Black Scorpion: Difference between revisions

* [[Cool Pet]]: Darcy keeps a emperor scorpion in her lair.

* [[The Cowl]]: Black Scorpion

* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: Inverted as the the villain of the first film creates the ''hero'' by killing her father. Played straight with the mayor in the second film as he ends up turning Dr. Undershaft into Aftershock when his men sabotage her invention. This repeats several times in the series with the mayor's crooked schemes creating several villains.

** Flashpoint is a tabloid photographer obsessed with discovering Black Scorpion's secret identity who is blinded by her energy ring, but his eyesight was restored by advanced laser surgery, making him one of the heroine's most persistent archenemies.

* [[Cyborg]]/DarkActionGirl: '''Aerobicide''' is a physical fitness themed supervillain enhanced by cybernetics. Unsurprisingly, she's one of the more physically competent villains Black Scorpion faces.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The comic book adaptation is far less campy.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Darcy and Adam Burns/Inferno.

* [[Karmic Death]]: '''Clockwise''' is killed by one of his own age-inducing bombs.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Despite being the cause of most of the city's problems and the [[Create Your Own Villain|reason]] for most of its super villains, Mayor Worth remains free ''and'' the mayor. It's even lampshaded.

* [[Kiss of Death]]: The method used by the Angel of Death.

* [[Kiss of Life]]: Steve gives one of these to Darcy in "No Stone Unturned."

** [[Playing with Fire|Inferno]]/Adam Burns

*** That one is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Darcy.

* [[Minion]]: Almost all of the supervillains have exactly two of them.

** [[Unfortunate Implications|Even the mayor has two.]]

* [[Pointy-Haired Boss]]: Captain Strickland is a nice guy, but he's more or less completely incompetent.

* [[Police Are Useless]] With the exception of Darcy, and to a lesser extent Steve. Captain Strickland even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades it]]:

* [[Powered Armor]]: Slapshot uses one which doubles as a [[Super Wheelchair]].

* [[Psycho Electro]]: Stunner, formerly the mayor's deputy.

* [[Rogues Gallery]]: Naturally, though most seem to want to kill the ''[[Sleazy Politician|mayor]]'' rather than Black Scorpion. Darcy even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades it]]:

* [[Sleazy Politician]]: Mayor Worth is a prime example. The series takes it even further with the comments of Darcy's coworkers:

'''Specs:''' "Basically future generations." }}

* [[Special Guest]]: The episode "Love Burns" features ''Dave Mustaine'' (of [[Megadeth]]!) as an arsonist named Torchy Thompson.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Recurring theme in the series. If any character gains a [[Power]] from an accident, then [[Evil Laugh|insane laughter]] is sure to follow.

* [[Yellow Peril]]: Red Dragon and his goons.

 

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