Laurel Lance | Invincible

Dinah Laurel Lance is my favourite character on the television show, "Arrow" and I wanted to make a retrospective video on her that sort of looked at her journey. Personally, I think what makes Laurel so invincible is her heart and it's the defining thing about the character that I love. She has the biggest heart of anyone on the show, and in the first season it was about opening her heart back up after years of being closed off and allowing people into her life and allowing herself to trust what her heart was telling her -- whether that be to embrace her feelings for Oliver over Tommy, or to trust the Arrow versus her father's opinion of him, etc. The second season gave us Laurel with a broken heart, and how she responds to the grief and to the loss that she's experiencing. She ultimately grows stronger because of it and develops this heart of steel where she is more understand, and she is more forgiving and loving of those who don't necessarily deserve her compassion or forgiveness. She's grown so much stronger that in the wake of another tragedy, she doesn't descend back into a closed off state of being or descend back into dark territory, but instead she channels this into physically becoming as strong as the heart she has which drives her; she becomes the Black Canary.