TV-Y7Season 1
Synopsis
Static Shock (2000), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM, 13 episodes of the animated series about a teenager who walks away from a chemical blast able to bend electricity to his will.
Virgil Hawkins lives in rough Dakota City, where a gang shootout cracks open a canister of strange gas. The leak creates "bang babies" — mutated kids with powers — and Virgil himself, masked as Static. The season rolls out a rogues' gallery: Hotstreak, Ebon and his Metabreed crew, Rubberband Man. Yet the fights are only half of it. Best friend Richie backs Static with gadgets and grows up alongside him, and certain episodes hit real ground — racism inside Richie's own household, school pressure, a father too busy to see his son. The superhero stuff stays tangled up with the everyday troubles of an ordinary inner-city kid.
Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, it put a Black teenage superhero front and center for the first time. Behind the bright look of this first season sits a surprisingly honest take on neighborhood and growing up. Stream Static Shock Season 1 online on iFILM.
13 episodes
S1·E1Shock to the System
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.
S1·E2Aftershock
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.
S1·E3The Breed
A track athlete Virgil's tutoring mutates into a metahuman and joins Ebon's criminal gang known as the "Metabreed."
S1·E4Grounded
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.
S1·E5They're Playing My Song
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.
S1·E6The New Kid
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.
S1·E7Child's Play
A bad boy learns that his younger stepbrother is metahuman, and wants him to use his powers to steal things.
S1·E8Sons of the Fathers
Richie's captured by Ebon after running away from home because of his father's racist attitude toward Virgil.
S1·E9Winds of Change
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.
S1·E10Bent Out of Shape
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.
S1·E11Junior
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.
S1·E12Replay
A washed-up child actor with meta-human powers clones Static, and the clone goes on a crime spree.
S1·E13Tantrum
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.
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