7.2/10217 votes#1 - Shock to the System
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2000
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
7.0/10140 votes#2 - Aftershock
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2000
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
7.0/10126 votes#3 - The Breed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2000
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
6.5/10123 votes#4 - Grounded
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2000
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
6.8/10119 votes#5 - They're Playing My Song
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2000
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
6.8/10114 votes#6 - The New Kid
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/2000
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.
Director: Denys Cowan
Writer: Rodney Patrick Vaccaro
6.9/10113 votes#7 - Child's Play
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2000
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
7.7/10146 votes#8 - Sons of the Fathers
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/2000
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
6.5/10110 votes#9 - Winds of Change
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/2000
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
6.9/10112 votes#10 - Bent Out of Shape
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/27/2001
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
6.8/10113 votes#11 - Junior
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/10/2001
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.
Director: Denys Cowan
Writer: Dwayne McDuffie
6.4/10117 votes#12 - Replay
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/3/2001
A washed-up child actor with meta-human powers clones Static, and the clone goes on a crime spree.
Director: Denys Cowan
Writer: N/A
7.0/10113 votes#13 - Tantrum
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/2001
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
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An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero.
Genres:Action & AdventureAnimationSci-Fi & FantasyKids
Network:The WB
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Shock to the System" is the best rated episode of "Static Shock" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 217 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".