Black Lightning

Black Lightning is given to quoting greats like Martin Luther King Jr.: "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars," he tells his daughter after she's arrested during a rowdy 100 gang protest. She quotes back at him from Fannie Lou Hamer: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." The show digs into issues of race and class, like when the family is stopped by police and threatened with guns in an incident of racial profiling; later, an officer tells Jefferson to get his "black ass on the ground." Jefferson frequently uses logic to convince miscreants to stop what they're doing, like when he convinces a young man about to pull a gun that he'll be caught and jailed for life; at other times, he uses his powers indiscriminately, like when he uses a bolt of electricity to get a bystander out of the way. 

Combat in every episode, ranging in intensity. A villain shoots a man in the chest with an arrow attached to a rope; uses it to reel the man in as he screams. Black Lightning uses bolts of electricity and hand-to-hand combat (not guns) to disarm and knock criminals to the ground, where they smoke slightly and lie still. He also sets property (e.g., a police car) on fire. A baddie tortures a man by dumping him in a fish tank; he is seen floating as if dead a moment later. A woman punches a man who grabs her arm and puts him on the ground, he tries to pull a gun before he's convinced to get going by Jefferson. Black Lightning is impervious to gunfire (though others are shot with blood but no gore). Aggressive music plays as he dispatches bad guys one by one, throwing them off balconies and through panes of glass.

Expect words like "damn," "ass," "hell," "pissed," "ho," "bitch."