History Film / BlackScorpion

* MeaningfulName: Most [[SuperVillain super villain's]] [[SecretIdentity real names]] are a direct reference to their theme/power:
** [[ArmCannon Firearm]]/Jack Ames ("Aims")
** [[ClockKing Clockwise]]/Benjamin Tickerman
** [[GreenThumb Greenthumb]]/Eugene Gardner
** [[TakenForGranite Medusa]]/Minerva Stone
** [[WeatherDissonance Hurricane]]/Dr. Gail Waters
** [[ShockAndAwe Stunner]]/Edwina Watts
** [[PlayingWithFire Inferno]]/Adam Burns
*** That one is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Darcy.
-->'''Darcy:''' A fireman named Burns?
** Professor Phoenix is not exactly a villain, but just as the mythological phoenix is known for coming back from the dead, he constantly resurrects dead supervillains. He also keeps spare clones of himself in case he gets killed.

The series is available for streaming on [[https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/black-scorpion Shout Factory]].

* BuxomIsBetter: The required bra size for the series appears to be a C-cup or better.

* CoolPet: Darcy keeps a emperor scorpion in her lair.

* {{Camp}}: The first film took itself a little more seriously, but the second started to take it UpToEleven.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: 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.

''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 [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks 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 [[TheSixties 1960s]] ''{{Series/Batman}}'' series as well as the trend of having Playboy models in leather getups akin to ''Series/{{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.

* AdamWesting: Not only did Adam West take over the role of Breathtaker for the series, but Frank Gorshin of [[{{Series/Batman}} 60's Batman]] fame appeared as Clockwise.

* UnhandThemVillain: In the pilot movie, Breathtaker is holding on to Russo aloft on a catwalk in the chemical. Black Scorpion arrives and yells "Let him go!", to which Breathtaker replies "With pleasure" and immediately tosses him over the railing.

* [[TheFarmerAndTheViper Frog And The Scorpion]]: The tale that inspire Darcy to become Black Scorpion.

** Flashpoint's henchwomen Vision uses a camera that can trap people in it, suposeddly in a SuspendedAnimation way, to help Flashpoint escape his cell in jail, later, she presses the "print" button and the real Flashpoint materializes.

* MagicalCamera: Flashpoint has one that let him to take {{PhantomZonePicture}}s

* {{Minion}}: Almost all of the supervillains have exactly two of them.
** 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 [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks 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 [[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.

'''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 [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks 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 [[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.

** Argyle is DangerouslyGenreSavvy: He knows that in his city, when a guy graduates from college, there is a high chance that he becomes a SuperVillain.

* CaptainErsatz: A number of villains in Black Scorpion's RoguesGallery are incredibly campy (sometimes gender-swapped) versions of some of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s villains. The Gangster Prankster, who is SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker 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.