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Black Canary (Dinah Drake) was nominated fordeletion.The discussion was closed on16 August 2023 with a consensus tomerge. Its contents weremerged intoBlack Canary. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please seeits history; for its talk page, seehere.

NShould she be listed as a Fictional Blonde, her hair is dyed if I recall correctly. She's really a brunette.

-I'd say that definatly makes her a "fictional blonde";)Stevecudmore (talk)00:36, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This paragraph-"Following the retroactive continuity change in 1983, Black Canary became two distinct characters, mother and daughter, named Dinah Drake Lance and Dinah Laurel Lance. Dinah Lance would become the current Black Canary. Some references, notably those in James Robinson's Starman series, would attempt to distinguish the two Canaries further by referring to the first as 'Diana', but more recent accounts have confirmed 'Dinah' as the elder Canary's given name."-is somewhat unclear, especially the second sentence. I assume that it is meaning to say that Dinah Laurel Lance is the current Black Canary, but Dinah Lance describes both characters. I don't know anything about the character besides what is on Wikipedia, so I am unqualified to make any changes.205.241.56.14 (talk)01:49, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the following paragraph from the entry, which is speculative ("some fans"?):
Oracle and Black Canary behave so affectionately towards one another that some fans have begun to speculate as to the possible lesbian undertones of their relationship, much to the dismay of older, purist fans.--Galliaz01:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

She should be a fictional blonde because she is always shown that way. In addition, she used to wear a blonde wig but has now dyes her hair blonde, so I think she sees herself as a blonde and so should be considered one.

The category Fictional Blondes has been deleted.CovenantD03:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Galliaz, it was good to remove the paragraph. Anyone following the Birds of Prey storylines knows that Babs has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Dick Grayson, while Dinah has had a series of short relationships. The embracing that the two have had is one borne of genuine friendship (Babs essentially rebuilt Dinah's Black Canary career); it has never been hinted that a romance exists between the two.—Precedingunsigned comment added byQuidam65 (talk •contribs) 12:53 November 3, 2006

How is she rated as one of the top when she couldn't beat Strike? Nightwing defeated him, and defeated him rather easily. Another thing In BOP Black Canary admits that Nightwing is better than she is in the fight with "The Brothers Silk." And you people still can't give Nightwing his credit as being one of the best DC martial artist alive.

It's a conspiracy, I tell you. Does anyone think Nightwing isn't good? But Black Canary has been training for a year or two with Lady Shiva and with the people who trained her. --Chris Griswold23:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to make this category a little more consistent. (By the way, if your copy of the Brothers Silk story has her admitting that, you must have added a line in with a pencil. Nothing like that is ever said in the book).D1Puck1T19:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I wrote the thing and it never says anything like that.

Gail

I think that line should be removed, too-- I may not have the gravitas that Gail Simone has, but I've been reading DC for 30 years and though Canary is a great fighter, definitely better than Green Arrow, she is not one of the world's greatest martial artists! She's maybe about the level of the original Question. Just off the top of my head, Batman, Nightwing, Batgirl II, David Cain, Richard Dragon, and Bronze Tiger are miles above. ~Patrick—Precedingunsigned comment added by98.151.7.127 (talk)16:46, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add speculation about Dinah's role in the founding of the Justice League. We don't know yet, so there's no need to anything to the article. --Chris Griswold21:47, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree; one of the main points of Infinite Crisis was to return Wonder Woman to her role as a JLA founder, and this was clearly depicted in the comic. I did not say Dinah was now definitively not a founder, but merely said things were now "unclear," which is true. What is wrong with factually pointing out the issue raised by the end of IC, properly couched and qualified? Would you care to offer some language regarding the possible implications of IC?Chris143521:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No. There is no news, and we don't need to include the fact that there is no news. This is the general policy of the Wikiproject. --Chris Griswold01:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that Wonder Woman has been restored to Silver-Age JLA history is not "news?" The article's statement regarding BC's "retroactively replacing Wonder Woman in all Silver Age appearances with the team" is now at best questionable and at most patlently false. How can she have "replaced" Wonder Woman if Wonder Woman was there? All I'm asking for is a simple statement acknowledging the IC business in some brief way; otherwise the article is misleading.Chris143518:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. Take a look at the Infinite Crisis section. Don't worry about the present tense. I am going to go over this whole article within the next few days. I'm going to update it, copy edit it, and fil in the blanks (with some help from my fiancee).--Chris Griswold02:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. Thanks for working together.Chris143503:27, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. You were right; we just needed to come together. --Chris Griswold06:21, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since the "Progeny" story-arc inBirds of Prey is now finished, I think this section should be written entirely in the past tense.--Galliaz21:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It has been generally accepted by the WikiProject that literary present tense is appropriate for fictional character articles. SeeBatman,Superman, andSpider-Man. For more informations, see:Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles#Check your fiction,Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)#Tense, &Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Archive 11#Literary present tense. --Chris Griswold22:06, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okey, dokey.--Galliaz23:13, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I feel that a very small paragraph could be included about various uses of the Canary Cry over the years, although I lack the expertise necessary for writing it. I do recall Mr. Terrific having her knock out all the guards in the White House by altering the pitch of her cry, during a JLA-JSA crossover, and (if memory serves), in Batgirl her cry was sufficient to destroy a stone dam or something along those lines.D1Puck1T07:29, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to mention the apparent loss of the canary cry after the events of Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters. It was never explicitly stated that the torture there was the cause, but for several years, Dinah didn't use this power.95.172.68.149 (talk)16:56, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"The effects of this experience, both physical and mental, were severe. Dinah suffered not only the loss of her Canary Cry, but also her ability to have children." I know she was tortured, but exactly where does it say that she was unable to have children because of it? User: Oncedead

It's indicated in issue #34 of the first GREEN ARROW series. --Carmen

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Does anyone think that the two Black Canary's should have their own articles? I think they are both important enough to deserve their own page.ZODtheReaper (talk)16:34, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Since the editor suggesting the split hasn't bothered...

I have to sayNo, this article doesn't need to be split. It does need a good pruning to remove the bloat of plot. But other wise, if we are going to treat this as an element in works of fiction, then the "mother/daughter" need to be kept together to show how, when, and why DC decided to add the retcon in. This isn't a place to recreate fan focused materiel - that would beDC Database.

-J Greb (talk)21:50, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No Same erason as above --Leocomix (talk)13:44, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose split, at least for now. This article needs a lot of work - it needs rewriting from an out-of-universe perspective and it needs a lot more sources. In the course of this it might make sense to have a section for each character (and change the redirects to link through to them). We can then return to this and look at the situation again, there are plenty of other legacy characters in the DCU and so that needn't be a strike against separate articles but it does look like a trim might reduce the need for a split, for now. (Emperor (talk)02:00, 16 September 2011 (UTC))[reply]

• Like others I stronglyoppose the idea of the split. It's quite simple, really. Each Black Canary does not have a distinct identity or reason for notability in the real world, and in many versions of the story the split is not adhered to at all. It invites original research if you split them, as well, because editors must "decide" which version of BC has been adapted in the first instance, and usually writers will take elements from across the character's history. What this article needs is a rewrite. One solid "Production history" section which accounts for the minimally-important Earth-2/1 versions and their unification, and then a very compressed account of their fictional histories. Wikipedia isn't meant for "fictional character biographies," it's meant for encyclopaedic articles about why fictional characters are or have been culturally relevant. I have taken the liberty of reverting the split because it was of serious detriment to the quality of both articles and the damage would have been increasingly hard to undo if left that way.Zythe (talk)18:02, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • FWIW, it was Noob saibot red again. -J Greb (talk)18:24, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In the article it states that contrary to popular belief Canary wasn't raped during her torture. The citation for this is another wiki (which seems like an inappropriate source). That wiki has the same statement, but with the tag "citation needed." I think the whole statement should be dropped, but I figured I'd put it up here first to see if anyone can find an actual citation for it. In the meanwhile I'm going to remove that citation and put "citation needed" on the statement.— Precedingunsigned comment added by173.22.7.56 (talk)13:49, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

the Black Canary page seems a little cluttered and I made an in other page which stands on its own right out of the information given here. I think with some reworking and adding theBlack Canary in other media page could really work out and lighten the Black Canary page a little bit.

-Shallowgravy (talk)21:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sara Lance, daughter of Detective Quentin Lance is shown in S02 as a a former assasin trained byRa's al Ghul calling herself Canary (S02E05).91.39.121.31 (talk)10:28, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

--I have added a "Publication History" section like the one in the Batman or Superman pages, and have made citations from the Carmine Infantino interview inCarmine Infantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur (2010). I even included two paragraphs detailing the process of her creation, and the book can easily be viewed with the cited page numbers (30-32) in Google Books. However, I am still a little confused about the way we should write this section, and my entry might seem a bit different. Any help with it would be much appreciated. I would prefer that the section looks similar to the one on the Batman page, where the quotation is indented to the middle of the page rather than the way I wrote it. Thanks. I also suggest that once the current Black Canary New-52 run (as of July 25, 2015) is finished that we add a 'New-52' section as it is a radically different re-imagining of the character.— Precedingunsigned comment added by58.97.152.200 (talk) 24 July 2015

I fixed the quote and combine the refs. It doesn't flow well into the next section. Others better at prose might fix it.Richard-of-Earth (talk)06:36, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I really appreciate it. I also like the section on the New-52, hopefully once the (inspired) current run by Brenden Fletcher, Annie Wu and Lee Loughridge wraps up we can get the rest up. Formatting is a bit difficult for me as I'm familiar with APA and MLA but am still a damned Padawan when it comes to Wikis.

Not to worry or hold back, there are plenty around to fix stuff up.Richard-of-Earth (talk)02:27, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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