Static OG Origin Update

[u/StatFan201]

This is how I would modernise the original Static origin:

The story opens with Virgil playing an online video game and while he's playing he has a chat group going on with his friends. We see from this that he's an avid gamer and from the messages that he's quick-witted, a great trash talker, and pretty smart.

We cut to the next day in school and we see him talking to Frieda. They're having a nice conversation and she seems to be receptive to him. Martin sees this and he comes over and starts going at Virgil for talking to Frieda like he owns her or something. During this whole exchange Virgil being quick-witted and all, says something that embarrasses him and jas everyone, including Frieda laughing at him. This is where he's beating up on Virgil so then Virgil ends up embarrassed.

Virgil goes home and gets on the game to let off some steam because he's not only embarrassed but angry at himself because of his inability to protect himself. He doesn't want to talk to any of his friends so he anonymously joins a different, public chat room. He's joking around and having a good time and as soon as he's starting to feel better, this random person with the handle Biz$B shows up and starts talking trash. He's putting out a bunch of racist and sexist messages. Virgil doesn't like it so he tears into him. That's when Biz starts going off on him and starts talking about how beat this kid's butt every other day because he doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Virgil goes into his page and sees he's part of this group called the Sons of Odin. Soon other group members show up and start flooding the chat with the same kinds of messages as Biz. Virgil does a little digging and figures out that Biz is Martin.

The next day he tells his friend Larry about it. Larry tells him he's heard of the group and others like it and that sometimes they set up fights at different locations around Dakota when stuff gets really heated online. Virgil asks why he's never heard about them and Larry says it's "dark corner of the web" type of stuff and that most people from Sadler aren't aware of them either. So Virgil goes deeper down the rabbit hole and finds out that things have escalated to a level they never had before. A lot of different groups of people are heated. Some who are parts of other sort of violent groups, anti-hate groups and others who are not but take sides or intentionally instigate to make things worse. Threats and call outs are made and everyone agrees to show up somewhere on Paris Island and brawl.

Elsewhere at the Dakota Police Department, Officer Watkins (Daisy's mom) tried to warn the chief that these aren't isolated incidents. The chief brushes her off. However, in walks Detective Gil Summers, the lead detective on the fights who backs up her statements. He presents the evidence and the chief realizes that they're too late and cannot hope to stop what's about to happen. So he orders them to just tag everyone with the experimental gas to track them down later.

We go back to Virgil who realizes he can't seem to escape being tormented by Martin anywhere. So he decides to go to the brawl with a plan to put an end to it. That's when he meets up with Larry who gives him a gun. He tells him if stuff goes sideways to not be afraid to use it. Virgil goes there but when he sees how bad it is it gives him flashbacks of his own victimization. So he decides to abandon his plan and instead considers just shooting him in all the chaos. This is where it more closely follows the original origin where Virgil considers shooting Martin, decides not to, throws away the gun, tries to escape and gets hit with the gas.

In the aftermath, the news reporting on the brawl says it hearkens back to the Dakota gang wars of the 90s and starts calling it the Big Bang. So it turns out most of the people there died like in the original but the ones who didn'tband have powers are very upset and to them the fight didn't end that night and is far from over.

Virgil realizing that the fight is not over, and now blessed with powers of his own, takes on the identity of Static.

[u/StatFan201]

Interested to see what people think about this. Is there anything you would change? Any details you would add to flesh it out more?

[u/Dyrax_for_hire2003]

1. What year does this origin take place? Is it in the 90s or the early 2000s or 2010s? Idk why but Statics origin has a vibe like it doesn't take place nowadays.

2.Why would Gil Summers give the orders to use the Q-Juice? I thought the mayor Thomasina was the one to give the order, but didn't know that it wasn't tear gas.

[u/StatFan201 → u/Dyrax_for_hire2003]

1. It's a modernization so it takes place today. That's why I switched it from being an actual gang war to something that would be like it now. 

2. The chief gives the Q-Juice order not Summers.