User blog comment:Bakublader1/Mal as Guardian?/@comment-5458789-20121220174952/@comment-1038387-20121221083119

@ Poke: it's not about aliases, that's why I put "is" in quotes. It's about on which character they are (or rather, seem to be at this moment) primarily based. Thus, the black kid with lightning powers = more logically Black Vulcan than Static. We know a character named Virgil Hawkins is set to appear (first hinted at by Bourassa, then confirmed by LaMarr), and we assume it's this guy. But we've got no confirmation on the name Static yet. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. But at the moment, he's a Black Vulcan expy, not Static.