Laurel Lance (Earth-2)


 * For her Earth One equivalent, see Laurel Lance.

"Laurel Lance is dead. On this Earth anyway. Poor Black Canary, bye-bye birdie."

- Laurel to Barry Allen

Laurel Lance (born 1985) is a Meta-human from Earth Two. After exposure to the dark matter released from Harrison Wells S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, Laurel gained with the ability to scream at a high frequency. Using these powers for evil she adopted the name Black Siren and became and a high-ranking lieutenant of Zoom's meta-human group.

Becoming a meta-human
Around December 2013 Laurel was one of the many affected by Harrison Wells' particle accelerator, and gained the power to emit sonic screams powerful enough to kill people within seconds and take down entire buildings. Following this, she became a criminal named "Black Siren" and was employed into Hunter Zolomon/Zoom's army. She was one of his enforcers in Central City known for demolishing buildings. At some point she emerged as a high-ranking lieutenant of Zoom, earning enough respect from Hunter that he was willing to converse without a mask. This made Laurel the only known Earth Two individual to be aware of Hunter's identity and his "Jay Garrick" deception.

Invading Earth One
As part of his plan to conquer Earth One, Zoom brought over his entire army of meta-humans which included Laurel whom he ordered to attack various buildings at random to lure out the Flash. Laurel also learned of her Earth One doppelgänger's death, yet felt little remorse for her. Laurel first attacked Mercury Labs and leveled the entire building, but the Flash was able to save everyone inside. Next, Laurel lured out the Flash into the streets. At first Flash mistook her for her Earth One double though she simply laughed at him and elaborated that she was from Earth Two, and attacked him. Laurel used her sonic cry to weaken the Flash and then physically attacked him and easily subdued him, but before she could kill him, Wally West ran his car into her and helped the Flash escape.

Laurel later met up with Hunter at the Central City Police Department precinct, gloating of her defeat of the Flash but questioned why she was attacking buildings at random. Hunter explained that he needed the Flash distracted so that he wouldn't see his real plan coming until it was too late. When Laurel asked what he was up to Hunter coldly replied "no good", leaving Laurel visibly disturbed.

Laurel, as instructed, went to demolish another building but was confronted by "Reverb" and "Killer Frost", much to Laurel's confusion as she believed them dead. "Reverb" and "Killer Frost" seemingly made an offer to overthrow Zoom by teaming up together and Laurel appeared to consider the offer, but was skeptical and tossed a brick to "Reverb". When he caught it with his right hand, Laurel realized that "Reverb" and "Killer Frost" where actually their Earth One doubles Vibe and Earth One Caitlin Snow. As Laurel tried to kill them, Vibe hit her with a sonic blast, activated subconsciously, and was unable to do so again. Unfazed, Laurel simply tried to kill them again, but was disoriented and knocked out by a device Dr. Wells set up to render all Earth Two humans unconscious.

After falling unconscious, Laurel was locked up in the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, where she attempted to get out, though her sonic scream had no effect on the soundproof cell, to which Vibe mocked her. Caitlin considered telling Sara and Quentin, the sister and father of Laurel's deceased Earth One counterpart, about Earth Two Laurel, but Barry voted against the idea, not wanting to ruin their memory of the Laurel they knew.

Personality
Laurel is a sadistic and cruel individual who revels in the destruction that she causes with her powers, in contrast to her courageous and idealistic Earth One counterpart. She has a cruel/sadistic sense of humor, unphased about her counterpart's death even mocking her saying "Laurel Lance is dead. On this Earth anyway. Poor Black Canary, bye-bye birdie". She has been shown to be prideful to the point of being arrogant and overconfident which led to Wally West knocking her out with a car. However she is also very intelligent and observant as she quickly put together that Cisco and Caitlin were not their Earth Two doubles, as they were pretending to be. Though like most Earth Two metas Laurel does have a degree of fear towards Hunter Zolomon.

Hunter himself however seems to possess some level of respect for her, given on how he is willing to converse with her without his mask (making her the only known member of his army to be aware of his identity) and as evidence to her status as one of his top lieutenants.

Powers

 * Sonic scream: Laurel is able to emit a high frequency scream, that comes from her voice. The highest known frequency the scream can reach is 250 decibels. Her scream is so strong that it can launch a full-grown human or meta-human, even potentially killing them, and also cause tremendous damage to the area, as one shout caused a tremor that took down all of Mercury Labs. She is well known for collapsing buildings with her powers on both Earths One and Two.

Abilities

 * Hand-to-hand combatant: Laurel has proficiency in unarmed combat. While striking at the Flash while he was disoriented by her sonic scream, she demonstrated a graceful and well-coordinated series of punches and kicks, yet the exact level of her fighting skills is unknown.

Equipment

 * Black Siren suit: Laurel wears a black leather suit while terrorizing her victims as Black Siren.

Trivia

 * She is the second doppelgänger of an Arrow character that appeared on the Flash. The first one was Floyd Lawton from Earth Two.

Behind the scenes

 * Black Siren is the alias of Donna Nance, a founding member of the Justice Guild of America, in an alternate Earth, from the TV series, Justice League. The character herself was actually based on the Golden Age Black Canary.
 * Like the DC comic version of Black Canary, Laurel possesses the meta-human ability of a super sonic scream, which she can deploy to shatter objects and incapacitate her opponent; however, unlike her Earth One counterpart, she is a villain, instead of a hero.