Static Shock

Static Shock

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

Action & AdventureAnimationSci-Fi & FantasyKids

Seasons

Shock to the System

1. Shock to the System

Air Date: 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.

Aftershock

2. Aftershock

Air Date: 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.

The Breed

3. The Breed

Air Date: 2000-10-07

A track athlete Virgil's tutoring mutates into a metahuman and joins Ebon's criminal gang known as the "Metabreed."

Grounded

4. Grounded

Air Date: 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.

They're Playing My Song

5. They're Playing My Song

Air Date: 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.

The New Kid

6. The New Kid

Air Date: 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.

Child's Play

7. Child's Play

Air Date: 2000-12-02

A bad boy learns that his younger stepbrother is metahuman, and wants him to use his powers to steal things.

Sons of the Fathers

8. Sons of the Fathers

Air Date: 2000-12-09

Richie's captured by Ebon after running away from home because of his father's racist attitude toward Virgil.

Winds of Change

9. Winds of Change

Air Date: 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.

Bent Out of Shape

10. Bent Out of Shape

Air Date: 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.

Junior

11. Junior

Air Date: 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.

Replay

12. Replay

Air Date: 2001-03-03

A washed-up child actor with meta-human powers clones Static, and the clone goes on a crime spree.

Tantrum

13. Tantrum

Air Date: 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.

The Big Leagues

1. The Big Leagues

Air Date: 2002-01-26

Virgil gets help from Batman and Robin to battle The Joker and thwart the Gotham City bigwig's efforts to recruit thugs from Dakota to carry on his mayhem.

Power Play

2. Power Play

Air Date: 2002-02-02

Richie gets temporary superpowers, and really likes using them. Perhaps too much.

Brother-Sister Act

3. Brother-Sister Act

Air Date: 2002-02-09

Sharon suspects that her brother Virgil is Static, and she tries to prove it as Static battles brother-sister metahuman duo Mirage and Boom.

Static Shaq

4. Static Shaq

Air Date: 2002-02-16

Shaquille O'Neal assists Static as he goes after a gang of ruffians known as the Ruffpack.

Frozen Out

5. Frozen Out

Air Date: 2002-02-23

At Christmastime, Static must stop the icy antics of a homeless metahuman named Permafrost.

Sunspots

6. Sunspots

Air Date: 2002-03-02

Sunspots cause Static's powers to increase exponentially, then he loses them altogether, which Hotstreak, who has just been released from jail, soon discovers.

Pop's Girlfriend

7. Pop's Girlfriend

Air Date: 2002-03-09

Virgil refuses to cooperate with a police officer attempting to search his backpack, because he doesn't want her to find his Static suit. It turns out that this cop is his dad's new girlfriend, and that she was looking for a briefcase stolen by two boys who are also making meta-gas.

Bad Stretch

8. Bad Stretch

Air Date: 2002-03-23

Rubberband Man returns and saves Static from a new villain named Aquamaria, but it'll take more than that to get Static to believe that Rubberband Man is now a good guy.

Attack of the Living Brain Puppets

9. Attack of the Living Brain Puppets

Air Date: 2002-04-06

A Bang Baby named Madelyn Spaulding turns everyone in Dakota into a zombie. Everyone but Virgil, that is.

Duped

10. Duped

Air Date: 2002-04-27

Adam Evans (the Rubberband-Man) gets a recording contract with the help of A.J. McLean of the Backstreet Boys, but the jealous shape-shifter Replikon kidnaps A.J. in an attempt to scuttle Adam's deal.

Jimmy

11. Jimmy

Air Date: 2002-05-04

Virgil and Richie befriend shy classmate Jimmy Osgood, who is the focus of a school bully.

Hard as Nails

1. Hard as Nails

Air Date: 2003-01-25

Static travels to Gotham City to rescue Nails, a school friend of his who is now associating with Harley and Ivy, who promise to cure Nails of her Bang Baby affliction.

Gear

2. Gear

Air Date: 2003-02-01

Richie's newfound supersmartness leads to him becoming a superhero in his own right and Static's latest partner.

Static in Africa

3. Static in Africa

Air Date: 2003-02-08

While visiting Africa as his secret identity, Static teams up with an African superhero, Anansi, to defeat the villain Osebo, before he blows up a dam.

Shebang

4. Shebang

Air Date: 2003-02-15

Static encounters a sassy, female teenage superhero, Shebang, who outperforms him every time they meet.

The Usual Suspect

5. The Usual Suspect

Air Date: 2003-02-22

Virgil inadvertently makes an enemy out of a school tough guy when he mistakenly believes the bully to be Dakota's latest meta human monster.

A League of Their Own (1)

6. A League of Their Own (1)

Air Date: 2003-03-01

Static and Gear are alone in the Justice League's headquarters when Brainiac takes it over.

A League of Their Own (2)

7. A League of Their Own (2)

Air Date: 2003-03-08

Back on Earth, Static discovers that Brainiac has taken over Gear through Backpack. Static needs the help of the Justice League to save his friend.

Showtime

8. Showtime

Air Date: 2003-03-22

Static becomes the star of a reality television show.

Consequences

9. Consequences

Air Date: 2003-04-05

Virgil begins to act arrogant and boastful. While battling with Puff and Onyx, Static tries to impress Daisy with his amazing ways, but she is hurt during the fight.

Romeo in the Mix

10. Romeo in the Mix

Air Date: 2003-04-19

Lil' Romeo joins forces with Static to defeat the Leech, a metahuman who is stealing other metahumans' powers.

Trouble Squared

11. Trouble Squared

Air Date: 2003-04-26

Armed with new gadgets and powers, Specs and Trapper try to impress their boss, Alva, by capturing Static.

Toys in the Hood

12. Toys in the Hood

Air Date: 2003-05-03

Static teams up with Superman when the Man of Steel's old nemesis Toyman appears in Dakota.

The Parent Trap

13. The Parent Trap

Air Date: 2003-05-24

Shebang returns to Dakota to enlist Static and Gear's help when her parents go missing and are feared kidnapped.

Flashback

14. Flashback

Air Date: 2003-06-07

When Static becomes involved with a meta-human who can manipulate time and space, Static is thrown back in time and encounters his mother.

Blast from the Past

15. Blast from the Past

Air Date: 2003-06-21

Static teams up with a retired superhero when the old crimefighter's nemesis comes back to threaten the town of Dakota.

Future Shock

1. Future Shock

Air Date: 2004-01-17

Static must save his future self when he's accidentally transported 40 years into the future.

She-Back!

2. She-Back!

Air Date: 2004-01-24

She-Bang returns, to Static and Gear's annoyance. More threatening to Static is Madelyn Spaulding, who breaks some meta-humans out of jail and sends them after him.

Out of Africa

3. Out of Africa

Air Date: 2004-01-31

Anasi must keep the golden spider that's the source of super powers away from Osebo. The spider has turned up in Dakota.

Fallen Hero

4. Fallen Hero

Air Date: 2004-02-07

Static vs. Green Lantern. This is a pity because Green Lantern has long been a hero of Static's, but robberies have been committed and all signs point to Green Lantern.

Army of Darkness

5. Army of Darkness

Air Date: 2004-02-14

Static and Gear fight Nightbreed, a meta-human gang whose members can't live in sunlight, so they're setting out to take it away from everyone else.

No Man's an Island

6. No Man's an Island

Air Date: 2004-02-21

Edwin Alva captures Static and Hotstreak for scientific experiments and handcuffs them together. So they must work together if they're going to escape. Trouble is, they can't stand each other.

Hoop Squad

7. Hoop Squad

Air Date: 2004-02-28

Static and a group of NBA stars moonlighting as superheroes team up to rescue Gear, who was been kidnapped by the evil scientist Dr. Odium.

Now You See Him ...

8. Now You See Him ...

Air Date: 2004-03-13

A teen thief named Speedwarp who can manipulate time wants to romance Daisy, but Static and Gear think that's a bad idea.

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

9. Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Air Date: 2004-03-27

Rubberband Man must overcome his dyslexia to help Static and Gear disarm a fusion reactor stolen from Edwin Alva's lab as part of a "disaster matrix" plan hatched by Specs and Trapper to wreak havoc in the city.

Linked

10. Linked

Air Date: 2004-05-01

A pro-football player hides the fact that he's a Bang Baby.

Wet and Wild

11. Wet and Wild

Air Date: 2004-05-08

Aquamaria is cured of "Bang Baby syndrome"--until Hotstreak un-cures her, and her resulting rampage could mean total chaos in Dakota City.

Kidnapped

12. Kidnapped

Air Date: 2004-05-15

Static's dad is kidnapped by Omnara, a scientist who once worked for Alva and who now wants to raid Alva's labs in an effort to control world technology.

Power Outage

13. Power Outage

Air Date: 2004-05-22

all the Bang Babies--Static and Gear included--begin to lose their powers, thanks to Dr. Donald Todd.

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Rating

8.1/10

Release Date

2000-09-23

Episodes

52 (4 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Animation

Warner Bros. Animation