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ThroughoutStatic : Season One , reader have discover Virgil learn about his new electromagnetic power he received during the Big Bang . Like many other teenagers in Dakota , Virgil attended a Black Lives Matter protest where an observational snag petrol created by Alva Industries was dispersed . Since then , he has played with his abilities and even used them in a competitiveness with shoal bully , Francis Stone , who can now evidence fire from his hands . While Virgil ’s grapheme has qualified him as a hero from the source , he is now grow into his own as afull - fledged superhero inStatic : time of year One#4,written by Ayala Vita with prowess by Nikolas Draper - Ivey and ChrisCross .
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As Virgil is search for miss educatee , he has the opportunity to beseem up in a prototype costume he antecedently experience from Curtis Metcalf AKA Hardware . Utilizing a sleek hoverboard that morphs its contour to his will , Virgil flies off to appear for kids that were likely kidnapped by a inscrutable way . Arriving at an abandon steel factory , he forgather up with his friends and receives the name “ Static ” from Darius , teasing him by name him “ Static Cling . ” In an ambuscade by Virgil , Darius , Richie , and Frieda , they charge on the building where they conceive the agency is hiding out . Francis AKA Hotstreak come to the villainous group ’s vindication , prove off his powers in a rematch against Virgil — except now , he ’s Static .
It ’s potential that another variation of the costume is come , as it ’s been teased by covers . However , the fashionable prototype suit , hover disc , name drop , and rematch with Hotstreak make it feel like Static is unfeignedly back in comics , in a way that he has n’t been since his 90 ’ rubric . In an action succession that feel like it ’s liven up , Static is more cognizant of what he can do than he was the first fourth dimension he lam into Francis . When the high school bully turn bang baby show up at his front door , Virgil protected his family and gained an mind of what his powers could do . While he still in all likelihood has much to learn , their latest fight feel like a ritual of enactment for Virgil ’s official entry into his superhero calling .
Static soars into the sky alongside Hotstreakin a engagement that will carry on into the next consequence . draw quick gag along the way , Virgil is build the sort of bomber he need to be . As the agency blasts their guns at his friends , Static quickly fly to their aid . It ’s becoming well-defined that this take onStaticdoesn’t see his heroic verse as a solo mission .
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