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 - She-Back!
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/2004
The episode starts out with Virgil and Richie in a comic shop talking about a comic book character. They see that Madelyn Spaulding is working there and they talk to her. After they leave, she finds out that she has powers still, only using them differently now. The next scene shows the metahuman prison. Madelyn destroys the walls and frees the bang babies. Static and Gear arrive to stop them from escaping. They are not doing well when Shebang arrves to save the day. Madelyn and her gang escape. Shebang talks to the press. After hearing her, Static and Gear decide to talk to her. Turns out the people hunting her were arrested, so now she is back in Dakota and wants to be part of the team.
#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 - Attack of the Living Brain Puppets
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/6/2002
The school elections are starting and a girl named Madelyn Spaulding is a candidate. Problem is, she doesn't have any followers. Richie is mad that the school vending machines don't work, and decides to run for freshman class president to help change this. Madelyn gets mad at this and is about to say something, but doubles over in pain. A flashback appears of her going over to a homeless man (Ragtag) and asking him about his life. The Big Bang happens and they are caught in the explosion. In normal time, she learns she can read people's thoughts. The candidates are giving speeches and Joey is up. He is about to start speaking when his face changes, and he tells everyone he is dropping out of the race. It turns out that Madelyn is controlling him. Richie sees her and is about to stop her when she controls him, reading his thoughts. She finds out Virgil's secret and runs off. Richie tells Virgil his concerns, and Virgil agrees to look into it. That night when he is sleeping, Madelyn come
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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
#9 - 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
#10 - The Usual Suspect
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/22/2003
Virgil accidently bumps into a large boy at school and insults his size. The boy - Marcus spent time in juvenile hall but he wants to turn his life around, so he goes to Sharon for counseling. A huge bang baby goes on a rampage thru the city by attacking a policeman, trashing the auto show and destroying another kids car. Virgil and Richie investigate and learn that Marcus has a link with all the crimes and think that when he gets angry he turns into the monster and destroys what he's mad at. They don't have proof against him so Virgil goes to insult Marcus hoping he'll turn into the monster in front of everyone. When he doesn't Virgil runs away to avoid getting beat up. Richie learns that Marcus couldn't have been the monster because he was in counseling with Sharon. The monster attacks Virgil and he figures that the monster is Marcus ex girlfriend. Virgil changes into Static and fights the monster who admits that it's her and she did it because Marcus broke up with her and she
#11 - 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
#12 - Sunspots
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/2002
During science class, Virgil learns that the sun is currently having sunspots. He looks out the window and sees a building on fire. He gets to the scene and finds that his powers are going on overload. He figures out that the sunspots are causing it. The next day, Virgil assures Richie his powers were under control. Hotstreak has returned from jail, where he learned anger management. When Virgil is taking a test in history class, his powers start going crazy again. Later, on patrol, Static abruptly loses his powers. Thinking his life will be back to normal, he starts to do good in school again, along with having more time with his friends and finally getting a good night's sleep. Richie and him run into Hotstreak again and a fight ensues. Static is able to fool Hotstreak into thinking he has powers for only a little while. Hotstreak learns that Static has run out of power, so he chases him. However, Hotstreak is eventually stopped when Static conducts electricty from a nearby rooftop
#13 - 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
#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 - 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.
#16 - 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
#17 - The New Kid
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/2000
Virgil's dad and Principal agree that he is too smart to stay in Dakota High school. With the help of a scholarship, they send him to an advanced Science and Technology school, where he meets geeky bullies who turn out to be upperclassmen and his teachers. All the other students are a snore except Daisy, who is beautiful and funny, and helps Virgil with his projects. They work on a new prototype program that absorbs electricity. Virgil hands it over to his teachers who use it for a giant robot that rampages the city. The robot belongs to Edwin Alva and the school is funded by him. Alva tells the teachers the prototype had better stop Static, the bane of his existence, but Virgil and Daisy sneak in and overhear everything. The teachers see them and they run away, only to have the giant robot attack them. Virgil changes into Static and he fights off the robot he helped build, eventually defeating it by knowing its weak spot. Back at his old high school, Virgil is happy to discover that D
#18 - Child's Play
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2000
Dwayne looks up to his step brother, Aron, who just got out of juvenile hall and moved back in with them. Virgil knows Aron hasn't changed his thieving ways, and wishes Dwayne didn't admire him so much. When a water fountain gives cherry soda, and a video game character comes to life, Aron and Virgil figure out that Dwayne is a metahuman. Aron tries to trick Dwayne to steal stuff for him. After fighting off Dwayne's bad guys as Static, Virgil tricks Aron into saying how he really feels about his little brother, and Dwayne stops using his powers for his brother's pleasure.
#19 - The Breed
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2000
Asked to tutor a track star, Virgil discovers that he is another ""bang baby"", who mutates into a 7-foot bruiser and has been recruited into a criminal gang run by a shadowy mutant named Ebon.
#20 - Junior
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/10/2001
Static's arch enemy, Edwin Alva, opens a new civic center. Alva's son, Alva Jr., tries to get his father's attention, but is repeatedly ignored and scolded. Junior tries to help his father by telling him he's figured out the properties of the serum that created the metahumans, but his father refuses to listen. Angered by this, Junior uses the serum to become Omnifarious. He controls and chooses his mutations, and uses this ability to destroy his father's shipping businesses and warehouses. When Static tries to stop him, he recognizes him as Alva's son. Alva uses his powers to learn Static's identity, and threatens to tell everyone if Virgil tries to stop him again. Static goes to Alva Sr. and tells him his son is destroying his company. Alva confronts his son, then orders his guards to try and stop him. They try to kill him and Alva Sr. can't stop them. Static saves Omnifarious, who confronts his father again, but he still wouldn't listen to his son. Omnifarious uses all of the meta ga
#21 - The Parent Trap
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/24/2003
Shebang returns to Dakota because she thinks her parents were kidnaped. She asks Static and Gear for help. They track down a thief who they believe is a new metahuman, but soon discover Shebang's parents helping him steal items. They learn that the metahuman is actually a former doctor that used to work with her parents. His experiments on absorbing energy go wrong transforming his body into a living rock that can absorb anything for energy. The doctor forces Shebang's parents to help him become normal again or they will be killed. A collar that can inject poison into them can be activated by remote and only the doctor knows the code to release the collars. When the cure doesn't work the doctor tries to kill the parents and then goes after Static. The doctor eventually absorbs too much and becomes immobile. Gear uses Backpack to find the code to break the locks from around Shebang's parents necks. Static announces Shebang can join the team anytime she's in Dakota.
#22 - Bad Stretch
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/23/2002
The episode starts off with the Breed's newest member, Aquamaria, attacking a football stadium. Static arrives and fights her. She uses her water powers to stop his electricity. Just when she is about to finish him off, Rubberband Man shows up and traps her. He says to Static he just wants to be one of the good guys now, but Static does not believe him. Later, the rest of the Breed are in their hideout talking about RB Man. Ebon wants him to join them. The Breed attack a store causing havoc everywhere. Static starts to battle them, but RB Man finishes them off. The Breed are set free from jail by RB Man later that night. Everyone thinks he is bad now. Static finds out that it was really Ebon who dressed up like RB Man and that Ebon is his brother. With the help of RB Man, Static is able to defeat the Breed once again. RB Man decides he is going to be a superhero, too.
#23 - Static Shaq
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/16/2002
The episode starts out with the Ruffpack stealing guitars. They are stopped by Static who locks them in a room. The Ruffpack manages to escape, with Hyde vowing for revenge. Virgil's dad introduces him to an old friend, Shaquille O'Neal. Shaq and Virgil go to the courts to play some basketball, but are interrupted by Shaq's secretary. Before he leaves, Shaq invites them to a dinner party. Meanwhile, the Ruffpack are tracking Static with some of his suit using Ferrett. They send Ferrett into the party to find him. Virgil sees through it and stops Ferrett. Hyde and Kangor crash the party. Shaq helps Virgil, Richie, and his family escape. The next day, Shaq and Virgil finally are able to play some basketball. It's stopped, however, by the Ruffpack. They get cornered into the abandoned community center, where Shaq learns about Virgil's secret identity. With Shaq's help, Static is able to save the day again.
#24 - Grounded
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2000
While fighting Carmen Dillo, Static encounters a large amoeba with a taste for meat, mainly people. Static shocks it and grabs a piece of it to study. He and Richie go into school after hours to study it, and run into Frieda and her friends who want to write a protest about lack of funding for the school newspaper. After studying the amoeba, they learn it was mutated by the big bang but are unsure how to stop it. The amoeba escapes the lab and runs through the school with Virgil giving chase. But the large amoeba hones in on its missing piece, and runs through the school grounds looking for people to eat. Static finds out that the amoeba is hurt by disinfectant, and grabs two large canisters of disinfectant, dumping it on the creature. It dissolves and Dakota is saved.
#25 - They're Playing My Song
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2000
Rubberband Man breaks into a record company, trying to find the man who stole his hit song from him. A record executive says it was Ice Pack. Ice Pack is living off of RB Man's wealth now since he has that song. RB Man attacks Ice Pack, but is stopped by Static. RB Man defeats him and continues chasing Ice Pack. Robert makes Virgil get a job, so he applies at Burger Fool. When Freida plays Ice Pack's music, a person gets mad and walks out. While Ice Pack is signing CD's, RB Man shows up and kidnaps him, putting him on top of a spire. RB Man claims to have written the music Ice Pack raps to, but Ice Pack has no idea what he's talking about. At Burger Fool, Virgil sneaks out to go to the situation. When Ice Pack starts to fall, Static catches him. As it turns out, Ice Pack's producer was the one who ripped him off. RB Man, whose real name is Adam Evans, confronts the producer. The producer admits to it and locks him in a vault. Static shows up and figures out RB Man is stuck. Static free