Scream Queen
17 years ago (dream realm memory) - Rockstar Dinah Lance, daughter of Laurel Drake, defeats Sandra Wu, becoming the new Paper Monkey. She returns as Scream Queen.
16 years ago (dream realm memory) - Scream Queen, Jack B Quick, Power Ring, Sea King, and Martian Maneater come together as the Crime Syndicate to defeat the formation of the Justice Underground.
14 years ago (dream realm memory) - Scream Queen begins working with The Black Archer. He joins her on the Crime Syndicate as her enforcer.
12 years ago - The Justice League are attacked in their dreams by Doctor Destiny. They follow him back into the Dream Dome defeating him and disabling his technology. The Dream Dome builds a dream reflection of the world and populates it with nightmare mirrors of the Justice League. They remember their own history, coming together as the Crime Syndicate and dominating their world.
9 years ago - Morpheus returns to the Dreaming. While reclaiming his realm, he disabled the Dream Dome, the technology built by Garrett Sanford while lost in the Dreaming. The dream reflection of the world that is home to the Crime Syndicate, no longer protected by the Dome, is set adrift in its own corner of the Dreaming.
7 years ago - The Crime Syndicate confirms that their world is in fact merely a dream reflection of the real world. They escape, and attack the Justice League to take their place. The League is defeated, and has to regroup. They are assisted in finally defeating the Crime Syndicate by Owlman.
The Crime Syndicate is really one collective storytelling entity. While Grant Morrison's take on these characters did give them a little more backstory, the point has never really been for any of them to have a lot of story of their own, so making character specific timelines becomes kind of beside the point.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
Scream Queen's StoryThere is a little bit more precedent for the Earth 3 version of Black Canary than there is for the other heroes outside of the original five members of the Crime Syndicate. There was a version of her that showed up in a single issue of Countdown when the heroes popped into the short-lived post-Infinite Crisis Multiverse version of Earth 3. This version was never actually named, she was just a black version of Black Canary with a white costume. The actual character in question is Black Siren, a name that showed up for the first time in the animated Justice League episode "Legends" as a founding member of the alternate Earth "Justice Guild" before the name was used in the Arrowverse. It was given to an Earth 2 version of Laurel Lance as a way to keep the actress on the show. We did see an Earth 3 version of the character as well, but she was named Siren-X. Later, in actual DC canon, Black Siren is the Earth 3 doppleganger of Black Canary, and she is pulled from her Earth by Amanda Waller and forced to serve on the Suicide Squad. This is where we get the art for this page, and is the main influence on our take on the character.
One point here, of course, is the name we chose. We did absolutely consider calling her Black Siren; there's nothing at all wrong with that choice. Scream Queen is from the animated movie, but it's also actually a different DC character, she's the gothic vampiric lead singer of an all-monster band Scare Tactics from the 90s series of the same name, which is a lot of fun. Using the name here, thought, did a little thing where the Earth 3 Dinah has "Queen" in her name, while Ollie has "Black" in his... and the synergy there was just fun enough for me to push for this name. |
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