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Static

Static

Virgil Ovid Hawkins, the teen hero named Static, was once a geek picked on by a bully. Persuaded by a gangster to take an aggressive stand, he bought a revolver intending to kill the bully. On the night he planned to do it, the bully’s gang and Virgil were exposed to an experimental riot suppression gas known as the Big Bang, granting Virgil electromagnetic abilities. He now tries to do the right thing in his new home of New York.

Strength

  • Blocks a strike from a polearm, breaking the weapon on his arms, then punches aside the villain (source) (Static Shock (2011) #2)
  • Shoves and kicks aside humans (source) (Static Shock (2011) #5)
  • Floors a guy with a punch (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)

Durability

  • Gets electrocuted and thrown onto the roof of a nearby building (source) (Static Shock (2011) #1)
  • Gets his arm blasted off with a blaster but instantly reattaches it by drawing power from the city (source) (Static Shock (2011) #1, Static Shock (2011) #2)
  • Gets swatted by a giant robot train, then lands in wooden debris and gets up immediately (source) (Static Shock (2011) #8)
  • Consciously heals a small bruise (source) (Static Shock (2011) #8)

Agility

  • Jumps off his board, dodging a swipe from a polearm (source) (Static Shock (2011) #2)
  • Swats arrow-like projectiles away with a bo staff (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)

Offensive Use

  • Shocks four zombies at once (source) (Savage Hawkman #7)
  • Electrifies a crowd of zombies across a bridge without harming innocents by disrupting their electrical impulses (source) (Savage Hawkman #7)
  • Fries an enemy’s blaster accidentally, rendering it inoperable (source) (Static Shock (2011) #2)
  • Melts a hole through a glass window (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)
  • Silently knocks out a woman with a close-range, low-level pulse to the head (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)
  • Pulses electricity off himself in an AOE when grabbed by multiple mutants (source) (Static Shock (2011) #4)
  • Superheats the metal insides of a mutant covered in non-conductive rubber using a rolling magnetic field (source) (Static Shock (2011) #5)
  • Tears open a building’s roof (source) (Static Shock (2011) #5)
  • Bores a hole through a metal floor, then several metal walls (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)

Magnetic Telekinesis

  • Pushes people out of the way of rubble with a positive charge (source) (Static Shock (2011) #1)
  • Tosses hoverbikes aside, switching them off while doing so (source) (Static Shock (2011) #2)
  • Connects multiple small rods into a bo staff (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)
  • Wraps up a villain in chains, then telekinetically controls the chains (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)
  • Disarms two gunmen behind him (source) (Static Shock (2011) #4)
  • Wraps metal pipes around a villain and tosses her aside (source) (Static Shock (2011) #4)
  • Wraps three mutants in metal, then carries them around while flying (source) (Static Shock (2011) #5)
  • Throws a fire extinguisher into a burning room, then ruptures it to extinguish the flames (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)
  • Collapses two robots in on themselves, crunching their bodies into small piles (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)

Other Uses

  • Forms a cable from plasma to drag around Sunspot, a plasma-based villain (source) (Static Shock (2011) #1)
  • Visualizes the trail a bullet left through the air by observing the ultraviolet photons it left behind (source) (Static Shock (2011) #1)
  • Visualizes a morse code signal (source) (Static Shock (2011) #6)
  • Passively stops bullets with his own electromagnetic field (source) (Static Shock (2011) #1)
  • Blocks bullets from multiple angles (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)
  • Wipes out a villain’s headquarters with an EMP (source) (Static Shock (2011) #5)
  • Forms a cage around Phayze, an intangible villain, then charges his electrons to make him tangible (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)

Costume

  • The costume is kept in a small, handheld capsule and expands to full size when opened (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)
  • By running an electric charge through his costume, he is rendered invisible to security cameras (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)
  • The suit can read data from Hardware’s scanners, creating 3-D visualization of the data for Static (source) (Static Shock (2011) #6)

Disc Board

  • The discs can change shape, forming a board or even an arm cast (source) (Static Shock (2011) #2)
  • Leaps off a building and commands the saucer to fly to him (source) (Static Shock (2011) #1)
  • Clotheslines a hoverbike rider with his flying discs (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)
  • Uses the edge of a disc to sever a villain’s hands (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)
  • Can stand on just two discs to simulate flight (source) (Static Shock (2011) #6)

Evasion while Flying

  • Flies circles around a gunman, evading automatic gunfire (source) (Static Shock (2011) #2)
  • Evades a missile on his board (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)
  • Evades beams from two war-droids (source) (Static Shock (2011) #7)

Miscellaneous

  • Absorbs a 94 megawatt power station’s entire electromagnetic output and channels it into a single alpha ray attack (source) (Static Shock (2011) #3)
  • Designs Robin’s wings and builds a robot raptor out of spare parts (source) (Teen Titans (2011) #6)
  • Modifies an MRI to detect what’s wrong with Kid Flash, then builds a costume designed to prevent his molecular misalignment problem (source) (Teen Titans (2011) #6)
  • While usually immune to high voltage, electricity used by individuals empowered by Q-Juice, the substance that gave Static his powers, can hurt Static (source) (Static Shock (2011) #6)