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[redbrunja]

ladymercury_10 asked me about Black Canary and I had enough to say about Dinah Lance (comics verse) that I decided to make this a post of its own.

Things I love about DC comics’ Black Canary a.k.a Dinah Lance:

• I love that she’s a well-known female superhero who’s well-known for her role on an all-ladies superhero team – not because she’s Green Arrow’s love interest.


• I love that she’s one of the top hand-to-hand fighters in the DC universe.*


• I love that her code name is feminine without being explicitly female (e.g. Lady Shiva, Batgirl, etc).


• I love that she’s a female legacy hero who did not take her name from a male figure; Dinah took up the mantle and was inspired by her mother.

*In general, I find it delightful that the top martial artists in the DC verse are all ladies: you have Lady Shiva, who was THE BEST martial artist (dying at her hands will bring honor to your family in several countries) who thought Dinah had enough promise that Lady Shiva wanted to train Dinah, and Lady Shiva was eventually defeated by her daughter, Cassandra Cain (future Batman).

Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Do you think we'll learn more about Dinah Lance in Arrow? I'm not sure how they'd integrate her story of searching for Sarah with Sarah's given backstory.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I feel like they need to bring Dinah Lance back, simply because otherwise she's a hugely dangling storyline, and it's cruel to imply that the mother who searched and searched for her daughter wasn't told she was alive... but there is no way that they can merge in the comics canon of Black Canary's mother, with what they've show us thus far.