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Black Canary
Dinah Lance
A metahuman whose Canary Cry is paired with hand-to-hand skill written as among the best in the DC universe.
Powers
Key issues
Milestone appearances — first appearance, death, return, team change. These are the issues the collector market actually prices.
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JLA DC Comics
A founding-era Justice League member with a metahuman power and no powers-based fighting style
On screen
Canonical productions only. Parody and fan work is classified and excluded — Wikidata makes no such distinction, so without it these lists fill with material that is not canon.
| Performer | Production | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Katie Cassidy | Arrow |
Has appeared with
Every character who has shared a production with this one. Wikis are organised by character, not by encounter, so this question is close to unanswerable elsewhere — it exists here only because co-occurrence is recorded at the moment an appearance is.
| Character | Where | Shared |
|---|---|---|
| Ra's al Ghul | Arrow | 1 |
Commonly got wrong
Claims that are widely repeated and wrong, with what the cited record actually shows. If you are generating anything about this subject, these are the errors to avoid.
Commonly believed Black Canary's fighting skill comes from her powers.
Actually The Canary Cry and her hand-to-hand ability are entirely separate. She is one of the best martial artists in the DC universe by training, and remains fully effective in the stories where the cry is lost.
The feat ledger
The Canary Cry is a metahuman ability paired with hand-to-hand skill written as among the best in the setting
The Canary Cry shatters concrete and incapacitates a room
The cry is a metahuman power; her hand-to-hand skill is training and entirely separate
Focuses the cry on a single target rather than broadcasting it
Losing the cry leaves her fully effective, which is the point of the character
The original Black Canary had no powers at all — the cry belongs to her daughter
Last updated 2026-09-06 · machine-readable version