History Film / BlackScorpion

'''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}}y, almost like a live-action SilverAge comic book, using deliberately exaggerated and unrealistic characters and events to comic effect. The television series in particular was heavily influenced by the [[TheSixties 1960s]] ''{{Series/Batman}}'' series as well as the trend of having Playboy models in leather getups akin to ''{{Baywatch}}''. The bad acting, fanservice models and cheap production values made the series look like a porn parody film but without the sex. The character was revived for a short-lived 2009 comic book from Blue Water Productions.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: The attitude of a {{Punisher}}-like vigilante fittingly called the Angel of Death. Her grand plan involves gassing a prison and killing all the criminals in it, including herself!

* TheOtherDarrin: Everyone from the films got replaced in the series.

* CoolCar: The Scorpion Mobile, a bulletproof black Porsche kitted out with a lightning gun (the "Scorpion Sting"), gatling guns, oil slick, and can transform into Darcy's white Corvette.

** [[UnfortunateImplications Even the mayor has two.]]

'''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}}y, almost like a live-action SilverAge comic book, using deliberately exaggerated and unrealistic characters and events to comic effect. The television series in particular was heavily influenced by the [[TheSixties 1960s]] ''{{Series/Batman}}'' series. The character was revived for a short-lived 2009 comic book from Blue Water Productions.

* StockFootage: The TV series was produced by RogerCorman and nearly every episode features stock footage from various Corman films. The car chase sequences are also always the same footage.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: The attitude of a {{Punisher}}-like vigilante fittingly called the Angel of Death.

* ATeamFiring: Everybody, save Darcy and sometimes Steve, has some pretty lousy aim, but the police can't seem to hit anything resembling a human target, even when they have the advantage of a good position. [[hottip:*:A notable example is during Gangster Prankster's prison break in the second film. He's left the building and there's a guard firing down on him with an assault rifle from the roof with both hands like any good officer. Prankster manages to kill him by firing ''one-handed from the hip'' without being hit once.]]

* CaptainErsatz: A number of villains in Black Scorpion's RoguesGallery are basically incredibly campy (sometimes gender-swapped) versions of some of {{Batman}}'s villains. Special mention to the Gangster Prankster, who is the {{Joker}} but with a more street thug image. He even has a permanently distorted smile and clown make-up along with an air-headed female sidekick.

* DisproportionateRetribution: '''Medusa''' turns Steve into stone because years ago, after her face was horribly scared by acid, he let her down gently when she threw herself at him.

* BrainlessBeauty: Mayor Worth's secretary Babette is gorgeous... With a single digit IQ.

* CaptainErsatz: A number of villains in Black Scorpion's RoguesGallery are basically incredibly campy (sometimes gender-swapped) versions of some of {{Batman}}'s villains. Special mention to the Gangster Prankster, who is the {{Joker}} but with a more street thug image. He even has a permanently distorted smile and clown make-up.

* MostCommonSuperpower: Black Scorpion really fills out that suit.

[[caption-width-right:297:{{Batman}} + MsFanservice = Black Scorpion]]

* CostumedNonSuperHero: Black Scorpion

** Flashpoint's henchwomen Vision uses a camera that can trap people in it, suposeddly in a SupendedAnimation way, to help Flashpoint escape his cell in jail, later, she presses the "print" button and the real Flashpoint materializes.
** Flashpoint again uses the MagicCamera to capture Black Scorpion, but when he "prints" her, he "photoshops" some chains to her.
** At the end, Flashpoint and Vision get HoistByHisOwnPetard by being trapped in the MagicCamera and being uploaded to a satellite, last time we see them they seem to be in a PortalPicture.

* HurricaneOfPuns: In each episode the villain's theme becomes a fountain head for various [[IncrediblyLamePun bad puns]] from the criminal or Black Scorpion.

Not to be confused with the [[TheBlackScorpion 1957 giant monster movie]] of the same name.