User blog comment:Major Winters/What's next?/@comment-3118271-20120701101812/@comment-34954086-20120703023526

@Zod, it's a remnant from season one when people were looking up every young/sidekick age hero and comparing to their mentor or people with remotely similar powers who were in the justice league (since at that point it seemed that the team needed a league mentor). Static went with Black Lightning, Bombshell to Captain Atom, Gear to Mister Terrific/Cyborg, Beast Boy to Vixen/Bwana Beast/Animal Man, Blue Beetle to Captain Atom etc. People had long been speculating on static appearing especially with the Virgil Hawkins confirmation so when Black Lightning appeared with the league it was generally assumed that he'd become his mentor. Plus there's the fact that several people mistook BL for stati when he first appeared.