New ARROW Video Explores The Costume Of 'Black Canary' (And Those Famous Fishnets)

I think if you have to make parts of your costume glow in a BTS video like this then there is something wrong with the design.

Can we please drop the goth design for Black Canary please? It's [frick]ing ridiculous. Just replace her revealing attire with a similar looking top and pants and the leather jacket, oh wait, they did that with the version of Canary that wasn't even Laurel...

@Dandy

You (and a lot of other users i've read comments from) forget that she has had training since she was little.

Episode 1 or 2 from the first season shows her taking out a couple of bouncers. I mean, they actually [frick]ing show you she can handle herself, even before being trained by an assassin and a boxer, but I guess everyone forgot.

Besides, she got her ass handed to her a number of times in season 3 by superior fighters, so it's not that ridiculous.

I appreciate the thought that went into it. Especially the stuff about the fishnets.

*female charachters in all of comics.

@dandy

I agree on that front. Thea would have been very believable of it weren't for just how badass they seemed to portray her. Laurel should have been given a season of training before she suited up.

@Dandy

As someone who was concerned with how they'd handle Laurel's progression, they'd force her into the role and/or they'd rush to make her more capable, I think it they handled it fine. Definitely better than I expected and it could've easily been worse.

I appreciated that Laurel took her lumps and got her ass kicked more than a few times. And in most cases early on, when Laurel was helpful it was more about luck and not her being a badass. It was believable that training with Wildcat Grant for several months was helping her. And then training with Nyssa for weeks/months helped her even more. Obviously, she isn't and shouldn't be equal to Oliver or Sara, maybe even Thea, but with suspension of disbelief, it's easier to accept her progression and she should be more capable than she was at the beginning of the season.

Thea trained with Malcolm for six months, right? Malcolm is superior to Oliver, so she has a helluva a trainer. And what else are they gonna do besides train, ya know? haha. I mean they are in hiding. Plus, it was shown in season 1 that Thea was an accomplished archer, she had archery trophies all over her room.


And if we're really being fair about things, look no further than Oliver's flashback scenes. Originally, we accepted that Oliver was a badass because he spent five years on an island training and fighting for survival. However, now we know that's not entirely true. Sure, he occasionally trained and Slade Wilson was a great mentor/trainer, but how long exactly was he trained?? His progression seemed to be expedited a bit to "best" Slade in their flashback fight. And then Oliver leaves the island and isn't training, but doing missions for ARGUS/Waller. He seems like a more than capable badass in those scenes despite not much evidence to justify his progression, right??

Hell, Sara was with the League and it's safe to assume she trained more/longer than Oliver, is it not??

@jeight