The WORST episodes of Static Shock
Every episode of Static Shock ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Consequences
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/5/2003
Static's ego blows out of control and puts his friend's life in jeopardy. As his guilt grows, he seeks revenge but is stopped by an unexpected ally. With a cool head and help, Static manages to make things right.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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 . . .
#8 - 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
#9 - 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?
#10 - 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?
#11 - Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/27/2004
Adam takes Sharon out on a date, while Virgil and Richie play Adam's Game Station 2. At the restaurant, Adam can't read their menu. The words are all jumbled around, meaning that he has dyslexia. Meanwhile, a creature breaks into Edwin Alva's labs. It gets past security with no trouble, and comes face to face with Alva. The creature introduces itself as Tarmack, the ""living chunk of the biggest, baddest road you'll even drive on."" Its come to the labs to steal a fusion engine Alva has. Back at the date, a news report on a nearby TV shows up, explaining what's happening at Alva's labs. Adam turns into Rubberband Man, and rushes over to the labs to stop the creature. Soon after RB Man arrives, Static and Gear show up to help. Tarmack takes the fusion engine, and proceeds to run out the lab. Alva tells RB Man to press ""override"" on the computer to lock up every door so that Tarmack can't escape. Because of his dyslexia, RB Man can't tell the difference from what all the buttons say. Stati
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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
#14 - 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.
#15 - Replay
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/3/2001
A washed up child actor with a grudge goes on a stealing spree at the mall. He is a metahuman with the ability to duplicate himself. Static stops him and chases one of his copies to an abandoned carnival. He fights the original as the building falls down around them, knocking Static out. Static wakes up and goes home only to see himself on the news going on a crime spree and attacking the police. The police turn on Static and they put out a reward for his capture. Even his best friend, Richie, doesn't believe him. Virgil figures out that Replay must have duplicated Static and convinces Richie to help. Static corners Replay at the TV studio and Richie films everything live as Static fights his duplicate, while Replay confesses to all the crimes. Static's name is cleared and Replay heads for jail.
#16 - Power Play
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/2002
Richie is caught pretending to be a superhero by Static. Richie gets mad when he is told he can never be one and runs off. In a rundown part of town, Richie bumps into an old man. Helping him up, Richie gets shocked. Behind him, two boys laugh. Then, all three disappear. A runaway truck almost hits a dog, but is stopped by Richie who now has superpowers. Virgil and Richie test out these powers in the scrap yard. Richie almost gets hurt and runs away to find the old man. The man's name is Ragtag and the boy's names are Run and Jump. All three are metahumans. Richie has to go back to Ragtag to get more power. He gives himself the name ""Push"" and becomes a superhero, leaving Static in the shadows. He realizes that to keep getting power from Ragtag, he'll have to start stealing for him. Richie refuses to do it and is attacked by Jump and Run. Static saves him and Richie goes back to being normal. He's okay with being average again.
#17 - Hoop Squad
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/2004
Virgil's dad, Robert, buys VIP tickets to the NBA All-Star game in L.A. after gathering money from doing a charity drive. Virgil and Richie walk into one of the courts where they find Karl Malone, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady, and Steve Nash playing some ball. Just as they're introducing themselves to the popular NBA stars, chaos commences. All the plastic in the court starts to disintegrate. Static and Gear fly outside to see what's going on, and find that all the cars in the city have stopped because all their tires disintegrated. Gear learns that nanites have been doings this, and he leads Static to where this is all starting. Farther away, they find a gigantic robot tearing up the city. After not being able to stop the robot with their own powers, four superheroes in different colored costumes fly into play to help Static and Gear. A little later after the fight, the robot disappears, taking Gear with him. The new superheroes reveal their identities to Static. To Static's surprise, they
#18 - Now You See Him...
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/2004
The episode starts out at the Dakota Mall. Daisy is looking at a necklace that she wants to buy, but says she doesn't have enough money to. She sees a man staring at her in a mirror. As soon as she turns around, the man disappears. While Daisy continues to browse around, all of a sudden, someone moving extremely fast runs through the mall stealing things. Static and Gear show up, but fail to catch the fast person. Later, at Static and Gear's headquarters, Virgil tells Richie that his sister scored two free tickets to the upcoming B2K concert. He also tells him because Daisy is the biggest fan of B2K, he's going to invite Daisy to accompany him to the concert. Richie taped the fight they had earlier with the fast person, and he explains to Virgil that somehow the mysterious man is using super speed. Back at the mall, Virgil and Daisy are greeted by Eddie Felson, the nerd boy from science camp a couple summers ago. He tries to ask Daisy out on a date, but Virgil chimes in, reminding Dais
#19 - Linked
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/1/2004
Static and Gear are fighting a new Bang Baby, but they are losing. The Bang Baby runs off, but they do not follow. They have to go to a dinner. The next scene shows the unknown Bang Baby at his home watching a news report about a pro football player named Dule Jones. It shows Dule Jones being introduced. Virgil and family are at the dinner and watch him speak. Later, Dule arrives and offers to take Sharon, Virgil and Richie for a ride in his humvee. As they are driving, they are attacked by the unknown Bang Baby. Virgil and Richie run off and switch into their uniforms. They try to fight him, but lose. Dule drives off leaving Sharon behind. When he gets to his house, Chainlink breaks in. He threatens to tell the world Dule is a Bang Baby if he doesn't get some of Dule's fortune. Dule agrees and returns to the Hawkins' house. Virgil and Richie agree that they should follow Dule to protect him from Chainlink. Richie attaches a tracer to Dule's humvee. The next morning, Dule and Sharon a
#20 - Duped
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/2002
The episode starts out in a music store. A new metahuman named Replikon is starting a fuss. Rubberband Man is also in the store and recognizes him. Turns out they were in business together once. Replikon runs off with Static and RB Man chasing after him, but they lose him. Later, Adam Evans calls Virgil's house and asks if he can have his new CD back. Virgil takes it to him and finds out that A.J. McLean, a member of the Backstreet Boys, and Adam are going to sign a deal together. Virgil promises not to tell anyone A.J. is in town. A little while later, Virgil tells Richie. Soon afterwards, Richie tells Daisy and Freida. They put this on the school's website and the news spreads fast. The street in front of the music studio is filled with fans. A.J. and Adam sneak out a back way, but are seen. RB Man tries to hold off the fans for a little while, but that's when Static shows up to save A.J. Replikon hears about the deal and kidnaps A.J., impersonating him. The fake A.J. breaks off th
#21 - 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.
#22 - Trouble Squared
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/26/2003
After a field trip to Alva Industries, Virgil runs into Mr. Specs and Trapper. Their eagerness to please Alva, causes them to create suits that gives them powers. When they capture Static they inadvertently ruin Alva's project and he fires them. Dead set on revenge, they kidnap Alva Jr. and hold him for ransom. With a price, Static helps Alva get his son back.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Romeo in the Mix
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/19/2003
Bernie Rast convinces Lil Romeo to star in a film that Daisy and Frieda will be directing because they won a promotional contest. Romeo doesn't want to do it, but Rast says he can get Static to star in it. Hotstreak breaks into a store and a new metahuman called Leech drains his powers and kidnaps him. He takes Hotstreak to a prison cell and Ebon is already there. Leech tells them his power is stealing other metahuman powers. At the film shoot Ll' Romeo dresses up like Static and when Static shows up, Lil Romeo says Static is his hero. Static shows Lil' Romeo his powers and his weaknesses and gives him his shock box. When Leech goes after Talon Static and Gear try to stop him, but they are too late to save her. At the next filming Leach shows up and grabs Lil Romeo thinking he's Static. Back at the prison Leech realizes his mistake. Static calls on the shock box and Leech says he'll trade Lil Romeo for Static. They manage to free Lil Romeo but Static is caught instead. Lil Rom
#25 - Showtime
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/22/2003
After defeating Puff and Onyx, Static and Gear notice a billboard advertising a new show called ""Heros"" staring Static Shock. Static visits the office of film producer Rast and tells him he doesn't want to star in any movie. But Rast convinces him that kids need a role model and Static agrees. Rast, who is a rude and arrogant boss with his staff, tells Static that Gear wasn't in the movie but Static says that Gear is his partner and argues for it. Static and Gear go on patrol with 2 helicopters flying with them wherever they go. A criminal by the name of Starburst breaks into a bank and Static and Gear try to stop him. Their powers have no effect on him and Rast is furious saying they looked bad in filming. Gear lets Static fight Starburst because it seems his powers are similar to Static's.