Static Shock (TV Series)/Episodes

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Episodes

This article lists all the episodes of the Static Shock animated series, as well as related DCAU episodes.

Season 1: 2000

Main article: Season 1

Ep #	Screencap	Title	Air Date
1		Shock to the System	September 23, 2000
Synopsis Virgil Hawkins is a regular teen boy who just wants to ask his crush to homecoming. However, a few unfortunate run-ins with the school bully, F-Stop, and a gang leader who wants Virgil to join his crew complicates his day. Virgil finds himself caught in a gang war that will change his life forever.
2		Aftershock	September 30, 2000
Synopsis After last episode’s explosion — dubbed the Big Bang — “Bang Babies” are everywhere and most are committing crimes. Though Virgil now fights crime as the superhero Static, he’s still struck by fear of his old bully. Concerns for Dakota’s future are also rising and Virgil begins to worry about the gas’ effects on him. He and his best friend Richie begin investigating the mysterious chemical, leading them to one Edwin Alva.
3		The Breed	October 7, 2000
Synopsis A popular jock from Virgil's school, Derek Barnett, discovers he is a Bang Baby. In the midst of his horror and confusion, Derek is recruited by a shadowy metahuman looking to expand his gang of Bang Babies. Having turned down the gang himself, Static attempts to rescue Derek, all while fending off his newfound enemies.
4		Grounded	October 14, 2000
Synopsis Static discovers an amoeba that has been mutated by the Big Bang. After capturing a sample, he and Richie return to school after hours to analyze it in the lab. Unbeknownst to them, the mutation has come looking for its missing piece.
5		They're Playing My Song	November 11, 2000
Synopsis A metahuman called Rubberband Man attempts to get revenge on Ice Pack, a rapper who stole a song he wrote. Meanwhile, Virgil gets a job at Burger Fool in order to make enough money to keep his superhero gig afloat.
6		The New Kid	November 18, 2000
Synopsis Virgil gets accepted into a six-week program at the Vanmoor Institute. He soon realizes that he and his new classmates are being used as a tool to capture Static by Specs and Trapper, both of whom work for Edwin Alva. On the bright side, Virgil gets a new friend and ally in his fellow student Daisy Watkins.
7		Child's Play	December 2, 2000
Synopsis Dwayne McCall, a young boy who frequents the Freeman Community Center, develops the ability warp and reshape reality. His older step-brother, Aron, exploits this for his own benefit.
8		Sons of the Fathers	December 9, 2000
Synopsis After realizing he has never been to his best friend’s house, Virgil is at first excited when Richie invites him to stay the night. Unfortunately, things take a nosedive when he meets Richie’s father and learns exactly why Richie was so hesitant to have him over.
9	File:Ep 9.png	Winds of Change	December 16, 2000
Synopsis Richie's tendency to live vicariously through Static starts to get on Virgil's nerves. When Richie’s attempt to help bring down Slipstream results in disaster, they have a falling out.
10	File:Ep 10.png	Bent Out of Shape	January 27, 2001
Synopsis Sharon’s current boyfriend, a popular rapper called Stringer, turns out to be Rubberband Man in disguise. When his identity gets revealed by Static, he swears to return the favor by unmasking him.
11	File:Ep 11.png	Junior	February 10, 2001
Synopsis Edwin Alva Jr. struggles to earn his father's respect. In an attempt to please him, Junior figures out a method to control the effects of the Big Bang gas. However, Alva Sr. completely dismisses him, expressing nothing but disdain for his son. Embittered by his father’s constant scorn, Junior becomes Omnifarious and sets out to destroy Alva’s industries.
12	File:Ep 12.png	Replay	March 3, 2001
Synopsis A face-off with a self-duplicating metahuman ends in the creation of a Static clone. The doppelgänger ruins Static's reputation. Dakota City soon declares Static to be public enemy number one, while the real Static fights to restore his good name.
13	File:Ep 13.png	Tantrum	May 12, 2001
Synopsis A purple monster keeps going on rampages throughout the city. Virgil and Richie begin to suspect it is their overachiever classmate, Thomas Kim. Virgil attempts to get to the bottom of the situation while maneuvering his own complicated feelings about his mother’s upcoming memorial service.

Season 2: 2002

Main article: Season 2

Ep #	Screencap	Title	Air Date
14	[[File:|200px|link=]]	The Big Leagues	January 26, 2002
Synopsis Batman and Robin team up with Static to find and defeat The Joker.
15	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Power Play	February 2, 2002
Synopsis Richie bumps into an old man, Ragtag, in an alleyway, granting him the ability of lygokinesis; the ability to create, control and manipulate pure purple-colored raw energy, allowing Richie to become the superhero Push. These abilities are temporary, however, and in order to continue being a superhero, Richie must perform criminal acts on Ragtag's behalf.
16	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Brother-Sister Act	February 9, 2002
Synopsis Static juggles fighting criminal siblings and trying to throw Sharon off his tail when she begins to believe Virgil is Static.
17	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Static Shaq	February 16, 2002
Synopsis Static is hunted out by the Ruff Pack, who nearly discover his secret identity. This episode guest-stars Shaquille O'Neal as himself.
18	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Frozen Out	February 23, 2002
Synopsis During the Christmas season, ice and snowy blizzards blow through Dakota. Static soon realizes it comes from a metahuman with unusually strong cryokinetic abilities over frost, sleet, ice and snow named Permafrost, who cannot control her powers. Permafrost (Maureen Conner), however, is merely a young poor and homeless, orphaned girl who has mental problems from trauma as a young child, who can not control her icy/snowy abilities as they occur when people ignore her as she begs for money and food on the streets. Static must somehow convince her to calm down and accept his help.
19	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Sunspots	March 2, 2002
Synopsis When sunspots appear, they can control Static's powers, sometimes causing his magnetic force to rage and go out of control, while other times, his powers simply vanish out of nowhere. Until the sunspots disappear, which is unpredictable, Static has no control over his electromagnetic abilities at all.
20	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Pop's Girlfriend	March 9, 2002
Synopsis Virgil ran away from an officer to prevent her from searching his backpack and finding his Static costume, only to find out the officer is his dad's new girlfriend.
21	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Bad Stretch	March 23, 2002
Synopsis Rubberband Man returns as a hero. However, did he really change his ways, especially when Ebon (his older brother) comes to invite him into The Metabreed?
22	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Attack of the Living Brain Puppets	April 6, 2002
Synopsis In an effort to win the class president election, a high-school Bang Baby named Madelyn Spaulding turns almost everyone in Dakota into zombies that cannot resist her will.
23	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Duped	April 27, 2002
Synopsis Adam enlists the help of a Backstreet Boy to get a recording deal, but a jealous competitor by the name of Replikon wants to reap the fame and winnings for himself.
24	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Jimmy	May 4, 2002
Synopsis A troubled teen named Jimmy Osgood brings a gun to school to protect himself from a group of vicious bullies and accidentally shoots Richie in the leg; Virgil must deal with the shock and his feelings of guilt for not preventing the atrocity.

Season 3: 2003

Main article: Season 3

Ep #	Screencap	Title	Air Date
25	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Hard as Nails	January 25, 2001
Synopsis Lured by Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, a young meta-human girl named "Nails" travels to Gotham City, hoping to find a cure. Instead, she finds two super villains ready to exploit her powers for their personal gain. Static and Batman once again team up to resolve the case and help Nails at the same time.
26	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Gear	February 1, 2003
Synopsis Richie's increasingly frantic inventing worries Virgil, and he suspects Richie is a bang baby. Richie is disappointed because his special ability of superhuman intelligence is hardly as flashy as Static's abilities, but when the Meta-Breed decide to kidnap Virgil, Richie has to prove his mettle; and the new hero "Gear" is born.
27	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Static in Africa	February 8, 2003
Synopsis When the Hawkins family goes on a vacation to Ghana, Static teams up with a legendary African folk hero named Anansi to stop a group of evil African Bandits, led by a leopard named Osobo, from stealing an ancient African treasure and destroying thousands of homes and claiming hundreds of lives.
28	[[File:|200px|link=]]	She-Bang	February 15, 2003
Synopsis Static encounters a sassy, female teenage superhero named She-Bang. She is a shy classmate who shows him up every time they meet. Static and Gear learn that she is a genetically engineered superhuman, and the company that created her now wants her back.
29	[[File:|200px|link=]]	The Usual Suspect	February 22, 2003
Synopsis Static and Gear go toe-to-toe with a destructive monstrous meta-human who is taking revenge on individuals who angered a well-known bully at school.
30	[[File:|200px|link=]]	A League of Their Own (Part One)	March 1, 2003
Synopsis A cosmic string strikes the Watchtower of the Justice League, draining the station of its power and sending it hurtling towards Earth. Batman suggests Static needs to recharge the power core, and he and Gear get invited into the Watchtower. But unknown to all, the power outage enabled Brainiac to infiltrate the station's computer system. After the Justice League is called away, Static and Gear discover Brainiac lurking inside the computers and soon face the fight of their lives. (Superman and Wonder Woman do not make an appearance.)
31	[[File:|200px|link=]]	A League of Their Own (Part Two)	March 8, 2003
Synopsis Static and the Justice League think Brainiac has been defeated, but in fact he has found a way to escape annihilation and has taken control over Richie and the League. Now Static has to devise a plan to free his best friend without harming him.
32	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Showtime	March 22, 2003
Synopsis When a sleazy TV producer, Bernie Rast, wants to make a TV show about Static, it drives a wedge between Static, who acts as a show off for the camera, and Gear, who is jealous of all the attention Static is getting. When a new meta-human with much stronger and more powerful electromagnetic abilities shows up, Static is seen on live TV multiple times. Static and Gear have to put aside their arguing to come up with a solution to stop him.
33	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Consequences	April 5, 2003
Synopsis Daisy gets hurt in a fight between Puff, Onyx, and Static, and falls into a coma. Static blames himself, because he tried to show off instead of focusing on her safety. He tries to hunt down the two villains, destroying everything in his path. Rubberband Man succeeds in cooling him down. Puff and Onyx soon learn that Static has went on a destructive rampage to hunt them down. They decide to use this as an advantage to ruin his reputation, and do that by going on a rampage of their own to drive Static's anger to the top. This episode was aired out of order as Static is still using his old costume from before the start of the third season and Richie is not yet Gear. This episode was most likely supposed to be in the second season, explaining why Puff was in the second season opening but never actually appeared in that season.
34	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Romeo in the Mix	April 19, 2003
Synopsis Bernie Rast convinces Lil Romeo (voiced by himself) to make a music video in Dakota, promising his favorite superhero, Static, will be there. But when Lil Romeo dresses in a Static costume for the video, he is mistakenly captured by the Leech, a power-absorbing meta-human who has been kidnapping Bang-Babies all over the city to temporarily absorb their special abilities. Static, Lil Romeo, and Gear have to rescue the other Bang-Babies and put the Leech behind bars for good.
35	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Trouble Squared	April 26, 2003
Synopsis Specs and Trapper are hired by Alva to do grunt work on the research project to cure his son. Unsatisfied with this, the two young geniuses decide to develop combat-powered exoskeleton suits to catch Static for their employer. They nearly succeed, but in the battle a lot of the research equipment is destroyed. Specs and Trapper get fired and kidnap Alva Jr. to blackmail their former boss, who now needs the help of Static to get his son back. This episode was aired out of order as Static is still using his old costume from before the start of the third season and Richie is not yet Gear.
36	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Toys in the Hood	May 3, 2003
Synopsis Static teams up with Superman when the Man of Steel’s old nemesis, Toyman, appears in Dakota. This episode features characters from Superman: The Animated Series and resolves some loose ends from the show's episode "Obsession."
37	[[File:|200px|link=]]	The Parent Trap	May 24, 2003
Synopsis She-Bang returns to Dakota and follows Static and Gear to the Gas Station of Solitude and learns their identity. She enlists their help in locating her parents, Jonathon and Delores Dale, who have mysteriously gone missing in the wake of a large villain capable of absorbing mass and matter to greatly strengthen himself.
38	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Flashback	June 7, 2003
Synopsis Five years ago, when a blackout hit the city, Dakota was hit by gang riots (possibly a play on the Los Angeles riots of 1992.) As Virgil tries to regain memories of his mother, who was killed that night, a new meta-human, Nina Crocker aka Time-Zone, seeks out the help of Static and Gear. When Gear invents a device that puts her time-traveling capabilities under control, the remote is stolen by Ebon. Static accidentally burns out the circuits and sends them all back five years to the Dakota gang riots where Virgil comes face-to-face with his late mother, Jean.
39	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Blast From the Past	June 21, 2003
Synopsis Static reluctantly teams up with a retired electricity-manipulating/controlling superhero from the sixties, Soul Power, to defeat an old-time villain, Professor Menace. Static does not see eye-to-eye with Soul Power's methods, or his outdated campy style.

Season 4: 2004

Main article: Season 4

Ep #	Screencap	Title	Air Date
40	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Future Shock	January 17, 2004
Synopsis Static, after assisting Batman and Robin with a mission, is accidentally sent 40 years into the future, where he has to help the Batman of that era, Terry McGinnis, save a captured superhero: Static's future self. Features characters from Batman Beyond.
41	[[File:|200px|link=]]	She-Back!	January 24, 2004
Synopsis When She-Bang returns to Dakota, her loud and expressive personality seems to grind against Static and Gear's nerves. Meanwhile, Madelyn Spaulding (from "Attack of the Living Brain Puppets") experiences a change in her meta-human condition, replacing her former mind-control abilities with new telekinetic ones. She breaks several other meta-humans out of jail in an attempt to get revenge on Static.
42	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Out of Africa	January 31, 2004
Synopsis Anansi visits Dakota in an attempt to stop Osebo and his new allies, Onini and Mmboro, from obtaining a crimsonen spider which is the source of his mystical powers. Static and Gear get caught up in the mix, as they have to save Sharon, who ended up with the artifact.
43	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Fallen Hero	February 7, 2004
Synopsis Static faces off against his idol, Green Lantern, when he seemingly begins to commit robberies all over Dakota, only to find out that another culprit bears the responsibility. This episode features characters from Justice League.
44	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Army of Darkness	February 14, 2004
Synopsis Static and Gear must do battle with the Nightbreed, a group of Bang Babies who have a lethal reaction to sunlight. Under Ebon's leadership, they intend to blanket Dakota City in darkness.
45	[[File:|200px|link=]]	No Man's an Island	February 21, 2004
Synopsis In an attempt to revive his son, Edwin Alva kidnaps Static, Hot-Streak, Talon, Gear, and Rubberbandman. Static and Hot-Streak, handcuffed together, must cooperate if they intend to escape and rescue their fellow captives.
46	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Hoop Squad	February 28, 2004
Synopsis Static meets a team of basketball players (guest stars NBA players Steve Nash, Yao Ming, Karl Malone, and Tracy McGrady) who moonlight as superheroes. The Hoop Squad teams up with Static to rescue Gear, who has been kidnapped by an evil scientist named Dr. Odium.
47	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Now You See Him...	March 13, 2004
Synopsis Using advanced technology, a teenager manages to slow down time to move faster than the authorities in an attempt to win Daisy's romantic affections. He learns Static's and Gear's identities and blackmails them into leaving him alone so that he can win Daisy over.
48	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Where the Rubber Meets the Road	March 27, 2004
Synopsis Rubberbandman must overcome his dyslexia to disarm a powerful fusion reactor Specs and Trapper have stolen from Alva Industries.
49	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Linked	May 1, 2004
Synopsis When a football player, who maintains his Bang Baby status as a secret from the world is threatened by exposure, Static and Gear get caught up in the middle of it.
50	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Wet and Wild	May 8, 2004
Synopsis After capture at the hands of Static and Gear, Aquamaria agrees to be given the experimental cure for the mutagenic gas that transformed her into a Bang Baby. However, Hot-Streak sabotages the process, causing her to become unstable and unable to solidify her form. In an angry rage, she threatens all of Dakota City. This is the first reference to the cure for the "bang baby syndrome" next seen in Power Outage.
51	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Kidnapped	May 15, 2004
Synopsis A former employee of Alva Industries, Omnara, was charged with the task of discovering Static's identity. However, she was fired by Alva when he no longer had any need to learn his identity, following the events of "No Man's Island." Now she uses this information to blackmail Static into stealing parts from Alva Industries to complete her master plan: total control over all technology. This episode features a brief battle between Static and Gear. In this episode, Virgil's father discovers Static's and Gear's true identities.
52	[[File:|200px|link=]]	Power Outage	May 22, 2004
Synopsis All the Bang Babies, including Static and Gear, are exposed to the cure for the mutagenic gas that altered them in the beginning. Several of the Bang Babies break into a lab to steal the original gas, and the ensuing battle restored the powers of Static, Gear, Hot-Streak, and Ebon - but Ebon and Hot-Streak merge into a massive shadow-flame creature. Series finale.

Static Shock/Justice League Unlimited crossovers

#	Title	Heroes	Cameos	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Original Airdate(s)
12	"The Once and Future Thing, Part 1: Weird Western Tales"	Green Lantern, Batman, Wonder Woman, Bat-Lash, Jonah-Hex	Static, Warhawk, Hawkgirl, new Batman	Dan Riba	Dwayne McDuffie	January 22, 2005
Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern chase Chronos to the past, where they team up with some of the greatest DC heroes of the Old West. After defeating stolen future tech in that era, they again follow Chronos to the future. Warhawk from the Batman Beyond era is revealed to be Green Lantern and Hawkgirl's son. Guest starring: Bat-Lash, Jonah -Hex and other DC Characters from the old west. This episode also teases with the idea of Wonder Woman and Batman having a relationship. And at the end Warhawk, older Static, and the new Batman make a short appearance.
13	"The Once and Future Thing, Part 2: Time Warped"	Green Lantern, Batman, Wonder Woman, Static, Warhawk, new Batman	Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)	Joaquim dos Santos	Dwayne McDuffie	January 29, 2005
Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman’s chase Chronos into the future Gotham City of Batman Beyond, just in time to face a battle with a group of Jokerz beside that era's Justice League. The time travelers are taken to the Justice League Unlimited refuge and get help from Warhawk, older Static, and the new Batman. An older Bruce Wayne reveals the street gang they fought together was enhanced by Chronos who lead them to kill the rest of the League of that era. The combined heroes defeat the retooled Jokerz, and Batman traps Chronos in a time loop, right before he started his first time travel. This episode has homages to Crisis On Infinite Earths. The only place in the JLU universe in which Hal Jordan appears as Green Lantern. Plus there's a little glimpse of the Beginning of Time