Black Canary suit (Laurel Lance)

Black Canary suit
Information
Designer(s)	Laurel Lance (Earth-1) (presumed)
Primarily worn by	Laurel Lance (Earth-1) (deceased)
Other user(s)	Laurel Lance (Earth-2) (formerly)
Number of designs	2
Function	Protective suit

"It's Laurel's Black Canary suit."

"Yeah. Yeah. I thought you could use it here, but, you know, maybe Earth-2 needs a Black Canary."

—Laurel Lance (Earth-2) and Felicity Smoak^[src]

The Black Canary suit is a suit utilized originally by Laurel Lance as Black Canary. After Laurel was killed by Damien Darhk, Team Arrow kept her suit in the Arrowcave as a memento of their fallen comrade. Three years later, the suit was passed to Earth-2 Laurel Lance by Felicity Smoak.

Overview

First suit

Laurel Lance's suit includes a jacket that is zipped up to her neck with long sleeves covering her entire arms. A turtleneck bodysuit, pants, a garter-like belt, leg holsters, thigh-high boots, and fingerless gloves are included, all made of leather. Laurel also wears a black mask and a bleach-blonde wig to hide her identity.

The suit seems to be a modified version of the Canary suit worn by Sara Lance, displaying a more rough, street-edge look. The pattern close to the shoulders on Laurel's jacket is almost identical to that on Sara's jacket.

Upgrades

The suit was equipped with a Canary Cry device on a collar made by Cisco Ramon that specifically grants Laurel a sonic scream. Laurel also stopped wearing a wig.

History

After the death of her sister Sara, Laurel began fighting against crime as the vigilante known as Black Canary. Using the jacket given to her by Sara, Laurel also included a leather turtleneck bodysuit, pants, garter-like belt, leg holsters, thigh high boots, fingerless gloves, and a bleached blonde wig. Laurel also used tactical tonfas and the sonic device used by Sara, which she later had upgraded.

Laurel met Cisco Ramon when the latter was visiting Star City. Laurel approached Cisco and asked if he could modify the sonic device into something different. Cisco then use it to craft a choker-like version of it to be worn around the collar, and called it the "Canary Cry".

Laurel was seen wearing the suit, but without the blonde wig. She continued to wear the suit while operating as Black Canary until her death.

After Laurel's death, the suit was kept in the Arrowcave by Team Arrow in a glass display case as a memorial of their fallen friend.

Three years after Laurel's death, Felicity Smoak passed the suit to Earth-2 Laurel after the later had successfully redeemed herself. Laurel then took it to Earth-2 and took up the mantle of Black Canary.

Erased future

In an erased future in 2040, Earth-2 Laurel, as an ally of the Canaries, used the suit while saving Mia Queen.

Capabilities

Functions

• Identity concealment: Laurel Lance, and later Earth-2 Laurel Lance, used a black mask to conceal her identity when fighting crime.
• Kevlar: The suit is lined with kevlar to prevent gunshot wounds to the user.

Former functions

• Sonic scream: After Cisco Ramon designed the Canary Cry, Laurel could scream via the use of a collar. However, the device was not adopted by her Earth-2 doppelgänger due to the latter's meta-human powers.

Known users

Former users

• Laurel Lance (Earth-1)/Black Canary (deceased)
• Laurel Lance (Earth-2)/Black Canary

Appearances

Arrow

Season 3 "Left Behind" "Midnight City" "Uprising" "Canaries" "Nanda Parbat" "The Offer" "Public Enemy" "Al Sah-him" "This Is Your Sword" "My Name Is Oliver Queen" Season 4 "Green Arrow" "The Candidate" "Beyond Redemption" "Haunted" "Lost Souls" "Brotherhood" "Dark Waters" "Blood Debts" "A.W.O.L." "Unchained" "Code of Silence" "Taken" "Beacon of Hope" "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" "Canary Cry" Season 5 "Legacy" "The Recruits" "A Matter of Trust" "Penance" "Human Target" "So It Begins" "Vigilante" "What We Leave Behind" "Who Are You?" "Bratva" "Spectre of the Gun" "The Sin-Eater" "Fighting Fire With Fire" "Kapiushon" "Dangerous Liaisons" "Honor Thy Fathers" "Missing" Season 6 "Fallout" "We Fall" "All for Nothing" (video footage) Season 7 "Emerald Archer" (video footage) "Lost Canary" "You Have Saved This City" Season 8 "Welcome to Hong Kong"

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 5

• "Meet the Legends" (drawing)

Gallery

Laurel Lance (Earth-1) as Black Canary

Laurel Lance (Earth-2) as Black Canary in 2019

Laurel Lance (Earth-2) as Black Canary in 2040

Evelyn Sharp imitating Black Canary

Concept art

Season 3

"Black Canary"

Promotional images

Season 3

First look at "Black Canary"

First look at "Black Canary"

"Black Canary" in "Fight Club"

Trivia

• Laurel's Black Canary suit in the Arrowverse is a more modernized version of the suit worn by Dinah Laurel Lance in the original DC comics.
• Malcolm Merlyn humorously referred to Laurel's suit as a "bondage outfit".
• Initially, the suit was believed to have been destroyed by Earth-2 Laurel Lance during her attack in "Fallout", but is revealed in "We Fall"​ to still be intact.
• Team Arrow keeping Earth-1 Laurel's Black Canary suit in a glass display case in the Arrowcave as a memorial may be a reference to the usage of Jason Todd's Robin suit in the Batcave.

Behind the scenes

• After Laurel died in season 4, Katie Cassidy got to keep the Black Canary jacket and mask.

References

Other versions of Black Canary suit (Laurel Lance)
To see other versions of this suit, click the Earth name below for that Earth's counterpart of Black Canary suit.
New multiverse
Earth: Prime • 2
Original multiverse
Earth: 1 • 2 • Dinah Drake
Transmultiversal multiverse
Earth: