One old story idea that I might never write was inspired by a character who appeared for 3 seconds without any spoken lines on the show “In Living Color.” This occurred in the introductory sketch for Handi-Man. She was described as the world’s only black feminist lesbian superhero, Angry-Woman; it was the 90s.
In my expanded story, she is a news reporter by day and vigilante at night who protects women of the city from the patriarchy.
She investigates a gang distributing roofies in the local club scene.
During her patrolling, she attacks an innocent man who had been helping a roofied woman. He ends up in the hospital. The roofie victim ends up in love with the bullied man who saved her. The vigilante ends up in court ordered anger management therapy.
Her therapist is a blunt take-no-shit man modeled after therapist and provocateur Paul Elam. He becomes the catalyst in her evolution from ‘Angry-Woman’ into a more effective vigilante whose superpower becomes empathy, which she uses to disarm criminals by turning their personal traumas against them.
The family drama in the story is her quest to find her long lost father, who she believes is her editor at the newspaper. She got the job there to better investigate him.
The romantic aspect is her crush on a woman at work who is put off by the heroine’s initial abrasiveness.
In the end, the heroine gets the girl, reunites with her father, solves the crime, gets forgiven by the man she put in the hospital, and completes a journey of personal evolution through her therapy sessions.
Jaycee Woods 
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