Laurel Lance/Earth-2

*For other people who used the "Canary" identity, see Canary.*

## Laurel Lance

*"If you're trying to live up to us, don't. We are just as flawed as anyone, especially me. All you can do is live up to yourself."*
―Laurel Lance to Mia Smoak[src]
**Laurel Lance** is a reformed meta-human criminal-turned-district attorney and later vigilante. Originally from Earth-2, Laurel was a citizen of Starling City and later Central City. She is the daughter of a late unnamed man, the sister of an unnamed woman, the maternal aunt of an unnamed child, and the girlfriend of the late Oliver Queen. After exposure to the dark matter released from Harrison Wells's S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, Laurel gained the power to scream at high frequencies. Bitter and heartbroken due to both her father and boyfriend's deaths, she chose to use these powers for evil, adopting the name **Black Siren**, and became a high-ranking lieutenant of a meta-human group led by the speedster known as Zoom.

Laurel was brought over to Earth-1 to participate in the Metapocalypse and personally fought The Flash until she was defeated by Team Flash and imprisoned in the S.T.A.R. Labs pipeline. Half a year later, she was released by the serial killer Adrian Chase and aided in his vendetta against Oliver Queen, culminating in the destruction of Lian Yu. Surviving this, Laurel was rescued by Cayden James and joined his cabal until he was killed by Ricardo Diaz and the group disbanded. Afterward, Laurel revealed herself to the public (pretending to be her late Earth-1 counterpart) in order to get protection from Diaz.

In a misguided attempt to protect herself and her father's Earth-1 counterpart, she joined Diaz's criminal organization, acting as his mole inside Team Arrow. However, having grown fond of Quentin and Oliver, Laurel soon betrayed Diaz in favor of Team Arrow. After a battle against Diaz, Laurel was devastated when Quentin, whom she had come to see as her own father, was killed while saving her. After Oliver was sentenced to prison, Laurel became the new district attorney of Star City, replacing Sam Armand. Her relationship with Team Arrow remained strained aside from Felicity Smoak, whom she became close friends with.

Laurel briefly returned to her criminal activities after Emiko Adachi framed her for murder, but was ultimately successful in pursuing redemption with the help of Felicity, Dinah Drake, and Sara Lance. Upon deciding to return to Earth-2 to right her wrongs, Felicity gave Laurel her Earth-1's counterpart's suit, allowing her to take up the mantle as **Black Canary** of Earth-2, where she formed her own team of vigilantes. She later returned to Earth-1 in order to help Oliver and Team Arrow in the final battle against the Ninth Circle. Sometime later her Earth was completely destroyed by antimatter, forcing her to return to Earth-1 as a refugee.

In an erased future in the original multiverse, Laurel maintains a close friendship with Dinah and Felicity and assists the Canaries in their fight to restore Star City.

In the new multiverse, Laurel finds that she was restored on Earth-Prime instead of the Laurel of Earth-1. She attended Oliver's funeral to honor the individual who gave her a chance to be a hero. Laurel eventually traveled to Star City of 2040 to protect it as a member of a heroine team, alongside Dinah Drake/Black Canary and Mia Queen/Green Arrow.