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[[File:blackcar_9692.jpg|frame|[[Batman]] + [[Ms. Fanservice]] = Black Scorpion]]
 
'''''Black Scorpion''''' is a made-for-TV movie that first aired on Showtime in 1995. It was followed by a sequel, ''Black Scorpion: Aftershock'' (1997), and a live-action series on the Sci-Fi channel. The latter lasted a single season, running from January to June, 2001. It was very [[Camp|campycamp]]y, almost like a live-action [[Silver Age]] comic book, using deliberately exaggerated and unrealistic characters and events to comic effect. The television series in particular was heavily influenced by the [[The Sixties|1960s]] ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series. The character was revived for a short-lived 2009 comic book from Blue Water Productions.
 
After her father is murdered before her eyes, police detective Darcy Walker becomes the vigilante Black Scorpion to avenge him. She is assisted in this goal by a former car thief, Argyle Sims, who turns her car into the [[Cool Car|Scorpion Mobile]] and acts as her confidant. Other important characters include Darcy's partner, Steve Rafferty, who is determined to capture Black Scorpion (and is more than a little smitten with the crimefighter), the corrupt Mayor Worth, her comically inept fellow officers Specs and Slugger, and their idiot boss Captain Strickland.
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* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: The attitude of a [[Punisher]]-like vigilante fittingly called the Angel of Death.
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* [[Anti-Villain]]: Formerly heroic firefighter [[Playing with Fire|Inferno]]'s desire to kill the Mayor seems pretty justified -- afterjustified—after slashing the fire department's budget, the Mayor hires an arsonist (his former cellmate!) to burn down numerous buildings in Angel City, which leads directly to Adam's transformation into a man with firestarting touch.
* [[Bachelor Auction]]: The episode "No Stone Unturned" features one of these, complete with the guy who thinks he's hot stuff getting a lower than starting bid (Slugger), and a straight guy being won by a gay man (Specs), however while Darcy bids on [[Love Interest]] Steve, she loses out to the vengeance-seeking Minerva Stone/Medusa.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Being a [[Distaff Counterpart|distaff]] [[Expy]] of Batman, Black Scorpion naturally has no superpowers. But she does have a lot of cool gadgets.
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* [[Special Guest]]: The episode "Love Burns" features ''Dave Mustaine'' (of [[Megadeth]]!) as an arsonist named Torchy Thompson.
* [[Stock Footage]]: The TV series was produced by [[Roger Corman]] and nearly every episode features stock footage from various Corman films. The car chase sequences are also always the same footage.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Aerobicide is a man-hater with an axe to grind -- shegrind—she and her minions rob men's clubs. Every male character in the series conveniently becomes a one-episode misogynist when she shows up.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Doing this to people is Medusa's schtick.
* [[The City]]: Angel City
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