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Junior

Episode #09 (385-559) - Junior
Original Airdate - December 16th, 2000

Edwin Alva's son, angered that his father pays no attention to him, applies his vast scientific knowledge to manipulate the properties of the Big Bang gas, turn himself into a multi-powered being bent on destroying Alva's business interests. At the same time, Virgil and Robert are at odds over what appears to be Virgil's increasing irresponsibility.

Media by Bird Boy
Review by Matt Zimmer		 Credits:
Supervising Producer Alan Burnett
Producer Scott Jeralds
Associate Producer Shaun McLaughlin
Written by Dwayne McDuffie
Directed by Denys Cowan
Music by Stanley Clarke
Animation by Koko Enterprise Co., LTD.

Voices:
Phil LaMarr as Virgil Hawkins/Static
Jason Marsden as Richie Foley
Matt Ballard as Junior/Omnefarious
Kevin Michael Richardson as Robert Hawkins
CCH Pounder as Mayor
Michele Morgan as Sharon Hawkins
Kerrkian Mahan as Edwin Alva
Adam Baldwin as York
Marcelo Tubert as Captain
John Cho as Navigator
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Static faces his toughest enemy yet, Omnifarious, who happens to be Edwin Alva's son.

Edwin Alva Junior feels unappreciated by his father who is constantly talking down to him. He steals some of the Bang Baby gas from his father's lab and makes a special suit that will give him multiple superpowers. While on a confrontation with Static he learns Static secret identity be seeing through his mask with X-Ray vision. He tells him that if he doesn't want his secret revealed he'll leave him alone.

Static refuses and tells Alva Omnifarious who had been sabotaging Alva Industries is his son. While sabotaging the city Alva's workers try to take Omnifarious out while Alva tries to reason with his son; while fighting Static and Alva Omniferious pushes all of the gas buttons on his suit and is accidentally overexposed to the gas turning him into a statue.

This was obviously the highlight of the first season and I thought the diametrically opposed examples of Virgil and his father being used against the Alvas was a nice touch. I REALLY would have liked to have seen Omnifarious again but we had to settle for a cameo from him in No Man's an Island. He is one of the best villains Static ever had and I really wanted to see him return. The episode was exciting throughout and very well written.

The animation here, while cartoony was pretty neat and I liked all of the transformations Omniferious performed at the end. This was the highlight of the first season and a hint of great things to come on Static Shock.

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