back home. Slade commented that they are still stuck on the island and Oliver said that they will take the freighter together.

Oliver, Sara, and Slade continued to observe the ship looking for any means of getting on board but they heard a plane flying overhead but when they tried to get its attention it was shot down by Anthony's missiles. When they found it they found the pilot bleeding and dying and Sara told Oliver and Slade to get the medical supplies, but the man died anyway. But before dying he gave Sara a photo of his daughter Cindy and asked her to take care of her should she get off the island, though his death was not in vain, as Ollie found a parachute.[14] Planning to take the freighter, Sara prepared an herb-like substance which could counter any serum exposed to him, specifically truth serum. Oliver then asks Sara that should he not survive to tell his family that he didn't die the same selfish person that they knew; Sara ask Oliver the opposite to tell her family that she died on Gambit as she believed that they would be horrified by want she became as she was. Sara and Oliver also discussed what they should do with the Mirakuru and they voted to destroy it which Slade further agreed with. As Sara and Oliver watched it burn in a fire, Sara convinced Oliver that he needed to kill Anthony before Slade found him as Anthony would turn the situation around and Slade would target Oliver and herself. Once Oliver allowed himself to get captured, he mislead the guards and Sara parachuted onto the freighter with Slade and she proceeded to free the prisoners. However Hendrick started strangling her to death but Thomas knocked him out as they re-joined Anatoly and Oliver but discovered that Slade had learned the truth and she told Oliver that they needed to get off once the ship started blowing up. Though Sara, Thomas, Anthony, and Hendrick made it to shore Oliver was captured by Slade again.

Sara and the others made it back to the plane wreck but Slade soon after called them demanding Hendrick to fix the ship’s broken engine and in turn would hand Oliver and Ivo both to her. However Sara tried to cover for Hendrick saying that he died but Slade begun to torture Oliver and threatened to kill him within the hour unless Hendrick was handed over. Upon hearing this, Hendrick pointed a gun at her before Peter and Anatoly distracted him, allowing Sara to knock him out with a pipe before agreeing to Slade’s terms.[16] As Peter and Anatoly argued over handing Hendrick over to Slade, Sara got the idea to use Hendrick to kill Slade. Anatoly then dug up a landmine for her and she proposed rigging it to Hendrick to take out Slade once he came for him. When Slade caught onto the plan and threatened to let the bomb go off and kill everyone, he pointed a gun at Sara and wanted to kill her, but decided that being marooned on the island would be better.

Ivo told Sara and the others that there was a cure for Mirakuru in his quarters on the ship which could reverse the effects on Slade. Ivo then begged for a quick death which Sara was about to do, but Oliver took the gun off her and killed Ivo himself, telling her that killing changes a person and didn’t want that for her.

Oliver, Sara, Anthony and Thomas journey to the submarine where they hoped to use it to take down the Amazo and Slade, unfortunately it was stuck and in order to free it, one of them would have to sacrifice themselves to dislodge it. Thomas volunteered as he was sick with radiation. Oliver had Sara wait outside so that she would not be in danger. After Thomas sacrificed himself, Oliver called Sara only to hear her getting captured by Slade.

Slade imprisoned Sara in the Amazo cells, but Oliver arrived and freed her from her cell, with Oliver eventually convince her to try to save Slade with the cure after which Sara kisses Oliver. The two find the safe, but are too late as Slade had found out about the cure and taken it. Sara and Oliver tried to reason with Slade but he would not listen Eventually a fight broke out, after failing to return within an hour, Anatoly fired a torpedo at the Amazo and Sara was separated from Oliver in a similar fashion as she did on the Queen's Gambit, this time Oliver believing her to have died for sure.

### League of Assassins

After at least a year on Lian Yu, Nyssa al Ghul found her on the lost island of Lian Yu and took her in. Nyssa was part of the League of Assassins and at Nanda Parbat, and Sara trained with the League and became an assassin herself by swearing her allegiance to them. She also knew Maseo Yamashiro who joined the same time she did and he admired her as a warrior.

At some point during her five years with the League she and Nyssa became lovers. During her time with the League, she was told to "choose a new name". She chose "Ta-er al-Asfer" (in Arabic: الطائر الأصفر), which is Arabic for canary ("yellow bird"), reminiscent of the canary Quentin got her when she was ten. She was also trained by Ra's al Ghul as part of her league training.

### Rise of the Canary

]In 2378, Sara begun to hear stories of the Starling City vigilante, codenamed the Hood/the Arrow, wearing a green hood. Sara immediately knew that it was Oliver wearing Shado's hood. After The Undertaking Sara left Nanda Parbat to see if her family was okay. However she stayed in Starling in the shadows unwilling to return to the league and became a vigilante also who targeted mainly men who attacked women.

When Roy Harper was fighting a group of men who'd been harassing a woman, the Canary swooped in and fought off the attackers before they could beat Roy. Roy expressed shock by her sudden entrance, before she quickly left.

When the Arrow was cornered by the police led by Laurel, the Canary swooped in and used a sonic device to distract the policemen and break the windows, they used the chaos to quickly escape the scene. Sometime later, when Roy was lured into her hideout, she knocked him out with her staff. She asked why he was looking for her, but was interrupted by a message on Roy's phone from Thea telling him that Quentin and Laurel were abducted, then took off to save them letting Roy go. Canary arrived at a foundry where she fought her family's kidnapper Barton Mathis/Dollmaker. While easily beating him Mathis managed to drop a load of pipes on her which trapped her. Before he could harm her The Arrow came in and shot Mathis. Despite the Arrow's intentions to take the killer back to jail, Canary killed him instead by hurling a baton into his chest. When she returned to the tower she was confronted by a member of the league who informed her that Ra's al Ghul wanted her to return. She declined and tried to persuade him to tell he could not find her, but killed him when he refused.

Cisco noticed a pattern in the Canary's appearance, this leads to Oliver catching her to learn her identity. Oliver unmasks her and is shocked to discover that she is Sara. Oliver then reveals to John and Cisco that he thought she drowned on the Queen's Gambit, but met her a year after being shipwrecked, however he thought she had died since he last saw her. She goes back to her hideout and eats a meal. Later, she follows Oliver to Verdant where she asks if Oliver told her dad and sister about her, but he says he didn't. They converse about her hiding when Quentin arrives asking for Oliver's help about Laurel, Sara overhears the conversation about Laurel's depression. When Sara's friend, Sin, is injured by The Mayor, she and Oliver team up and takes on The Mayor and his cronies. Both work hand in hand together, even using each other's weapons. Sara is about to kill the Mayor, but Oliver convinces her not to. She spares him and lets him go. She is then seen watching Sin as she wakes up, with has company from Roy and Thea. As she is leaving, she encounters Oliver, The two leave together.

Sara begins staying with Oliver at his mansion. However, they are attacked by Al-Owal, a member of the League of Assassins. Oliver and Sara successfully fight him off, and later she reveals to Oliver and his team that she was once part of the League and now they are on the hunt to bring her back to their leader, Ra's Al Ghul. Oliver and Sara then hunt down Al-Owal, narrowly escaping with their lives. Fearing retaliation against Sara, Oliver decides to protect the whole Lance family, but Sara decides that it was time to reveal herself to her father. She then tells her father everything, bringing him up to her hideout where they are attacked by Al-Owal and his two companions. Oliver arrives and along with Quentin and Sara, defeat the assassins. Sara kills Al-Owal and leaves one to run to Ra's to tell him that her family is off limits. She then leaves Starling City, trying to draw the League away from her family, but not before making her father promise not to tell Laurel that she is alive.

Much later Oliver contacts Sara after Laurel loses her job and right to practice law and is now a drug and alcohol addict and tells her that Laurel needs her. Later when Laurel passes out when she gets home, Sara appears to her though Laurel thinks she is a hallucination.

Sara, after working out in the Arrowcave, decides to leave Starling but Oliver tries to persuade her otherwise. Then Oliver gets a call from Quentin asking for Sara, who knows she is back, and she talks to him. Sara later meets up with her father who begs her to stay but insists that she must leave. When Sara walks down a street, Nyssa al Ghul arrives and the two kiss. Sara and Nyssa go for a walk, Sara begs Nyssa to release her not wanting to kill anymore. An angered Nyssa kidnaps Sara's mother Dinah, giving Sara only 24 hours to rejoin the League or her mother dies. Oliver, Sara and Quentin track down an assassin for information but he kills himself before he can.

Sara then decides to give herself over but poisons herself as Oliver and her father arrive. The poison begins to take effect causing Sara to become weak and collapse. Nyssa holds her in her arms and cries knowing she has been poisoned. Once Oliver arrives he and Nyssa began to fight. Sara pulls herself up from the floor to tell them to stop. She weakly walks over to them before collapsing and passing out Oliver runs over to her and manages to counter the poison causing her to wake up and gasp for air. Nyssa tearfully releases her from the league as Quentin and Dinah arrive with Laurel. Later at Laurel's apartment the Lances all have a reunion but Laurel is less than happy and openly blames Sara for all the mistakes in her life in the past 6 years and kicks her out. Sara later returns to Oliver's headquarters, both of them feeling betrayed by their families and the two of them passionately kiss having sex.

Sara is reluctant to go to her homecoming party and tells Oliver to keep their relationship a secret. She attends the party but is disappointed that Laurel didn't come. When one of William Tockman's victims has been found, Sara and Oliver leave the party early to investigate. Afterwards, at the scene of another bank robbery, the Canary is able injure William, collecting a sample of his blood. Sara later analyzes it and is able to determine that William is suffering from MacGregor's disease. The Arrow and the Canary go to the address of William's sister, only to find a device that destroys the foundry's computer system.

Cisco tells Sara that she shouldn't miss her family dinner for the sake of the mission. Nervous about seeing Laurel again, Sara asks Oliver to come with her. At the dinner, Laurel realizes that Sara and Oliver are in a relationship and gets extremely angry, berating everyone at the table. When Oliver and Sara return to the Arrowcave, they find that Cisco is at Starling National Bank, hoping to catch William. The Arrow, the Canary, and Diggle meet Cisco there to help him. Cisco, saving the Canary's life, takes a bullet for her and manages to take William down by blowing up his cell phone. In the Arrowcave, Sara patches Cisco up while thanking him for what he did. Sara, after getting a job as a bartender at Verdant, is able to make amends with Laurel.

Sara recognized Slade Wilson's voice from the phone call from Oliver to Felicity, and brings Roy and Diggle to Queen Manor, believing Oliver and his family to be in danger. She somehow entered the house and went to the first floor, after which she descended the stairs as if she had been there all along, confronting Wilson while he shook hands with Roy.

Oliver had a nightmare in which he woke up next to Sara, touched her and found blood on his hand, after which Sara suddenly changed into Shado. Upon waking, Oliver left, leaving Sara asleep. Upon his return, Sara tried to get Oliver to talk about his problems, commenting on his lack of sleep, but she had no success. Later, she talked to Laurel, who was filling in an application form at Verdant. After Oliver collected his information from the Bratva, Sara confronted him again, telling him he needed help, and that Shado's death was not his fault. Oliver, believing Sara to be in great danger, told her to keep away from him. Eventually, though, Oliver came back to Sara, confessing that he could not get Slade on his own, and the two promised each other to do so together.

The Canary watched over Quentin Lance and his men trying to detain criminals, Frank Bertinelli included, and they quickly intervened. Quentin was injured which enraged Sara enough to force a criminal off the rooftop. Quentin then told Sara to show restraint next time and was fascinated that Oliver had a fling with Frank’s daughter Helena aka the Huntress. The Arrow, the Canary, and Roy then intercepted her car but found it to be her decoy. Sara tries to convince Laurel to drop of her current case when Adam Donner assigned her Frank Bertinelli's prosecution, knowing that it would make her a target of the Huntress. When Helena took control of the Courthouse, Laurel got into a fight with one of Helena's henchmen, forcing Sara, as the Canary, to intervene. As she made her way outside of the building with Laurel in tow, Laurel convinced her to help rescue the hostages. This led to her facing off against Helena. In the fight, she attempted not to kill Helena. However, Helena was able to deprive Sara of her staff and used it against her to beat her up after which she threw Sara out of a window. Sara managed to avoid falling to death and Oliver saved her when Helena tried to shoot her. Later Oliver and Sara managed to steal Frank from the police with Quentin and arrived at a meeting place with Helena and Laurel. However, a police officer opened fire on them, killing Frank and separating Oliver from Sara. The Canary then faced Helena again. Going full force she managed to win this time and wanted to kill Helena. However, Laurel begged her not to and she spared her.

Sara provided a heavy sedative to Team Arrow when they went after Slade Wilson, after he kidnapped Thea. She was present at the confrontation with Wilson, donning her Canary-outfit. Sara was also the one explaining Quentin Lance why they brought Slade Wilson in. After Wilson's release by the police, Sara partook in the attempt to follow him, driving a motorcycle and following Cisco's directions. Wilson, however, managed to escape. When Roy planned to go after Wilson on his own, and hurt Diggle in the process, Sara aimed her bow at him, stopping him long enough for Oliver to come back. She was also present at the police station when Thea Queen was released, and later when her father was arrested for working with the vigilante.

Sara later joined Oliver, Diggle, and Cisco in blowing up Queen Consolidated's Applied Sciences Division. She also visited her father in prison while Laurel was trying to get him to give up the Arrow. When Slade Wilson infiltrated the Arrowcave, Sara, Oliver, and Diggle attempted to fight him, but they were all easily taken out. During the subsequent visit to the hospital, Laurel saw Sara's scars, leading her to figure out that Sara is the Canary. The Arrow and the Canary tried to stop Deathstroke from breaking in at S.T.A.R. Labs, but arrived too late, after which they returned to their base. Sara and Laurel both visited their father after he was attacked in prison, and Laurel managed to bluff him out after he convinced her not to pursue the vigilantes anymore.

Sara was convinced that killing Roy is the only solution and armed up to kill him, against Oliver's wishes. When Roy comes to Verdant during Moira's campaign rally, the Arrow and the Canary confront him. After Roy starts strangling Thea, Sara almost shoots him, but is prevented from doing so by Sin, who stands between them until Oliver can put Roy down with poison arrows. Later, Sara confesses that she actually wanted to kill Roy, because that's what the League of Assassins taught her, what they turned her into, and doesn't believe she knows differently anymore. Sara breaks up with Oliver after telling him that he needs someone who can still see the good in things, not a killer like herself, and that she cares too much for him to be with him. As she gets on her bike, Sin arrives to ask how she is doing. Sara replies that she has had a rough day and hugs Sin goodbye. She then drives away, telling Sin that she is going to see an old friend.

Sara disappeared from Starling City, leaving her friends and family to wonder what happened to her, and where she might have went.

Sara arrived back in Starling City just in time to save Laurel from one of Slade Wilson's masked soldiers, after which Laurel reveals she knows about her secret identity. Laurel managed to get Sara out of her identity-crisis, by commenting on the fact that the innocence and beauty in her were not all gone yet. As the Canary, she saved a little girl from a burning building, causing citizens to comment on her as a hero.

Sara watched as the League of Assassins sedated Laurel. Afterwards, Sara, Nyssa, and six other assassins met up with Team Arrow, with Sara having promised to go back to Nanda Parbat with them if they'd help fight Slade Wilson and his army. Together, they assaulted the Queen Consolidated building and taking down Slade's bodyguards. Slade managed to escape, though. Quentin Lance joined them after one of Wilson's men managed to abduct Laurel. Sara, Oliver, Roy, and the assassins made their way to the Giordano Tunnel, via where Slade's army was trying to escape the city. After they neutralized the army using the Mirakuru cure, Sara and Oliver made their way to Wilson's hideout and with Cisco's help they managed to inject him with the cure, saving Laurel and Felicity. Once the city was safe, Sara said her goodbyes to Laurel and Quentin, before boarding the ship with the other Assassins.

### Hunting Malcolm Merlyn

After months away, Sara finally returned to Starling City to confirm rumors of Malcolm Merlyn's presence in Starling City. Searching for Malcolm she paid Quentin a visit and asked about a monk named Ken Zhi Jansen connected to Malcolm. Before leaving she was going to visit Laurel but overheard Felicity's communications helped Oliver take down Werner Zytle's thugs, as well as Zytle himself.

She later met up with Laurel, asking that she not tell their father that she was home. As Laurel was leaving, Sara confronted by a hooded Thea much to her confusion before being shot by three arrows from her causing her to fall off the building into an alley, where Laurel raced to find her, dead. Sara was kept in a freezer, before being buried in her previously empty grave from 2373.

Laurel later dug up Sara's body and went to Malcolm Merlyn to try and revive her until she stopped by Nyssa al Ghul, who explained to Laurel that if Sara comes back through the means of The Lazarus Pit, she will not be the same person and will not even act like a person and will also try to kill everyone around her, including her family. Sara was then buried again by Nyssa and Laurel.

## Legacy

After her death, Roy began having nightmares about him killing Sara. After believing himself to have killed Sara under Mirakuru induced rage Oliver used a mind calming method to make Roy confront the issue. However, Roy discovered that he had actually killed a police officer under Mirakuru rage but saw Sara, as he saw her at the time. A few months after her death, Thea was eventually revealed as the killer having been drugged by Malcolm Merlyn, and rather than have her hunted by the League of Assassins, Oliver took the fall for her as part of Malcolm's manipulations. Eventually, Sara's death caused Laurel to take up the mantle as Black Canary and fight criminals.

## Personality

Much like Oliver, Sara was a person who "just couldn't stay out of trouble". As the younger of two siblings, Sara was something of a "black sheep" to Laurel Lance's "golden child"; the brat and the favorite of their parents, respectively. She made unwise, often selfish decisions, such as pursuing a boy with a girlfriend while in high school, provoking physical attacks from said girlfriend and her friends in retaliation. As a teenager, Sara apparently got into some trouble, including one incident of shoplifting that her father made go away. She also had an affair with her sister's boyfriend Oliver, going on Queen's Gambit with Oliver, possibly due to the fact that she had a crush on Oliver before he started dating Laurel, which she claims Laurel knew about and possibly sabotaged to get back at Laurel for what she did to her.

However, after her near-death experience and her time spent with Dr. Anthony Ivo after being rescued by him, Sara became more apathetic and cold, more savvy with technology and science. She even confessed to helping Ivo torture his test subjects, though secretly she was terrified of being the next subject so she kept to herself. Despite Oliver being one of the reasons for her shipwreck, Sara still cared for him, so that when he is captured on the boat she does everything to stop the crew from killing him, though she was still loyal to Ivo. She used Oliver to obtain Shado and Slade Wilson's location on the island though her loyalty was shattered when Ivo called her an "ungrateful bitch" on the radio. After spending time with Oliver and Slade she also regained her sense of loyalty.

Soon after she was recruited into the League of Assassins and became a cold-hearted killer, assassin, and proficient warrior becoming more capable, headstrong and confident. Despite this, Sara never forgot about her family and still cared deeply for them, but became afraid to reveal the fact that she was alive, fearing that they'll reject what she had become.

Sara has a quiet reserved demeanour, being rather haunted, burdened by her traumatic experiences and warrior lifestyle. Becoming the vigilante "the Canary", like Oliver, Sara has displayed a sense of honor as well as guilt and remorse for her actions. She labels herself a murderer for one particular assassination where she slit a beloved father's throat which was one of the reasons she came to leaving the League. Despite this, Sara lacks a moral compass, as she can be particularly vengeful, perfectly willing to kill people who have harmed those she holds dear such as Barton Mathis, Xavier Reed and Helena Bertinelli, the latter two she only didn't execute because two people close to her convinced her not to.

## Abilities

* **Peak of human physical condition:** As a former assassin turned vigilante, Sara is in top physical condition. Despite her small frame, she is strong enough to break Al-Owal's neck and lift her own body weight while using the salmon ladder. She was strong enough to throw an arrow with enough force to incapacitate if not kill a medieval soldier. Sara has also demonstrated excellent reflexes, being able to catch an arrow from the air on multiple occasions, catch the Spear of Destiny when thrown towards her and dodge attacks from several types of weaponry such as bullets, lasers and flamethrowers.
* **League of Assassins training:** Sara has gone through all the training that members of the League does, though due to the fact that she joined the league in 2009, she is more familiar with the League's way than most of its members.
* **Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** Sara is an exceptional hand-to-hand combatant due to her training with the League of Assassins. She has demonstrated the ability to defeat multiple enemies both armed and unarmed, take down a Russian bruiser twice her size, and outfight other skilled combatants such as Helena Bertinelli, and Malcolm Merlyn.
* **Master stick fighter:** Sara's weapon of choice is a pair of extendable batons that combine to form into a bo-staff and she demonstrates great skill in stick fighting and bo-staff fighting. Using her staff she has defeated multiple armed enemies in quick succession and has competed against other skilled combatants such as Helena Bertinelli, Damien Darhk, and Oliver Queen. On one occasion, Sara was able to defeat to defeat two security guards while high on marijuana. Sara has also great accuracy when throwing her batons, as demonstrated when she killed Barton Mathis.
* **Master swordswoman:** Sara was trained in the use of swords during her time with the League. On two separate occasions, Sara was able to defeat Damien Darhk, a former candidate to the title of Ra's al Ghul in a sword fight.
* **Master knife wielder/Knife-thrower:** Sara is an expert at using knives in combat, as she uses a small knife to disarm and defeat Mr. Blake, a trained swordsman. Sara is also an expert at knife throwing as she was able to kill someone with gun before they could fire at her and deprived Darhk, a former candidate for the title of Ra's al Ghul, of his handgun with a shuriken before he could react.
* **Free running/Acrobatics:** Sara is capable of scaling buildings and running from rooftop to rooftop was ease and has been known to use a scarf to quickly descend from a ceiling. During her time in Feudal Japan, Sara performed an aerial manoeuvre in order to dodge a sword strike and kill her opponent.
* **Stealth/Infiltration:** Sara is highly capable of entering and leaving buildings without being seen, regardless of their security. She was even able to sneak up on Malcolm Merlyn, a master of stealth, who commented her skill. Sara is also able to conceal her weapons easily on her person, such as her knives and batons.
* **Indomitable will/High tolerance for pain:** Like most members of the League, Sara has shown an incredible tolerance to pain. An example of this was when Oliver was stitching a wound, Sara shows no sign of pain, not even a flinch.
* **Skilled archer:** While rarely demonstrated, Sara has been shown to be a capable archer as shown when she used Oliver's Compound bow, to shoot an arrow into the shoulder of one of Xavier Reed's goons.
* **Skilled markswoman/Firearms:** Presumably taught by her father and later the league, Sara is skilled in the use of firearms ranging from handguns to sniper rifles.
* **Medical knowledge/Toxicology:** As mentioned by her mother, Sara wanted to be a doctor when she was a child. During her time with Anthony Ivo, Sara became trained in forensics, chemistry, and first aid; she is also able to successfully identify the disease of William Tockman. Sara is also familiar with poisons, specifically Tibetan Pit Viper venom.
* **High-level intellect/Expert tactician/Leader:** Sara is a highly capable tactician, as set a trap for Al-Owal and his men when they ambushed her. While a member of Team Arrow the team often looked to Sara for guidance when Oliver wasn't available. She is also very observant, able to deduce that the employees of the Bruemburg group were not what they say they were.
* **Expert driver/Pilot:** Sara is able to drive multiple vehicles, able to pursue enemies in various vehicles mostly a motorcycle; she has also demonstrated the ability to hotwire a car.
* **Multilingual:** Sara is capable of fluently speaking English, Mandarin, Arabic, and Tibetan.

## Equipment

* **Expandable batons:** As the Canary, she used a pair of expandable batons to fight. They were able to combine into a bo-staff.
* **Knives:** Sara has used a variety of different knives, such as using a dagger to kill Suarez in Guyana in his bed, and using at least three knives when she and Oliver targeted Iris West's finances to kill the mercenaries hired by her.
* **Sara Lance's motorcycle:** Sara used a motorcycle to get around Starling City, when she was out on patrol as the Canary. It is unknown if this was her civilian motorbike.
* **The Canary suit:** Sara wore a black leather suit, the pants being reminiscent of fishnet stockings, when she fought crime as her heroine alter-ego, The Canary. Along with this, she wore a mask to hide her identity from enemies (and also from friends and family, at first).
* **Sonic device:** Sara used a handheld non-lethal sonic weapon used to disable large groups of people. It overwhelmed the hearing of everyone in the immediate vicinity, and was also capable of shattering glass. It can also be use as an improvised explosion device, when the light on the device changes, from light blue to light red, the device immediately explodes for the purpose of distraction or escape. After her death, Laurel had it modified by Cisco into the Canary Cry.

### Former equipment

* **Voice filter:** Sara used her voice filter when talking to those that didn't know her true identity, so she could successfully hide it.

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