I honestly cannot see why this show has lasted as long as it has. Not only is this show not interesting, but each episode is the same thing over and and over again.
One of the worst cartoons I've ever watched, and I used to watch 'Gnomes.'
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Yes I totaly agree with you, this show really sucks. I've seen an episode with this gay character teaming up with Batman to fight Poison Ivy and Harley, and I couldn't beleive my eyes, also I saw the last 5 minutes of an episode with the Justic League and at the end Batman was SMILING, this show is just horrorible.
shareThis show rocks, it's one of the best black cartoons I've ever seen and even though it's a little tame, it pays decent homage to the old comic it came from.
shareBIG FAT MEANIE!
Never slap a bandaid on life when it gets hairy, as someone will rip it off when it gets better.
I've seen an episode with this gay character teaming up with Batman to fight Poison Ivy and Harley
You just got owned by Tresix. Oh yeah.. Static Shock rocks. You're probably an oppressor.
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"Actually, this show does suck. Mainly because they focus on him being black a little too much. Take the Africa episode for example: Virgil was excited about how many black people there were, and such. He was bragging about not being the black kid anymore.
Now I know Rascism remains in the world today, just not as much in the open to the point where a kid brags about being the same. It's stupid. Lets not forget about the ridiculous plots that happen throughout every episode. "
im not sure if you are black or not but for some black people it is very exciting feeling to go to africa and not be the minority so i understand why Virgil was so excited....i didnt see it as bragging. the only way i could think of someone seeing it as bragging is if they werent black. and like another post stated, there were only a few episodes that focused on him being black and even if there were more i dont see how that could be a bad thing since they touched on different aspects of being black
but as for the show....i liked it a lot and its much better than the crap they show on WB saturday mornings now
How Many Other Black Super Hero Shows R There Any Way? Man U Need To Shut Ur Mouth. There Is A Lot Of Black Culture In It Yea, But So What?! A Lot Of Black Kids Growing Up In Ghettos Can Relate To This Charecter More Because He Is What He Is. An It Wasnt Stupid That He Said That Either! R U Gonna Blame A Black Guy Whose Around His Heritage For Once, An Actually Feels A Connectiopn With His Native People? Like I Said Black Kids Can Relate To Him More With SUperman Or Batman Anyway. (Who I Both Like By The Way)
So Shut Up
Seven Years Later: You're an idiot.
shareHey Dogmatic187 if you thought this show sucked you wouldn't be on this Static Shock side on IMD. Plus U know you want Statics mad skills so don't be a player hater and appreciate don't hate
sharehey! if static shock really suck for you charismasangelus then why do you watch the show? is there any racism here? you are just jealous of static shock's growth in popularity because you are not popular and you want to be known! LONG LIVE STATIC SHOCK! I'LL PUT A SHOCK TO YOUR SYSTEM!
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you know what? everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
you can say the show sucks, the other person can say the show rocks.
you dont have to be all angry and insulting about it.
the other person was just upset that someone insulted a show that they enjoyed.
and static *is* a good show. its the highest in the polls of shows people want to have saved from what ive read.
if you cant find some good in it, go watch something else/
yay darkchild1841!!!!!!!
I LUV THE SHOW AND UR A BAKA IF U THINK OTHERWISE!!!!
AND I U Hate IT SO MUCH Y R U HERE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
YAY STATIC SHOCK
and he is NOT GAY! havnt u ever seen him with Daisy o Frieda?
and how do u know it sucks?? if u dont like it y do u watch it???
I agree with your point that merely disliking this show doesn’t mean either jealousy or racism. However:
The show is popular. That's from hard numbers, not opinion. It consistently wins its time slot in the ratings, Every Single Time. It is always in the Top Three of Saturday morning or weekday afternoon children's shows -- only Yu-Gi-Oh! or Pokemon beat it, and even then not consistently.
It is also very good. This is according to people who know: the Daytime Emmys, the Humanitas Awards, etc. Granted, there have been some lame episodes (mostly in this final season), but those were because the network executives decided to play "writer" or otherwise interfere. Even the series's creator, Dwayne McDuffie, refuses to even acknowledge the existence of those episodes.
The best episode is, in my opinion, "Static in Africa" from Season Two (it was written by Dwayne himself, as are most of the best episodes of both this series and Justice League). I am White, and this is the first time in any medium (and I used to watch TV shows such as "Roc: Live" and "In Living Color") that any character has given me even an inkling of what it's really like to be a Black or any other minority in America, and he did it with just a few sentences. Those lines hit me like a ton of bricks!
What has held it back, and led to the this being the last season, is the near-total lack of merchandising, and that, as far as I can tell, is racism. I mean, even Beppo the Super-Monkey (a very silly character who was removed from DC Universe continuity in the 1985 "Crisis on Infinite Earths" and which hasn't been seen since [to the immense relief of comics fans everywhere]) gets a DC Direct toy, but the award-winning, ratings-leading Static doesn't!? Since merchandising is the only way that animated series can be profitable, no matter what their ratings or awards, the lack of same meant that the company can no longer afford to make them, even though the network still wants more. The only Static figures I know of were made for Subway, as a kids' meal giveaway for the month of May, 2004. Way too little, way too late.
If you can, try to track down some of the original Milestone Media comics from the 1990s. Milestone was founded by Dwayne and some associates, and Static was one of their first four series. The comic had some differences from the cartoon (just as the modern animated Batman, Superman, etc. have differences from their animated versions: having Braniac be a Kryptonian computer, for instance, or Supergirl be not from a Kryptonian "Argo City" but from a planet Argo within the Kryptonian solar system, not to mention the character of Harley Quinn, were strokes of genius that the comic book writers never thought of [Harley has since graduated to the mainstream DC Comics universe]), and was darker and more adult in tone (Static was somewhat older, for instance), though still was a fun-loving, enjoyable series that evoked the feeling of the original Steve Ditko "Spider-Man."
Other Milestone Media comics included Hardware, Icon, Blood Syndicate (about a super-powered gang!), and later Xombi, Kobalt, The Shadow Cabinet, H.E.R.O.E.S., and limited series including Holocaust and Wise Son (both are Blood Syndicate characters). Some characters from some of these books have shown up in Static Shock, including Aquamaria, Brickhouse, and some others from Blood Syndicate, and Edwin Alva from Hardware.
No less than Harlan Ellison said, on a national radio interview with none other than Larry King, that Milestone comics were the very best superhero comic books of all time (at least up until the time of the interview)!
That's just mean and tasteless. If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything. Yes, this is hypocritical, like I care. Like you care what I think anyways, so it all works out in the end. And about my signature, it's over 100 characters cuz I added the 2nd sentence, so don't accuse imdb of being unfair.
Never slap a bandaid on life when it gets hairy, as someone will rip it off when it gets better. And it'll hurt all over again.
Wasn't this cancelled?
http://www.tvtome.com/StaticShock/
Most Cartoon shows don't last increadibly long except those that are dirt cheap to produce.
Static Shock is a good show, sure, it's not an epic like "Batman: The Animated Series" but unlike most Anime, the plots are usually contained within one episode and unlike Scooby Doo, it has a different plot each episode.
The music is sometimes corny, but new. The dialog and acting are a little obvious, but the themes and stories in each episode are great. And remember, for a network TV show, it takes real ballz to even mention issues such as racism, school shootings, innner city gang wars and teenage crime and reform, even if they are a little hackneyed or sugar coated.
What is wrong with this show.I love Static Shock and I think you people are just jealous that Virgil has a personality than you people do.I've grown to liking this show a lot.I love the plot of the show when a chemical creates Bang Babies and Static's main goal is to finding them and defeating them.You have to admit that it's kinda cool to see the different powers of each Bang Baby.Oh and the show also talks about more than racism.They talk about homeless children,weapons in school and family issues and whatnot.
sharei have to admit the show isnt the greatest but its kinda interesting i like how he helps people deal with problems. hell yea and what queen of the shadow says they talk about what some people actualy go through in life.
shareeveryone here that hates the show probbably hates it cuz there is no death, mutilitaion, rape, suicide, no serial killers raiding the school, no people being beat to death and obviously theyre mad cuz this show like some of you said before...is based on blacks when they think that all shows should have white people....im white myself but a good 50% of my friends are hispanic and black and that irks some people but not me
shareI e-mailed the Kids WB network just to be sure but I haven't heard back from them so I'm pretty sure the show's been canceled but they are running the last few episodes of season 4 on YTV here in Canada.
shareOkay, I have to address some statements that are made here: Some people have commented that the show is always about Virgil being black. I can only think of two episodes where Virgil's color played an important part in the plot: When he met Richie's racist father for the first time and when he went to Africa. If I've missed the others, please clarify. Another complaint is Virgil/Static discovering a new Bang Baby, getting his butt whupped, finding the enemy's weakness in time to defeat them. Tell me how this is any different from what Superman and Batman have been doing for over 65 years. You just described the basic superhero plot. If the hero could take out the villain in their first encounter, there wouldn't be any point to sticking around for the rest of the story, would there? I think the series dealt more with being in a poor neighborhood (after all, Richie and Hotstreak also lived in that area and I don't think either one of them would be at home at a Black Panther reunion) than being black. THAT'S the reason a lot of bad things happen in that part of town.
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Dark-Kenshin. Sorry, I'm gonna have to put Static a little more into your memory. Of course there was relevancy to Batman's villains being on Static's show, otherwise, there would be no reason for Batman to go to Dakota or Static to go to Gotham City. However, if you take any episode of, say, "Batman: The Animated Series" and "Static Shock", you will see the story structure is the same: Quiet day in town; supervillain shows up and creates havoc; hero gets wind of plot, tries to foil villain but something fouls up the hero; villain keeps giving hero hard time until hero can figure out way to defeat villain and does so.
The show didn't deal with a poor neighborhood? Things certainly weren't thriving in that part of Dakota. Let me ask you a question: If this show were set in NYC, where do you think it would be easier for someone like Alva to store toxic gas: on the upper class East Side or the rundown West Side? It would definitely be easier to get away with that sort of thing in a place like the West Side because they wouldn't have the voices or the money that the people on the East Side have. There also wouldn't be the problem with gangs that they had in Virgil's part of town in the upper class area. As to looking up to another black superhero, Virgil didn't have very many role models other than his father. Green Lantern gave Virgil hope that he didn't have to be a nobody. Actually, I'm glad that all of the villains and heroes on this show basically have the same origin. It's more realistic. The only thing I'm confused about is how, if everyone came in contact with the same gas, why do they all have different powers?
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when this show first came out... to be honest i wasnt that fussed, but just recently ive really gotten into it.
the characters are fun and the dialogue is often sharp and witty. one of the best aspects - unlike other teen superhero shows like teen titans who make references to, but usually tiptoe around hard teenage issues like guns, racism, bullying etc. - Static Shock looks at them head on. permitted they dont always get it right, but the shows producers have done well to provide an enteraining show and deliver important moral messages.
i really am enjoying this show at the moment - All in all, Static Shock...rocks.
Okay, well i wasn't bored enough to read this ENTIRE thread, but I really liked the show. It did a good job of showcasing a LOT of different powers (although some of them were pretty unoriginal). I got pretty into it for a while, and it pissed me off that they just stopped.
shareThe show did have its bad points. The story lines did get repetitive after awhile. The show was a little too black in my opion but I did kind off understand Virgil being happy about not being part of a minority anymore when he went to Africa. And yes I am white and I just don't like streo-types of any kind. The part about understanding Virgil's feelings well its hard to explain but its a long line of personal crap that I can't get away with saying without being called emo.
shareIt's probably because of those FLAMERS which you AND SOME MORE OTHER FLAMERS HERE are too. Because of *beep* FLAMERS LIKE YOU, THEY PUT A STOP TO IT. BUT GUESS WHAT? THEY COULD BE MAKING HIS ADULT VERSION SERIES WHICH COULD BE A THEORY EVIDENCE WHY THEY REPEAT THE SERIES OVER AND OVER AGAIN YOU *beep* FLAMER!!! LIKE I SAID, IF YOU ARE STILL TO FLAME, GET YOUR *beep* *beep* ASS ELSEWHERE YOU *beep* FLAMER!!! OR I CAN FLAME BACK BECAUSE I HAVE ALL THE TIME I NEED!
STATIC SHOCK IS AWESOME AND ALWAYS WILL BE! IT DOESN'T SUCK! YOU SUCK INSTEAD FLAMER!
hahahaha...i like reading boards like this...it shows the different sides to everyone opinions. But anyway, i like the show, it was one of my favorites. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, so whether or not most of the ppl on this board like it, ratings, awards, and nominations show that Static Shock is one of the most popular cartoons shows, period. A lot of ppl say "well the show got cancelled cuz it sucked." Any show that lasts at least 4 seasons (2000-2004) cant possibly be garbage...it got cancelled bcuz they couldnt afford to show it anymore...they couldnt get toys and things manufactured to promote the show (toy companies thought that no one would buy merchandise based on a Black superhero), so they took it off the air. If the show got cancelled bcuz of bad ratings, it wouldnt have lasted the 1st season. Out of all the episodes, there are some that centers around Virgil being black. Im against what Dark-Kenshin said about the Africa episode. Let me tell u, there are a lot of black kids who havent been to Africa. If they were to take a trip there, they would feel the same way Virgil felt. In Africa, a black person can get in touch with their heritage, and no longer feel like the minority. Virgil wasnt bragging, he felt as if he belong there. But anyway, like i said before, u dont have to like the show, but its still one of the best cartoon shows of its time.....
Oh and for those who dont think Static Shock is the *beep* check the ratings...
From: Maestro (DMcDuffie) Staff DelphiPlusMember Icon 7/5/2004 3:36 pm
To: ALL (1 of 61)
1153.1
I haven't done this in a while but Daddy likes to brag. Courtesy Toonzone, here's a look at last week's ratings, Kids WB won the week handily, so let's skip the boring parts:
Kids 6-11 Ratings for Saturday, June 26, 2004
All Times Eastern
Kids WB (8 am-12 pm):
(2.5/13 Average)
8:00 am- Codename: Kids Next Door (0.7/7)
8:30 am- ¡Mucha Lucha! (1.5/11)
9:00 am- Teen Titans (2.2/13)
9:30 am- Xiaolin Showdown (2.7/12)
10:00 am- Pokemon Advanced (3.3/14)
10:30 am- Static Shock (3.7/15)
11:00 am- Yu-Gi-Oh! (3.9/16)
11:30 am- Mega Man NT Warrior (2.3/11)
Ahem. So what's the #2 animated show on broadcast television? Better question, what's the #1 American-made show on broadcast television? Same answer for both.
STATIC SHOCK
Thanks for your support, folks. Sorry there are no toys.
Heres the link....
http://forums.delphiforums.com/Milestone/messages?msg=1153.1
I definetely liked this show. To be able to water down the static comics and yet keep enough of the realism that the comics had concerning guns and racism, and to show it on a broadcast channel that also showed shows for littler kids like pokemon, and to keep high ratings for its four year run is something.
It was a show you could definetely get into. Even the city was realistic when compared to batman the animated series. I mean, I know its batman and it was supposed to have that smoky 1940's feel, but its weird when its 24 hour nighttime. I remember an episode when batman and robin went back to the batcave and later when Dick woke up in pajamas, it was still nighttime. Nothing against the show but its not as believable. At least in static, they both day and night.
HUH?? The fact that Static is black was referenced in all of THREE episodes throughout the entire run of the series!
I suspect that the viewers who are complaining that the show constantly harped on Static's "blackness" hadn't really took the time to watch the series at all. But they HAVE taken the time to bitch about this show they didn't watch ... and even more time to type out comments that aren't even close to being grounded in reality.
This really says a lot about them. And nothing good either.