Static

Virgil Hawkins is a liberated abductee of the Reach.

Physical appearance
Virgil is an African-American teenager with short black dreads. He wears blue pants, a lighter blue t-shirt and fitted baseball cap in a backwards fashion, sneakers, and a black jacket with yellow accents on the arms and cuffs.

History
After being abducted by agents of the Light, Virgil was sedated and flown to Bialya, where Queen Bee gathered strays and runaways for the Partner. He was part of a shipment that arrived after the Team had already departed.

Virgil's pod was kept aboard the Manta-Sub, and readied for transport to the Partner.

For a little under a week, Virgil was experimented upon in the Reach base in the western Pacific. They wanted to see if his Meta-Gene could be triggered. He remained aware of his surroundings, and noticed some of the abductees disappeared after experimentation failed to gain the desired result.

When the Team infiltrated the base, Robin, Batgirl and Bumblebee liberated the kids and brought them back to the Bio-Ship. When the "Black Beetle" interfered with the escape, Virgil found himself cut off from the Bio-Ship, and watched as the heroes were defeated one by one. He tried to help by taking a Manta Trooper's rifle, but Shimmer overpowered him.

When Blue Beetle joined the fight, he opened the hatch to the Bio-Ship, and Virgil fell through it. They eventually managed to get all their people aboard, and set off.

The liberated abductees were gathered in STAR Labs for a debriefing. After Tye Longshadow finished his debriefing, Black Canary welcomed into her makeshift consultation room.

Virgil told her of the experiments the Reach did on him. He explained what he saw, but was impatient, and wanted to go home. He fiddled with a paperclip as he talked, and after the conversation was over, tossed it at the holder. It hit the rim and knocked it over. As this happened, Canary noticed the clip had attracted all the other paperclips into a ball.

Powers and abilities

 * Electromagnetism: After being experimented on by the Reach for the Meta-Gene, Virgil developed the ability to at least magnetize small metal objects together.

Background in other media

 * Virgil Hawkins is the hero known as Static, a Milestone Comics character. Virgil was a comic book and fantasy geek, and after gaining electromagnetic powers at a gang fight known as the Big Bang, he decided to become a superhero. He was a member of the Heroes and an associate of the Shadow Cabinet. Following the success of the animated TV series Static Shock, he has been used in the mainstream universe, where he became a member of the Teen Titans.
 * This is Virgil's second animated appearance; he previously appeared in the DCAU where he was voiced by Phil LaMarr, as the main character in Static Shock. He also appeared in Justice League Unlimited.