The Best Episodes of Static Shock Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.3/10(245 votes)

   #1 - Shock to the System

   S1:E19/23/2000

   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

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   Director:James Tucker

   Writer:Christopher Simmons
2. 

   7.1/10(167 votes)

   #2 - Aftershock

   S1:E29/30/2000

   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

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   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Stan Berkowitz
3. 

   7.2/10(150 votes)

   #3 - The Breed

   S1:E310/7/2000

   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

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   Director:Denys Cowan

   Writer:Christopher Simmons
4. 

   6.6/10(146 votes)

   #4 - Grounded

   S1:E410/14/2000

   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

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   Director:James Tucker

   Writer:Len Uhley
5. 

   6.9/10(141 votes)

   #5 - They're Playing My Song

   S1:E511/11/2000

   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

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   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Dwayne McDuffie
6. 

   6.9/10(135 votes)

   #6 - The New Kid

   S1:E611/18/2000

   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

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   Director:Denys Cowan

   Writer:Rodney Patrick Vaccaro
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7. 

   7.0/10(134 votes)

   #7 - Child's Play

   S1:E712/2/2000

   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

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   Director:James Tucker

   Writer:Stan Berkowitz
8. 

   7.8/10(170 votes)

   #8 - Sons of the Fathers

   S1:E812/9/2000

   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

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   Director:Dan Riba

   Writer:Christopher Simmons
9. 

   6.6/10(131 votes)

   #9 - Winds of Change

   S1:E912/16/2000

   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

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   Director:James Tucker

   Writer:Len Uhley
10. 

    7.0/10(131 votes)

    #10 - Bent Out of Shape

    S1:E101/27/2001

    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

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    Director:Dan Riba

    Writer:Dwayne McDuffie
11. 

    6.9/10(132 votes)

    #11 - Junior

    S1:E112/10/2001

    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

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    Director:Denys Cowan

    Writer:Dwayne McDuffie
12. 

    6.5/10(136 votes)

    #12 - Replay

    S1:E123/3/2001

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

    Director:Denys Cowan

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Denys Cowan

    Writer:Unknown
13. 

    7.1/10(133 votes)

    #13 - Tantrum

    S1:E135/12/2001

    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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    Director:James Tucker

    Writer:Christopher Simmons