Static Shock – 37parenttrap

Shebang returns to Dakota to enlist Static and Gear’s help when her parents are missing and believed kidnapped.

Media by Bird Boy; Pans by Borg4of3
Review by Matt Zimmer

Voices:
Phil LaMarr as Virgil Hawkins/Static
Jason Marsden as Richie Foley/Gear
Dennis Haysbert as Police Chief Barnsdale
Rosslyn Taylor Jordan as Shebang / Shenice
Ron Perlman as Heavyman / Koenig
Phil Morris as Jonathan Vale
Pamela Tyson as Dolores Vale

She-Bang returns in this average episode asking Static and Gear to rescue her parents.

She-Bang returns to Dakota and finds out Static and Gear’s secret identities to their chagrin. She tells them her parents have been kidnapped by a scientist named Keonig. Static and Gear help track them down and learn that Keonig is now some sort of creature and he has
Shenice’s parents stealing for them. After they get into a fight with
Keonig, he and her parents escape. Static and Gear say they will have to take her parents in to the authorities but She-Bang say if they do she’ll reveal their secret identities and takes off.

She manages to find her parents and they explain that an experiment of
Keonig’s dealing with matter consumption turned him into the Heavyman who is able to disintegrate things by feeding on them and he has forced them to help him get back to normal with poisoned control collars. Their attempt to get Keonig back to normal fails and he pushes the trigger to release the poison in three minutes when Static and Gear arrive. Gear uses Backpack to free the collars before the time is up while Static fights with Haevyman. During their fight Heavyman absorbs too much material and is pinned down to the ground. The authorities cart the immobile Keonig off and She-Bang is reunited with parents.

I really don’t like She-Bang. She’s really annoying in this episode and
I wasn’t really invested in the plight of her parents. I find her voice grating and kept wishing the episode would end quickly so I wouldn’t have to listen to it. The story was also pedestrian and predictable.
There isn’t a thing that happened that I didn’t see coming.

The only really good thing about the episode is Ron Perlman as Heavyman.
He manages to make his voice sound different enough from Slade and
Clayface as to give Keonig his own personality for which I was grateful.
The animation was okay in the episode too even if the disintegration effects Heavyman used weren’t quite as cool as those in the theme song.
A mixed bag at best, and I’ve come to expect better things from the show at this point.

Story: **
Animation: **1/2
Average: **