The BEST episodes of Static Shock
Every episode of Static Shock ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Static Shock!
Based on characters from the DC Comics series, superhero Virgil Hawkins and his classmates confront real problems and issues faced by today's teens: peer pressure, gangs and growing up in an ethnically diverse, urban neighborhood. But helping people and making a positive impact in his community gives a real charge to this newfound superhero in the animated adventures of Static Shock.
#1 - Static in Africa
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/8/2003
Virgil and his family go on a trip to Ghana. While there Virgil calls Richie and tells him that he's closer to his heritage and doesn't feel like a minority but a person. On a train trip, a criminal called Osebo tries to steal a professors map to an ancient city of gold that is buried under a lake. A superhero named Anansi the spider stops Osebo from crashing the train, but not from taking the map. Virgil puts a tracer on Osebo and later reveals his secret identity to Anansi because they need each others help to stop Osebo. They track him at the dam that holds the man made lake and together they stop him from blowing it up. Static tells Anansi he's his hero and he has very few black heros in America.
#2 - Fallen Hero
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2004
Green Lantern (GL) goes on a crime spree, and Virgil is disappointed that one of his heroes has turned bad. While on patrol, Static and Gear run into GL and try to talk to him. When that doesn't work, they try to capture him but fail. The real GL appears in Dakota to stop the fake, who is Sinestro in disguise. Sinestro wants to ruin GL's reputation on Earth. Static and Gear manage to capture the real GL and send him to prison. Sinestro searches for GL's power ring, but GL hid it on Static and Sinestro goes looking for him. When Static finds the ring, he talks to GL and learns the truth. Static powers GL's ring so he can defeat Sinestro.
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#3 - A League of Their Own (2)
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/8/2003
The Justice League notice that a huge download has taken place on their computer system and think Braniac has escaped into Gears robot Backpack. Batman gives Flash a picture of Richie and sends him to Dakota to look for him. Flash finds Richie and asks for Backpack but Richie has Backpack attack him. Braniac has taken over Richie's mind and with the help of a thought control disk he takes over Flash's mind. The League goes to Static looking for Flash and Gear. Static calls Richie and he wants Static to meet him at an abandoned steel mill. Once there, Flash puts Braniac's thought control disks on them but Static's natural body electricity deactivates his disk. Braniac sends the League out to kill Static. He runs away then uses his electricity to deactivate the disks. The League set out to stop Braniac and tells Static to stay out it because he wouldn't be objective with Richie captured. Static figures out how to defeat Braniac by using Backpacks remote control to deactivate Backpack and
#4 - Frozen Out
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/2002
It's Christmas time and everyone is happy. Virgil is a little late to Freida's Hanukah party. Virgil looks outside and sees a power station covered in ice. He melts it and is attacked by an unknown assailant. Afterwards, a homeless girl asks him for money, but he says he does not have any. Virgil is at the mall with Daisy and he sees the girl again. The girl freaks out and trashes the mall with ice and snow. Later, Static goes into a building filled with homeless people. He finds out a little about her past. He goes to the church to talk with Reverend Anderson about her and leaves with many questions still unanswered. Staic meets up with her again and they fight. He finds out her name is Permafrost. He tries talking to her, and eventually gains her trust by saying his mom was also killed, knowing what it's like to be alone. She joins the church homeless program where she can get help. In the end, Virgil learns the true meaning of Christmas.
#5 - Future Shock
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2004
Batman, Robin and Static stop a criminal named Timecode. In the Batcave, Batman tries to secure Timecode's time machine and is caught in a time field. Static tries to save him but is caught in the field instead and sent 40 years into the future. Still in the Batcave he meets the Future Batman, Terry McGinnis, who at first thinks he's an enemy. The older Bruce Wayne appears and tells both of them to calm down and that he's been expecting Virgil since the accident. Bruce wants Static to help them with Kobra (A major criminal organization bent on ruling the world in Batman Beyond.) Seems Kobra has kidnapped the future Static and they want to trade him for their Kobra Leader. The Future Batman is reluctant to work with the younger version of Static, but goes along with it. They go undercover to meet a contact of Bruce Wayne who might have information on Kobra's current hideout. The person doesn't show up, but Virgil thinks he's found another contact instead. The false contact is a Jokerz m
#6 - A League of Their Own (1)
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/1/2003
The Justice League Watchtower is hit by a cosmic string and suffers a power outage. Batman suggests Static come to recharge the system Static and Gear go to the Watchtower but while there the Justice League receives a distress call and leaves them there. They soon discover that Braniac used the power outage to escape and take over the Watchtower computer systems. Braniac tries to kill Static and Gear while outside the League try to get back inside. Gear uses backpack to crash Braniacs memory while Static reabsorbs all the electricity he put into the system. In the end it appears Braniac is finished and the League thank Static and Gear for their help.. That night Riche tries to turn off backpack and learns that Braniac has taken it over. to be continued . . .
#7 - The Big Leagues
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/2002
The Joker has come to Dakota and recruited a gang of metahumans. Ferrett does not want to join and is given laughing gas. Static has his first meeting with Joker's gang when they steal a fire truck. As they get away, Static finds Ferrett with a paper on him saying ""Missing You."" Static is checking up on Ferrett in the hospital when Batman and Robin show up. Static tags along with them as they follow a lead through sewers and a warehouse district. Reaching a dead end, they give up for the night. The Joker and his gang are plotting a way to get rid of Batman. The gang includes Shiv, Talon, Hotstreak and Kangor. Talon leads the three heroes into a trap. Batman and Robin get taken away, with Static stuck in the sewers. With the help of the Batplane, Static saves Batman and Robin from death and they defeat Joker. In the end, Batman thanks Static for saving him.
#8 - Flashback
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/7/2003
The city of Dakota dedicates a statue to the rescue workers who helped with the Dakota riots 5 years ago. It's this riot and her getting hit by a stray bullet that killed Virgil's mother. Ebon chases a girl named Nina and Static and Gear try to stop him. She uses her powers to encircle herself, Static and Gear and turns back time ten minutes so they escape Ebon. They take her to their headquarters where she tells them she wanted to find them so she could join them. She wants to use her powers to help people. Gear creates a timer from a remote to more accurately control Nina's powers. She gets a costume and calls herself Timezone. Static says he wants to go back to the riots and changed what happened. Timezone agrees that they should go back and help people. Just as they set the timer to go back, Ebon shows up and takes it. Static zaps both Ebon and the timer and short circuits the device. All of them take a trip back in time. They all arrive in different places and Static and G
#9 - Jimmy
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/4/2002
After merciless torment and a violent prank from a group of vicious bullies, a troubled teenager named Jimmy Osgood uses his father's gun to protect himself and accidentally shoots Richie in the leg. With the help of a psychologist, Virgil must deal with his shock and feelings of guilt for not having prevented the incident.
#10 - Sons of the Fathers
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/2000
Virgil wonders why Richie never invites him over to his house to hang out. Richie tries to avoid the question, but Virgil presses and Richie invites him over on a night he thinks his father will be out. Things are fine until Richie's father, Mr. Foley, shows up and starts saying derogatory comments that Virgil tries to ignore. But when Virgil overhears Mr. Foley make a racist comment, his naivete is gone. Richie argues with his father, then runs away. Mr. Foley goes to Virgil's dad to see if he knows where Richie is, and they reluctantly work together to search for him. Static finds him and says they are still friends and to go home. However, in the shadows, Ebon lurks, overhearing this and kidnaps Richie to lure Static into a trap. Robert and Mr. Foley find Richie first and try to take out Ebon and his henchman, but soon Static finds them and makes a rescue. Richie's father changes his racist attitude and tries to listen to his son now.
#11 - Aftershock
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2000
Metahumans are everywhere and most of them are doing crimes. Virgil begins to fight crime as Static, but when the bully ""F-Stop"" comes back as a metahuman himself, able to control fire, Virgil tries to beat him once and for all. ""F-Stop"" renames himself Hotstreak. Virgil also learns that Alva and the Mayor were responsible for the gas that caused the mutations, but needs to prove it. He sneaks into Alva's office to get proof, but has to fight off one of Alva's henchmen to get it. Later, as he fights Hotstreak again, the disk gets destroyed with all of Alva's information on it. Static powers up and finally beats Hotstreak.
#12 - Blast from the Past
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/21/2003
Sharon convinces Virgil to help her at a retirement home. He is impatient to leave, and when robots rampage downtown Dakota, Virgil has his excuse. He runs to the roof to change into Static when one of the elders, Mr. Grant, follows him and discovers his identity. Mr. Grant tells Virgil he is Soul Power, a superhero from the 1960's, and he wants to help Virgil stop those robots. Virgil reluctantly takes him along and Soul Power says his arch nemesis, Dr. Menace, created the robots so they are immune to electromagnetic powers. The robots easily defeat Static and Soul Power, but Dr. Menace says he won't kill them because he wants his old enemy to see his victory. Soul Power thinks Dr. Menace is creating a weather machine to destroy cities, and goes to an old friend to gain access to global satellites to find Menace. His friend declines and Soul Power lifts the access card to view the satellites. He takes Static to his secret base and powers up the 40 year old equipment. They locate the
#13 - Power Outage
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/22/2004
After Kangor suddenly loses his powers, Ebon and his crew find out that it's from inhaling Dr. Todd's cure. Soon, every bang baby in Dakota (even Static and Gear) begin to revert back, but Ebon tries to stop this from happening. Ebon and his crew plan to steal what's left of the bang baby gas that was used in making the cure to stage another Big Bang before everyone's cured.
#14 - Shock to the System
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2000
Virgil Hawkins is a smart, funny teen that gets beat up by gang leader Francis, who calls himself ""F-Stop."" The other gang leader, Wade, protects him a couple of times, but says he can't be there all the time for him. He wants Virgil to join his gang. Virgil duVirgil doesn't want to be part of a gang since gang gunfire killed his mother. He tells Virgil to show up at the docks and afraid to say no, he does. They give him a gun as F-Stop's gang shows up, and gang fights begin. mps the gun in the river and hides as the police arrive. As soon as the police get there, they shoot, but it hits some gas canisters, causing the canisters to leak out all over the docks and into the city. Virgil runs home and the next day, discovers he can control electricity and anything metallic. He goes over to Richie's house, his best friend, and they pick out a costume and a superhero name for Virgil. And Static Shock is born.
#15 - Out of Africa
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2004
Sharon and Virgil help Dr. Anoyke set up a West African Exhibit at the museum. Anoyke receives a call, then hides a golden spider in Sharon's coat and tells her and Virgil to leave. On the way home, Virgil realizes he left his backpack at the museum, so he returns to get it. He sees Anoyke is being attacked by a giant bug and turns into Static to stop it. Later, Anansi appears to tell Static that his old enemy, Osebo, is after the golden spider, the source of Anansi's powers. Meanwhile, Sharon discovers the Spider in her pocket and begins testing it. She goes to Richie for help in figuring it out, and Osebo's henchman attacks Richie's house and kidnaps Sharon. Static, Gear, and Anansi track them to their hideout to regain the golden spider and free Sharon.
#16 - No Man's an Island
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/2004
Static and Hotstreak are captured and taken to a mysterious island for scientific experiments. Now they have one goal: to escape the island alive, but can their hatred for one another cause the two to work together, or is there something bigger occurring on the island?
#17 - Hard as Nails
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/2003
A girl at Virgil's school tries to hide that she is a bang baby. She has super strength and the ability to turn her fingernails into indestructible claws. Once her secret is discovered by accident, Virgil tells her to get help, but she doesn't listen to him and renames herself Nails and runs away from home. Virgil does some detective work and discovers she found a website that's offering help and treatment for Bang Babies. Static tracks Nails to Gotham City, where he meets up with Batman. The Dark Knight tells Static that Poison Ivy and Harley are recruiting Bang Babies to help them in their crimes. Nails is reluctant to turn to a life of crime, but Ivy offers her a cure if she helps them steal government gold bars. Nails agrees and they have no trouble hijacking a cargo ship and taking the gold. In the end Harley and Ivy double cross her and push her overboard. Batman and Static rescue her then they take care of Harley and Ivy. Static convinces Nails to return home to her par
#18 - Tantrum
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/2001
Virgil is trying to deal with the loss of his mother as his father and sister prepare a memorial service in her honor. A metahuman, who resembles the Incredible Hulk (only purple) goes on a rampage in a restaurant and then at Virgil's school. Richie and Virgil think it may be a fellow classmate, Thomas Kim. When they go talk to him, their suspicion is correct as he transforms and goes after them. Static, remembering what his own mother said about tantrums, lures Thomas away where he won't do much damage and he soon turns back to normal.
#19 - Kidnapped
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/15/2004
Static's dad is kidnapped by Omnara, a woman who once worked for Edwin Alva, committed to her research of learning Static's secret identity. Although, the only thing Static can do to free his dad is to steal Omnara's old research for another project she was working on. In order for him to do that, Static has to turn his back on Gear and do whatever it takes to ensure his dad's safety, along with keeping his identity a secret to everyone else.
#20 - Army of Darkness
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2004
A new group of meta-humans is found beneath the city. This group can't be out in the sunlight, or else they will die. Can Static and Gear help save them, or has Ebon already made them his puppets?
#21 - Shebang
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/15/2003
While saving some workmen, Static and Gear get a little help from a new superhero who calls herself Shebang. Gear wants to recruit her to the team but Static says no. Daisy and Frieda introduce a new girl at school named Shenice. They have a bowling match between the boys and the girls, and thanks to Shenice, the girls are winning. When her parents show up, Shenice misses the strike, and Virgil thinks her parents wanted her to fail. Later, Hotstreak goes on a rampage again, beating Static and Gear. Shebang defeats him with no trouble, however leaves when the news reporters arrive. At home, Shenice's parents tell her she can't be the superhero Shebang, but she tells them she can't be a quiet girl and not use her powers. An agent tracking Shebang trails Static, who leads them to her. They use sleeping gas to knock out Shebang and Static, proceeding to kidnapping Shebang. Static and Gear talk to her parents and learn that they created Shenice in a lab, giving her superhuman abilities. Th
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#22 - Toys in the Hood
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/3/2003
Darcy disguises herself as a school teacher at Dakota High School to get close to Daisy. Superman comes to Dakota to track down the Toyman. When Daisy is kidnaped he teams up with Static to find her. Darcy has teamed up with the Toyman to secure a new living body for herself and she promises to be with the Toyman if he helps her. Static and Superman track down the Toyman but he has already made a duplicate body of Daisy with Darcy's mind inside. Static discovers the real Daisy from the fake but she manages to escape and tries to double cross the Toyman. He tells her he put a failsafe into her system that would kill her if she betrayed him. Darcy dies and the police take Toyman to jail.
#23 - Brother-Sister Act
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/9/2002
Virgil's sister makes him dinner and he is giving her the usual complaints. He charges it up a little when she isn't looking to make it better. When she touches the plate, her hand gets burned, making her think. Meanwhile, two new metahumans, Boom and Mirage, a brother and sister, rob a night club. Static is on the news talking about these two. Sharon sees this and gets suspicious about Virgil maybe being Static. She tries to get information on where he was the night before, but he manages to evade her questions. At a radio station, Boom and Mirage steal the prize money the station was giving away. Static shows up, but is defeated. Mirage is hurt and sent to the hospital, where Static learns about her and Boom. Boom then comes and takes her away when Static leaves the room. Meanwhile, Sharon, still trying to prove that Virgil is Static, takes him to a basketball game where she can keep an eye on him. Boom and Mirage show up and Virgil, with Richie's help, escape from Sharon's sight. Af
#24 - Gear
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/1/2003
The episode opens with Richie showing Static his latest invention: A high tech surveillance robot called Backpack. They are interrupted when Ebon and his gang escape from jail and Static goes after them. Richie goes with him to watch and Ebon recognizes him and thinks he has something to do with Static. He has his gang follow Richie around town. In the meantime Richie has become so smart he passes all his classes with ease and says it feels like his brain is on fire with new inventions. Virgil thinks he had a delayed reaction to the Big Bang and Richie isn't happy at first. He wants a cool power like super strength. After tailing Richie around, Ebon thinks Virgil is Static and kidnaps him. Improvising a costume Richie goes after them using his inventions. Virgil is in a padded cell and starts to break out using his powers but thinks it might be a trap set by Ebon - so he waits until he knows what going on. Ebon is watching Virgil on a tv monitor. Richie uses Backpack to create a
#25 - Bent Out of Shape
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/27/2001
Sharon dates a rapper who turns out to be the escaped criminal, Rubberband Man. He really does like Sharon but goes on the run. She convinces him to turn himself in, but Virgil doesn't see any good in the guy. Meanwhile, two metahuman bounty hunters want to collect on Rubberband Man and try to capture him.