History Characters / ArrowverseDinahLaurelLance

* ForWantOfANail: On Earth-2, she became a metahuman due to being in Central City at the time. Her power is also an organic version of her Earth-1 counterpart's sonic device. It's also heavily implied that she uses her first given name instead of her second unlike her Earth-1 counterpart.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her as Black Siren]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6_6.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment I'm not]] [[DeadAlternateCounterpart the old Laurel]]. [[AntiHeroSubstitute I'm me.]] Everyone has good and bad inside of them and you can't put people in one box or the other, ever."'']]

--> To '''Mia Smoak''', in ''"[[Recap/ArrowS8E5Prochnost Prochnost]]"''

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sending Diaz falling off of a rooftop may have failed to kill Diaz (although he mentions in the following season that the fall broke every bone in his body) and bungled Oliver's attempt to bring him in, but Diaz certainly had it coming.

* AdaptationalBadass: The Black Siren in the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' mostly serves as a NeutralFemale. Here, she does not hold back in kicking ass and even has the canonical [[MakeMeWannaShout superpower]] of the Black Canary.

** A DarkActionGirl with a [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic cry]] that pretends to be a bird themed hero and ends up BecomingTheMask, not unlike [[ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} Songbird.]]

** She's Zoom's most powerful ally, and is also the final VillainOfTheWeek of ''The Flash'' Season Two before the SeasonFinale. She also seems to be the only one of Zoom's minions who is aware of his true identity. At the very least, she's seen him with his mask off and neither of them comment on it. She also appears to be slightly more comfortable around him than Zoom's other minions (although she's clearly intimidated by him and takes a step back when he turns to look at her).

* IconicAttributeAdoptionMoment: She doesn't have the Canary Cry at first. Sara Lance (the first Canary) uses a throw-down sonic device. Her sister Laurel Lance gets a friend from Star Labs to make her a collar-worn version, but it's only when metahumans join Team Arrow that we finally end up with a Black Canary who can MakeMeWannaShout.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Unlike Earth-1 Laurel, her ability to cause damage by screaming comes from an actual superpower and is several orders of magnitude stronger.

* TheSnarkKnight: Her mouth doesn't just have [[MakeMeWannaShout strong powers]], it has strong (if not stronger) sass.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'', she's blonde. Here, she's brunette, but she eventually dyes it blonde when she impersonates Earth-1 Laurel and later decides to keep it.
* AdaptationalBadass: The Black Siren in the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'' mostly serves as a NeutralFemale. Here, she does not hold back in kicking ass and even has the canonical [[MakeMeWannaShout superpower]] of the Black Canary.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'', she's a member of the Justice Guild of America in an AlternateUniverse. In this show, she's another evil metahuman who works for Zoom, then goes on to work for the likes of Prometheus and Cayden James. This is eventually subverted when she reforms.
* AdaptationNameChange: Goes both ways. She goes by "Black Siren" instead of "Black Canary", but the Black Siren's real identity is Donna Nance. However, Nance is actually the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}''[='=]s version of Dinah Drake-Lance.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: She performs a HeroicSacrifice in her only appearance in the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}''. Here, she survives her debut episode.

* AdaptationalBadass: The Black Siren in the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'' mostly serves as TheChick. Here, she does not hold back in kicking ass and even has the canonical [[MakeMeWannaShout superpower]] of the Black Canary.

-> see the Characters/DCEUGothamVigilantes page for the character in an undesignated Earth who bears her name and background

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* HiddenDepths: Assuming her conversation with Oliver in "Who Are You?" wasn't just manipulation, Black Siren might harbor regrets about the direction her life has taken, describing her present situation as the result of "some bad choices". Less ambiguously, she shows concern for Quentin, indicating that, despite her villainy, she still cares about her father enough that she doesn't want to see even his doppelgänger come to harm.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: After Prometheus releases her from prison, Black Siren becomes loyal to the man and helps him kidnap members of Team Arrow under the condition that he spare Quentin. Prometheus repays her loyalty and trust by leaving her and her father's doppelgänger to die while he blows Lian Yu sky high with explosives.

* MoralityPet: The only people she genuinely showed affection towards are her family (specifically her father, sister and [[AmbiguousSituation nephew/niece]]), her late fiancee (Earth-2 Oliver), and maybe her world's Thea. During and after her RedemptionQuest, this extends to Earth-1 Quentin, Earth-1 Sara, Felicity, Mia, and maybe Earth-1 Thea.

-> see the Characters/DCEUBirdsOfPrey page for the character in an undesignated Earth who bears her name and background

* TokenSuper: She served as this for both Prometheus' and Ricardo Diaz's respective teams, being the only metahuman on a BadassNormal crew.

* YankTheDogsChain: [After several misfortunes such as losing her father and fiancee, she snaps and takes her anger out in the world. Eventually, after meeting the doppelgangers of the people she knew in an AlternateUniversere (including her father's and fiancee's), she realizes the error of her ways and decided to go back to her home universe to repent. Not long after that, her home universe is destroyed by an evil god-like entity.

* BigBraToFill: Black Canary is one of the notable cases of BoobsOfSteel in Creator/DCComics, whereas this version is modestly endowed.

** In RealLife, the original Laurel's death was ''very controversial'', mainly due to her being a very important character in the source material but also due to its [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants half-assed execution]]. The then upcoming backlash was something that ''The Flash'' writers anticipated, so they wrote Black Siren as a contingency plan; in case Creator/KatieCassidy decided to leave the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' they'd be giving her a kickass send-off, and in case if she does stay (which she ultimately did) they'd be giving her a new character to work with. Naturally, many rallied for her to become the Black Canary, seeing her as the only acceptable substitute if the original Laurel is not going to be revived (which she wasn't). This is evidenced when controversial former ''Arrow'' showrunners Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle decided to introduce an InNameOnly character based on Black Canary despite Earth-2 Laurel's existence, a move that [[ReplacementScrappy backfired spectacularly]].

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