Static Shock is an animated television series based on Static, a comic book series by Milestone Comics (an independently-owned imprint published by DC Comics).

The title character of the series is Virgil Hawkins, an African-American high school student in the fictional city of Dakota. As a result of accidental exposure to an experimental mutagen, he gained electromagnetic powers, and - being a comic book fan - used them to become a superhero.

The series stars Phil LaMarr as the voice of Static. Dwayne McDuffie , founder of Milestone and Static's creator, has retained a substantial amount of control over the series' plot and characterization, and has written several episodes. Many of the episodes adapt of story elements from the comic books.

The cartoon sometimes features guest appearances by characters from other DC animated series, including Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League, although in the comic book, the city of Dakota was explicitly not located in the DC Universe. In fact, the Worlds Collide crossover showed that the citizens of Dakota are aware of the existence of Superman et al. as fictional characters from comic books. Similarly, the first season of Static Shock prior to the first Batman crossover indicated that the DC universe characters were in fact fictional characters to the Dakota characters, most notably when Virgil remarked that "even Clark Kent had a day job" in the second episode.

Contents

1 Characters 1.1 Heroes 1.2 Friends and Family of the Heroes 1.3 Villains 1.4 Other Bang-Babies 2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1 2.2 Season 2 2.3 Season 3 2.4 Season 4 3 External Links

Characters

Heroes

• Static / Virgil Ovid Hawkins - The title character. He has the power to control and produce Electromagnetic energy in a wide variety of manifestations , limited only by his Knowledge & Imagination. He is named for the first black American to go to law school (who was himself named for the Greek/Latin poets Virgil and Ovid).

• Gear / Richard 'Richie' Osgood Foley - Virgil's best friend and confidant. Richie Foley appears only in the animated series, in which he was the one who suggested Virgil become a superhero. In the episode "Power Play" he was given powers by Rag-Tag, and was briefly known as "Push", but recharges came at a price. Later on in the series, he gains enhanced Intelligence from a delayed reaction to the Big-Bang and becomes Static's sidekick, "Gear".

• Rubber-Band Man / Adam Evans - A living and stretching mass, Adam can reshape himself into anything. He was defeated by Static, and in the cartoon, subsequently reformed; occasionally helping out Static and the police, after doing his time in jail. It is public knowledge that Evans is Rubber-Band Man. His name is a reference to former Milestone writers Adam Blaustein and Yves Fezzani, who created the RubberBand Man before leaving comics. Adam is also a talented musician, and often dates Virgil's sister, Sharon

• She-Bang / Shanice Vale - Shanice is a Test-Tube Baby , genetically engineered in a lab to have enhanced strength and agility. Two of the scientists in the lab fell in love with her and snuck her home. Throughout her life she was pursued by agents from the lab, who wanted to recapture her, (her jaunts as She-Bang proving that she was worth reclaiming and cloning.)

• Anansi the Spider - Named after Anansi the Spider, the trickster of African folklore. Anansi the Spider is a hero native to Ghana. Anansi has the power to create visible, realistic Illusions. He was granted this power by an ancient small golden spider.

• Time-Zone / Nina Crocker - Nina Crocker was a Bang-Baby with the power to distort time, allowing her to travel into the past. After history was almost changed by Ebon, Nina decided that her powers were too dangerous to keep, and went back in time to stop her past-self from being present at the night of the Big Bang. Time-Zone's powers were based on Flashback's, a member of the Blood Syndicate along side Aqua-Maria, Brick-House, and Fade.

Friends and Family of the Heroes

• Robert Hawkins - A social worker, Robert runs the Freeman Community Centre as head counsellor. A widower and the father of two children (Sharon Hawkins & Virgil Hawkins/Static), Robert Hawkins is a man of a caring, protective and inquistive nature, as well as a strict, but understanding father. He dislikes gangs and the destructive attitudes of most Bang-Babies, he has even belived that Static whould also turn into a criminal. Robert Hawkins was first introduced in "Shock to the System" in Static/Virgil Hawkins's Flashback of before the Big-Bang. In "Aftershock" he was demanding any new information on the Big-Bang and what the city Council was planing to do about all "these Bang-Babies". Robert Hawkins appears in almost every episode over the series. In "Kidnapped" Robert Hawkins was kidnapped by Omnara (formally Dr. Karen Roberts) because she knew Static's secret identity; she could get him to steal items she required for a old project of hers. Robert figures out that Static and his son Virgil are one and the same; why else kidnap him to get to Static? Afterwards, he gives his son his blessing to continue as a super-hero and since then, Robert has been keeping his son's secret.

• Sharon Hawkins - Sharon Hawkins the oldest of two siblings; she is Virgil Hawkins older sister. She is a strong-willed, caring young woman. She still lives at home, attends college and volunteers at a hospital. Sharon and Virgil fight mainly about the chores, her cooking, and other things make for a hard relationship. She refers to him as a "Slack-Off Extraordinaire"; while Virgil refers to her as a dog - "Oh, don't forget your dog collar, Woof Woof." In "Brother-Sister Act", Sharon had noticed how similar Static and her brother Virgil really are. Rather ardent to prove they are one and same, she takes Virgil to a Basketball Game and reveals what she knows: "Sooner or later Virgil youre going to change into Static, and I intend to be right there when you do".

Villains

• Hot-Streak / Francis Stone - Better known as "F-Stop" in the animated series and "Biz-Money-B" in the comics - before the Big Bang . Hot-Streak has pyrokinetic abilities - in the comic book, these were linked to his additional power of super-speed: he dissipated the accumulated friction heat by channelling it into his pyrokinesis. As a vicious high-school bully, Stone repeatedly tormented Hawkins until Hawkins decided to take revenge and kill Stone. Hawkins obtained a gun and went to the Big Bang intending to shoot Stone from afar, so as to have it look like a random accident, but discovered that he could not bring himself to commit murder. Before he could flee the scene, however, Hawkins was exposed to the Big Bang's mutagenic effects. Thus, Hot-Streak is indirectly responsible for Static's existence. In the animated series, Hot-Streak was one of the number of Bang-Babies to be returned to normal, but, with Ebon, stole the rest of the Big-Bang Gas that was used to develop the cure; to restore their power but were merged together in the process.

• Ebon / Ivan Evans - Existing solely in the cartoon, he is the older brother of Rubber-Band Man and a gang-banger before the Big Bang. The "Master of shadows and darkness." He can also make shadow portals to teleport things through (a reference to the Shadow Cabinet's Shadow-slide, which only works in total darkness). Ebon tries to recruit other Bang-Babies into his gang and really only sees them for their powers. Ebon was been defeated multiple times. Ebon was one of the number of Bang-Babies to be returned to normal, but, with Hot-Streak, stole the rest of the Big-Bang Gas that was used to develop the cure; to restore their power but were merged together in the process.

• Talon - Existing solely in the cartoon, Talon's real name is Teresa. She is a teenaged girl who has turned into teenaged girl-bird and is bitter about it. She is covered in orange feathers, has claws and talons, and can fly; plus, she can emit a destructive hyper-sonic shriek from her mouth, like a Harpy. Talon was one of a number of Bang-Babies to be returned to normal.

• Shiv - Existing solely in the cartoon, Shiv is the jokester in the Meta-Breed. He can generate "light-energy", which he can blast at opponents, and which he can use to fashion Light-Energy weapons - he can hold them, throw them or fashion them around his arms and hands. Shiv is based on the comic book character Plus from Milestone's Shadow Cabinet series (Plus herself was derived from Green Lantern). Shiv was one of a number of Bang-Babies to be returned to normal.

• Carmen-Dillo - A human mutated into an armadillo-like form, Carmen-Dillo possesses a bulletproof hide and can be launched like a projectile. This Bang Baby lived in garbage cans and generally stole food. At one point he was accompanied by a dog-like Bang Baby (a reference to the character Dogg). Carmen-Dillo has worked with the Meta-Breed and the Meta-Men, but mostly seen as a solo Bang-Baby.

• Specs and Trapper - Existing solely in the cartoon, Specs and Trapper are two young geniuses who were originally funded by Edwin Alva Sr. to capture Static alive for study. Alva Sr. hired them both to work with the team of scientists working on restoring Edwin Alva Jr. Unhappy with their jobs, they tried to impress Alva Sr. by making weapons to capture Static. Instead part of the scientists’ lab was destroyed - resulting in Alva Sr. firing them - so they both kidnap Alva. Jr. and demanded money. Static rescued Alva Jr. and Specs and Trapper were sent to jail. In their next appearance, they paid Tarmack to steal a new fusion engine from Alva Industries. Specs, Trapper and Tarmack were stopped by Static, Gear, and Rubber-Band Man.

• Omnifarious / Edwin Alva Jr. - After being shunned so many times by his father, Edwin Alva Sr., he stole amounts of the Big-Bang Mutagen-Gas (Quantum Juice or Quantum Vapour), altered them and used them to gain alternate, but temporary Meta-Human powers, and renamed himself Omnifarious. He destroyed parts of his fathers business before his father found out who he was. In the end, he combined all the samples of his altered Big-Bang Gas to use all those powers to destroy the main Alva Industries building. Instead, combining them turned Omnifarious into a body of stone. Omnifarious was the first villain to learn Static's real identity. Some time later, Alva. Sr was finally able to restore his son with Static, Gear, and Hot-Streak's help.

• Slip-Stream - Slipstream, also called Heavy-C, was a Bang-Baby first seen in the first season of the cartoon. He could create high-speed winds and twisters to keep himself and items aloft in mid-air, and used this ability for theft. Slip-Stream was one of the numbers of Bang-Babies to be returned to normal.

• Puff - A mass of living gases. She is capable of retaining her normal form. By converting to a gaseous state, throwing gas from her hands or by exhaling acid fumes (Puff-Darts), she can dissolve objects, but the gas can be acidic or Knock-Out gas, depending on her mood. In the comic book, her partner is a Bang Baby called Coil, who had telekinetic power over ropes; in the cartoon, as a bounty hunter; her partner is a Bang-Baby called Onyx. In the animated series, she first appeared in "Bent out of Shape" proposing to go after Rubber-Band Man for the reward, and liking the idea of being a Bounty Hunter; they were both overcome by Static and Rubber-Band Man. Puff and Onyx are both seen next in "Consequences" planning to rob a cinema for money; causing Daisy to suffer head trauma, and Static to go after Puff and Onyx. Puff decided to call Static out to lead him into a trap, but in the end they were both taken to jail. Puff and Onyx were both seen again at the beginning of "Showtime" clashing with Static and Gear before being taken away by the Police. Puff was then seen at the beginning of "A League of Their Own - Part 1"; as the leader of the Meta-Men. Puff and Onyx as bounty hunters were paid by Omnara to kidnap Robert Hawkins; Puff passes on a message to Static from Omnara.

• Onyx - Appears only in the animated series, Onyx has always been seen and teamed up with Puff. A man made of living stone, with stone's strength and durability. Onyx does ask questions but he also follows Puff's orders. Onyx first appeared in the episode "Bent out of Shape", with Puff as they decide to go after Rubber-Band Man as Bounty Hunters for a reward. Onyx appears again with Puff in "Consequences", planning to rob a cinema for money, but in the end they were both taken in by the Police. They were both seen again at the beginning of "Showtime" clashing with Static and Gear before being taken away by the Police. Onyx was also seen as a member of Puff's team; the Meta-Men at the beginning of "A League of Their Own - Part 1". Onyx and Puff as bounty hunters were paid by Omnara to kidnap Robert Hawkins and to pass on a message to Static.

• Replay / Johnny Morrow - Johnny was a former child-actor who used his ability to generate "energy-clones" to commit crimes. In his first encounter with Static, they fought; and in an explosion created an energy clone of Static, with Static's powers. He had the clone stealing for him and left the real Static being hunted by the Police, who thought that Static had turned into a criminal. When Static finally proved he was innocent; he managed to shock Replay, which made all the energy clones disappear. Replay is based on the character Reprise a super-human mercenary from Milestone's series HARDWARE .

• Boom - His real name is Byron and he gave himself the name Boom after the stepping in a spill from the Big Bang. Boom has the ability to generate and direct high-decibel sound from a speaker on his chest - strong enough to shatter targets to dust. Boom came from a well-off family, but when both his parents died, him and his little sister were taken in by their grandmother. Byron hated living in a run-down apartment; when he got his powers, he renamed himself Boom ,and his sister Mirage; he decided to steal a lot of money so that he could get a better place to live. In the end, he was captured by Static who had help from Mirage. He is based on Boom-Box; a spurned rapper from the original STATIC comic book. Boom was one of the numbers of Bang-Babies to be returned to normal.

• Hyde - He led a Bang-Baby gang called the Ruff-Pack. He is physically mutated with thick folded skin, making him tougher and stronger. Hyde led his Ruff-Pack in a variety of robberies and other crimes, but every time the Ruff-Pack stole anything, Static would appear and foil their attempted thefts. Hyde managed to grab off a piece of Static's coat, and made Ferrett track down Static for some payback; the Ruff-Pack tailed Static down to a party at a hotel, and then to a old community centre. Static defeated Hyde by encasing him in magnetized scrap metal.

• Ferrett - He was a member of the Ruff-Pack, Ferrett is physically mutated; his jaw sticks out and he has an enhanced sense of smell and taste; he is always thinking of food. The Joker wanted Ferrett to join the gang of Meta-Humans he had gathered together; when Ferrett refused, the Joker gassed him. Later, Ferrett was administered an antitoxin for the Joker's laughing gas. Ferrett was one of the numbers of Bang-Babies to be returned to normal after he had teamed up with Kangorr.

• Kangorr - also a member of the Ruff-Pack, Kangorr is physically mutated; the muscle mass in his legs have increased. With these he has super-developed legs, like a kangaroo's, he can stomp through the ground or floors, and leap great distances. After the Ruff-Pack he was in the Joker's gang; after that he was in the Meta-Breed, having known Ebon before the Big-Bang. In the episode, "Power Outage", Kangorr was one of the numbers of Bang-Babies to be returned to normal suddenly while he was robbing a store.

• Aqua-Maria - An aqua/hydro-kinetic and a living mass made of animated water. In the comics, Aqua-Maria was a member of the Blood Syndicate; in the cartoon, her Blood Syndicate affiliation was absent. She was first seen in "Bad Stretch" stealing from a racing track - her initiation into the Meta-Breed. She shorted out Static, but was captured by Rubber-Band Man. She was broken out of jail by Ebon and stopped by Static using electrolysis. She was later seen in "Wet and Wild" in season 4; she worked with Hot-Streak. After being frozen and captured by Static and Gear, Aqua-Maria was the first Bang-Baby to be changed back to normal.

• Royce Axelrod - Appeared only in "Pop's Girlfriend". This young man was always known as a troublemaker; his mother was always suspicious of him, searching for things on him that didn't belong to him since he was caught shoplifting. One day on the subway, Royce and his friend Frankie spotted a man with a metal suitcase - as they ran off the subway they stole the suitcase; after Royce discovered what the vials of "Purple Stuff" in the suitcase were, (knowing what it was the Big-Bang Gas, and that it was what turned F-Stop into Hot-Streak) smells some, and unwittingly spills a few drops into a bin. A Cockroach and Spider crawled into the bin, and mutated into Super-Sized bugs. The day after, Royce comes to school - bigger and taller than before; and during a history exam, Royce suddenly mutates into a Bang-Baby of a deformed form and Super-Strength and freaks out. The fire alarm is set off and everyone in the school flocks out, and Royce was found in the auditorium by Static and two Police officers; Static restrains Royce in the arms of a school statue.

• Madelyn Spaulding - She was a Bang-Baby at Dakota Union High School when her Meta-Human ability of mind control manifested. She used it to win the election for the Freshman Class President, but was unable to control Static. When she tried to take control of Static's mind he shocked her, and she ended up in a hospital room. After she recovered, she had to get a job because she was expelled. She later learns she has telekinetic powers. Madelyn then dons a multi-coloured outfit and breaks Ebon, Talon, and Hot-Streak out of jail. They were all put into jail by Static and Gear, with the help of She-Bang. Madelyn was the second villain to learn Static's real identity.

• Rag-Tag - An old homeless man who was present in an alley near the docks during the Big Bang, Rag-Tag had the power to grant super-powers to normal people, and to remove them. He was based on the Dickens character, Fagin. He tried to completely drain Static's powers and was hit back by Gear. While chasing Richie around the rooftop he lived on, Rag-Tag fell off the rooftop and fell into a dumpster.

• Run and Jump - They are not Bang-Babies, they were given their powers by Rag-Tag; Run has Super-Speed, and Jump has Teleportation. They would steal valuables for Rag-Tag in exchange for their powers, and continued to steal for more recharges. They were both taken down by Static outside a Museum they were about to rob. Run & Jump both appeared once in the Comic Books in STATIC Issue 36, who, with another Bang-Baby called Burn, kidnapped an extraordinary young girl called Hyacinth.

• Replikon / Marvin Roper - As a Bang-Baby; he could change into anyone and anything at anytime. He wanted to write music but his music was bad, so he tried to ruin the music career of Adam Evans (Rubber-Band Man) by kidnapping and imitating A.J. McLean of the Backstreet Boys to steal away a music deal. Replikon is likely to be an adaptation of Masquerade of the Blood Syndicate.

• Tamara Lawrence - Tamara could turn into a large, super-strong beast, but her ears were sensitive to loud noises. Her boyfriend was Marcus Reed before he broke up with her, before the Big-Bang. She was accidentally caught in the Big Bang when she tried looking for him. After the Big-Bang, she attacked certain people as a monster to put Marcus under suspicion. Tamara's ability to change into a monster is a possible reference to Kevin Franklin/Payback of the Shadow Cabinet. Tamara is one of the Bang-Babies that returned to normal.

• Star-Burst - His real name was Brandon, he is not a Bang-Baby but used his background knowledge in physics to build tools to absorb energy attacks to ruin a show produced by his boss, Bernie Rast; because Rast would not read his screenplay. Static and Gear managed to figure out he was not a Bang-Baby, and cut off his power supply.

• Leech - A Bang-Baby with the power to absorb the powers of other Bang-Babies by using the "suckers" on the palms of his hands resembling the mouths of actual leeches (to quote STATIC creator Dwayne McDuffie, "Leech is not a reference to Morbius. He has suckers because Leeches have suckers"). Leech kidnapped Ebon, Hot-Streak, and Talon to steal their powers. Leech also wanted Static's power and he also tried to steal Gear's.

• Dr. Heavyman Koenig - This Doctor was conducting experiments on energy-absorption; his experiments on absorbing energy went wrong - transforming his body into a living rock, able to absorb anything, gaining mass and energy. After his accident, not wishing to remain a living rock, he kidnapped Doctors Jonathan and Dolores Vale (She-Bang's creators/parents); so he could make them work on a cure for his condition. They were forced into stealing the necessary components they needed for the regenerative process to restore Dr. Koenig. He fitted collars around their necks that will inject them with poison; the collars were activated by a remote and only the doctor knew the code that released the collars. In the end, when the cure did not work, he tried to kill Jonathan and Dolores, and went after Static. Dr. Koenig eventually absorbs too much and was rendered immobile.

• Speed-Warp - His real name was Eddie Felson (a reference to fictional pool shark "Fast Eddie" Felson). He is not a Bang-Baby, but worked as an intern for Dr. McDonald, until he stole Dr. McDonald's time manipulator, a device that can speed up or slow down the movement of the wearer, allowing them to move in "Hyper-Time" (a reference to the time manipulator from John D. MacDonald's novel The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything). Moving at such speeds he could steal anything easily and not be caught; only to be seen as a blur. Speed-Warp was the third villain to learn Static's real identity, but is currently stuck moving slower than everything else.

• Chainlink - He is a Bang-Baby, and his real name was Troy. Chainlink has metal tentacles on his back, which he could use to melt metal. Troy was friends with Dule Jones during the Big Bang. When Dule became a football player, Chainlink tried to blackmail Dule, threatening to tell everyone that Dule was a Bang Baby if he did not give him most of his fortune.

• Tarmack - A Bang-Baby made of Living Tar - who appeared in both the comic book and the animated series. In the Comic, Tarmack worked for Holocaust/Pyre - a pyrokinetic. In the animated series Tarmack appears only in "Where the Rubber Meets the Road". Tarmack was paid by Specs and Trapper to steal a new fusion engine from Alva Industries.

• Omnara / Karen Roberts - Existing solely in the cartoon, Omnara's real name is Karen Roberts. She worked for Edwin Alva. Sr; trying to discover Static's real identity, and took the name Omnara when she was fired. Omnara paid Puff and Onyx to kidnap Robert Hawkins, so she could force Static to steal components she needed for another project of hers, Project Omni. Omnara was the fourth villain to learn Static's real identity.

Other Bang-Babies

• D-Struct - Damon Briggs was D-Struct in the STATIC & HARDWARE Comics; Damon Briggs was a former member of the Paris Bloods, they had his father, and blackmailed into taking out Static. In the animated series; Derek Barnett was a school jock, who ran for the school's Track team. After his powers manifested, (he generates a mass of pure Ionic energy around himself; this can protect him from harm and can be thrown at targets), he was abducted by Ebon into the Meta-Breed. Renamed D-Struct; this new member along with Talon and Shiv confronted Static, Ebon wanted Static to join the Meta-Breed, instead Static, tracks them down to their hideout and manages to convince D-Struct to go back home, then escapes from Ebon, Talon and Shiv. D-Struct then volunteers himself as a research subject for Bang-Baby research.

• Dwayne McCall - After the Big Bang, Dwayne could make anything in his imagination real by changing something into something else, provided that he knew what it looks, acts and sounds/tastes/smells like, though he did not control it at first. Dwayne went into TV & Video Games when his mother married again; now a step-brother; Aaron Price, Dwayne was only a little kid and was happy to finally have a brother. Dwayne went to the Freeman Community Centre (a reference to Milestone's extraterrestrial philanthropist Augustus Freeman), and began to open up and talk to other kids. He was also present at the Big Bang; his mother believed that he was unaffected, but he was. His step-brother, Aaron found out about Dwayne's powers and talked him into doing things for him, and finally manipulated him into robbing a bank. Static stopped Aaron's influence over Dwayne by proving that Aaron was just taking advantage of him. Dwayne said that he did not know what to do so he was going to wait until he knew what the right thing was. He is an homage to STATIC creator Dwayne McDuffie, who created the show's reality out of his imagination, and who (at the time) lived in a different state from the show's producers, and thus communicated with them only by phone call.

• Tantrum / Thomas Kim - Thomas never had any fun in life, because he was always pushed to be the best at school by his father. After the Big-Bang, his anger and pent-up stress would cause him to transform into a large purple skinned, orange haired creature, driven by anger and stress, this creature (a deliberate reference to Marvel's Hulk) had super-strength and was impervious to pain. After lashing out at a school teacher that graded him 99/100 on a test, and coming after Virgil Hawkins at his home - (proving Virgil's and Richie's suspicions that Thomas was the creature), Virgil as Static confronts Thomas and lets Thomas' 'tantrum' run its course. Thomas's parents were told that their son was a Bang-Baby so that they could help him with his stress.

• Mirage - Mirage, is capable of generating visiable, realistic illusions, by manipulating light into anything she can imagine or remember. Her older brother is Boom; their mother and father are dead, and their grandmother took them in. Mirage and Boom got their powers after stepping in a spill from the Big-Bang. Mirage only agreed to help Boom steal lots of money to buy a new place to live for them and their grandmother to live. After talking with Static, Mirage helps stop her brother Boom from stealing. Mirage was then taken in by the department of child services.

• Permafrost / Maureen Connor - When she was younger she lived with her mother and step-father. When her mother died, she became a homeless girl on the streets, and developed mental problems from the loneliness. After the Big-Bang; she developed power over the cold (ice, Snow, Snow Storms, Icy Blizzards - able to form Ice in mid-air and she is unaffected by the cold, can move easily and quickly on or through Ice and snow, and her hair turned white and her skin light blue). She thought that her predicament would change, that things would get better for her. Over a year after the Big-Bang, during winter just before Christmas, she freezes over a power-station, and a shopping mall and the road stopping up traffic for miles. After calming down Permafrost, her hair and skin change back to normal and Static takes her to a local church for help. Permafrost is now in the church's homeless program.

• Nails / Allie Langford - After the Big-Bang, she turned into Living Metal - giving her metal skin, super-strength, and the ability to turn her fingernails into indestructible claws. When she discovered she was changing she tried hide it, but her secret was discovered by accident. However she found a website that offers help and treatment for Bang-Babies, and runs away to Gotham City, but the website turned out to be run by Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Static tracks Nails to Gotham City, then teams up with Batman to find Nails and take her home. Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn talked Nails' into helping them steal government gold bars in exchange for a cure, but after hijacking a cargo ship and taking the gold, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn betray her and push her overboard. Batman and Static however rescue her then all three of them take care of Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Static convinced Nails to return home to her parents so that they can try and help her new found condition.

• Nightingale - Also called Gale. After the Big-Bang; Nightingale became sensitive to sunlight; however she was able to create shadows and darkness - Dark Matter. Because of her deadly allergic sensitivity to light, Nightingale has to hide from the sun, along with others, under the ground. They were found and recruited by Ebon, who named them the Night-Breed. Ebon had them steal all the components needed to build a machine to create the same Dark Matter created by Nightingale, and spread it around the city allowing them access anywhere without fear of the sunlight. While in a confrontation with Static and Gear, Nightingale attacks Ebon - giving Static enough time to escape; Nightingale tries to escape from Ebon, who used a light to incapacitate her, but Static and Gear arrived and saved her. Nightingale informs Static and Gear about the Night-Breed, and Ebon's plan. In the end, Nightingale absorbs the Dark Matter intended to blanket the city, Static and Gear help Nightingale, Brick-House, Fade, and Tech get out of the sunlight.

• Brickhouse - She is Nightingale's best friend, and because of the Big-Bang, her skin is as strong as brick, and like Nightingale; she has the same deadly allergic sensitivity to light so she to has to hide from the sun. She was recruited into the Night-Breed by Ebon - though she never liked him or his attitude, but when it came to his plan to blanketing the city in Dark Matter to block out the sunlight, she went along with it, and helped to steal the components needed by Tech to build a Dark Matter Creater. When Ebon trapped Static, Gear and Nightingale, she freed them and turned on Ebon, Tech and Fade; stopping Ebon's plan. She is based on the comic-book character Brickhouse ( later shortened to just Brick) of the Blood Syndicate, who was transformed into a woman of living brick. The original Brickhouse had no sensitivity to light; however, her transsubstantation was both external and internal, and thus resulted in a certain degree of brain damage: in particular, epilepsy (although this may have pre-dated her transformation) and retrograde amnesia (it took several months for her to recall that her name was Marta). Her mutations also caused her to miscarry her pregnancy.

• Tech - After the Big-Bang, he became a Super-Genius (like Gear); but he too developed a deadly allergic sensitivity to light, and also hid under the ground and was recruited into the Night-Breed. Tech was ordered to build a machine that created the same Dark Matter that Nightingale could make, to cover the whole city; and went with the Night-Breed to steal the components he needed. When Nightingale and Brickhouse sided with Static and Gear, he had to fight with them on Ebon's and Fade's side. After Ebon's plan was crushed; Tech decided to work on a cure for the Night-Breed's light-sensitive condition.

• Fade - After the Big-Bang, he learned he could pass through anything, but he also developed a deadly allergic sensitivity to light, and went into hiding under ground and was recruited into the Night-Breed. Believing that the city would never accept the way he was, Fade was right behind Ebon with his plan to cover Dakota in Dark Matter and block out the sunlight, and helped to steal all the components needed to build it. When Nightingale and Brick-House sided with Static and Gear, he fought on Ebon's side to stop all four from interfering, after Nightingale absorbed all the Dark Matter, Fade had to go back into hiding with the rest of the Night-Breed.

• Dule Jones - He was friends with Troy/Chainlink as they were gang bangers in the same gang before the Big-Bang. Present at the Big-Bang they both ended up with metal tentacles out of their backs (but Troy could also melt metal). After the Big-Bang, Dule swapped living the life of a gang banger - wanting to play professional football; however Troy tried to blackmail him, he threatened to tell the world Dule was a Bang-Baby if he wasn't given some of Dule's fortune. After Dule tried to lead Chainlink into a trap and failed to throw him into acid, Dule decided to confess his secret publicly; after a touchdown at a football game, but when he starts talking, Chainlink suddenly arrives and attacks Dule - who fights back against Chainlink with help from Static, Gear and the other football players - showing the world that he was a Bang-Baby while defeating Chainlink. Dule's and Chainlink's metal tentacles are both references to Dr. Octopus from Spider-Man.

Episodes

Season 1

1. Shock to the System - After confrounting three crooks at a warehouse, Static flashes to the events from a few days beforehand; as Virgil Hawkins he was harassed by local school bully and gang leader Francis 'F-Stop' Stone and Wade, the leader of another street gang watching his back (preventing F-Stop before he can do real damage);Wade tries to press Virgil into joining his gang and later calls him down to the docks at night intending to take care of Virgil's 'F-Stop' problem - permanently. During a quick crossfire between the gangs and the police, Hazmat gas canisters are ruptured and they explode and a huge cloud of purple gas starts spreading everyware, breathed in by the gang bangers who were fighting - including Virgil. The next day Virgil discovers that he now has Electromagnetic powers and clues in his best friend Richie about them; Richie encourages Virgil to become a Super-Hero, and helps him put together a costume for crime-fighting. Back in the present, Static make himself known at his high school - delivering lab computers. Meanwhile Francis 'F-Stop' Stone after the gas explosion, is in a room in a hospital, starts burning up until he catches on fire and blasts his way out of the hospital and lands down on to the street.

1. Aftershock

1. The Breed
2. Grounded
3. They're Playing My Song
4. The New Kid
5. Child's Play
6. Sons of the Fathers
7. Junior
8. Winds of Change
9. Bent Out of Shape
10. Replay
11. Tantrum

Season 2

1. Sunspots
2. Trouble Squared
3. Brother-Sister Act
4. Static Shaq - (guest stars Shaquille O'Neal as himself)
5. Frozen Out
6. Bad Stretch
7. Pop's Girlfriend
8. Attack of the Living Brain Puppets
9. Power Play
10. Consequences
11. The Big Leagues - (features characters from Batman: The Animated Series)
12. Jimmy
13. Duped

Season 3

1. Hard as Nails - (features characters from Batman: The Animated Series)
2. Static in Africa
3. Gear
4. The Usual Suspect
5. She-Bang
6. Flashback
7. Showtime
8. A League of Their Own - part 1 - (features characters from Justice League)
9. A League of Their Own part 2 - (features characters from Justice League)
10. Blast From the Past
11. Toys in the Hood - (features characters from Superman: The Animated Series)
12. Romeo in the Mix - (guest stars Lil Romeo as himself)
13. The Parent Trap

Season 4

1. Future Shock - (features characters from Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond)
2. She-Back!
3. Out of Africa
4. Fallen Hero - (features characters from Justice League)
5. Army of Darkness
6. Hoop Squad - (guest stars NBA players Steve Nash, Yao Ming, Karl Malone and Tracy McGrady)
7. Now You See Him...
8. No Man's an Island
9. Linked
10. Where the Rubber Meets the Road
11. Wet and Wild
12. Kidnapped
13. Power Outage

External Links

• [1] http://jl.toonzone.net/static/static.htm
• [2] http://wester5.tripod.com/
• [3] http://tarporley.com/static/
• [4] http://milestone.luthor.com/
• [5] http://wf.toonzone.net/WF/StaticShock/Episodes/
• [6] http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/staticshock/index.jsp?frompage=sitemap
• [7] http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-5217/Static_Shock/

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