Static Shock (2000)

Name: Static Shock
Rating: 8.0

Rating: 8.0

Synopsis

An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero.

First Air Date: 2000-09-23

Last Air Date: 2004-05-22

Number of Seasons: 4

Number of Episodes: 52

Created By: Dwayne McDuffie, Michael Davis, Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle

Networks: The WB

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Top Cast

Phil LaMarr as Virgil Hawkins / Static (voice)
Jason Marsden as Richie Foley / Gear (voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson as Robert Hawkins (voice)
Michele Morgan as Sharon Hawkins (voice)
Crystal Scales as Daisy Watkins (voice)
Maria Canals-Barrera as Shelly Sandoval (voice)
Danica McKellar as Frieda (voice)
Danny Cooksey as Hotstreak (voice)
Gary Anthony Sturgis as Ebon (voice)
Tia Texada as Talon (voice)

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Episodes:

Ep. 1: Shock to the System (2000-09-23)

Virgil gains powers after being exposed to a strange gas that leaks from its cannister when it's hit by a bullet during a gang gunfight.
Ep. 2: Aftershock (2000-09-30)

F-Stop, Virgil's teen-gang nemesis, gains his own superpowers and calls himself "Hotstreak." Meanwhile, Virgil learns who's responsible for the gas that gave him and F-Stop their powers.
Ep. 3: The Breed (2000-10-07)

A track athlete Virgil's tutoring mutates into a metahuman and joins Ebon's criminal gang known as the "Metabreed."
Ep. 4: Grounded (2000-10-14)

Virgil and Richie vs. a people-eating amoeba that's running amok in the high school late at night and threatening the school-newspaper staff.
Ep. 5: They're Playing My Song (2000-11-11)

Rubberband Man goes after the rapper he says stole his music, and Static gets caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Virgil gets a job at a burger joint.
Ep. 6: The New Kid (2000-11-18)

Virgil transfers to a school for advanced students, where he works on an electricity-absorbing prototype. Trouble is, the school turns out to be funded by Edwin Alva, and the prototype is used to make a robot that Alva wants for his nefarious ends.
Ep. 7: Child's Play (2000-12-02)

A bad boy learns that his younger stepbrother is metahuman, and wants him to use his powers to steal things.
Ep. 8: Sons of the Fathers (2000-12-09)

Richie's captured by Ebon after running away from home because of his father's racist attitude toward Virgil.
Ep. 9: Winds of Change (2000-12-16)

A bang baby who can control the wind emerges, calls himself Slipsteam and begins to cause trouble in Dakota. Meanwhile, Richie and Virgil get into a fight over Richie's newest crime-fighting invention, the ZapCap.
Ep. 10: Bent Out of Shape (2001-01-27)

Sharon dates a rapper who turns out to be Rubberband Man, who has escaped from prison. Static isn't pleased and that's not all Rubberband Man has to worry about: two metahuman bounty hunters are on his trail.
Ep. 11: Junior (2001-02-10)

Edwin Alva vs. his son, who's tired of being ignored and dismissed by his father. So Junior, who has figured out how to control the metahuman serum, uses it to become one himself--Omnifarious--and takes on his dad.
Ep. 12: Replay (2001-03-03)

A washed-up child actor with meta-human powers clones Static, and the clone goes on a crime spree.
Ep. 13: Tantrum (2001-05-12)

A purple metahuman goes on a rampage at school, and Virgil and Richie think they know who it is: an honor student whose grades were less than perfect.