User blog comment:Squaredomo214/The Guggenheim Paradox/@comment-28501280-20160604205715/@comment-3221148-20160605124620

Except Laurel Lance is not some exclusive version of Black Canary. In fact, before Marc decided to work on giving her the Black Canary arc, she was hated for all the drama in her S1-2 arcs (even though she had good reasons for being hateful of Oliver, mind it).

If anything, Sara's Canary was a truer Black Canary than Laurel ever was. Laurel's death (IF she's really dead, and not a yet another tease for the next season "twist", like what happened to Sara) does not end the concept of the "Black Canary", which can be easily re-instated with any other character. Where were all those people when there was no Black Canary in the show at all?