Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130131215135/@comment-1895174-20130202180502

Tupka217 wrote: If you still don't see it, I'm not sure if any explanation will make you get it. It's not "they're both black and electric-y" (which, btw, is one over on the Mal/Cy connection). It's not about him - it's about the others. He's Black Vulcan by association.

In the same way Mal could have been Cyborg by association, which you said was baseless.

But we have the name "Virgil Hawkins", a power set identical to Static and different from Black Vulcan, and a backstory similar to Static. Everything says he's Static, and nothing says he's Black Vulcan.