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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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Accidental exposure to an experimental mutagenic gas grants ordinary high school student Virgil Hawkins electromagnetic superpowers. Taking up the alter-ego of Static, he fights crime in Dakota City alongside his best friend Richie Foley.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Static Shock Season 1 Episode 8 - Sons of the Fathers
    7.8/10(192 votes)

    S1:E8

    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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  2. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 1 - Shock to the System
    7.3/10(276 votes)

    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.

    Director:James Tucker
    Writer:Christopher Simmons

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  3. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 3 - The Breed
    7.2/10(173 votes)

    S1:E3

    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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  4. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 13 - Tantrum
    7.2/10(146 votes)

    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.

    Director:James Tucker
    Writer:Christopher Simmons

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  5. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 2 - Aftershock
    7.1/10(190 votes)

    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
    Writer:Stan Berkowitz

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  6. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 7 - Child's Play
    7.1/10(149 votes)

    S1:E7

    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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  7. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 10 - Bent Out of Shape
    7.1/10(146 votes)

    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
    Writer:Dwayne McDuffie

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  8. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 5 - They're Playing My Song
    7.0/10(162 votes)

    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
    Writer:Dwayne McDuffie

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  9. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 6 - The New Kid
    6.9/10(154 votes)

    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.

    Director:Denys Cowan
    Writer:Rodney Patrick Vaccaro

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  10. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 11 - Junior
    6.9/10(148 votes)

    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.

    Director:Denys Cowan
    Writer:Dwayne McDuffie

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  11. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 9 - Winds of Change
    6.7/10(145 votes)

    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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  12. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 4 - Grounded
    6.6/10(165 votes)

    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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  13. Static Shock Season 1 Episode 12 - Replay
    6.6/10(149 votes)

    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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Sons of the Fathers" is the best rated episode of "Static Shock" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 192 votes. Directed by Dan Riba and written by Christopher Simmons, it aired on 12/9/2000. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Shock to the System".