History Comicbook / Static

* {{Archenemy}}: In the Dakotaverse, Hotstreak/Francis Stone was Static's most ardent and personal foe. He served to be a bully throughout Virgil's life, his first enemy in the comic book, as well as indirectly responsible for Virgil acquiring super powers after Virgil came to the Big Bang Event intending to kill Stone in the confusion but reneged and was mutated by the mutagenic gas.

* {{Archenemy}}: In the Dakotaverse, Hotstreak was Static's most ardent and personal foe. He served to be a bully throughout Virgil's life, his first enemy in the comic book, as well as indirectly responsible for Virgil acquiring super powers after Virgil came to the Big Bang Event intending to kill Stone in the confusion but reneged and was mutated by the mutagenic gas.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Played completely straight and even lampshaded when Virgil was solely part of the Dakotaverse. He'd flirt with any pretty face in sight and would always fail due to being seen as a corny CasonavaWannabe.

* BlackAndNerdy: Virgil is a pretty smart guy and also a big comic book nerd.

* CanonImmigrant: He's been everywhere in the DCU since the merger, including ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''.

* IconicItem: Static's trench coat and saucer.

* Superpowerful Genetics: In Milestone Forever, Virgil has two children who inherit his powers.

* ThePowerOfBlood: Doctor Kilgore, an immoral hospital physician injects himself with Virgil's metahuman blood, and gains the power to project energy blasts. He obviously wants more of Virgil's blood.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Holocaust has elements of this. His motto in life is "If you ain't taking, you're getting took," basically saying that if you don't abuse other people, then you will be abused.

* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Virgil and Ovid are both two classical Roman writers.

* ClarkKenting: Virgil makes no attempt to hide his voice or his hair (it has been commented that it's a popular haircut among black youths in his neighborhood but he's usually the only one ever actually seen with it).

* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon: Virgil is Jamaican, and faithful adaptations remember to give him at least a slight patois.

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[[caption-width-right:250:''"Y'know, I'm ''really'' starting to enjoy science."'']]

-->''[[WesternAnimation/StaticShock "I'll put a shock to your system!"]]''

''Static'' is a a comic book following an original character from DC Comics' Creator/MilestoneComics imprint, created by Creator/DwayneMcDuffie and John Paul Leon. ''Static'' #1 was published in June 1993. The series lasted for 45 issues, from June, 1993 to March, 1997.

The series follows high school student Virgil Ovid Hawkins who gains a variety of [[ShockAndAwe electromagnetic powers]] when doused with an experimental chemical during a gang war he was caught up in. He uses his developed powers to combat the crime infesting his city, much of it centers around the ongoing gang activities while he also juggles typical adolescent problems.

* YouFightLikeACow: Virgil loves to snark his opponents.

* DeadpanSnarker: Virgil and Frieda

%%* LargeHam

%%* TalkingIsAFreeAction

%%* YouFightLikeACow

* OneOfUs: Again, Virgil, and many of his friends are huge nerds. He often plays tabletop games in a hobby shop, and bonded with ComicBook/BlueBeetle and Kid Devil over their shared nerdiness.

* AnimatedAdaptation
* AscendedFanboy: Virgil reads and collects comic books and makes it no secret that he identifies with [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]

* BlackAndNerdy: And not ashamed of it.

* ClarkKenting

* ElectricBlackGuy

* GreenThumb, The Botanist, who, similar to Poison Ivy, controls plants.

* JumpedAtTheCall

* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee
* LargeHam

* SuperHero: Arguably the Milestone poster boy.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
** However he does join the Titans later after the Countdown to Crisis arc.

* YouFightLikeACow

* CanonDiscontinuity: Milestone Forever

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: According to [[WordOfGod Dwayne McDuffie]], Static was Milestone's version of SpiderMan.

* AscendedFanboy: Virgil reads and collects comic books and makes it no secret that he identifies with [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]

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[[caption-width-right:250:"Y'know, I'm ''really'' starting to enjoy science."]]

''Static'' is a a comic book following an original character from DC Comics' Creator/MilestoneComics imprint, created by DwayneMcDuffie and John Paul Leon. ''Static'' #1 was published in June 1993. The series lasted for 45 issues, from June, 1993 to March, 1997.