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The Best Episodes of Static Shock Season 1

Every episode of Static Shock Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Static Shock Season 1!

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Static Shock Season 1 Episode 1 - Shock to the System
    7.3/10(245 votes)

    #1 - Shock to the System

    S1:E1

    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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  2. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 2 - Aftershock
    7.1/10(167 votes)

    #2 - Aftershock

    S1:E2

    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

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  3. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 3 - The Breed
    7.2/10(150 votes)

    #3 - The Breed

    S1:E3

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

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  4. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 4 - Grounded
    6.6/10(146 votes)

    #4 - Grounded

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:James Tucker
    Writer:Len Uhley

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  5. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 5 - They're Playing My Song
    6.9/10(141 votes)

    #5 - They're Playing My Song

    S1:E5

    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

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  6. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 6 - The New Kid
    6.9/10(135 votes)

    #6 - The New Kid

    S1:E6

    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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  8. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 7 - Child's Play
    7.0/10(134 votes)

    #7 - Child's Play

    S1:E7

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

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  9. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 8 - Sons of the Fathers
    7.8/10(170 votes)

    #8 - Sons of the Fathers

    S1:E8

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

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  10. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 9 - Winds of Change
    6.6/10(131 votes)

    #9 - Winds of Change

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:James Tucker
    Writer:Len Uhley

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  11. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 10 - Bent Out of Shape
    7.0/10(131 votes)

    #10 - Bent Out of Shape

    S1:E10

    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

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  12. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 11 - Junior
    6.9/10(132 votes)

    #11 - Junior

    S1:E11

    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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  13. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 12 - Replay
    6.5/10(136 votes)

    #12 - Replay

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Denys Cowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 13 - Tantrum
    7.1/10(133 votes)

    #13 - Tantrum

    S1:E13

    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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Shock to the System" is the best rated episode of "Static Shock" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 245 votes. Directed by James Tucker and written by Christopher Simmons, it aired on 9/23/2000. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Aftershock".