User blog comment:Bakublader1/Mal as Guardian?/@comment-5458789-20121220174952/@comment-1038387-20121221220938

Well, he's Black Vulcan because he's part of the Multi-Culti Pals.

We don't know what came first, Greg and Brandon deciding to use the Multi-Culti pals first and naming one Virgil, or Static and they filled in the other slots later.