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Black Canary (Alaina Huffman)

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Black Canary
Real name: Dinah Lance
Media appeared in: Smallville

Portrayed by:

Alaina Huffman

Equipment:

Throwing Knives
Rappeling Equipment

Transportation:

Jumping of Roof Tops

Contents

[edit] History

Black Canary of Smallville

[edit] Origin

Dinah Lance is the alter-ego of the superheroine Black Canary. Dinah was a conservative talk show host who worked at the Daily Planet, before joining Oliver Queen's hero team. That team disbanded after Black Canary's and Aquaman's identities were discovered by LuthorCorp but has since re-formed.

[edit] Physical Appearance

Dinah has short blonde hair and wears fishnet stockings as the Black Canary. She wears a dark wig while undercover as Dinah.

[edit] Season Seven

Dinah was first seen as a mysterious blonde woman who watched Chloe Sullivan steal a file from 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 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.

Out of her disguise, Dinah took great pleasure in informing 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, 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.

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 team mates. It is unclear if she still works at the Daily Planet, or if she quit to work for Oliver's team of superheroes.

[edit] Season Eight

Dinah as Black Canary went in search of Clark when he went missing along with 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 after their identities were exposed.

Dinah and Bart were summoned to the Kent Barn by Clark Kent to aid him in stopping 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's funeral. Following the funeral, Chloe tells Clark that Dinah, Oliver and Bart are all missing now.

Black Canary of Smallville

[edit] Powers and Abilities

Black Canary has a subsonic scream which generates a powerful sound wave, which can disintegrate arrows and shatter glass. Her scream caused Clark Kent's ears to bleed; it's possible he was especially vulnerable due to his super hearing.

Black Canary also seems to have a background in martial arts; she is trained with throwing knives, and was able to rappel off the roof of the Daily Planet at high speeds.

  • 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.
  • Martial Arts: Black Canary appears to be an expert in martial arts though her exact fighting style is unknown.
  • Strength Scale:Athlete able to lift one's own body weight up to double one's own body weight is above Average Black Canary possesses the strength level of a woman her age, size and weight who engages in intensive regular exercise.

[edit] Appearances

Smallville:

[edit] Notes

  • Writers Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson created this version of Black Canary for Smallville.
  • Talk Show Host for the Daily Plant Smallville (TV Show).
  • Her only known family is Richard Drake who is her father but he is deceased.
  • She wears a Black Wig when not as Black Canary.
  • She is also now a member of Oliver Queen's and the TV Show Smallville's version of the Justice League.
  • Clark and Chloe gave Black Canary her name.
  • In the comics Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) eventually marries Dinah Lance (Black Canary)

[edit] Trivia

  • In the comics Dinah had short dark hair, while Black Canary has long blonde hair (She now dyes it, thus it is always blonde). Smallville's version gives Dinah long brown hair and Black Canary short blonde hair.
  • Dinah appears in photographs on the Isis foundation computers in Hex
  • Two other live action versions of Black Canary appeared on the short-lived show "Birds of Prey". The first was Dinah Redmond (nee Dinah Lance), who was one of the core characters of the series. However, while she had the name of Dinah, she lacked all of her history (having been abandoned by her mother and later taken in by Oracle), powers (she was a telepath and telekinetic as opposed to a sonic scream) and never took on the codename of Black Canary. The second interpretation was that of Dinah's mother Carolyn Lance officially codenamed the Black Canary. While the first name differs, she resembles her comic counter-parts (both Dinah and even her mother) far more closely, including her history with Batgirl/Oracle and she also retains her Canary Cry sonic scream.

[edit] Links

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