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TV series

Static Shock

2000TV-Y74 seasons8.0 / 10

An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero.

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Checked Jul 22, 2026

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Synopsis

An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero.

Season 1 episodes

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Episode 1

Shock to the System

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.

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Episode 2

Aftershock

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.

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Episode 3

The Breed

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

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Episode 4

Grounded

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.

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Episode 5

They're Playing My Song

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.

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Episode 6

The New Kid

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.

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Episode 7

Child's Play

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

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Episode 8

Sons of the Fathers

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

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Episode 9

Winds of Change

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.

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Episode 10

Bent Out of Shape

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.

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Episode 11

Junior

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.

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Episode 12

Replay

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

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Episode 13

Tantrum

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.

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Episode information updated Jul 22, 2026

More about Static Shock

Cast

Phil LaMarrVirgil Hawkins / Static (voice)
Jason MarsdenRichie Foley / Gear (voice)
Kevin Michael RichardsonRobert Hawkins (voice)
Michele MorganSharon Hawkins (voice)
Miguel SandovalPrincipal Aguilar (voice)
Dennis HaysbertChief Barnsdale (voice)
Ed Begley Jr.Donald Todd (voice)
Phil MorrisJonathan Vale (voice)

Credits

Created by
Dwayne McDuffie, Michael Davis, Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle
Written by
Len Uhley, Dwayne McDuffie, Christopher Simmons, Stan Berkowitz, John Semper Jr., John Ridley, Rodney Patrick Vaccaro, Adam Beechen, Bob Goodman, Paul Dini, David Garber, Matt Wayne, Ernie Altbacker, Ralph Soll, Len Uhley, Brooks Wachtel

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
52
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • The WBUnited States
  • Warner Bros. AnimationUnited States

Themes

dc animated universe (dcau)high schoolsuper powersuperheroteen superhero