Headscratchers / Static Shock

Electricity vs Wood

• It's established multiple times in the series that Static's powers don't work on wood, trees, and other plant-based material aside from paper (and even that's limited to static cling). Ignoring the fact that the series also established that a big enough charge can overpower any electric insulator (which is how he's able to harm Rubberband Man), hasn't anyone ever seen what happens when a tree or dry grass get struck by lightning?

Future Shock vs Power Outage

• Static and Gear go through an awful lot of angst over losing their powers in "Power Outage", considering the fact that Static has already seen his future earlier in the season during "Future Shock". He saw both himself and Gear still working as heroes 40 years in the future, with Virgil acting as one of the world's greatest heroes by that time. Unless someone was messing with time travel, they had no reason to assume the power loss would be permanent. On the flip side, Virgil getting exposed to the stronger dose of the gas does lead to a moment of Fridge Brilliance, since it explains why future Virgil was so much stronger than his present self.
  • Virgil might be angsting because he knows at least one Bang Baby—Timezone—who had time-travel abilities, and that the past can be changed; the episode "Flashback" has him unable to save his mother, but upon returning to the present, the story of what happened that night has changed enough to give him some closure over her death. He also made a one-off joke about Richie "laying off the fries" when he saw the future version of Gear, who was Formerly Fit. As such, Virgil might suspect that the future is in flux, and as such, he doesn't know for certain that everything happens as did in "Future Shock."

Dating or not?

• By episode 21, Sharon is dating Adam, aka Rubberband Man aka a superhero. We see them together on a few dates with no implications they broke up during the whole rest of the series. Yet she's in danger in quite a few episodes, including kidnapped with her cell phone in one, and he never showed up in them. Not even a "I'm sorry I wasn't there but I'm glad you're safe" cameo. What gives?
  • The focus character of the series is Static himself; things happen outside of his frame of reference all the time. For instance, he'd apparently been constantly harassing his father to get back into the dating scene, but we don't find out about it until an actual girlfriend happens, aka when it starts impacting the protagonist's life directly. Fairly accurate teenagering there.
  • Unlike Static, who as Virgil is Normal Everyday Kid , Adam has a career as a fairly visible musician, which means a fairly strict schedule for recording sessions, meetings, meet and greets, and he probably doesn't stay in Dakota all the time, especially once his parole's over. Static probably just gets there first due to Adam having trouble getting away to do the Rubberband Man thing. Although he does have the benefit that, due to his temporary bout with crime, his secret identity is known.

Residue exposure

• Gear apparently got his powers from exposure to residue on Virgil's clothing, since Virgil didn't change his clothing between running from the docks and meeting Richie. Now, we know that many Bang Babies ran and hid, only to be revealed later. How many also didn't change their clothing very quickly after exposure? Teenagers are notorious for lack of hygiene, and poor people just don't have the opportunity due to lack of resources. How many people in Dakota were passively exposed and developed powers later, at a slower rate, and possibly less obvious? How many moved out of Dakota before the Bang Baby cure was seeded in the atmosphere?
  • Related to that, why was Richie affected by the residue, but Sharon and Robert weren't? Virgil lives with the latter two.
    • Sharon and Robert weren't exposed to very much given Virgil didn't go right home. His cloths covered in the gas residue probably went straight into the washer as well to disguise any involvement he had with the gang fight that had just happened. Any that lingered could be enough to activate a passive metagene if Richie already had a preexisting one, but not enough to affect Sharon and Robert if they didn't have one.

How much can she know?

• In "Toys in the Hood", Darci claims that by watching Daisy in class she can perfectly replicate Daisy's behavior and replace her. But surely Darci didn't know much about Daisy's home life or her parents — wouldn't it have made more sense for Darci to duplicate an adult with no parents to worry about?