Laurel Lance (Earth-1)


 * For her mother of the same name, see Dinah Lance.

"We don't need to go outside the law ... to find justice."

- Laurel Lance

Dinah "Laurel" Lance (born 1984) is the daughter of Quentin Lance, and Dinah Lance, the older sister of the late Sara Lance, the ex-girlfriend of Oliver Queen, and the on and off girlfriend of Tommy Merlyn. Sometime in the past, Laurel had a romantic relationship with Oliver Queen. until he was unfaithful to her with her sister, Sara Lance. Laurel is part of a group called the City Necessary Resources Initiative, or CNRI, that helps people in need.

Season 1
Laurel is a lawyer and works for a legal aid office. Five years prior to the pilot, her sister Sara dies in a violent shipwreck which, also strands Oliver on a remote island. After a while she forgives him and they become friends again. It is also shown that she has been involved with Tommy in the past. In Lone Gunman, they agree to give their relationship a try.



In Damaged, Laurel and Oliver kiss. She admits that she still has feelings for him but makes it clear that nothing can ever happen between them. She argues with her father when she chooses to defend Oliver in his trial. Moira Queen requests her to be Oliver's lawyer on his insistence. She tells her father that he can't blame Oliver fully for Sara's death or the fact that her mother left them afterwards.

When Thea gets in legal trouble to get her out of a long jail sentence Laurel gets her father to get her a deal, meaning as part of her plea bargain, Thea will work at CNRI.

When she calls the Hood, she unwittingly helps her father track him down and is furious with him as it gets her kidnapped. The Hood saves her, but this cause a break between her and her father. After this, Arrow told her goodbye.

In Dead to Rights her mother shows up and tells her Sara may be alive.

Personality
Laurel is hard working and fights hard to get what she wants. She is a great lawer and lives to stand for the innocent and what is right. She can be feisty and doesn't like to be told what to do. Laurel is attracted to bad guy's, as shown when she dated both Oliver and Tommy. She gets annoyed when her father tries to get in the way, always making his opinion of her boyfriends known even though it almost never changes her mind. Laurel is tough and knows how to take care of her self. She takes riskes like contacting oliver as Arrow, and cant resist saving people from tough sistuations like when Tommy and Oliver was going to get beat up in the club, to innocent people on trial.

Abilities
Expert hand-to-hand combatant: Laurel received extensive hand-to-hand combat training. This is because her father made her take self-defense classes.

Expert lawyer and detective: This help Laurel to uses the system of the court to her knowledge. It also makes her look at every aspect before making up her mind and to see the bright side of everyone.

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #14
 * Arrow #18
 * Arrow #26

Trivia

 * With the insistence of her father, Laurel received extensive hand-to-hand combat training allowing her to defend herself very effectively.
 * Dinah Lance is Black Canary in the original comic. She possesses the metahuman ability of a sonic scream in which she can deploy to shatter objects and incapacitate her opponents, the "Canary Cry"
 * During San Diego Comic Con 2012, the shows producers said that Laurel will become Black Canary "later than you hope but sooner than you expect".
 * In "Damaged", when Oliver and Laurel go alone to talk, Laurel mentions to Oliver that she wore fishnets to a Halloween party they attended together in 2005. This is a reference to Laurel's comic book alter ego's costume, Black Canary.
 * Laurel at first has mixed feelings about the vigilante, stating that he goes against everything that she was taught but is still doing good. This is evidenced when she in a moment of shock calls him a killer with no remorse but defends him when she's reminded of her statement. However she begins to trust him later, shown in "Betrayal" where she's more frightened by her father charging out with a gun than with the vigilante for holding a blade to her neck.
 * It is possible from the way that Laurel has acted with the vigilante that she is, to some degree, in love with him more so than she is with Tommy Merlyn. It is possible that the show creators are subtly foreshadowing this with the Robin Hood/Maid Marion quip as well as the way she looked after him whilst Quentin secured Cyrus Vanch and the way she wanted to continue working with Arrow despite the danger. Also when she, was distracted by Tommy's arrival she seemed more concerned with finding Arrow than she did with reconciling with Tommy. If this is correct then if/when she discovers that Oliver is in fact Arrow, she may end her relationship with Tommy which would provide the catalyst for his possible later transformation into the second Dark Archer.
 * Laurel may not be a good cook, as at Tommy's birthday Oliver expresses delight when he hears that she ordered takeout, by saying "Thank god, she's not gonna cook" and Tommy replying "Amen".

Promotional images
Dinah "Laurel" Lance