Power Outage (Season 5 finale)

Power Outage is the twelth and thirteenth episodes of the Fifth Season of Static Shock that aired on May 21, 2005 and May 28, 2005 on Kid's WB, that also acts as the series finale.

Part I
Sharon tells Virgil to take the trash out and then they argue about Virgil supposidly not helping with the chores, meanwhile at school, a teacher is seen handing out student's test results and Richie then told Virgil and Jimmy that he had gotten a B-, then they are confronted by Frieda and Daisy, who say that they agreed to help them with the recycling campaigne but they showed up, they then hear an explosion which causes Virgil, Richie, and Jimmy to see what it was, then they see Static and Gear hovering by with Jimmy tagging along with them making the connection that when Virgil, Richie, and Jimmy disappear, Static, Gear, and Agent Osgood appear, but they deny that they are them.

Meanwhile Kangor is seen jumping off the wall of a building before Ferret broke through the wall of a convenience store with some food in his hands, in which Ferret sarcastically thank Kangor for maling a loud sound as he has delicate ears, in which Kangor asks why he got so much food while he was suppossed to rob the cashier, with Ferret saying that he was hungry, and then Static, Gear, and Jimmy come in, then Static electricutes Ferret, then Kangor pounces on Static, Gear then confronts ferret who then runs away, meanwhile Kangor is still fighting Static, then a red aura is seen around Kangor as his powers are no more, meanwhile Gear is still tracking down Ferret, now with the help of Jimmy, he is able to track his footprints, and then Ferret is seen hanging on a building, meanwhile Gear and Jimmy see Kangor lying down unconcsious and asked what happened to him, then Static says that his feet are shrinking, meanwhile Ferret is seen climbing from the same building he was hanging from where The Meta-Breed are disscussing what happened to Kangor, then the same thing that happened to Kangor also happened to Ferret, then we cut to Kangor waking in the hospital and finding out his feet are smaller and Dr. Todd explains how all of the bang babies will become human again, later at Virgil's house, Virgil and his dad are watching Dr. Todd's interview on Dakota News 7, with them talking out Static and how he thinks Richie is handling it better, which cuts to Richie screaming.

Meanwhile at the Abandoned Gas Station of Solitude, Gear is banging his head on a computer in frustration, and Static tells him to chill, then Gear laments about the current situation revolving around The Bang Baby cure and Dr. Todd, meanwhile The Meta-Breed break into Dr. Todd's place, but Ebon then turns back into a human, but before so he asks Todd where the last of the Bang Baby gas is, in to which Todd points to where it is and asks Hotstreak to open it, who tells him to do it himself, Ebon threatens him by saying that the same thing that happened to Kangor will happen to him if he doesn't follow orders, then Talon uses her sonic scream to break the locked door in which she was trying to keep away from them, saying their acting like jerks, when she turns back into a human as well, then Static, Gear, and Jimmy also broke into Dr. Todd's place where they faced The Meta-Breed and agreed that if they go down they go down fighting against them, Hotstreak then goes after Static but is unable to work his powers when Static lunges at him and then Gear lunges at Shiv, meanwhile Ebon tells Talon to get up with her stating that she wants to be normal again, but then Ebon says to bad your coming with him, but then his powers stopped working, afterwards Teresa (Talon) is seen in the hospital alongside Static, Gear, and Jimmy where she tells them that Ebon is going to set off another Big Bang.

As they tried to hurry to stop Ebon, they all of a sudden couldn't handle their powers and couldn't keep themselves in the air and Gear can't even decifer anything besides that Ebon is headed towards the docks, meanwhile Ebon grabs Teresa from the hospital bed, and leads her to the docks where many other former Bang Babies are but when Teresa disagrees, Ebon then attempts to drag her with the last of his powers, but even those failed but then Static, Gear, and Jimmy burst in. With Static grabbing the last of The Quantum Vapor and running off up some stairs with Shiv and Monster chasing them, but then they get electrocuted due to some device Static dropped, but then Ivan, Slipstream, Francis, and Boom confront them in a tunnel, they try to escape but it's a deadend and they get cornered but after Hotstreak grabs the last remaining Quantum Vapor he stormed off and Ivan sent his former Bang Babies to go and look for Hotstreak and he locks Static, Gear, and Jimmy in there, meanwhile on an abandoned ship where Hotstreak is no where to be seen and he once again sends the former Bang Babies to look for Hotstreak, he then goes to the top of the ship which has some security footage of Hotstreak.

Meanwhile, Gear tries to unlock the door with his backpack and since he can't lock it to his thoughts anymore, Ebon then finds Hotstreak trying to open the last can of Quantum Vapor and he told him to give it to him with Hotstreak saying he's giving the orders, which lands them in a fight, which leads to the can breaking and the last of The Quantum Vapor to come out, Teresa then opens the door to where Static, Gear, and Jimmy are and tells them that Ebon has set off the gas and that they need to go now, but then another wave of gas hit them and gave them back their powers along with giving Jimmy some brand new powers, but just then, the door opens up and they spot what looks to be a weird creature with tentacles, but it later turns out to be the fusion of Ebon and Hotreak, in which they supposidly manage to defeat when the ship sinks into the water, and Static, Gear, and Jimmy fly off into the distance.

Part II
Continuing where Part I left off, Ebon-Streak emerges from the water, looking for revenge, meanwhile Jimmy is testing out his new powers that he gained from his exposure to The Quantum Vapor, which had to do with him being able to create energy constructs via his mind, invisiblity, and teleportation without the use of a portal and he is now thinking of a new superhero name to give to himself now that he's no longer a human spy but now a full-fleged superhero, then Static says that he shouldn't get too exicted for Dr. Todd's cure is still in the air and that he could easily become normal again, Jimmy felt a little bumbed out but tried his best to use his powers the most for the time he had before they disappeared by doing comedically trivial tasks with them like doing chores, but then when he was trying to show off his powers to Nick Connor, Kevin, and Ray is when Virgil confronted him about saying that he shouldn't blantantly show off his powers like that even with the limited time since what if they tell Dr. Todd that not only did two Bang Babies regain their powers but there was also a new one, who knows what he might do to us so he decided not to show it off to people nor use it for things like chores, meanwhile Ebon-Streak has now destroyed all of the docks so they look unreconizable.

Tommoroww when they relize the docks have been destroyed Static and Gear can only think of one suspect, Ebon-Streak, then Jimmy asks if that's even possible since they defeated him a couple of days ago, they say it's likley that he's still out there since after they defeated him, they saw a little flame coming out of the ocean suggesting that he'd never actually died, but rather was just temporaraly defeated, this filled Jimmy with a sense of dread as that literal monster haven't been defeated yet, with Static and Gear reassuring him by telling him that together they will defeat him, once and for all, especially since Jimmy now has powers, then suddenly Ebon-Streak appeared behind them, looking like he's ready for a fight and then they get into a huge fight with Ebon-Streak that manages to pin him down on the ground just long enough for Jimmy to think of a fire-proof rope big enough to tie up Ebon-Streak with that became real but then Ebon-Streak manages to break out of the rope and then it took a while for them to defeat him until Jimmy imagined a cage that not even he could break out of and then they were faced with a difficult choice, report him to Dr. Todd and have him just be Ivan and Francis once again but also be forced to give up their powers or keep their powers and keep them in this cage.

They decided on the former, but Jimmy said that they don't have to loose their powers as he can just show him some newspaper that showcase their adventures together to let them keep their powers, so he collected some old newspapers from all over Dakota that showed their various adventures from when even before Richie became Gear to when he was a secret agent to today, so some time later they went to Dr. Todd's labratory where he sprayed Ebon-Streak with some of The Bang Baby cure that turned the two-headed monster to two normal people in just an instant, afterwards Dr. Todd read some of the papers of their various adventures together for about an hour until he relized that unlike most other Bang Babies they weren't dangerous and it would be more dangerous to get rid of their powers so he sprayed them with a substance that would keep Bang Babies immune to the cure and keep them as Bang Babies forever, afterwards both Francis and Ivan were brought to court where Francis was charged as an adult and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment and Ivan got a life sentence (no thanks to Jimmy telling him about his history with Ivan).

At the end, Jimmy typed out a new entry in his Battle Journal about how this is not just an end of an era but rather the start of an even better era with the guy who killed his brother finally getting some permanent justice and how he's not even just a human anymore but a Bang Baby who can fight alongside Static and Gear even more now which fades into a scene some 20 years in the future where all the characters as we know it have grown up and now face new challenges in day to day life with an older Jimmy telling the audiance what they're doing now and that he is still mastering his powers up to this day.

Continuity

 * Static and Gear refer to Robert and Sharon Hawkins finding out about their secret identities, which happened in "Kidnapped" and "One Protective Sister" respectivly.
 * For the first time since their own episodes, three characters reappear: Boom (from "Brother-Sister Act"), Slipstream (from "Winds of Change"), the Monster (from "The Usual Suspect"), and Holocaust from ("Past Sins").

Home Video Releases

 * Static Shock: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD)

Production Notes

 * The cure takes away Bang Baby powers, yet Tamara Lawrence is shown in her metahuman "Monster" mode, though she is noticeably smaller.
 * When Ebon goes to the camera room and turns on the power switch, his hand is in his old black shadow color.

Trivia

 * Dwayne McDuffie despised this episode, as he apparently had nothing to do with it.
 * Ebon's true shadowy appearance is revealed.
 * Talon's real name is revealed to be Teresa, as is her true human form.
 * All of the Bang Babies — with the exception of Static and Gear have presumably lost their respective metahuman abilities and are now normal again.
 * This is the show's second two-part episode the first one being "A League of Their Own".

Cast

 * Phil LaMarr as Virgil 'Static' Hawkins
 * Jason Marsden as Richie 'Gear' Foley
 * Richard Horvitz as Jimmy Osgood
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Robert Hawkins, Kangor
 * Michele Morgan as Sharon Hawkins
 * Gary Sturgis as Ebon
 * Crystal Scales as Daisy Watkins
 * Danny Cooksey as Hotstreak
 * Chck Vennera as Ferret
 * Ed Begley Jr. as Dr. Todd
 * Danica McKellar as Frieda Goren
 * Tia Texada as Talon/Teresa
 * Brian Tochi as Shiv
 * Melissa Greenspan as Stella ‘Backstabber’ Hunter
 * Zeno Robinson as Leonard ‘Holocaust’ Smalls
 * Mikey Kelley as Nick Connor
 * James Cronin as Kevin
 * Chad Gabriel as Ray

Quotes
"Talon: It's like waking from a nightmare. And I never want to go back.

Gear: We're glad for you, Talon.

Talon: Please don't call me that. My name's Teresa." " Shiv: (surprised at seeing Ebon look normal) Where's Ebon?

Ebon: I am Ebon, fool. That cure they've been spraying's been getting to me, too." "Talon: (angrily, to Ebon) You're scared. You were nothing before the Big Bang, and that's what you're gonna be again — nothing.

Ebon: (to Hotstreak) I told you to keep her quiet.

Hotstreak: No — she's right." "Ebon: I want that gas!

Hotstreak: Back off Ebon! It's mine now! I'm giving the orders."

Tropes
See Power Outage, Part I/Tropes and Power Outage, Part II/Tropes