Sara Lance, a.k.a. White Canary, is a relentless positive force who faces up to her inner demons,
overcomes them, and now helps others with theirs. Let's follow the many twists and turns
of Sara Lance's life through time and space, heaven and hell, and all points in between.
Sara, the daughter of Starling City police captain Quentin Lance, is a rebel. She meets
her match in bad boy Oliver Queen and pursues him despite her sister, Laurel, being his
official girlfriend. Oliver invites Sara aboard the ill-fated yacht the Queen's Gambit. She
accepts after a huge fight with her sister. Of course, she doesn't know that the yacht
has been sabotaged by the sinister Malcolm Merlyn, and she is swept out to sea, presumed
dead. Her disappearance sends a shockwave through the Lance family. Quentin turns to
drinking and drifts apart from his wife, Dinah. Laurel is conflicted because her boyfriend
has been cheating on her with Sara, and she can't reconcile her grief and anger. Dinah
refuses to believe Sara is dead and alienates her family with this belief.
Sara survives the explosion on the Queen's Gambit, and is rescued by the crew of the
ship the Amazo. She is conscripted by Dr. Anthony Ivo to assist him in his experiments
while he searches for Mirakuru, a serum that enhances strength, healing, and quickness.
Faced with a decision to either help the twisted Dr. Ivo in his torturous "experiments" or
being made into a test subject herself, Sara chooses survival. Oliver, who's been stranded
on an island, is also rescued by the ship, and he's as surprised to see Sara as she is
to see him. They eventually team up to betray Ivo and return to Oliver's island prison of
Lian Yu. When the Amazo sinks in a fight, Oliver thinks Sara has been killed yet again.
"I saw you die."
"Not the first time that's happened, right?"
But she survives, and when she washes up on shore, she can't find Oliver. She's discovered
by Nyssa al Ghul, who nurses her back to health and helps train her as a member of the League
of Assassins. Sara and Nyssa become lovers during the several years' worth of training
Sara receives to become a killer.
Sara is drawn back to Starling City to make good on a promise and protect a troubled young
woman named Sin. Of course, the League of Assassins isn't the kind of organization you
can get a permission slip to leave; once you're a member, you're a member for life. Dressed
in a black mask and using a sonic device, Sara beats up a bunch of bad guys and runs
afoul of the Dollmaker, who kidnaps her family. Sara kills the Dollmaker against Oliver's
wishes, but nonetheless, Oliver and Sara reconnect and rekindle their romance. Unfortunately,
Sara has a problem: the League wants her back. After a series of assassination attempts and
failed kidnappings, Nyssa finally relents after Sara tries to poison herself. Sara joins
Team Arrow, reconnects with her father, and continues her relationship with Oliver.
After a while, the intensity of Oliver's vengeance-driven mission starts to wear Sara down. She decides
to leave town for a bit, but pops back in again just in time to help defeat Slade Wilson,
a.k.a. Deathstroke, once and for all. After rejoining Nyssa and the League for a while,
she returns to Starling City once again to confirm rumors of Malcolm Merlyn's return,
only to get riddled with arrows shot by Oliver's sister, Thea Queen, who's being mind controlled
by Malcolm. This time around, death looks like it's going to be a lot more permanent,
but a grief-stricken Laurel and Thea have other plans. They demand that Merlyn, now
head of the League, resurrect Sara using the life-restoring waters of the Lazarus Pit.
Of course, the problem with the Pit is that it restores life to someone's body, but doesn't
restore their soul. Supernatural expert John Constantine is called in to bring her soul
back, and Sara is finally whole again.
"Thank you John, I owe you one."
"I believe I owed you one, mate."
Sara stays around for a while in the now-renamed Star City, but she is haunted by the lingering
bloodthirstiness brought on by her Lazarus Pit experience. On the plus side, Laurel finally
makes up with Sara. Since she is now fighting crime as the Black Canary, Laurel dubs her
little sister the White Canary.
"Be a hero in the light. Be the white canary."
When she goes back to Nyssa, her old lover tells her that she needs to find her own path.
That path opens up when Rip Hunter, captain of the time and space-traveling ship the Waverider,
offers her a chance to save the world from Vandal Savage.
Rip has his own agenda, of course, and the reason he picks this particular group of misfits
is that if they're removed from the timeline, they aren't going to be missed. He can make
them sacrificial pawns in his desperate attempt to save his family from being killed by Vandal
Savage. At one point, Sara gets time-stranded in 1958, so she makes her way back to the
League of Assassins yet again. By the time rescue comes, she's firmly a part of the League
again and has forgotten her past. Just as she's going to kill one of her former friends,
she recalls her true place in the Legends. Torn between the League and the Legends, guild
master Ra's al-Ghul makes the decision for her: he releases her. Though she's a killer,
she wants to show mercy too much to be a real assassin.
"But your soul is divided by your ability to kill and your desire to show mercy."
The team eventually learns that their every action is foreseen and manipulated by the
Time Masters, Rip Hunter's former bosses. In a desperate attempt to escape the Time
Masters' clutches, Sara helps blow up the device that manipulates them. When she returns
to Star City in the present day, her father tells her that Laurel has died. Sara's grief-stricken
by her loss, but Rip finally reveals that if he hadn't plucked her out of time when
he did, Sara would have died too. After reforming the team, the Legends of Tomorrow kill off
Savage simultaneously in three different time periods, with Sara snapping his neck in 1975.
After the team's success, Sara decides to stay with the Legends to fulfill Laurel's
dream of her becoming "a hero in the light."
In the middle of season two of Legends of Tomorrow, the Earth is invaded by an alien
species called the Dominators. This kicks off the first major crossover between Arrow,
The Flash, Legends, and Supergirl. Sara gets to meet Supergirl for the first time, but
they don't have much time to get to know each other. Sara and a few others are mind-controlled
by the aliens to attack the Flash and the Arrow; later, Sara is teleported inside the
Dominators' ship and becomes part of a dream scenario with Oliver, and some of the other
heroes. It's an insidious plan, because it gives them all a fantasy of living a "normal"
life, apart from superheroics. After the heroes' combined forces save the day, Oliver and Sara
share a moment, with Oliver saying that in retrospect, the Dominators gave them a gift.
The back half of season two of the Legends of Tomorrow sees the team chasing after the
Spear of Destiny while battling against the Legion of Doom, which includes Malcolm Merlyn,
Damian Darhk, and Eobard Thawne, who all want the Spear for their own purposes. At one point,
Merlyn captures Sara and makes her an offer that's hard to refuse: In exchange for her
giving him an amulet that helps him find the Spear, he'll change the timeline and never
interfere with the Queen's Gambit. Sara will have the chance to live a normal life, and
Laurel will still be alive. Sara refuses:
"No thank you. I was never meant for those things and I know that now."
Later, a mind-controlled Rip shoots Sara in the stomach, nearly bringing about a fourth
death for the White Canary - which, well… just keep watching. Luckily, she gets better.
Eventually, the Legion gets the Spear and changes reality. Darhk turns Sara into his
personal assassin, but the rest of the Legends snap her back by way of a memory gun. Sara
eventually wields the Spear and is given one last temptation: a movie night with Laurel.
Even knowing that it isn't real, she is still tempted to undo everything that has damaged
her. Laurel tells her everything led her to this moment, and the Spear needs someone to
help protect reality. Sara returns reality to normal, de-powers the Spear, and the villains
are defeated.
The only problem with this happy ending is that as a result of using the Spear, the Legends
inadvertently break time. Rip Hunter forms a new organization, the Time Bureau, and officially
disbands the Legends, feeling that they only tend to make things worse. Sara is reduced
to working a boring retail job in Star City until Mick Rory calls her up after finding
Julius Caesar on a beach. They get the Legends back together, steal the Waverider from the
Time Bureau, and start fixing time anachronisms. Sara's new frenemy is Ava Sharpe, Rip's top
Time Bureau agent, and their arguing reveals a simmering, mutual attraction.
Sara discovers that a demon named Mallus is trying to manifest in this reality, and that
he can only be stopped by accruing magical totems. Sara is temporarily possessed by a
Death Totem but overcomes its influence. Sara and Ava break up, but get back together after
they both learn that Ava is a clone from the future. By the end of the season, Mallus is
able to manifest and seems like he's going to wreak havoc in this reality. The Legends
combine their powers through the amulets to create a "creature of light": a giant, fuzzy
toy named Beebo.
"Beebo want cuddles!"
Beebo takes Mallus high up into the air and flattens him, creating a blue, heart-shaped
mushroom cloud.
Sara and the gang take time out for the wedding of Barry Allen and Iris West. Sara meets Alex
Danvers, Kara "Supergirl" Danvers' sister, and it's lust at first sight. The two get
drunk and fool around, although Sara is clearly a bit more cavalier about the hookup than
Alex is.
"How are you?"
"I'm good, a little hungover, but I'll survive. How are you? How's your butt?"
Like many superhero weddings, this one is crashed by uninvited guests. In this case,
Nazi soldiers led by Dark Arrow, Overgirl, and Prometheus. Sarah and Alex team up to
defeat Prometheus, who is the Tommy Merlyn of Earth-X, an earth where nazis won World
War II and continue to rule. After a big battle that the good guys lose, everyone is brought
to Earth-X and taken prisoner.
There, Sara meets the Earth-X version of her dad Quentin, who reveals that he killed the
Earth-X version of Sara after finding out that she was bisexual.
“Ready. Aim.”
“I hate fire.”
Luckily, Sara and the gang get rescued by Leo Snart, the gay Earth-X doppleganger of
Captain Cold who is also a leader of the Freedom Fighters. They team up in order to return
to Earth-1. The Nazis follow them back to their earth and a huge battle ensues, where
our heroes win the day. Unfortunately, Martin Stein dies in the crossover. The team attends
his funeral before moving on, as Alex and Sara both say their goodbyes.
“You hit that?”
“Shut up.”
The fourth season of Legends Of Tomorrow sees the team dealing with yet another mistake:
in letting Mallus emerge, all sorts of other magical creatures also came through at various
points in time. The big bad this time is Neron, a lord of Hell who has it out for John Constantine.
While dealing with monsters and the mysterious machinations of a government conspiracy, Constantine
alters time to rescue an old lover. The result is a series of disastrous timeline crashes
where Sara, Ava, and Gideon become the "Sirens Of Space-Time" and all of the male Legends
get killed off. Another timeline sees Sara and the gang get turned into the Puppets of
Tomorrow, and they have a song for every occasion. Constantine eventually does the right thing
and restores the timeline.
Sara and Ava get serious this season, though they have their ups and downs as they try
to figure out how to make each other happy. When Constantine turns them into kids to help
solve a case at a summer camp, it brings them closer. Eventually, the team manages to beat
Neron after rescuing Ray Palmer from Hell, but the new boss of Hell and the end of reality
as we know it both loom.
Everything comes to a head for Sara Lance in the epic Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover.
Sara is front and center in the initial defense of Earth-38, but the true revelation is that
she's one of the prophesied Paragons who can help defeat the Anti-Monitor. Sara is the
Paragon of Destiny, as she proves, again and again, her willingness to accept her role
and her fate against all temptation. Reuniting with Oliver one last time, she and the other
Paragons thwart the Anti-Monitor at the dawn of time. When the multiverse is recreated
by the Spectre, Sara is one of just six beings to survive the old one with her memories fully
intact.
The team fights the Anti-Monitor one last time on the new Earth-Prime. Sara brings Mia
Smoak from the future to her father Oliver's funeral. After fighting at her side during
the Crisis, she wants to let Mia have a chance to meet her mother Felicity and to say goodbye
to the father she never had the chance to grow up with.
In season 5 of Legends of Tomorrow, The Legends face off against Encores: history's greatest
villains unleashed on Earth by Astra Logue, a woman with a vendetta against John Constantine.
However, it turns out that Astra was manipulated by Atropos and Lachesis, two of the fates
from greek mythology. In another twist, one of the Legends, Charlie, reveals that she's
actually Clotho, the youngest fate. Millenia earlier, she hid the Fates' loom, because
she wanted to give humanity free will. As the Legends and the Fates race to reclaim
the pieces of the loom, Sara battles Atropos on the set of CWs Supernatural. Atropos revealed
her true form to Sara, which should have killed her, but instead just blinds her and gives
Sara the ability to see the future deaths of any person she touches.
Knowing that Charlie is the best one to use the Loom of Fate, the Legends fight off a
zombie horde for as long as they can. Sara gets overrun by zombies and dies… again.
But this gives Charlie enough time to escape and rewrite time. Atropos and Lachesis rewrite
reality so that people are slaves to the Fates, but Charlie saves the Legends by splitting
them up and placing them in TV shows.
"What kind of Romulans are you?"
The Legends break out and Sara kills Atropos, but while celebrating their victory at a punk
show, Sara is kidnapped by aliens, setting up next season's big conflict.
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