Background

A basic characters & setting of Static Shock come drawn from either a Electrostatic comedian book series, & several of a episodes adapt story elements from either either a comic books, however the series varies from that continuity in many details, including Static's costume & his friends. There are likewise elements drawn from either more Milestone comedian books, virtually all notably Blood Syndicate, from which many of the "bang babies" come taken. Recurring antagonist Edwin Alva Sr. is based on a character from Hardware, and the Freeman Community Center is named after one of the central characters of Icon. Dwayne McDuffie, founder of Milestone and Electrostatic's co-author, has retained a real total of control above the series' plot & characterization, & has written many episodes.

Early in a series - when in the comics - the setting was explicitly non in the DC Animated Universe, and DC superheroes like Superman were treated as fictional characters, virtually all notably while Virgil remarked that "even Clark Kent had a day job" in the 2nd episode. All the same, it late featured guest appearances by characters from either more DC alive series, including Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and Justice League. An older version of Static was late featured in the year Single finale of Justice League Unlimited.

More guest characters keep around involved real-globe souls (voiced by themselves) like basketball streaming video player Shaquille O'Neal and recording artist Lil Romeo, who also performed the theme song used in the final two seasons of the show.

Characters
Static (Virgil Ovid Hawkins) - voice: Phil LaMarr - The independent character is Virgil Ovid Hawkins, an African Western high school student in the fictional city of Dakota. Following of accidental exposure to an experimental mutagen in an event known as a Big Bang, he gained the ability to control & manipulate Electromagnetic Energy, and utilizes these powers to turn into the superhero known as "Static". Multitudinous others world health organization were likewise studied gained the wide kind of mutations & abilities, & Static lives lot of his instance treating using these "bang babies", numerous of whom utilize their abilities around selfish, harmful, & possibly criminal ways. He is known as fallowing a foremost blacken Western to attend school of law (world health organization was himself known as for the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid).

Supporting characters

Gear (Richard "Richie" Osgood Foley) - voice: Jason Marsden - Richie is Virgil's best friend & intimate. A foremost individual to view of Virgil's powers, & the fan of superhero comedian, he persuades Virgil to get the superhero. Initially he but will bring trend lines for his friend, making appliance for him, & portion to handle for Virgil to protect his secret identity. In the third year, these are revealed that Richie is likewise the "bang baby"; his powers good took the age to are into outcome. His power is extremely-intelligence, which enables him to invent rocket-powered boots & "Backpack", an intelligent multipurpose device he wears in his back, capable of surveillance & more semi-independent activity. By having this devices, he adopts a superhero identity "Gear" & becomes Electrostatic's sidekick (though he prefers the term "partner"). Richie did non come out in the Electrostatic comedian, however is an amalgam of deuce of Virgil's right friends in this series: Richard 'Rick' Stone (world health organization wwhen besides blonde & bore glasses), & Frieda Goren (sustaining whom Virgil shared his secret identity as Static).

Robert Hawkins - voice: Kevin Michael Richardson - A caseworker, Mr. Hawkins diarrhea a Freeman Community Center when head counselor. Around Static Shaq these are mentioned that Robert has likewise been in the marines, and the campy counselor. a widowman & the father of deuce teen, Robert Hawkins occurs as wise & understanding, however nonindulgent parent. He dislikes gangs & the destructive attitudes of virtually all bang infants, & his work in a Community Center is motivated by a want to counteract their bad influence on immature humans. Initially, Robert Hawkins disliked Static, believing that Static would a single day last bad - his open opinion all about Static inside Aftershock left Virgil caring that a Large-Bang may develop when-results. Robert remained unaware of his boy's secret identity across virtually all of the series - although a portion of him got suspitions just about Virgil's behavior; inside Kidnapped, Robert acknowledged a truth that got been best under his nose - his boy Virgil was Electrostatic, in the prevent Robert keeps his boy's superhero identity along by owning Richie/Gear's the secret.

Sharon Hawkins - voice: Michele Morgan - Virgil Hawkins' older sister is a hard-strong-minded, vexatious, however nurturing miss. She attends college, however however shacks home, & volunteers at a hospital, & counsels immature humans at the Freeman Community Center, rather her father. Sharon has universally been the large fan of Static. Although in spite of appearance she & her brmore love both more, it often argue, challenge, & tease every other, in a main just about items like the domestic job, his researching, & her cooking. Sharon has been dating Adam Evans/the Rubber-Band Human since Bent Away from Shape. Within Brother-Sister Work, Sharon notices how else similar Static & Virgil come, & endeavour to pin him down by owning proof of her suspicions, however is late convinced/tricked into thinking that her suspicions were incorrectly. At a prevent of the 4th year, Sharon continues to exist as in the dark all about her brother's superhero secret.

Other heroes
The Rubber-B& Human (Adam Evans) - The dwelling and stretching mass, Adam potty reshape himself into anything. He was defeated by Static, & in the cartoon, later reformed; occasionally helping retired Static & a constabulary, when doing his period inside jailhouse for ingesting excessive actions against a record producer world health organization stole his music & denied Adam the money & credit he was owed. These are general knowledge that Adam Evans is the Rubber-Band Human. Evans is likewise the gifted musician, and typically dates Virgil's sister, Sharon. Rubber-Band Human's brother is Ebon; prior to a Heavy-Bang, Adam utilise to roll sustaining his brother's crew prior to he took the equity-clerk job at the music store known as Stonegas Records - Adam describes himself when his music. (A title Adam Evens, is from either a list of previous Milestone writers Adam Blaustein & Yves Fezzani, world health organization created the character.) Sonant by Kadeem Hardison.

She-Bang (Shanice Vale) - Shanice occurs as girl world health organization was genetically engineered in a lab to have enhanced nature & severity and lightness. Them brilliant man of science (Drs.' Jonathan & Dolores Vale) who created her, fell in love with her and took her home from the lab - although they didn't give birth to her, they created her and considered her their baby. Throughout her life, she is pursued by professionals from either a research laboratory, world health organization obviously recapture her (her junket when She-Bang proving that she's worth reclaiming & cloning). Inside her number one appearance inside Shebang, she hopes to harmonise & become mistaken as the Bang-Binky user in the City of Dakotthe, because it was frustrating for her to pretend to become a quietly wallflower of a girl. Shanice, personality-caring, is does'nt super modest or humble, her showing off when She-Bang tends for in Electrostatic's nerves, pertinent in which it stimulates tensiin on their universally-shaky friendly relationship.

Anansi a Spider - He occurs as hero indigen to Ghana, and a greatest hero around west Africa. Anansi has a power to produce seeable, naturalistic illusions - people look at what he wants the two to view. He was granted this power by an ancient little golden spider. He is known as fallowing Anansi, the trickster spider of African folklore.

Mirage - Mirage utilizes favorite photokinetic powers, allowing for even her to generate seeable, naturalistic illusions, by manipulating weak into anything she may believe or remember. Her older brother is Boom, & it accept their grandma charted their parents' demise. Their powers came from either either stepping around a spill of the chemical substance from the Large Bang. She agrees to help Boom steal money to choose the freshly place for the children to survive (sole because he's her brother - the relationship in which he unremarkably bosses her around), however fallowing talking by with Static, understands how else having powers has corrupted her brother & assists Static to prevent Boom. She is so taken within per Dakota City Department of Social Services, but not before she generates an illusion of Electrostatic flying into a few feet away, as a favor to Static (Static/Virgil required to convince his sister that he wasn't Static).

instance-Zone (Nina Crocker) - She occurs as bang toddler by using a ability to warp period, leaving her to travel into a past; when you took her time sustaining her powers, she was one of a virtually all mighty metahumans on the planet. Fallowing history is all but changed by Ebon, Nina decides that her powers come as well unsafe to keep, & goes back eventually to prevent her past-self from either existence present at a nighttime of the Large Bang. Nina Crocker is nowadays an average girl, happy within Dakota Union High School, & hwhen there are no memory of her life in the original instance line as Instance-Zone. Period-Zone's powers come according to Flashback's from either a Milestone Media comedian line Blood Syndicate.

Villains
Hot-Streak (Francis "F-Stop" Stone) - voice: Danny Cooksey - He occurs as pyrokinetic and Static's number 1 enemy, indirectly responsible Virgil acquiring extremely powers. He was the vicious high-senior high roughneck, world health organization repeatedly tormented Virgil, & it was Virgil's want to shoot him in a confusion of a Heavy Bang (Hot-Streak was the leader of one of the gangs) that led to Virgil's exposure to the mutagenic results that gave him Electrostatic's powers. When existence picked higher per police force at a docks fallowing a Large Bang, he & a more gang-bangers were taken to the hospital. A next day, he burst into flaming & blasted away from a hospital room. Hot-Streak was arrested however went back to school in parole, however his anger management lessons proved uneffective. Late, Hot-Streak & more bang children found that it got been contaminated to the returning curative for the mutagen, & were reverting to formula. Around an effort to locate their powers, Hot-Streak & Ebon planned to steal what was left of a flatulence that was utilized around making the curative, however it ended higher coalesced together & were presumptively stopped by Static.

Ebon (Ivan Evans) - He is one of Electrostatic's virtually all lasting resister. The mass of dwelling shadow, he calls himself "the master of shadows and darkness", sustaining a ability to apply shadows to his liking: he might slide in wall shells, last under doors, & across cracks. He can besides be an inter-dimensional shadow portal, suspire to require others sustaining him (similar to the Shadow-slide in the Shadow Cabinet comics, which only works inside sum darkness). Ebony is weakened by incapacitating brilliantly weak. A leader of the Meta-Breed gang, he has a family grievance against Static for foiling then numerous of his plans. Ebony has besides worked by having Hot-Streak & Madelyn Spaulding. He too had his powers from either a Big Bang. Ebony's really title is Ivan Evans, & he is the older brother of the Rubber-Band Human (Adam Evans). He has been the revenant character on the indicate since year of these.

Talon (Teresthe) - She occurs as teenage girl world health organization has transformed into a half-human/half-avian animal & is bitter just about it. She is covered within orangish feathers, has claws & talons, & potty fly; +, she could emit the destructive hyper-sonic shriek from either her mouth, such as the Harpy. She occurs as member of the Metthe-Breed, & a frequent opponent of Static. Talon returns to convention by the therapeutic processed by man of science from either either Heavy Bang barking spiders; she agrees to help Static & Devices prevent Ebony from becoming the metahuman once again. Talon's very title is Teresa. At a hospital, she tells Static & Devices that Ebon is using a Heavy Bang flatulency to produce the Bang Infants other than a single. 1 nighttime at a hospital, Teresa had kidnapped by Ebon, & requires her to the docks.

Shiv - He is the joker in the Meta-Breed. He might generate "light energy", which he potty blast at opponents, & fashion into weapons which he might hang on to, throw, or even fashion around his arms & paws. Shiv is returned to rule at a prevent of the series.

Carmen-Dillo - The homo mutated into an armadillo-rather form, Carmen-Dillo possesses the bulletproof hide & may be launched rather the projectile. He sleep in garbage cans & steals food. At one point, he is accompanied by the puppy-prefer bang diaper wearing (similar to the Blood Syndicate character Dogg). Carmen-Dillo has worked by owning a Meta-Breed & a Meta-Men, however mostly operates by himself.

Specs & Trapper - Specs & Trapper come deuce immature geniuses funded by Edwin Alva Sr. to capture Static alive for survey. When upper-class students at the Vanmoor Charter School for Science, it utilise Virgil (a camping student) to build devices for monitoring & tracking Static. Fallowing their tries to capture Static fail, Alva fires the children; it is restored many days to attempt retaliatiin on each Alva & Static.

Omnifarious (Edwin Alva Jr.) - A boy of Edwin Alva Sr., he uses stolen Big Bang mutagen gas to give himself a variety of temporary metahuman powers, calling himself "Omnifarious". He combines everthing a samples of his altered mutagenic flatulency, intending to utilize all victims powers to kill the independent Alva Industries building, however instead turns into stone. He was a number one villain to see Electrostatic's really identity. His father late restores him to convention, by having a aid of Static, Devices, & Hot-Streak.

Slip-Stream - Slip-Stream, too known as Dense-C, could generate right aerokinetic winds & twisters to keep himself & things aloft inside mid-air, & utilizes this ability for stealing. Slip-Wash is yet returned to convention.

Puff - Although she occurs as mass of residing gases, Puff is capable of retaining her normal form or even turning fully gaseous. She potty blast barking spiders from either her mitts, dissolve objects using acidulous breath, or even exhale knock-hard flatulency. The bounty hunter, her partner is Onyx.

Onyx - Onyx occurs as human mass produced of stoneface, by using stone's nature & severity and enduringness. He is Puff's partner, typically below her orders.

Replay (Johnny Morrow) - Johnny occurs as previous tike-actor world health organization utilizes his ability to generate "energy clones" to commit crimes. He creates a clone of Static which gets the really Static inside condition using the police force. These clones vanish while Static shocks Replay. a character is according to Reprise, a superhuman soldier of fortune from either the comic book series Hardware.

Boom (Byrin) - Boom has the ability to generate & direct high-decibel healthy from either a speaker on his chest, hard sufficiency to shatter targets to dust. His immature sister is Mirage, & it swallow their granny below their parents' demise. Boom steals money for the babies the better place to survive, however is captured by having support from either his sister. a character is according to Boom-Pack, a jilted rapper from either the original Electrostatic comic book series. Boom is sooner or later returned to pattern.

Hyde - He leads a Bang-Tot gang known as the Ruff-Few dozen. He is physically mutated by owning heavy folded skin, making him tougher & stronger. Hyde manages to attach to the piece of Electrostatic's coat, & has Ferrett hunt down Static for a bit of payback, about discovering his identity.

Ferrett - The member of the Ruff-Few dozen, Ferrett is physically mutated to resemble the ferret. His jaw sticks out & he has an enhanced feel of smell & taste; he is universally thought process of food. The Joker attempts unsuccessfully to recruit him into a gang of Meta-Souls he's forming. Ferrett is returned to formula.

Kangorr - As well a member of the Ruff-Few dozen, Kangorr is physically mutated; the muscle mass inside his legs own increased. Using these, he has extremely-developed legs, prefer the kangaroo's, & he potty stomp through the ground or even floors, and leap neat distances. When a Ruff-Few dozen he was in the Joker's gang, so joined a Meta-Breed, getting known Ebon prior to a Heavy Bang. Kangorr is returned to rule.

AquThe-Maria - A immature latina woman, she is transformed into living water supply per Large Bang. She shorted out Static, however was captured by Rubber-Band Human. She was broken away from gaol by Ebon; Static stopped her utilizing electrolysis. She late team by using Hot-Streak, however was frozen by Static & Devices. a team of man of science offered her a risk to exist as a number one to try their counterpoison for the Large-Bang mutagen, & despite an attempt by Hot-Streak to sabotage the coarse of action, she is in time returned to rule. According to the character from either Blood Syndicate.

Madelyn Spaulding - She has a bang diaper wearing ability of mind control, which she utilized to win a election for class president, however while she tried to choose control of Virgil's mind, he shocked her, & she was expelled. She late learns she has telekinetic powers, dons a multi-multi-color outfit, & breaks Ebon, Talon, & Hot-Streak away from pokey. She was a 2nd villain to study Electrostatic's really identity.

Rag-Riffraff - An old homeless human world health organization was within an alley touching a docks when you took a Heavy Bang, Rag-Tag got a power to grant extremely-major power to normal population, & to dislodge the children. He endeavors to entirely drain Electrostatic's powers & is hit back by Richie. When chasing Richie in the area of a rooftop he peoples in, Rag-Riffraff lessens off the rooftop & into a dumpster.

Begin & Go for it - This pair tend powers by Rag-Ragtag & bobtail; Run has Extremely-Speed, and Go for it has Teleportation. It steal valuables for Rag-Riffraff around exchange for their powers, & prove my point to steal for thomas more recharges.

Replikon (Marvin Roper) - He occurs as metamorph, permitting him to turn into anyone, or even even to vary his atomlike structure into any organic or inorganic compound. He wanted to write music however his music was bad, & then he tried to ruin a music career of Adam Evans (Rubber-Band Human) by snatch and imitating A.J. McLean of the Backstreet Boys to steal a music deal.

Tamarthe Lawrence - Tamara could transform into a big, extr-heavy animal, however her eyes & ears come sensitive to weak & healthy. She is inadvertently caught in the Large Bang when wanting to find her swain. Fallowing a Heavy Bang, she attacks certain humans as a monster to put him under suspicion. Tamara is one of a Bang-New borns that returned to pattern.

Star-Burst (Brandon) - He utilizes his background within physical science to build information to take in energy attacks to ruin a indicate by his boss, because the human would non page through his screenplay. Static & Devices figure out that he's non the bang diaper wearing, & severed his power supply.

Leech - He has a power to take in the powers of more bang new borns by using the "suckers" resembling leech mouths on the palms of his paws. Leech kidnaps Ebon, Hot-Streak, & Talon to steal their powers. Leech likewise attempts to steal Electrostatic's & Devices's powers.

Heavyman (Dr. Koenig) - While his experiments in ingesting energy last wrong, he transforms into the dwelling rock, a cappella to take in anything, gaining mass & energy. He kidnapps She-Bang's creators/parents, therefore he can produce the babies functiin on the therapeutic for his problem. Whenever a therapeutic doesn't function, he strains to wipe out the babies. He finally absorbs overmuch & is rendered firm.

Speed-Warp (Eddie Felson) - He works as an houseman for Dr. McDonald, from either whom he stole the device that may speed higher or even slow down the movement of the wearer. Moving at such speeds, he might steal anything easy & non exist as caught, seen just as a fuzz. Speed-Warp was a third villain to see Electrostatic's rattling identity, however is presently stuck moving slower than all about else. (His title occurs as information to made-up pool shark "Fast Eddie" Felson, & Dr. McDonald's occurs as information to John D. MacDonald, author of the time-manipulator novel The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything.)

Chainlink (Troy) - Chainlink has metallic tentacles in his back, which he can have to melt metal. the previous friend of Dule Jones, whom he blackmails whenever the friend - as well the bang tot - becomes a agency footballer.

Omnara (Karen Roberts) - Karen Roberts works for Edwin Alva Sr., trying to discover Electrostatic's rattling identity, & will require a title Omnara once she is fired. Omnara pays Puff & Onyx to kidnap Robert Hawkins, then she potty inflict Static to steal components she needs for a second task of hers, Design Omni. Omnara is the quaternary villain to view Electrostatic's really identity.

Other Bang-Babies
D-Struct (Derek Barnett) - Derek Barnett occurs as track jock, world health organization could generate ionic energy around himself, which might protect him from either harm or even exist as directed at targets. He is coerced by Ebon into joining a Meta-Breed, when "D-Struct". Static persuades him to quit a gang, & he so volunteers himself as a search subject for bang binky users locate. He is according to the character world health organization appeared in the Static & Devices comedian.

Dwayne McCall - Dwayne could vary items into anything else he may clearly believe. His freshly step-half brother Aaron Price finds out astir his powers & talks him into doing items for him, eventually manipulating him into robbing the bank. Static ends this by showing him that his step-half-brother is upright do you need him. It has been suggested that he is an court to Dwayne McDuffie, world health organization co-created a characters away from either his imagination, & world health organization (at the instance) sleep in a different state from the indicate's producers, & so communicated by owning the babies merely by phone call for.

Tantrum (Thomas Kim) - Thomas occurs as talented student whose father pushes him to on top-achieve within school. Fallowing the big Bang, his anger & pent-repressed stress drive him to turn into a large purple-skinned, orange-haired animal, caused by anger & stress, using awesome nature & severity and impenetrability to anguish (similar to the Hulk). His violent disorder come stopped by Static, world health organization let one of these trantrums begin its course, so tell Thomas' parents just about his affliction, therefore it may aid him using his stress.

Permafrost (Maureen Connor) - As a result her mother's demise, Maureen Connor occurs as homeless girl, & develops mental problems from either a loneliness. When a Heavy Bang, she develops cryokinesis (the ability to generate & manipulate ice & snow, impenetrability to cold) & her hair turns white & her skin lightly blue. She turns to troublemaking, attracting Electrostatic's attention, world health organization manages to calm her down & requires her to the local church for assist in their homeless program.

Nails (Allie Langford) - Nails occurs as bang little ones by having metal skin & her fingernails come undestroyable claws. Once she discovers that she is changing, she tries to hide it & seeks out the professional assistance across the internet site actually redo by Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn as a lure for bang babies to help the babies sustaining their criminal activities. Static tracks Nails to Gotham City, then team by using Batman to find her. a women betray & abandon Nails below a heist, however Batman & Static rescue her, so totally 3 of the babies capture the crook. Nails so comes back residence to her parents.

The Nighttime Breed come the class action recruited by Ebon. Its members come bang infants world health organization have a disastrous sensitivity to weak, and so it survive underground. Nightingale (or even Gale) - Nightingale generates the favorite dust known as "dark-matter" that she utilizes to protect herself from either acute lighting. She endures underground along by having more weak-photosensitive bang toddlers, & is recruited by Ebon, world health organization list a babies the Nighttime-Breed. However she turns within Ebon when you took his attempt to blanket a entire city in "dark matter" (generating the two loose reign of it), ingesting it into herself. Brickhouse - She is Nightingale's right friend & was transformed per Heavy Bang into dwelling brick-rather lesson. She turns against Ebon whenever he traps Static, Devices & Nightingale, & aids the children escape. She is according to one of a central characters of Blood Syndicate. Tech - He has extremely-intelligence. He builds a machine to handle the city inside "dark matter", & sides by using Ebon once Gale & Brick rebel & support Static & Devices to thwart it. Later in, he decides to operate on the curative for the Nighttime-Breed's weak-sensitivity. Fade - He has a ability to pass across anything. He sides by owning Ebon whilst Gale & Brick rebel, & goes back into hiding when their takeover of Dakota is stopped. He is according to one of a central characters of Blood Syndicate.

Dule Jones - The previous gang-banger, he has metallic tentacles which develop from either his back (similar to Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Octopus). Fallowing a Large Bang, Dule gives higher his gang modus vivendi to play sales person football, however his fellow gang member Troy/Chainlink seeks to blackmail him for money, threatening to reveal his secret. Dule goes public, defeating Chainlink inside the confrontation by using aid from either Static, Devices, & more footballer.

Episodes
Season 1