Static Shock

Static Shock

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Format Animated series
Created by Dwayne McDuffie
Starring Phil LaMarr
Jason Marsden
Danica McKellar
Kevin Michael Richardson
Michele Morgan
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 52 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time 22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Kids' WB!
Original run September 23, 2000 (2000-09-23) – May 22, 2004 (2004-05-22)
Chronology
Preceded by The New Batman/Superman Adventures
Followed by Justice League

Static Shock is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It premiered in September 2000 on the Kids' WB! block and ran for four seasons, with a total of 52 half-hour episodes.

The series centers around the adventures of DC Comics superhero Virgil Ovid Hawkins/Static and is loosely based on the original Static comics. The series predates the re-appearance of Static in the main DC continuity by several years. After the show's initial run on The WB it was later picked up for rebroadcast by Cartoon Network, airing initially during the Miguzi block. Disney XD began airing reruns of the series (starting with season 1) in February 2009 in the United States. Currently, Warner Bros. has no plans to release the series on DVD. However the company has stated that it wishes to eventually release all of the DC animated universe on DVD. As of 2011, the first season is currently available for download on ITunes. AJ McLean and Neil Patrick Harris were special guests on the show.

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Plot

Virgil was a simple fifteen-year-old trying to survive high school. His best friend is Richie Foley, and he has a crush on a girl named Frieda. He also has a dispute with a bully named "F-Stop" and was saved by a gang leader named Wade. Recently Wade had begun helping Virgil in hopes to recruit him, but Virgil is hesitant, as he knows his mother was killed in gangfire. Wade eventually leads Virgil to a restricted area for a gangfight against F-Stop's crew, which is interrupted by police helicopters, during the disputer between the gangs and police, a shot was fired releasing gas causing mutations among the people in the vicinity. (This event was later known as "The Big Bang".) It also caused Virgil to obtain the special power and ability to, create, generate and control static-electricity and magnetism and become known as "Static". But the gas also gave others surrounding the area to obtain their own powers, and unfortunately, it also led several of them to become super villains. The people who were mutated were then known as "Bang Babies", and their mutations apparently spread to other people around them, which explains how Richie obtained his own special ability of superhuman/advanced intelligence, and later became Virgil's partner named Gear.

Gear's Gadgets

Characters

Hawkins family

Characters

Other heroes

Villains

Other Bang Babies

Other characters

Episodes

Crossovers

Cancelled video game

A Static Shock video game for the Game Boy Advance was developed by Vicarious Visions, with a story by Dwayne McDuffie. Unfortunately in the year 2002, despite advertisements in magazines and comic books, the game was cancelled when Midway Games (the organization that was going to distribute it), was already no longer distributing anymore GBA games because of a series of financial difficulties.

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