Series DC Animated Universe

Static Shock season 1

Season 1 · DC Animated Universe · Sep 20, 2000 · 13 episodes

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Plot

Season 1, 13 episodes, first aired Sep 23, 2000.

About the show

In Dakota City, Virgil Hawkins is an ordinary kid who gets into big trouble, which gets him pressured into joining a street gang. That night, Virgil's gang has a major rumble at a chemical storage yard that the police interrupt by tear gassing the lot. That gassing accidentally detonates a series of chemical explosions that creates the infamous "Bang Baby Incident" that affects all the gangs and more. For instance, Virgil gains the powerful ability to project and control electricity at will. With the help of his inventive friend, Richie (who would much later get his own powers to become Gear), Virgil decides to become the superhero, Static. As it happens, this new career is well timed considering many of the surviving rumblers also become superpowered themselves and become dangerous supervillians. Against this new and growing threat, Static is determined to fight for justice, even while his personal life gets a major shock to its system.

Episodes

Episode 1: Shock to the System

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.
Episode 2: Aftershock

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.
Episode 3: The Breed

S1 · 21 min · IMDb 7.2

A track athlete Virgil's tutoring mutates into a metahuman and joins Ebon's criminal gang known as the "Metabreed."
Episode 4: Grounded

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.
Episode 5: They're Playing My Song

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.
Episode 6: The New Kid

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.
Episode 7: Child's Play

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

A bad boy learns that his younger stepbrother is metahuman, and wants him to use his powers to steal things.
Episode 8: Sons of the Fathers

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

Richie's captured by Ebon after running away from home because of his father's racist attitude toward Virgil.
Episode 9: Winds of Change

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.
Episode 10: Bent Out of Shape

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.
Episode 11: Junior

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.
Episode 12: Replay

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

A washed-up child actor with meta-human powers clones Static, and the clone goes on a crime spree.
Episode 13: Tantrum

S1 · 21 min · IMDb N/A

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.