The Best Episodes of Static Shock Season 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Dan Riba

Writer: Christopher Simmons

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

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

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

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

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