Static Shock: Encyclopedia II - Static Shock - Background

Static Shock - Background

The basic characters and setting of Static Shock are drawn from the Static comic book series, and many of the episodes adapt story elements from the comic books, but the series varies from that continuity in many details, including Static's costume and his friends. There are also elements drawn from other Milestone comic books, most notably Blood Syndicate, from which several of the "bang babies" are taken. Recurring adversary Edwin Alva Sr. is based on a character from Hardware, and the Freeman Community Center is named after one of the central characters of Icon. Dwayne McDuffie, founder of Milestone and Static's co-creator, has retained a substantial amount of control over the series' plot and characterization, and has written several episodes.

Early in the series - as in the comics - the setting was explicitly not in the DC Animated Universe, and DC superheroes such as Superman were treated as fictional characters, most notably when Virgil remarked that "even Clark Kent had a day job" in the second episode. However, it later featured guest appearances by characters from other DC animated series, including Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and Justice League. An older version of Static was later featured in the season 1 finale of Justice League Unlimited.

Other guest characters have included real-world individuals (voiced by themselves) such as basketball player Shaquille O'Neal and recording artist Lil Romeo, who also performed the theme song used in the final two seasons of the show.

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