Hate Comments

Hate Comments is the eighth episode of the Fifth Season of Static Shock that aired on March 5, 2005 on Kid's WB.

Plot
After fighting The Meta-Breed, Jimmy, feeling tired sits on his bed and opens up his computer goes on his "Battle Journal" and types about how his day went, and after he was done, he publishes it, but just a few seconds later he gets a comment, he clicked on the notification, curious as to who commented on his blog and what they said, and the comment read "Oh look the guy who used Static and Gear to his advantage is now defeating the villains, face it Jimmy, you will always be on the same level as Ebon, no matter what you do".

Jimmy felt so angry at the comment but he took at deep breath and deleted it right away, but he quickly forgot about it as he got a call from Nick, asking him if he, Kevin, and Ray can come over and play some video games together, the next day, after school Jimmy once again sat on his bed and published an entry into his "Battle Journal" but just like last time only a few seconds later someone commented on his blog, but unlike last time, there were more than one comment, by different users of the website he publishes the enteries of his "Battle Journal" on, one of them was the same user that commented last time and he commented almost the same stuff he said last time but with a warning that said "HOW DARE YOU DELETE MY COMMENT AND IF YOU DELETE MY COMMENT THIS TIME YOU WILL DIE!!!!!!!!!!!" even though it was in all caps, he didn't feel too worried as he knows that people online most of the time can't actually do it and just say it to get a reaction out of people, and so going against what the comment told Jimmy deleted the comment and after that, he started to read all of the other comments, most of them were hate comments that he deleted, but one stood ou to him that was made by user Peter Pecoraro, that read, "You know you might think Jimmy is bad, but wait until you hear about Johnny, he was such a loser, and the fact that Jimmy spent 7 months in juvie because he wanted to bring him back to life, pathetic."

If you thought that Jimmy was mad at the comment last time, he was fuming with anger this time, but coundn't bring himself to delete the comment so he wrote a lengthy reply, but as soon as he posted it, Peter replied with "Bruh, I don't care about your stupid brother or what you think about what I say", Jimmy once again got really furious at him but ended up not replying back, and ended screenshotting the conversation before deleting it. The next day at school, Jimmy showed Virgil and Richie the comments, they agreed with him deleting the comments yet condemmed him for replying to a cyberbully, and Jimmy then asks them if they could help him track down Peter, as he wants to teach him a lesson and the name did seem oddly familiar, Virgil and Richie heavily backed down from the offer since they knew that should just move on from the incident but Jimmy managed convice them via puppy dog eyes and they looked around the school until the found a third guy hanging out with Marcus and Gavin, showing them his phone and then smashing on the ground out of frustraction, Jimmy then confronted them about what he had done yelling out Peter's name and right after he questions how he knows his name and then slaps him hard on the face and then Peter lets out a very loud cry, just then Principal Aguilar was walking in the hallway and asked him what was wrong, he then lied about how Jimmy had just called him a loser and had slapped him unprovoked.

Hearing this he dragged Jimmy into his office and as he was about to them a two-week suspension Virgil and Richie ran into the office and showed him the screenshot of what Peter had said to him, while he did acknoledge what he did was uncalled for, he lifted his punishment from a two-week suspension to a two-week detention and later gave Peter the same punishment. Afterwards Jimmy and Static give a speech about cyberbullying and internet safety, it's statistics at the time, and what to do in case you get cyberbullied.

Continuity

 * The second appearance of Marcus and Gavin since "Mentor".

Home media releases

 * Static Shock: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD)

Trivia

 * At the end of the episode, Static and Jimmy Osgood break the fourth wall to educate the viewers on cyberbullying; this is the third Static Shock episode to have a character do so. Static also did it in "Jimmy" to raise awareness of the dangers of guns in the vicinity of children and in "Where the Rubber Meets the Road" to raise awareness of dyslexia.
 * This is the perennial morality episode, just like how "Frozen Out" was about homelessness, "Sons of the Fathers" was about racism, "Jimmy" was about gun violence, "Where the Rubber Meets the Road" was about dyslexia, and "Out of The Closet" was about homophobia.

Cast

 * Phil LaMarr as Virgil 'Static' Hawkins
 * Jason Marsden as Richie 'Gear' Foley
 * Richard Horvitz as Jimmy Osgood
 * Mikey Kelley as Nick Connor
 * Miguel Sandoval as Principal Aguilar
 * TBA as Peter Pecoraro
 * TBA as Marcus
 * TBA as Gavin

Quotes
"Jimmy: After getting cyberbullied, here are somethings I found out about cyberbullying, over one-third of youth reported being victimized online, and over 16% of 1,500 internet users admitted to cyberbullying others. Static: You can do something to help stop this, if you see someone try to cyberbully you, report or block them and\or report or delete the comment, don't respond to cyberbullies."

- Static and Jimmy informing the viewers about cyberbullying.

Tropes
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