Changes: Dinah Lance (Smallville)

Dinah Lance was the daughter of a member of the Justice Society of America. Dinah was born into a family of cops^[1] and developed a sonic scream, caused by her being born with a metagene.^[2] In her youth, she was trained by a heavy weight boxing champion (possibly Ted Grant), making her a skilled fighter.^[2]

Season Seven

By 2008, Dinah had joined the Daily Planet as a reporter, where her conservative views frequently caused her to clash with the more liberal Lois Lane. Dinah had also begun engaging in vigilante activities, by sporting a black leather suit. She soon found herself recruited by Lex Luthor, who tricked her into thinking that he was the victim against a group, that had been attacking him and LuthorCorp. This lead Dinah to attack Chloe Sullivan and finding herself in battle against the Green Arrow. However, she quickly fled the scene. Acting under orders from Lex, Dinah uncovered the Green Arrow's secret identity and attacked him. But, an encounter with Clark Kent caused her to have doubt about Lex's innocence. When she tried to confront Lex, he turned on her and attempted to kill her. Dinah only survived thanks to the intervention of Clark and the Green Arrow. She later approached the two, in her civilian identity, to announce her retirement, but was convinced to join the Green Arrow's team.^[1]

Season Eight

A few months later, Dinah aided the team in their global search for Clark, Lex and Chloe. However, this ended with her identity being exposed by LuthorCorp and forcing her to go underground for a while.^[3] She eventually returned to help bring down Doomsday, which ended in disaster and she once more went underground.^[4] However, she soon returned to her regular activities.^[5]

Season Ten

Dinah was captured alongside the rest of the team by the Department of Domestic Security, and was trapped within a virtual world, where she lacked her powers. However, Dinah managed to break free and helped Chloe Sullivan and the Suicide Squad fight off the DDS-agents, while Chloe got the others out.^[6] At some point after that, Dinah fought Solomon Grundy.^[7]

Season Eleven

Dinah became the caregiver of Mia Dearden, after Oliver got too distracted by other matters to act as a mentor. Dinah wasn't up for it either, but helped Mia developing the persona of Speedy. Later, Dinah sent Mia to San Francisco, to be with other costumed adventurers her age.^[8] Dinah herself later fought alongside many other superheroes against the Monitors in Metropolis.^[9]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Sound Manipulation: Black Canary possesses a metagene, that gives her a potent sonic scream.^[2] Her sonic scream is able to damage and subdue foes and objects.^[2] Due to their enhanced hearing, Black Canary is able to subdue Kryptonians.^[1]

Abilities

Journalism
Martial Arts: Black Canary is a martial arts master.^[2]
- Kung Fu^[2]
- Pressure Point Fighting^[2]
- Amazon Martial Arts^[2]
Acrobatics^[1]

Notes

This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series Smallville and its tie-in and comic book series, Smallville and Smallville Season 11. It is an adaptation of Dinah Laurel Lance/Black Canary. The original character was created by Dennis O'Neil and Dick Dillin and first appeared in Justice League of America #75.
Black Canary was portrayed by Alaina Huffman.

Trivia

While they were never shown to be dating onscreen, Dinah and Oliver Queen frequently flirted with each other.^[1]^[2] In Smallville Season 11 Special #4, Mia Dearden refers to Dinah as Oliver's "not quite ex-girlfriend".^[8]
Dinah Lance is a conservative.^[1]

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-| Aliases                 = Yellow Raven
+| Aliases                 =
 | Identity                = Secret
 | AlienRace               =
 | Alignment               = Good
-| Affiliation             = [[Justice League (Smallville)|Justice League]], formerly [[Daily Planet]]
+| Affiliation             = Formerly [[Watchtower Network (Smallville)|Watchtower Network]], [[Daily Planet]]
 | Relatives               = [[Dinah Drake Lance (Smallville)|Dinah Drake Lance]] (mother)
 | Universe                = Smallville
-| BaseOfOperations        = [[Platinum Flats]], Mobile, former [[Metropolis]]
+| BaseOfOperations        = [[Platinum Flats]], former [[Metropolis]]
 | Gender                  = Female
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 | Citizenship             = American
 | MaritalStatus           = Single
-| Occupation              = former Radio talk show host
+| Occupation              = former Radio talk show host, reporter for the Daily Planet
 | PlaceOfBirth            =
-| Creators                = <!--Original character-->Robert Kanigher; Carmine Infantino;<!--Adaptation-->Kelly Souders; Brian Peterson
+| Creators                = <!--Original character-->Dennis O'Neil; Dick Dillin;<!--Adaptation-->Kelly Souders; Brian Peterson
 | First                   = Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Siren
-| Last                    =
+| Last                    = Smallville Season 11: Continuity Vol 1 3
+| Overview                =
-| Quotation               = The city is a dangerous place, [[Chloe Sullivan (Smallville)|you]] should be prepared.
-| Speaker                 = [[Dinah Lance (Smallville)|Black Canary]]
+'''Dinah Lance''' is the second '''Black Canary''' and the daughter of [[Dinah Drake Lance (Smallville)|Dinah Drake Lance]], the original Black Canary.
-| QuoteSource             = Smallville Episode: Siren
+| HistoryText             =
-| HistoryText             = In season seven Dinah was first seen as a mysterious blonde woman who watched [[Chloe Sullivan (Smallville)|Chloe Sullivan]] steal a file from [[Alexander Luthor (Smallville)|Lex Luthor]]  and burn the information onto a DVD. She was paid by Lex to steal the disc and attacked Chloe to obtain it. When Chloe got to the roof to wait for [[Oliver Queen (Smallville)|Green Arrow]], Dinah fought Green Arrow and escaped. She gave the DVD to Lex Luthor, and he offered to "make it worth her while" if she brought Green Arrow to him.
+===Early Life===
+Dinah Lance was the daughter of a [[Dinah Drake Lance (Smallville)|member]] of the [[Justice Society of America (Smallville)|Justice Society of America]]. Dinah was born into a family of cops<ref name="Siren">[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Siren]]</ref> and developed a sonic scream, caused by her being born with a metagene.<ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I">[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Absolute Justice, Part I]]</ref> In her youth, she was trained by a heavy weight boxing champion (possibly [[Ted Grant (Smallville)|Ted Grant]]), making her a skilled fighter.<ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I"/>
+===Season Seven===
-Out of her disguise, Dinah took great pleasure in informing [[Lois Lane (Smallville)|Lois Lane]] that her old flame Oliver had come back to town. She then broke into Chloe's desk and, seeing that she had called Oliver, deduced that Oliver and Green Arrow were one and the same. She donned her uniform and as the Black Canary, used her power to blast open the glass to enter the Queen Tower. She held Lois and Oliver hostage and refused to listen when Oliver tried to explain that Lex was deceiving her. She informed Lex to wire the money to her account for getting Green Arrow. However, [[Kal-El (Smallville)|Clark Kent]] and Chloe had discovered her identity and stopped the transfer. Black Canary met Clark and the two fought. However, she began to have doubts about Lex's motives and investigated, learning that he was lying. She went to see Lex and demanded that he prove that Green Arrow was a terrorist. Lex shot her in response but she was saved by Clark, who sped her away, but knocked her out in the process.
+By 2008, Dinah had joined the Daily Planet as a reporter, where her conservative views frequently caused her to clash with the more liberal [[Lois Lane (Smallville)|Lois Lane]]. Dinah had also begun engaging in vigilante activities, by sporting a black leather suit. She soon found herself recruited by [[Alexander Luthor (Smallville)|Lex Luthor]], who tricked her into thinking that he was the victim against a [[Watchtower Network (Smallville)|group]], that had been attacking him and LuthorCorp. This lead Dinah to attack [[Chloe Sullivan (Smallville)|Chloe Sullivan]] and finding herself in battle against the [[Oliver Queen (Smallville)|Green Arrow]]. However, she quickly fled the scene. Acting under orders from Lex, Dinah uncovered the Green Arrow's secret identity and attacked him. But, an encounter with [[Kal-El (Smallville)|Clark Kent]] caused her to have doubt about Lex's innocence. When she tried to confront Lex, he turned on her and attempted to kill her. Dinah only survived thanks to the intervention of Clark and the Green Arrow. She later approached the two, in her civilian identity, to announce her retirement, but was convinced to join the Green Arrow's team.<ref name="Siren"/>
+===Season Eight===
-As Dinah, she apologized for fighting them and declared that she would no longer be the Black Canary. Oliver, impressed with her skills, asked her to consider joining his team. She agreed to meet his [[Justice League (Smallville)|team]] mates.
+A few months later, Dinah aided the team in their global search for Clark, Lex and Chloe. However, this ended with her identity being exposed by LuthorCorp and forcing her to go underground for a while.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Odyssey]]</ref> She eventually returned to help bring down [[Doomsday (Smallville)|Doomsday]], which ended in disaster and she once more went underground.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Doomsday]]</ref> However, she soon returned to her regular activities.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Roulette]]</ref>
+===Season Ten===
-In season eight Dinah as Black Canary went in search of Clark when he went missing along with [[Arthur Curry (Smallville)|Aquaman]] and led by Green Arrow. They went to the arctic to see what the [[LuthorCorp]] base had found and inflitrated it with Green Arrow distracting and killing any threats while Black Canary destroyed their equipment with her Sonic Scream. Aquaman then burst up through the ice as he was causing the distraction. They went back to the Isis Foundation to collect all the data they had on Clark's wereabouts and they then set off again to find him. Green Arrow went and tried a Russian Labor Camp, while Aquaman tried another place but was captured by LuthorCorp and Black Canary was also captured by LuthorCorp, who was using Chloe's new ability to locate the Justice League. They were strung up at LuthorCorp's base in Montana but were rescued by Green Arrow and Clark. Clark, Dinah, AC and Oliver all met at night in Metropolis to say they should disband to avoid [[Tess Mercer (Smallville)|Tess Mercer]] after their identities were exposed.
+Dinah was captured alongside the rest of the team by the [[Department of Domestic Security]], and was trapped within a virtual world, where she lacked her powers. However, Dinah managed to break free and helped Chloe Sullivan and the [[Suicide Squad (Smallville)|Suicide Squad]] fight off the DDS-agents, while Chloe got the others out.<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Collateral]]</ref> At some point after that, Dinah fought [[Cyrus Gold (Smallville)|Solomon Grundy]].<ref>[[Smallville (TV Series) Episode: Prophecy]]</ref>
+===Season Eleven===
-Later in season eight Dinah and [[Bartholomew Allen (Smallville)|Bart Allen]] were summoned to the Kent Barn by Clark Kent to aid him in stopping [[Davis Bloome (Smallville)|Doomsday]] his way by burying him underground, as they later discovered from Clark that Oliver murdered Lex Luthor. However, the League still sided with Oliver to stop Davis/Doomsday once and for all and betrayed Clark. However, they were still no match against Doomsday after he was split from Davis. The League later attended [[Jimmy Olsen (Smallville)|Jimmy Olsen]]'s funeral. Following the funeral, Chloe told Clark that Dinah, Oliver and Bart were all missing now.
+Dinah became the caregiver of [[Mia Dearden (Smallville)|Mia Dearden]], after Oliver got too distracted by other matters to act as a mentor. Dinah wasn't up for it either, but helped Mia developing the persona of Speedy. Later, Dinah sent Mia to [[San Francisco]], to be with other costumed adventurers her age.<ref name="Titans">{{c|Smallville Season 11 Special Vol 1 4}}</ref> Dinah herself later fought alongside many other superheroes against the [[Monitors]] in Metropolis.<ref>{{c|Smallville Season 11: Continuity Vol 1 3}}</ref>
-In season nine When Chloe and [[Victoria Sinclair (Smallville)|Roulette]] teamed up to convince Oliver Queen to retake the Green Arrow mantle, Chloe re-assembled Dinah, Bart and [[Victor Stone (Smallville)|Victor Stone]] to help in the efforts. Although Dinah was not shown, she used her Canary Cry to aid Oliver.
-When Chloe and Clark began investigating the murder of [[Sylvester Pemberton (Smallville)|Sylvester Pemberton]] AKA the Star-Spangled Kid, they discovered that Sylvester had been keeping files on the Justice League, Dinah included. When Oliver found out Chloe had his email, he claimed that the emails between him and Dinah were purely platonic. Furthermore, during the investigation, Clark found a painting of the original [[Justice Society of America (Smallville)|Justice Society of America]] that depicted someone dressed as the Black Canary, implying Dinah was not the first to go by the name.
-[[Checkmate (Smallville)|Checkmate]] wanted to know where Dinah Lance and the other Justice League members were, but Oliver Queen stopped Clark Kent from telling [[Amanda Waller (Smallville)|Amanda Waller]] about the League.
-Black Canary joined the League's group of heroes to discuss the war agasint Kandorians, along with [[J'onn J'onzz (Smallville)|John Jones]], Cyborg, [[Carter Hall (Smallville)|Hawkman]], and [[Courtney Whitmore (Smallville)|Stargirl]]. She was hesitant when she first heard of Clark's plan to leave Earth, but later agreed. She saluted him as a final goodbye and returned to the field.
-The VRA began their witch hunt for all the known existing vigilantes after they framed Oliver for a terrorist attack. Dinah established contact with the rest of the team via satellite communications to find out how they were going to proceed now that they were all targets by the government and citizens. Clark decided that the team would go underground until he could find a way to deal with the situation, so he shut down Watchtower. When Hawkman died heroically in battle, Dinah was present among an entourage of heroes at his funeral in [[Egypt]]. Dinah and the other heroes were ambushed by a mysterious obelisk that rendered all of them unconscious. After three weeks, they were placed into a dream world of virtual reality where they had no special skills or powers by Trotter and the VRA. They had some memories of Chloe Sullivan above them that looked like she was putting them under experimentation, when in actuality she was trying to free them without killing them. Chloe entered the virtual world to help free them. Dinah and Oliver joined Chloe and two members of the [[Suicide Squad (Smallville)|Suicide Squad]] in stopping the VRA as well as saving the others.
 | Powers                  =
-* {{Sound Manipulation}}: Black Canary possibly possesses something similar to a metagene that gives her a potent sonic attack, able to damage and stun foes or objects. Her scream is able to shatter metal.
+* {{Sound Manipulation}}: Black Canary possesses a metagene, that gives her a potent sonic scream.<ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I"/> Her sonic scream is able to damage and subdue foes and objects.<ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I"/> Due to their enhanced hearing, Black Canary is able to subdue Kryptonians.<ref name="Siren"/>
 | Abilities               =
 * {{Journalism}}
-* {{Martial Arts}}: Black Canary appears to be an expert in martial arts though her exact fighting style is unknown.
+* {{Martial Arts}}: Black Canary is a martial arts master.<ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I"/>
+** {{Kung Fu}}<ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I"/>
+** '''Pressure Point Fighting'''<ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I"/>
+** '''Amazon Martial Arts'''<ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I"/>
+* {{Acrobatics}}<ref name="Siren"/>
 | Weaknesses              =
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 | Notes                   =
 {{AdptBoilerplate
- | Page        = Dinah Drake (New Earth)
+ | Page        = Dinah Laurel Lance (New Earth)
- | Name        = Dinah Drake/Black Canary
+ | Name        = Dinah Laurel Lance/Black Canary
- | Creator1    = Robert Kanigher
+ | Creator1    = Dennis O'Neil
- | Creator2    = Carmine Infantino
+ | Creator2    = Dick Dillin
  | Creator3    =
- | First       = Flash Comics #86
+ | First       = Justice League of America Vol 1 75
  | Media       = Smallville
  }}
-* Black Canary was portrayed by [[Actors:Alaina Huffman|Alaina Huffman]] on the series ''[[Smallville (TV Series)|Smallville]]''.
+* Black Canary was portrayed by [[Alaina Huffman|Alaina Huffman]].
+| Trivia                  = * While they were never shown to be dating onscreen, Dinah and Oliver Queen frequently flirted with each other.<ref name="Siren"/><ref name="Absolute Justice, Part I"/> In {{c|Smallville Season 11 Special Vol 1 4}}, Mia Dearden refers to Dinah as Oliver's "not quite ex-girlfriend".<ref name="Titans"/>
-| Trivia                  =
+* Dinah Lance is a conservative.<ref name="Siren"/>
 | DC                      =
 | Wikipedia               = Black Canary
 | Links                   =
-* [http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Dinah_Lance Dinah Lance at Smallville Wiki]
 }}
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 {{Daily Planet Staff members}}
-{{Justice League Member}}
 {{Black Canary}}
-{{Justice League}}
 [[Category:2008 Character Debuts]]
+[[Category:Reporters]]
 [[Category:Black Canary]]
+[[Category:Oliver Queen's Love Interests]]

Changes: Dinah Lance (Smallville)

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