Static Shock

Gear

Season 3, Episode 2, Aired 2/1/03

Episode Summary

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 false image on the screen while he frees Virgil and gives him his costume. Then they go after Ebon and his gang and Ebon is fooled into believing Static and Virgil are two different people. Later Richie and Virgil try to think of a superhero name for Richie and they settle on Gear.moreless

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Phil LaMarr

Virgil Hawkins / Static
Jason Marsden

Richie Foley / Gear
Michele Morgan

Sharon Hawkins

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In this episode, Richie becomes a boy genius. Like Dexter he begins inventing up a ton of new inventions without knowing why.

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By maui101, Sep 05, 2011 Report Abuse

I really liked this episode. For one thing, this is the beginning of Richie\\\'s new role in the show. Before, he was just a best friend who often stood on the sidelines and watched. Now, he can actually help Static more. However, his powers in becoming a total prodigy overnight seem a bit useless. Like he said in the episode, \\\"...How am I supposed to fight super-villans , THINK them into submission? All I can be your mega-mechanic.\\\" I find this true, and Richie should\\\'ve gotten a power that\\\'s more interesting. With a smart brain, all he can really do is build things.moreless

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Trivia
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- Virgil says that Richie has been with him so much, the gas got to him. Sharon and Robert have been with him so long, so why didn't they mutate? (Reply: Virgil actually speculates that it happened because he saw Richie immediately after fleeing from the Big Bang when his clothes were presumably freshly saturated with the Bang Baby gas. That's when Richie got exposed by it. By the time he got home, the gas would have dispersed, so his father and sister wouldn't be affected. So, it was the timing of Richie's meeting with Virgil that made him a Bang Baby, not the duration.) Edit
- Judging by Richie's comments, it would appear that Static's new costume is a recent change. Edit
- After this episode, Static's saucer folds up smaller, thanks to Richie. Edit
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- Kangor is part of Ebon's group in this episode. Edit
- Gear is a nod to Rocket, Icon's sidekick in the Milestone comic universe. Rocket, like Gear, had a super-genius I.Q., and invented gadgets to aid alien superhero Icon. Edit
- In the first episode, Virgil is concerned that he will mutate or something, so he tests his blood by comparing with Richie. The two find that their blood looks the same, which could have been showing that Richie had been affected by the big bang as well. Edit
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- Richie: (working on his remote) Paper clip. Circuit board. Opticon scholometer.
  Virgil: Optico-wha-wha?
  Richie: Ah, just clownin' ya!
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- Virgil: You sure you're okay? You know, 'cause you looked a little green around the glasses when I left you.
  Richie: Yeah, well, how would you feel if you almost got Ebon-ized?
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- Richie: (after running into Ebon) Completely, utterly, and totally my bad ... Edit
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- One of the ideas for Richie's superhero name was Hardware. Hardware is the name of another Milestone Comic character. He had no superhuman powers, but he had a lot of gadgets, as Gear does. Edwin Alva was more of a main villian in Hardware. Edit