Black Scorpion

Black Scorpion   is a 1995 American  superhero   comedy   television film  directed by Jonathan Winfrey, written by  Craig J. Nevius , and starring  Joan Severance  as the eponymous costumed crime fighter.  Roger Corman  was the executive producer, and it was originally released on the  Showtime   cable network  on August 22, 1995 as part of the  Roger Corman Presents  series. The film concerns the  comic book -style adventures of Darcy Walker, a police detective whose secret identity is the Black Scorpion, a  superhero   vigilante  for justice. Like  Batman , she fights evildoers with a combination of martial arts, great agility and strength, and many technological devices, including a high-powered, specially equipped car. Also like the  Batman  TV series of the 1960s,  Black Scorpion  is a work of  camp , using deliberately exaggerated and unrealistic characters and events to comic effect. Black Scorpion  was followed by a 1997 sequel,  Black Scorpion II . In 2001, the  Sci-Fi Channel  aired a  Black Scorpion  TV series that starred  Michelle Lintel  in the title role. Black Scorpion  was turned into a comic-book series, published digitally by  Devil's Due Publishing . There was also a one-off  Isis  / Black Scorpion comic published by  Bluewater Productions . Darcy Walker, a police detective, becomes the Black Scorpion, a costumed crime fighter, after her father is murdered. She does not reveal her secret identity to her partner Michael Russo. She is aided by Argyle, a technology expert and former car thief. While the movie doesn't explicitly spell out whether she has any special powers or not, it is shown in multiple scenes, through use of an electrical charge, that she is being enhanced by the scorpion ring she wears, a gift from her late father. Black Scorpion II: Aftershock , AKA  Black Scorpion II: Ground Zero is a 1997 American  superhero   comedy   television film  directed by Jonathan Winfrey, written by  Craig J. Nevius , and produced by  Roger Corman . It is the sequel to  Black Scorpion  (1995), and stars  Joan Severance , reprising her role as the titular crime-fighting  superhero . It aired on  Showtime  on May 13, 1997. Darcy Walker is a police detective in Angel City, a fictionalized version of Los Angeles. Her secret identity is the Black Scorpion, a  comic book  style vigilante. The Black Scorpion does not have any super powers but, like  Batman , she fights for justice using a combination of martial arts and advanced technology, including her high-tech car, the Scorpionmobile. The film's exaggerated characters and unrealistic events are portrayed with a humorous  camp  aesthetic. The film was followed in 2001 by a  Black Scorpion  TV series  that starred  Michelle Lintel  in the title role. Darcy Walker returns as the Black Scorpion while Angel City is in the midst of a crime wave. When a series of earthquakes shake up the major metropolitan area,  seismologist  Prof. Undershaft had pioneered groundbreaking technology made to prevent such disasters in the future. But the duplicitous and corrupt Mayor Worth had her life's work sabotaged in order to embezzle tremor insurance, and assigned blame for the fault device ruining the city on her. Now Black Scorpion must protect the city from the vindictive Undershaft, who has become the lethal supervillain femme fatale Aftershock. Black Scorpion   is an American  superhero  television series that aired on the  Sci-Fi Channel  in 2001. It aired in Canada on  Space . The series is based on two  Roger Corman   Showtime  TV-movies:  Black Scorpion  (1995) and its sequel  Black Scorpion II: Aftershock  (1997). The show focuses on a female police officer, who by night takes to the streets and fights crime as the  superhero  the Black Scorpion. Some episodes from the series were combined into  straight-to-video  movies, with episodes 1.1 and 1.2 released as  Black Scorpion Returns  in 2001 and episodes 1.1, 1.3, and 1.8 released as  Sting of the Black Scorpion  in 2002. The series was available on  DVD  in North America.