Static Shock

Sep 23, 2000

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.

Sep 30, 2000

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.

Oct 7, 2000

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

Oct 14, 2000

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.

Nov 11, 2000

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.

Nov 18, 2000

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.

Dec 2, 2000

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

Dec 9, 2000

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

Dec 16, 2000

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.

Jan 27, 2001

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.

Feb 10, 2001

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.

Mar 3, 2001

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

May 12, 2001

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.

Jan 26, 2002

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.

Feb 2, 2002

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

Feb 9, 2002

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

Feb 16, 2002

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

Feb 23, 2002

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

Mar 2, 2002

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

Mar 9, 2002

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.

Mar 23, 2002

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.

Apr 6, 2002

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

Apr 27, 2002

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.

May 4, 2002

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

Jan 25, 2003

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.

Feb 1, 2003

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

Feb 8, 2003

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.

Feb 15, 2003

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

Feb 22, 2003

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.

Mar 1, 2003

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

Mar 8, 2003

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.

Mar 22, 2003

Static becomes the star of a reality television show.

Apr 5, 2003

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.

Apr 19, 2003

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

Apr 26, 2003

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

May 3, 2003

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

May 24, 2003

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

Jun 7, 2003

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

Jun 21, 2003

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

Jan 17, 2004

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

Jan 24, 2004

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.

Jan 31, 2004

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

Feb 7, 2004

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.

Feb 14, 2004

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.

Feb 21, 2004

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.

Feb 28, 2004

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.

Mar 13, 2004

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

Mar 27, 2004

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.

May 1, 2004

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

May 8, 2004

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

May 15, 2004

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.

May 22, 2004

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