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A good chunk of the issue consists of Bloodsport on a mission on Earth-3, as Amanda Waller has tasked him with learning about the multiverse and potentially bringing new recruits from other Earths. On Earth-3, Bloodsport runs into the Crime Syndicate, and realizes that all of the heroes he’s gone up against have some sort of counterpart on the existing team — except for one, Black Siren. Quickly dubbed “a Black Canary knock-off” by Bloodsport, she is shown robbing a bank while using her version of the Canary Cry.
Waller tasks Bloodsport with apprehending Black Siren, and he uses a Starro attack as an opportunity to do so, before she fights back with her Canary Cry. The two of them continue to battle — Bloodsport using a sonic-powered weapon — until their fight is interrupted by Ultraman.
This serves as the first major comic appearance of Black Siren (although the character technically appeared in April’s Crime Syndicate #2, but was possessed by Starro and wasn’t referenced by name), who was previously introduced in both animated and live-action television. Initially known as Donna Nance (a play on Black Canary’s real name of Dinah Lance), Black Siren appeared in a 2002 two-part arc on the Justice League animated series, as a founding member of the Justice Guild of America, an alternate version of the Golden Age Justice Society of America.
The Black Siren moniker was later repurposed within the Arrowverse, as a way to reintroduce Katie Cassidy‘s Laurel Lance following the Earth-1 version of the character’s shocking death on Arrow. Black Siren was first introduced as an Earth-2 villain working alongside Hunter Zolomon/Zoom in Season 2 of The Flash, before she found her way to Star City on Season 5 of Arrow. Black Siren operated as a criminal and an adversary of Team Arrow, before undergoing a redemption arc and beginning to operate more heroically. She then returned to Earth-2 to operate as that Earth’s version of the Black Canary, but returned back to Earth-1 just before the Crisis on Infinite Earths occurred.
While Black Siren is far from the only alternate iteration of Black Canary, she’s arguably the best-known one thanks to her appearances in the Arrowverse. This makes the circumstances surrounding her official debut all the more exciting — especially as it seems like the stories DC is telling on Earth-3 are far from over.
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