Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130131215135/@comment-4105484-20130202181417

He is Static in his powers, name, and looks but like everyone keeps saying he is Black Vulcan because the runaways are suppose to be a reference to the Super Friends so Sam is Samurai, Tye is Apache Chief or Longshadow ( I prefer the latter) and Ed is El Dorado thus making Virgil somewhat Black Vulcan in memory.