Rubber-Band Man (Static Shock)
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| Rubber-Band Man | |
 Adam Evans |
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| Publication information | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Warner Bros. Television |
| First appearance | (As villain) They're Playing My Song (Season one) (As hero) Bad Stretch (Season 2) |
| Created by | Dwayne McDuffie (comics/cartoon), Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani |
| In story information | |
| Alter ego | Adam Evans |
| Team affiliations | Static and Gear |
| Notable aliases | "Stringer" |
| Abilities | Transmorph; a living rubber-like mass; he is capable of stretching, straining, prolongating and twisting his body like a rubber-band. |
Rubber-Band Man (real name: Adam Evans) is a fictional character, in the cartoon Static Shock (2000). He is voiced by Kadeem Hardison.
[edit] Character history
Adam Evans is the brother of Ivan Evans, the criminal Ebon, and is both a rapper and a superhero with the power to bend and transform his body like elastic. Rubber-Band Man first appears as a criminal, albeit a sympathetic one, when his music is stolen by a crooked record label. He seeks revenge against the rapper and the producer who steal from him, until the theft is revealed by Static. However, Rubber-Band Man still tries to fight the producer, and is sent to prison. Later, he escapes prison, becomes a successful musician under the alias Stringer, and begins dating Sharon Hawkins. After his recklessness causes a fire at a show, Static exposes him.
However, due to Sharon's influence, Rubber-Band Man refrains from returning to his criminal ways, and instead becomes another superhero in Dakota, often aiding Static even if the two are often personally at odds. Rubber-band Man's brother Ebon at one point attempted to frame him for crimes in an attempt to persuade him to join Ebon's gang, but Static exposed Ebon's plan. He later gets a record deal with the help of AJ McLean.
Rubber-Band Man is also dyslexic and has difficulty with reading, although he is able to when he uses certain reading exercises he was taught.
Adam Evans/Rubber-Band Man (voiced by Kadeem Hardison) – A living and stretching mass, but retaining his human form, Adam can reshape himself into anything.
The alias he uses in one episode, "Stringer", is his real last name of his comic version, first used in Static #34. He was defeated by Static, and in the cartoon, subsequently reformed, occasionally helping out Static and the police, after doing his time in jail for taking vindictive actions against a record producer who stole his music and denied Adam the money and credit that he was owed.
It is public knowledge that Adam is the Rubber-Band Man. Adam is also a talented musician, and is currently dating Virgil's sister, Sharon. Rubber-Band Man's brother is Ebon; before the Big Bang, Adam used to roll with his brother's crew before he took a stock-clerk job at a music store called Stonegas Records; Adam once described himself as "Theres no mystery, I'm my music. Thats all you need to know".
In the episode Where the Rubber Meets the Road, he is seen to have struggled through a reading disorder. In his school days he was put into a "special learning program", where they showed him techniques, "A lot of stuff. You change words into something you can feel instead of look at, but it takes patience" and Adam "could never sit still as a kid," Adam dropped out of the program because he "felt dumb", and ashamed that he couldn't read and never told anyone, (not even his girlfriend, Sharon.) While Adam can read, it takes effort on his part; in Where the Rubber Meets the Road, Static confronts him on his disability after he had failed to detain Tarmack in Alva Industries; later in the same episode, Adam/Rubber-Band Man perseveres, doing the work he needs to do to disarm a compact nuclear fusion engine prototype that would've lain waste to the city of Dakota.
It is unknown if Adam Evans was exposed to the cure for the Big-Bang that neutralized many of the Bang-Babies in Dakota.
The name "Adam Evans" is derived from the names of former Milestone writers Adam Blaustein and Yves Fezzani, who created the character.
