Laurel Lance (Earth-24)

* Civilian
* Black Canary

**Dinah Laurel Lance** was trained by Wildcat alongside Bruce Wayne to follow in her mother's footsteps as the next **Black Canary**. She joined the Justice League after the Thanagarian invasion, where she developed a romantic relationship with Green Arrow.

## History

### Early Life

Laurel Lance grew up in the shadow of her late mother's exploits never knowing the truth about how her mother passed on. Wildcat promised to Lance's mother that he would watch over her as long as he lived. As the second Black Canary, Lance trained under the Justice Society of America as their star pupil and became a superb athlete and fighter in her own right. She also her mother's metagene that gave her the ability to project sonic screams which was nicknamed "Canary Cry." In time, she learned how to make subtle use of her power and can project it as a whistle or a high intensity wave. Laurel became highly skilled in Judo and Boxing from which she learned the second from Wildcat. One of the cities she patrols is Gotham City and openly flirted with her old classmate, Batman. Laurel was one of the many Justice League members who joined after the Thanagarian invasion.

### Green Arrow

Green Arrow soon noticed the shapely blonde bombshell, and decided to stick around to meet her. Canary used this infatuation when she recruited him on a personal mission: trying to persuade Wildcat to get out of Meta-Brawl fighting.

Black Canary and Green Arrow visited Wildcat, but he didn't budge. With this approach not working, Black Canary opted to destroy the Meta-Brawl instead. During the fight with some of the Brawl's fighters, Black Canary took to a different plan: she proposed to the Meta-Brawl's owner, Roulette, to fight Wildcat herself. Should she win, Wildcat would be banned from all events, should she lose, nothing would change. Roulette accepted.

Green Arrow had a different plan. He used knock out gas on Black Canary and took her spot in the ring. Wildcat was opposed to fighting the less-skilled Green Arrow, but after some taunting words by Green Arrow, Wildcat gave everything.

The two men fought a one-sided battle, with Green Arrow taking punch after punch. Black Canary watched in horror, stopped from interfering by Roulette's guards. The fight reached an eerie climax as Green Arrow fell, seemingly killed by the abuse. Rushing to Green Arrow and professing her love for him over his dead body, he turned out to be alive. He explained he used a stunner to trigger a metabolic stasis so that he would appear to have died in the fight. Wildcat resigned from the Meta-Brawl with disgust over (seemingly) killing someone, whilst Canary took down the ring and the stands with her canary cry. Later, they returned to the Watchtower, where Wildcat was getting help from J'onn, and Black Canary and Green Arrow officially began their romantic relationship.

### Return of Per Degaton

Despite growing into a hero in her own right, the Justice Society of America still treated her as a student and child, mostly because they thought of her as their own daughter. However, she interpreted their affection with resentment and thought they valued Batman more. Wildcat finally revealed the event of her mother's death to her. She then convinced Wildcat that it was time to join the battle against Per Degaton. She disarmed Degaton of the Spear of Destiny and destroyed his army with her sonic scream. She also damaged the Spear. Despite Batman's warning, Per Degaton still used it and neutralized himself and his crony, Professor Zee.

### Protecting Mandragora

Green Arrow and Black Canary were assigned to assist Agent Danvers in guarding crime lord Steven Mandragora from the Huntress and ensure that he made it to the intended grand jury hearing. A series of verbal exchanges as well as Canary punching Mandragora resulted in Danvers putting them on perimeter watch.

Coincidentally Mandragora's thugs, as well as Huntress, arrive at the safe house at the same time. Huntress did not come alone, she brought Question. Arrow and Canary were already alerted to the possibility that they might encounter Huntress as the latter had personal history with Mandragora. The four heroes fight, leaving Mandragora free to escape with his thugs Tony and Cecil.

Arrow and Canary overcame Question and Huntress, but not in time to prevent Mandragora's escape. Now with Mandragora on the loose it became urgent to recover him. Thinking Question knows where he has gone, Arrow pressed Question for information. Question turned over a key, but Green Arrow saw through the misdirection.

On Black Canary's motorcycle, the Green Arrow and Black Canary tailed Question's Pontiac in the hopes that it would lead them to Mandragora. Question spotted them with ease, so he tried to lose them by using a car trailer ramp to launch his vehicle up to the tracks above street level and Canary followed suit. Question and Huntress in the car narrowly dodged the oncoming train. It was only due to Arrow requesting an emergency transport that he and Canary beam out just before the train crushed Canary's motorcycle. The loss of her bike infuriated Canary, but at least they were able to catch up to Question and Huntress in the docks.

Arrow and Question engaged the voluminous Mandragora first, but he fended them off with ease. Canary took her shot by using her sonic cry on him, which similarly failed to do anything except shred his jacket and shirt. Canary was soon drained and fell to the ground.

Mandragora seized her only to have Huntress emerge aiming her crossbow at him. He dropped Canary and turned to face Huntress. If not for the Question then Huntress might have killed her parents' murderer yet it was also the appearance of Mandragora's son, Edgar, that further turned her away from killing the crime lord.

### Ultimen Invasion

When the Founding Members of the Justice League turned themselves over to federal custody during the Cadmus crisis, those still aboard the power drained Watchtower faced an assault from an army of Ultimen clones. Canary was one of many Leaguers to engage the clones in battle. She used her canary cry, but was overtaken by Shifter from behind.

### Glamour Slam

Roulette was out for revenge, and used Sonar to place Black Canary and several other female Leaguers—Fire, Vixen, Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman—under mind control to fight in the new Meta-Brawl, "Glamor Slam"—all girl cage fights. With the help of the Huntress, they were all freed and Roulette was defeated. Afterward, she offered to get Huntress back into the League, but Huntress turned the offer down.

### Darkseid's Invasion

During Darkseid's second invasion of Earth, Black Canary fought off parademons in Rome with Green Arrow, Doctor Light and Bizarro. She took out several of them with her canary cry.

After the invasion, Black Canary, Green Arrow and the rest of the Justice League went after the super villains they had previously teamed up with.

### Crisis on Infinite Earth

During Crisis on Infinite Earths, Laurel as well as everyone in the multiverse, except for the seven Paragons, were killed in an antimatter wave by the Anti-Monitor, only to be restored a month later, after the Spectre created a new multiverse, restoring Earth-24.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Canary Cry:** Laurel is able to emit a sonic scream that comes from her voice. Her cry can produce enough force to launch a fully-grown human and other heavy objects back several feet, kill a human being by causing internal hemorrhaging or snapping their neck at close-range, and easily turn over a moving armored truck.
* **Sound Immunity:** Laurel is immune to her own powers or any meta-human with similar sonic scream-based powers.

### Abilities

* **Peak of Human Physical Condition:** As a trained superhero, Laurel is in top physical condition. Her strength allowes her to take on and swiftly incapacitate much larger adversaries. Her conditioning allows her to recover from most injuries very quickly, though not superhumanly.
	+ **Acrobatics/Free-running:** Laurel is very nimble, having developed free-running and parkour skills. She could drop from a height of several feet without injuring herself.
	+ **Honed Senses:** Laurel 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
* **Keen Intellect/Expert Detective/Expert Tactician:** Laurel is a sharp-witted individual and a highly trained tactician.
	+ **Expert driver/Pilot:** Laurel is capable of driving multiple vehicles, such as cars and motorcycles.
* **Master Hand-to-hand Combatant/Martial Artist:** As a highly-skilled vigilante, Laurel is a highly trained hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. She is also able to defeat several criminals at once with or without weapons. Laurel's fighting style appears to include boxing, judo, mauy thai, hapkido, aikido, sambo, krav maga, karate, kung fu, kickboxing, and tae kwon do.
	+ **Expert Markswoman:** Laurel is highly trained in the use of many types of firearms.
	+ **Master Stick-Fighter:** Laurel weapon of choice is a tactical tonfa, which she uses in the field while operating as the Black Canary.
	+ **Master Knife Wielder/Knife Thrower:** Laurel can throw knives in long-range combat with impressive accuracy and is very skilled even with using knives in close combat.
* **Indomitable Will/High Tolerance for Pain:** Laurel is known to be a very resilient and driven women, almost stubbornly so (a trait she inherited from her mother). She also has a high tolerance for pain.

## Equipment

* **Black Canary Suit:** Laurel wears a protective suit as Black Canary.
* **Tactical Tonfas:** As Black Canary, Laurel uses a tonfa or side-handle baton, similar to the ones used by police officers.
* **Guns:** Laurel is skilled in using multiple types of firearms. She keeps a pistol holstered on her left leg when in the field, though only used it in emergencies.
* **Motorcycle:** Laurel uses a custom-made motorcycle as her main form of transportation.

## Trivia

* Unlike most of her counterparts, it is unknown whom Laurel's father was, but it can be assumed that it was a counterpart of Quentin Larry Lance. Similarly, Dinah only had one daughter opposed to two, presumably because of her early demise.
* Unlike her mother, Laurel doesn't wear a mask.