Dinah Laurel Lance

[blackcanary]

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NAME: Dinah Laurel Lance

CODENAME: Black Canary

AGE: 24

GENDER: Female

ALLIANCE: Justice League

HEIGHT: 5’5

WEIGHT: 125

FAMILY: Dinah Laurel Lance was born to Dinah Drake, the original Black Canary, and Larry Lance.

OTHER CHARACTERS: Zatanna Zatara

APPEARENCE: Black Canary is an attractive young woman, with long blonde hair, blue eyes and a slender yet toned build. She is known for her distinctive costume, which includes:
■ a black, one-piece bustier-leotard combination,
■ gray stockings with seams up the front and back,
■ black, heavy, calf-length boots,
■ black fingerless gloves that go past the elbow to the biceps,
■ a blue jacket, and
■ a black choker.

PERSONALITY: Black Canary is confident and clear headed, and she takes her role as a trainer for the younger heroes very seriously. She is not one to mince words, but instead likes to get right to the point. She believes that injuries and setbacks come with the job of being a hero. While teaching the young heroes, she is stern, but also gives praise where it is due. She also shows a great deal of patience, particularly when working with Superboy, who initially dismisses her training techniques.

POWERS: Having undergone an evidently vigorous and intensive training under assorted unnamed mentors, Black Canary has exercised physical form to perfection for someone of her age and training.
■ Reflexes: Black Canary's combative reaction time was beyond impressive as she is able to react and count-react to attacks thrown at her by not only other humans, but those with enhanced abilities such as Kid Flash and Superboy.
■ Speed: Black Canary is shown able to run and react to attacks with shocking speed.
■ Human endurance: Black Canary's endurance is at the peak of a woman her age and size, able to go up against opponents such as Amazo and survive.
■ Peak human agility: Black Canary's agility proves impressive when in combat.
■ Human durability: Black Canary is able to handle the worst hits and impacts without giving out.
■ Hand-to-hand combat: Black Canary is arguably one of the League's most impressive fighters, as she has demonstrated herself to be an expert hand-to-hand combatant able to go toe-to-toe with any sort of opponent both human and super-human.
Canary Cry: Black Canary can emit a high pitched sonic scream strong enough to shatter objects as tough as steel and even kill a person.[12]

HISTORY: While growing up, Dinah was surrounded by her mother's friends in the disbanded JSA and looked to them as uncles and aunts. Dinah wished to become a costumed hero like her mother before her. However, instead of encouraging the younger Dinah, her mother forbade it, thinking the world had grown into a darker, more dangerous place than when she herself fought crime, too dangerous for the younger Dinah to succeed.
Shortly into the League's history, she met Green Arrow (Oliver Queen). While Dinah could not stand him at first, they later became romantically involved despite the difference in their ages (in the Modern Age Oliver was substantially older than Dinah, the reverse of the earlier depiction. However, he later died and then was de-aged by an unspecified amount when he was resurrected). Dinah remained a member of the League for roughly six years, including a brief stint with Justice League International (JLI), of which she was a founding member. It was during that time her mother died due to radiation poisoning she experienced during a battle with the villain Aquarius. Her mother's death affected Dinah deeply, and led her to accept her time in the JLA was over.

Now with the Young Justice she is their trainer, friend, councilor and whatever they need her for. She watches out of them carrying for all of them and wishes to keep an eye on them from time to time.


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