The Best Episodes of Static Shock

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

Director: Joe Sichta

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie

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.

Director: David Chlystek

Writer: Len Uhley

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

Director: Dan Riba

Writer: Christopher Simmons

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

Director: N/A

Writer: John Semper Jr.

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

Director: Victor Dal Chele

Writer: Stan Berkowitz

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

Director: Victor Dal Chele

Writer: Ernie Altbacker

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie

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

Director: David Chlystek

Writer: Len Uhley

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Paul Dini

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.

Director: Victor Dal Chele

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie

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

Director: N/A

Writer: John Ridley

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.

Director: James Tucker

Writer: Christopher Simmons

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie

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.

Director: Mark Howard

Writer: John Semper Jr.

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Adam Beechen

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

Director: Chuck Drost

Writer: Len Uhley

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.

Director: Dan Riba

Writer: Stan Berkowitz

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

Director: Denys Cowan

Writer: Christopher Simmons

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.

Director: Dan Riba

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie

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.

Director: James Tucker

Writer: Christopher Simmons

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.

Director: Joe Sichta

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie

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.

Director: Mark Howard

Writer: Ralph Soll

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.

Director: Dan Riba

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie

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

Director: James Tucker

Writer: Stan Berkowitz

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

Director: Joe Sichta

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie