Dinah Drake

* Civilian
* Black Canary

**Dinah Drake** is a Meta-human Vigilante. Dinah is a resident of Star City. She is the daughter of Richard Drake and an unnamed woman, she is also the wife of Oliver Queen and the daughter in law of the late Robert Queen and Moira Queen. After Oliver was presumably dead from the accident on the Queen's Gambit, Dinah acquired the ability to scream at high frequencies. In 2014, Inspired by what happened to Star City, Dinah and the recently brought back Oliver decided to help people, adopting the names **Black Canary** and the **Green Arrow.** 7 years later, the newly named Team Arrow is confronted by a new archer called Merlyn.

## Biography

### Early Life

Dinah Drake was born to Richard Drake an an unnamed woman in Star City.

In 2005, Dinah meets billionaire playboy Oliver Queen and they eventually get married.

One night on the *Queen's Gambit*, Oliver was in bed with Dinah as they drank wine and flirted. Suddenly, the yacht sank. Oliver then fell out as he swooshed into the ocean. After Oliver was presumably dead, on June 30th, 2014, Dinah was under extreme stress and went to a bar and while she was under stress, she accidentally activated the "Meta-Gene" in her body which allowed her to shatter every piece of glass in the bar. Scared and confused, Dinah spent 7 years perfecting and honing her abilities. One month after her powers activated, she encounter a person that acted like a ninja and had the exact same powers as Dinah. This inspired Dinah to fight crime in Star City but after hearing that her husband was alive, she wanted to protect Star City with him.

In 2014, when Oliver returned to Star City, the two become vigilantes and eventually adapting to their code names (Green Arrow and Black Canary).

### Team Arrow meets Bat Team

When Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson go to Russia, they meet Dinah and Oliver which resolves to both teams working together.

### White Canary

On March 16th, 2021, Sara Lance also known as the White Canary returned to Star City for unknown reasons. When Dinah learned about it, she wanted to finish what she started 7 years ago. As soon as she was cornered in an ally, the hooded archer known as Merlyn abducted her to recruit into the Killer Elite.

### The Reign of Darkseid

Afterwards, when Darkseid found and activated the Anti-Life Equation, Dinah, along with six other heroes were the only beings in existence with free will. Two weeks later, along with the other six heroes, Dinah later became a founding member of The Justice League.

## Personality

Dinah is idealistic, intelligent, hard-working, and fights hard to get what she wants. Dinah can be stubborn, feisty, and independent and doesn't like to be told what to do.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Meta-human physiology:** After Dinah unlocked her metagene, her DNA mutated and enhanced her vocal cords.
	+ **Superhuman sonic scream:** Dinah is able to emit a sonic scream that comes from her voice. Her scream is powerful enough to produce enough force to launch a full-grown human and other heavy objects back several feet.
		- **Flight**: Dinah's sonic scream allows her to fly.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Dinah possesses superhuman resilience, most commonly seen from being unaffected by momentum build-up.

### Abilities

* **Peak of human physical condition:** Dinah is in exceptional physical form, having a powerful physique. She is strong enough to swiftly incapacitate, hurl through the air, or even break the neck of a grown man and beat up much larger foes with ease, as well as break a wooden door with a single kick.
	+ **Acrobatics/Free-running:** Since becoming Black Canary, Dinah has developed free-running skills and her skills allow her to fluidly dodge and attack from different directions without losing balance. Her skills allow her to fluidly dodge and attack from different directions without losing balance.
* **Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** Dinah is a highly proficient hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist; while battling Batman, she demonstrated a series of well-coordinated punches and kicks after disorientating him with a sonic scream.
* **Stealth/Infiltration:** Dinah can quickly vanish from sight after disorienting her enemies with her sonic scream. She can just as easily catch her enemies off-guard without her powers.

### Weaknesses

* **Power-dampening tech:** Dinah powers can be neutralized using power-dampening tech.

## Equipment

* Black Canary Suit: After becoming Black Canary, Dinah designed her own suit while fighting crime.

## Appearances

### Batman

#### Season 1

* Truth, Justice and the communist way
* The Bold

#### Season 3

* Justice War Part lll
* Starling (mentioned)
* Canaries
* The Mission (mentioned)

### Man Of Steel

#### Season 5

* Crisis of Two Earths, Part One
* Access to Earth Two (mentioned)

### Emerald Archer

#### Season 1

* Pilot
* Fate Of Arrow
* Vertigo
* The Magician
* Arrow vs Bat
* Sacrifice
* Canary Cry
* Starfish Island (mentioned)
* Accusation
* Bro's before archer's
* Green Arrow
* Redemption, Part One
* Redemption, Part Two

#### Season 2

* Stop, Drop and Arrow
* New Year's Evil
* Dominator
* Injustice
* There Will Be Deadshot
* Unfinished Business
* One Armed Archer
* Mia
* Retro
* Emerald Archer
* Purgatory Part l
* Purgatory part ll

## Quotes

* "Mia I understand that you're at that age where you want to be independent, but I don't think you know how the world works"- Fate of Arrow
* "Mia. I am the Black Canary." - Sacrifice

## Behind the scenes

* Like the DC comics version of Black Canary, Dinah possesses the meta-human ability of a super sonic scream, which she can deploy to shatter objects and incapacitate her opponents. However, she is initially a villain instead of a hero.
* In the DC comics, Dinah Laurel Lance of Earth-Two is originally the second Black Canary after her mother, Dinah Drake. She moved to Earth-1 and joined the Justice League after the super-villain Aquarius killed her father and infected her mother with lethal radiation poisoning. However, since Earth-1 and Earth-2 have merged into the New Earth due to the *Crisis on Infinite Earths*, Earth-Two Dinah is now the main version of the Black Canary.

## Different Versions

* Dinah Drake - Earth Two
* Dinah - Earth Three