Sara Lance

"Laurel's gonna kill me. Oh, she's so gonna kill me."

- Sara to Oliver Queen

Sara Lance, also known as The Canary, is a vigilante. She is also the daughter of Quentin Lance and Dinah, the younger sister of Laurel Lance, and the former fling of Oliver Queen. She was presumed dead when the Queen's Gambit went down, which her father never forgave Oliver for. However, Sara is indeed alive and returned to Starling City during 2013 as a vigilante.

Earlier life
During her high school years, Sara was bullied by some of her classmates because she was stealing one of her classmate's boyfriends. The often occurrences of her getting bullied caused behavior issues from Sara, and her grades to drop. This led to her father teaching her and Laurel how to defend themselves.

Voyage on the Queen's Gambit
In late 2007, despite her mother's wishes, Sara went on the Queen's Gambit with Oliver Queen. During their sail at sea, the ship was sabotaged and sank, along with Sara. Her remains were never recovered so her family buried a empty casket, after being declared legally dead.

A year later she appeared on the Amazo where she is seen standing in front of Oliver, It was implied before he saw her that she was going to torture him.

Season 2
In "City of Heroes", As Roy Harper was fighting a group of men who'd been harassing a woman, the Canary swooped in and fought off the attackers before they could beat Roy. Roy expressed shock by her sudden entrance, before she quickly left.

In "Broken Dolls", When Arrow was cornered by the Police led by her sister Laurel, she came in and used a sonic device to distract the policemen and break the windows, they used the chaos to quickly escape the scene. Sometime later, when Roy was lured in to her hideout by her friend Sin, she knocked him out with her staff. She asked why he was looking for her, but was interrupted by a message on Roy's phone. She took a look at it and let him go, before climbing up poles and exiting the building via the roof. That evening, after Barton Mathis kidnapped her sister and her father, he ran away from Arrow, she helped stop him, though he released a bunch of metal poles from above, knocking her down. Arrow successfully subdued him, though The Canary ultimately killed him.

When returning at the tower, she found herself confronted by a hooded man (wearing clothing identical to that of Malcolm Merlyn). The intruder told her Ra's al Ghul wanted her to return. She declined and tried to persuade him to tell he could not find her. The man then threatened her with a knife. She quickly killed him with his own knife.

In "Crucible", Felicity notices a pattern in the Canary's appearance, this leads to Oliver catching her to learn her identity. Oliver unmasks her and is shocked to discover that she is Sara. Oliver then reveals to John and Felicity that he thought she drowned on the Queen's Gambit, but met her a year after being shipwrecked, however he thought she had died since he last saw her. She goes back to her hideout and shares a meal with Sin, in which she reveals to her about running into Oliver and then how her dad is a cop and sister is a lawyer. She follows Oliver to Verdant where she asks if Oliver told her dad and sister about her, but he says he didn't. They converse about her hiding when Quentin arrives asking for Oliver's help about Laurel, Sara overhears the conversation about Laurel's depression.

When Sin is injured by The Mayor, she and Oliver team up and takes on The Mayor and his cronies. Both work hand in hand together even both using each others weapons. Sara is about to kill the Mayor but Oliver convinces her not to. She spares him and lets him go. She is then seen watching Sin as she wakes up who has company from Roy & Thea. As she is leaving, she encounters Oliver, The two leave together.At the end of the episode, in a flash back, Oliver and Sara encounter each other on the ship.

Personality
Sara is a person who "just couldn't stay out of trouble". She made unwise, often selfish decisions, such as pursuing a boy with a girlfriend while in high school, provoking physical attacks from his girlfriend and her friends in retaliation. She apparently got in a fair bit of trouble as a teenager, including one incidence of shoplifting, that her father made go away. She also had an affair with her sister's boyfriend Oliver, suggesting that loyalty to her sister meant nothing to her. This led to her presumed death, when the Queen's Gambit went down.

Abilities

 * Skilled hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist: In "City of Heroes", Sara is shown to be a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist when she took down three armed thugs simultaneously. In "Broken Dolls", she was also able to kill Barton Mathis by impaling a baton in his chest.


 * Kali stick fighter: In "City of Heroes", Sara carries eskrima sticks, that appear to combine into a bo staff, and she is possibly trained in kali stick fighting.
 * Skilled archer: In "Crucible", Sara is shown to be a skilled archer, she was able to use Oliver's customized oneida kestrel compound bow, combined with one of his customized hunting arrows, shooting it with great accuracy, in the shoulder of one of The Mayor's goons.
 * Free running/Acrobatics/Stealth: Sara has shown herself capable of scaling buildings and running from rooftop to rooftop easily. She displayed impressive acrobatics while entering and leaving buildings. She is also able to quickly enter and leave without being seen.

Equipment

 * The Canary costume: Sara wears a black leather costume (pants instead of fishnet stockings) while fighting crime as The Canary.
 * Eskrima sticks: As The Canary, she uses Eskrima sticks to fight. They seem to be able to combine into a bo-staff.
 * Sonic device: A handheld non-lethal Sonic weapon used to disable large groups of people. It overwhelms the hearing of everyone in the immediate vicinity, and is also capable of shattering glass.

Appearances
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 * Arrow #12 (dream/hallucination)
 * Arrow #14
 * Arrow #26 (mentioned)

Trivia

 * Like Thea and Laurel, Sara also calls Oliver by his nickname "Ollie".
 * She was presumed dead after the Queen's Gambit went down, but she is confirmed to be alive and a recurring character in season 2.
 * It is currently unknown how Sara survived when the Queen's Gambit went down, and where she has been for the last 6 years.
 * Whenever the Canary leaves a room (i.e. jumps away from a ledge), a canary cry can be heard.
 * In the third episode of the second season,, it was revealed that she was trained by Ra's al Ghul, likely as part of the League of Assassins, also suggesting that she might have been revived by the Lazarus Pit.
 * Sara Lance is the eighth person to discover Oliver Queen's secret identity, Arrow. She discovered this in "Crucible". Though she suspected he was Arrow once she heard rumor of a green hooded vigilante archer over the year prior to him revealing it to her.
 * In The Pilot and in pictures in various other episodes, Sara is played by Jacqueline MacInnes Wood. However, she was recast in season 2 and played by Caity Lotz, who re-filmed scenes originally filmed with Wood in The Pilot.