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.

Part II
Continuing where Part I left off,

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, Gear, Ebon and Hotstreak — 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

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