S3 E1 • Hard as Nails

A girl at Virgil's school tries to hide that she is a bang baby. She has super strength and the ability to turn her fingernails into indestructible claws. Once her secret is discovered by accident, Virgil tells her to get help, but she doesn't listen to him and renames herself Nails and runs away from home. Virgil does some detective work and discovers she found a website that's offering help and treatment for Bang Babies. Static tracks Nails to Gotham City, where he meets up with Batman. The Dark Knight tells Static that Poison Ivy and Harley are recruiting Bang Babies to help them in their crimes. Nails is reluctant to turn to a life of crime, but Ivy offers her a cure if she helps them steal government gold bars. Nails agrees and they have no trouble hijacking a cargo ship and taking the gold. In the end Harley and Ivy double cross her and push her overboard. Batman and Static rescue her then they take care of Harley and Ivy. Static convinces Nails to return home to her par

Première diffusion : 25 janvier 2003

S3 E2 • Gear

The episode opens with Richie showing Static his latest invention: A high tech surveillance robot called Backpack. They are interrupted when Ebon and his gang escape from jail and Static goes after them. Richie goes with him to watch and Ebon recognizes him and thinks he has something to do with Static. He has his gang follow Richie around town. In the meantime Richie has become so smart he passes all his classes with ease and says it feels like his brain is on fire with new inventions. Virgil thinks he had a delayed reaction to the Big Bang and Richie isn't happy at first. He wants a cool power like super strength. After tailing Richie around, Ebon thinks Virgil is Static and kidnaps him. Improvising a costume Richie goes after them using his inventions. Virgil is in a padded cell and starts to break out using his powers but thinks it might be a trap set by Ebon - so he waits until he knows what going on. Ebon is watching Virgil on a tv monitor. Richie uses Backpack to create a

Première diffusion : 1 février 2003

S3 E3 • Static in Africa

Virgil and his family go on a trip to Ghana. While there Virgil calls Richie and tells him that he's closer to his heritage and doesn't feel like a minority but a person. On a train trip, a criminal called Osebo tries to steal a professors map to an ancient city of gold that is buried under a lake. A superhero named Anansi the spider stops Osebo from crashing the train, but not from taking the map. Virgil puts a tracer on Osebo and later reveals his secret identity to Anansi because they need each others help to stop Osebo. They track him at the dam that holds the man made lake and together they stop him from blowing it up. Static tells Anansi he's his hero and he has very few black heros in America.

Première diffusion : 8 février 2003

S3 E4 • Shebang

While saving some workmen, Static and Gear get a little help from a new superhero who calls herself Shebang. Gear wants to recruit her to the team but Static says no. Daisy and Frieda introduce a new girl at school named Shenice. They have a bowling match between the boys and the girls, and thanks to Shenice, the girls are winning. When her parents show up, Shenice misses the strike, and Virgil thinks her parents wanted her to fail. Later, Hotstreak goes on a rampage again, beating Static and Gear. Shebang defeats him with no trouble, however leaves when the news reporters arrive. At home, Shenice's parents tell her she can't be the superhero Shebang, but she tells them she can't be a quiet girl and not use her powers. An agent tracking Shebang trails Static, who leads them to her. They use sleeping gas to knock out Shebang and Static, proceeding to kidnapping Shebang. Static and Gear talk to her parents and learn that they created Shenice in a lab, giving her superhuman abilities. Th

Première diffusion : 15 février 2003

S3 E5 • The Usual Suspect

Virgil accidently bumps into a large boy at school and insults his size. The boy - Marcus spent time in juvenile hall but he wants to turn his life around, so he goes to Sharon for counseling. A huge bang baby goes on a rampage thru the city by attacking a policeman, trashing the auto show and destroying another kids car. Virgil and Richie investigate and learn that Marcus has a link with all the crimes and think that when he gets angry he turns into the monster and destroys what he's mad at. They don't have proof against him so Virgil goes to insult Marcus hoping he'll turn into the monster in front of everyone. When he doesn't Virgil runs away to avoid getting beat up. Richie learns that Marcus couldn't have been the monster because he was in counseling with Sharon. The monster attacks Virgil and he figures that the monster is Marcus ex girlfriend. Virgil changes into Static and fights the monster who admits that it's her and she did it because Marcus broke up with her and she

Première diffusion : 22 février 2003

S3 E6 • A League of Their Own (1)

The Justice League Watchtower is hit by a cosmic string and suffers a power outage. Batman suggests Static come to recharge the system Static and Gear go to the Watchtower but while there the Justice League receives a distress call and leaves them there. They soon discover that Braniac used the power outage to escape and take over the Watchtower computer systems. Braniac tries to kill Static and Gear while outside the League try to get back inside. Gear uses backpack to crash Braniacs memory while Static reabsorbs all the electricity he put into the system. In the end it appears Braniac is finished and the League thank Static and Gear for their help.. That night Riche tries to turn off backpack and learns that Braniac has taken it over. to be continued . . .

Première diffusion : 1 mars 2003

S3 E7 • A League of Their Own (2)

The Justice League notice that a huge download has taken place on their computer system and think Braniac has escaped into Gears robot Backpack. Batman gives Flash a picture of Richie and sends him to Dakota to look for him. Flash finds Richie and asks for Backpack but Richie has Backpack attack him. Braniac has taken over Richie's mind and with the help of a thought control disk he takes over Flash's mind. The League goes to Static looking for Flash and Gear. Static calls Richie and he wants Static to meet him at an abandoned steel mill. Once there, Flash puts Braniac's thought control disks on them but Static's natural body electricity deactivates his disk. Braniac sends the League out to kill Static. He runs away then uses his electricity to deactivate the disks. The League set out to stop Braniac and tells Static to stay out it because he wouldn't be objective with Richie captured. Static figures out how to defeat Braniac by using Backpacks remote control to deactivate Backpack and

Première diffusion : 8 mars 2003

S3 E8 • Showtime

After defeating Puff and Onyx, Static and Gear notice a billboard advertising a new show called ""Heros"" staring Static Shock. Static visits the office of film producer Rast and tells him he doesn't want to star in any movie. But Rast convinces him that kids need a role model and Static agrees. Rast, who is a rude and arrogant boss with his staff, tells Static that Gear wasn't in the movie but Static says that Gear is his partner and argues for it. Static and Gear go on patrol with 2 helicopters flying with them wherever they go. A criminal by the name of Starburst breaks into a bank and Static and Gear try to stop him. Their powers have no effect on him and Rast is furious saying they looked bad in filming. Gear lets Static fight Starburst because it seems his powers are similar to Static's. For the next 2 days Static fights Starburst with losing results and bad press. Richie plays the footage of Static's last encounter with Starburst and notes that Static's attack should have

Première diffusion : 22 mars 2003

S3 E9 • Consequences

Static stops some metahumans with Rubberband Man's help but he tells Static that he shows off too much for the crowd instead of catching the criminals. Static doesn't listen and says he doesn't need his help. While taking Daisy to a movie, Puff and Onyx rob the theater and Virgil changes into Static to stop them. He slows them down and he could have stopped them but when he sees Daisy watching him he shows off again. Puff uses her powers to bring down parts of the walls and some debris hits Daisy. Daisy winds up in the hospital with a concussion and Virgil blames himself, even though her parents and his family tell him it wasn't his fault. Angry at himself Static uses his powers to blast a junkyard. Richie wants to talk to him about Daisy, but Virgil ignores him and wants to be by himself. When he learns where Puff and Onyx usually hang out he goes to the pool hall and uses his powers to scare everyone there. He has one person pinned to the wall ready to tell everything, when R

Première diffusion : 5 avril 2003

S3 E10 • Romeo in the Mix

Bernie Rast convinces Lil Romeo to star in a film that Daisy and Frieda will be directing because they won a promotional contest. Romeo doesn't want to do it, but Rast says he can get Static to star in it. Hotstreak breaks into a store and a new metahuman called Leech drains his powers and kidnaps him. He takes Hotstreak to a prison cell and Ebon is already there. Leech tells them his power is stealing other metahuman powers. At the film shoot Ll' Romeo dresses up like Static and when Static shows up, Lil Romeo says Static is his hero. Static shows Lil' Romeo his powers and his weaknesses and gives him his shock box. When Leech goes after Talon Static and Gear try to stop him, but they are too late to save her. At the next filming Leach shows up and grabs Lil Romeo thinking he's Static. Back at the prison Leech realizes his mistake. Static calls on the shock box and Leech says he'll trade Lil Romeo for Static. They manage to free Lil Romeo but Static is caught instead. Lil Rom

Première diffusion : 19 avril 2003

S3 E11 • Trouble Squared

On a field trip to Alva industries Virgil and Daisy run into Specs and Trapper, their old teachers who designed a science project to defeat Static in the first season. Virgil doesn't trust them and spies on them as Static. He learns that Alva hired them as part of a team to try and restore his son, Alva Jr. who turned to stone because of the meta gas. Specs and Trapper come up with new weapons to drain Static of his powers. They capture Static and present him to Alva, but Alva doesn't want anything to do with kidnaping his old enemy. Static soon escapes and Alva fires Specs and Trapper for kidnaping Static instead of restoring his son. They kidnap Alva Jr. and threaten to kill him unless Alva transfers money into a bank account. Alva asks Static for help. Static tracks down the pair who make super suits and rename themselves Spectral and Speedtrap. Their new powers have Static on the run at first but they are soon defeated and Static saves Alva Jr. and hand Specs and Trapper o

Première diffusion : 26 avril 2003

S3 E12 • Toys in the Hood

Darcy disguises herself as a school teacher at Dakota High School to get close to Daisy. Superman comes to Dakota to track down the Toyman. When Daisy is kidnaped he teams up with Static to find her. Darcy has teamed up with the Toyman to secure a new living body for herself and she promises to be with the Toyman if he helps her. Static and Superman track down the Toyman but he has already made a duplicate body of Daisy with Darcy's mind inside. Static discovers the real Daisy from the fake but she manages to escape and tries to double cross the Toyman. He tells her he put a failsafe into her system that would kill her if she betrayed him. Darcy dies and the police take Toyman to jail.

Première diffusion : 3 mai 2003

S3 E13 • The Parent Trap

Shebang returns to Dakota because she thinks her parents were kidnaped. She asks Static and Gear for help. They track down a thief who they believe is a new metahuman, but soon discover Shebang's parents helping him steal items. They learn that the metahuman is actually a former doctor that used to work with her parents. His experiments on absorbing energy go wrong transforming his body into a living rock that can absorb anything for energy. The doctor forces Shebang's parents to help him become normal again or they will be killed. A collar that can inject poison into them can be activated by remote and only the doctor knows the code to release the collars. When the cure doesn't work the doctor tries to kill the parents and then goes after Static. The doctor eventually absorbs too much and becomes immobile. Gear uses Backpack to find the code to break the locks from around Shebang's parents necks. Static announces Shebang can join the team anytime she's in Dakota.

Première diffusion : 24 mai 2003

S3 E14 • Flashback

The city of Dakota dedicates a statue to the rescue workers who helped with the Dakota riots 5 years ago. It's this riot and her getting hit by a stray bullet that killed Virgil's mother. Ebon chases a girl named Nina and Static and Gear try to stop him. She uses her powers to encircle herself, Static and Gear and turns back time ten minutes so they escape Ebon. They take her to their headquarters where she tells them she wanted to find them so she could join them. She wants to use her powers to help people. Gear creates a timer from a remote to more accurately control Nina's powers. She gets a costume and calls herself Timezone. Static says he wants to go back to the riots and changed what happened. Timezone agrees that they should go back and help people. Just as they set the timer to go back, Ebon shows up and takes it. Static zaps both Ebon and the timer and short circuits the device. All of them take a trip back in time. They all arrive in different places and Static and G

Première diffusion : 7 juin 2003

S3 E15 • Blast from the Past

Sharon convinces Virgil to help her at a retirement home. He is impatient to leave, and when robots rampage downtown Dakota, Virgil has his excuse. He runs to the roof to change into Static when one of the elders, Mr. Grant, follows him and discovers his identity. Mr. Grant tells Virgil he is Soul Power, a superhero from the 1960's, and he wants to help Virgil stop those robots. Virgil reluctantly takes him along and Soul Power says his arch nemesis, Dr. Menace, created the robots so they are immune to electromagnetic powers. The robots easily defeat Static and Soul Power, but Dr. Menace says he won't kill them because he wants his old enemy to see his victory. Soul Power thinks Dr. Menace is creating a weather machine to destroy cities, and goes to an old friend to gain access to global satellites to find Menace. His friend declines and Soul Power lifts the access card to view the satellites. He takes Static to his secret base and powers up the 40 year old equipment. They locate the

Première diffusion : 21 juin 2003