The adventures of a teenage superhero who fights crime in Dakota City.
The best episode of "Static Shock" season 1 is "Shock to the System", rated 7.2/10 from 209 user votes. It was directed by James Tucker and written by Christopher Simmons. "Shock to the System" aired on 9/23/2000 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Aftershock".
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