Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion

Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion was a Disney Channel coming of age superhero action comedy television series centering around a 13 year old Mexican-American girl, Violet Rodriguez. After getting a magical luchadora mask that grants her super speed, she becomes the superhero Ultra Violet, and is trained by the city's vigilante superhero Black Scorpion, who is also her uncle and godfather, Cruz de la Vega, a former luchador wrestler who retired after receiving his magical mask, which grants him super strength. It feels like literally no one else is talking about this show, so I don't see the harm in me throwing words out into the void that is the internet. Other characters include the titular duo's family: Violet's mom and Cruz's older sister Nina, who is the principal of Violet's middle school, Violet's dad Juan Carlos, and her older brother Santiago, who goes by Tiago. He's talented at everything, in stark contrast to his little sister, who is seemingly bad at everything. Violet's best friend, Maya Miller-Martinez, is the first person to know that she's a superhero. Luis Leon is an annoying, nosy, snooty, and very rich classmate and hall monitor who thinks he's superior to everyone else, but he's secretly lonely because his parents are never around. He wants to find out Ultra Violet's secret identity. Catalina Rivera, the school guidance counselor and Cruz's love interest, rounds out the recurring cast of Hispanic characters. There's not much of an overarching plot, at least in the first half of the season. It's usually just normal situational comedy, platonic and romantic relationship troubles, and problems of the week mixed in with super heroics. It turns out that the reason why no one else is talking about this show is because there is only one season with 16 episodes, and it ends on a massive cliffhanger. Because I guess Disney hates diversity or Latinos or shows led by young women… or all of the above. Or actually properly advertising any of their shows, like Netflix. Move it to Disney+ and bump up the rating then! I loved *Big Shot*, which features numerous women in main character roles! Hell, have America Chavez integrate this show into the Marvel Cinematic Universe somehow! I'd watch that! Plus it takes place in L.A., so you could tie it into *She-Hulk: Attorney at Law* somehow. I don't think I've been this pissed off at a company mismanaging something since I found out that the WB and Discovery merger resulted in that Black Mask-esque CEO villain axing the HBO Max *Batgirl* movie when it was basically almost finished (along with a *Scooby-Doo* holiday special). After Warner Media had already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Which, surprise surprise, *also* had a young woman of color as the titular lead! #RepresentationMatters! And yet *Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur*, which also had a young woman of color as one of the title characters, and their first season also only had 16 episodes, was renewed for a second season before it even premiered, although I guess that could be because it's animated instead of live-action, and because people like Laurence Fishburne are involved in its creation. I do love that show too though.

## Season 1

Episode 1: "The Violet Behind the Ultra" Episode 2: "You Like Me! You Really Like Me!" Episode 3: "Lucha Royale" Episode 4: "Sleepover Showdown" Episode 5: "The Legend of the Twelve Masks" Episode 6: "¡Chisme! ¡Chisme! Read All About It!" Episode 7: "Ultra Matchmaker" Episode 8: "Ultra Violet Unmasked" Episode 9: "Cascada" Episode 10: "Lucha Rules!" Episode 11: "Ultra Friend, Ultra Flake" Episode 12: "Forgive Me Not" Episode 13: "Highkey Anxiety" Episode 14: "Luis Leon Won't Go Home" Episode 15: "Unleash the Cape" Episode 16: "Ultra Violet vs. Black Scorpion"