Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
A scientist helps a comic-book artist to become the superhero he has created in order to battle a vicious gang of rapists.
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.