Black Scorpion II
Black Scorpion II: Aftershock, also known as Black Scorpion II: Ground Zero, is a 1997 action comedy film directed by Jonathan Winfrey and starring Joan Severance as a crime fighting superhero. Roger Corman was the executive producer. 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. "Black Scorpion II: Aftershock" is a sequel to 1995's "Black Scorpion". It was followed in 2001 by a "Black Scorpion" TV series that starred Michelle Lintel in the title role. Plot. Darcy Walker (Joan Severance), returns as the Black Scorpion whilst the City of Angels is in the midst of a crime wave. When a series of earthquakes shake up the major metropolitan area, Prof. Undershaft (Sherrie Rose) had pioneered groundbreaking technology made to prevent such disasters in the future. But the duplicitous and corrupt  Mayor Worth (Matt Roe) had her life's work sabotaged in order to embezzle tremor insurance. Assigning blame for the fault device ruining the city on its creator, now Black Scorpion must protect the city from the now vindictive Seismologist turned lethal supervillain femme fatale; Aftershock.