Why won't DC acknowledge Static Shock?

He's in legal limbo or some such thing.

>>93668639
Why would DC acknowledge a non-DC character? Do you want them to include Spider-Man too, casualfag?

Static is one of those guys who should be an a lister and in every team book, but due to complicated rights bullshit, he goes unmentioned by everyone and dc can't do much with him. Milestone was both a blessing and a curse

>>93668639
Its. Just. Fucking. Static.

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>>93668639
Cause legal stuff with Milestone.

>>93668639
Ask DC this at SDCC.

>>93670547
What legal stuff?

The rights for static are owned by his creators family right? Do they just flat out refuse to let him be used? Can DC not offer royalties and buy him off them?

>>93670729

Characters like Static aren't allowed to be part of the main universe anymore, though potentially cross-overs are possible.

I don't know of any actual legal troubles.

>>93670729
They aren't actually owned by DC, just licensed, and once in a while limits of the license come up. So, they often just don't bother using them, since pushing their own characters is easier.

This video talks Static and how the legal rights might work.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiFqRJKY_RQ

>>93670783
>Wanting a decent character to be milked to death until the end of time with never ending reboots, events and constant shark jumping
They did the right thing anon.

>>93670729
Milestone owns Static Shock. DC can't make profit by selling toys and other merchandise, and has to pay a fee to use Static in their comics.

By contract Milestone can't publish Static Shock with any other publisher as long as DC releases Static Shock once in a while, so they keep releasing Static just enough to don't lose their license.
Kinda like Fantastic Four and Fox.

I wonder if this will affect Static (and Icon and Rocket, for that matter) in Young Justice. It looked like they were setting him up for more. It'll be a shame if he was suddenly dropped.

>>93668639
They already have Black Lightning and Lightning

What the fuck do they want with a clone that they have to also pay royalties to use?

>>93670968

Given that there was a Static TV show, I would bet there's already financial groundwork in place where all parties are willing to let the character appear on TV, whatever the terms of DC's relationship with Milestone actually is.

>>93671035
it has been a while since that was last one, it probably no longer works on name recognition since that was an early 00's shoe

>>93671064

I'm not talking about popularity, I'm talking about shit like contract agreements.

Keep making a fuss about Static and maybe DC will see people still care about him and will do stuff with him.

>>93671163
Nobody gives a shit about Lightning Negro #2537 though, especially with McDuffie dead.

>>93670971
Name value

>>93671225
(You)

>>93670971
Static is different from Black Lightning. He has different powers and different personality. And he's more well known than Black Lightning.

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>>93671296
>He has different powers

I don't know why people care about both his comic and cartoon sucked.

>>93671341
>25 replies
>17 IPs
There's a scent of samefagging in this thread. And a whole lot of shitty opinions

>>93670729
The Black Lives Don't Matter At All agenda

>>93668639

Im going to be honest a black guy with lightning powers seems kind of problematic
may as well add Apache Chief while your at it

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>>93671296

>>93671400
>people are only allowed to post ONCE and ONLY ONCE per thread

Holy shit

>>93668639
>Why won't DC acknowledge Static Shock?

Because Black Lightning exists, so wtf makes Static so special?

>>93671621
Static and Black Lightning may have similar powers but they are very different from each other.

>>93668639
>Why won't DC acknowledge Static Shock?

Because:

>Black Lightning
>Black Vulcan
>Juice
>Soul Power

DC has a surplus of black people with electricity powers to choose from. Static is just a face in the crowd.

>>93671698

Aren't Black Vulcan, Juice and Soul Power all standins for Black Lightning because Tony Isabella was being a cock about rights issues for three decades?

Static is literally the only black guy with electricity powers that DC owns who isn't a legally approximated clone of Black Lightning.

>>93668639
He seems like he would fit in Marvel more. Characters like Black Adam and Shazam already has superior lightning powers

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I think DC is wasting his character .He's a good character. People don't just like him cause of his powers. They like him for his personality .

>>93671682
That's right! Like Spider-Man, clone Spider-Man, that other Spider-Man, and alternate Spider-Man are so vastly different that each one should have their own movie.

>>93671732
>that DC owns
I don't think DC ever actually owned the rights to the Milestone characters.

>>93668639
Because they don't actually own him. Why should they pump time/money/resources into a property that they don't own? At the same time they don't want anyone else to be able to do anything with him just in case.

Though at least they're finally putting out the complete series on dvd.

>>93670962
So who owns Milestone now? WB/DC are probably playing the long game and hoping they can just straight up buy the Milestone characters on the cheap in a few years if whoever owns them now gets sick of all this. THEN Static will get some attention from DC.

>>93668639

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk1lNNMKfnw

This opening was so tight.

>>93668639
>DC owns 4 black characters with electricity powers
>Has to pay royalty to use a 5th black character with electricity powers

It's an easy call when no one there has childhood nostalgia clouding their judgment

>>93672550
The other black superheroes with electric powers are just Black Lightning tributes . Nostalgia isn't the reason why people like Static. They like him for being him

>>93672157
Milestone owns Milestone. If you're trying to look for an individual then probably Denys Cowan.

>>93671698
>>93672550
>People are really acting like different versions of Black Lightning manufactured to circumvent copyright count as fully realized unique characters.

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>>93672613
>My black character with lightning powers totally isn't the same thing!

>>93668639
He was in Young Justice that one time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEJm0uIVwUc
Just replace "Godzilla" with "Black Lightning" and you have the explanation for Black Vulcan, Juice, Soul Power and whatever other (Not) Black Lightnings DC's come up with.

>>93668639
>Injustice design that actually looks good.
>Don't use it.

>>93671433
why do lightning powers seem problematic for a black guy?

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>>93672613

>>93670971
Virgil is a much more interesting character than Jefferson. He could have been DC's Spider-Man. >Plus
Static is a cooler name than Black Lightning

>Also
Black Lighting shoots electric bolts, Static has an array of electro-magnetic powers, which gives him a much more versatile powerset than Black Lightning.

>>93672890
Like Blue Beetle, Or Nightwing, or Kyle Raynor, or Impulse...or any of the other dozen characters labeled DC' Spider-Man

So even with the characterization they were aiming for something everyone else has done a hundred time before. Was Static a template character or something?

>>93668639
When the inevitable Static movie comes out, I hope they use this Injustice design.

>implying Black Panther won't do well for the same reason Wonder Woman did well
muh underrepresentation

>implying DC won't announce a Static movie shortly thereafter to get in on the minority cashgrab

Hopefully they cast well.

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>>93672890
>See that other guy shoots lightning, but my character shoots Liiightning! Totally different. Because Lightning is sometimes confused for Lightning but only a true fan would understand the subtle differences between lightning and lightning....


fucking casuals amiright

>>93672912
Static is the only non-legacy character of those, though.

Beetle has the best chance though.

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Okay at this point I'm going to assume the pro Static fan is just shilling because funny

>>93672987
whelp when you keep seeing things like >>93672962

What the fuck else are you going to think?

>>93672912
The problem with your reasoning is that Static stands alone as a character, even when trying to tie him to another black electric-powered hero.
Blue Beetle (Jaime) is associated with the OG Blue Beetle
Nightwing is always associated with Batman
Kyle is a Lantern like many of the Corps
Impulse with the Flash

Static doesn't have that kind of previous hero/hero group association, so he can't be lumped into a typical group. THAT'S why people like him and why he doesn't necessarily need to be another attempt at a Spider-Man variant. Even a decade later, Static still has a better draw to him as a character.

>>93672947
Static can do so much more than Black Lightning.

He's like Black Lightning AND Magneto

Damn people are really hung up on two, count 'em TWO characters having similar powers (which they use in different ways).

DC already has a million characters that run really fast, a million characters that are super strong, a million characters who can breath underwater, a million who can use telekinesis, a million who are psychic, a million who can use magic.

But two black guys with electrical powers is way way way too excessive.

>>93673037
You're making the wrong connection

>>93673042
What's with all the red heads who can run fast amirite

>>93673040
So we have DC's Spider-Man, Black Lightning Magneto

Is there even a single aspect of the guy that can be confused as original?

>>93673071
AC or DC?

Who's the guy that keeps writing Bleedingcool articles talking about how only he can save Milestone? and how he's also super rich an talented and DC owes him tonnes of money

>>93672912
Not him but Static felt more like a Spider-Man stand-in than the characters you listed. Static also, as stated, is a more interesting character than Black Lightning. So I don't get why everyone seems to scoff & laugh when they want to see more Static, because it was never about his powers, but his personality. Isn't that the main reason we enjoy a specific superhero/heroine in the first place? It's why we read comics. I assume most of us anyway.

>>93673111
Michael Davis

>>93673091
You're REALLY going down this road?

REALLY?

We can go back to how every comic character was inspired by an ancient myth or folklore, if you want. Up to you.

>>93670901
Ok, I know that the whole "the show didn't sell enought toys" is a thing, but...

HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA SELL TOYS IF THERE AREN'T ANY YOU FUCKING FUCKS?!?

>>93673111
This is why fanboys should never be listened to

>>93673118
I thought it was rather refreshing to see a cartoon with Supers that wasn't DC or Marvel at the time. The writing wasn't all bad, Ebon was a decent villain and the grab bag of race didn't feel forced like today's Marvel comics.

>>93673195
The guy who wrote that article (or maybe more, idk) was one of the original founders of Milestone.

>>93673190
Hey! Don't place the blame on Warner for not producing the toys! It's YOUR FAULT for not buying those theoretical toys to support the series in the first place!

You have to buy them first before Warner knows that it is enough of a hit to begin production of the same toys that will be the driving force behind the tv series!

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>>93671698
>electricity
Cyborg has all that and more

>>93673091
yeah, how dare any character share qualities with other characters!

Good thing there aren't any characters with similarities to Hercules, Samson, Achilles, Hera, Robin Hood, Zorro, Hermes, Zeus, Poseidon, Sherlock Holmes, John Henry, Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde, Solomon Grundy, or Mad Hatter

>>93668639
because he's a cringey character contrived as a form of forced diversity.

>>93673233
This very much so. I loved that about Static Shock. Seeing how everything has been going on at Marvel literally made me pissed. & seeing how people think we hate 'diversity' in comics because we hate the 2 dimensional ham fisted characters we're getting today is sad. It shows that people nowadays will eat shit if they know it's pandered to them.

>>93673325
"Forced diversity" is when Iron Man suddenly becomes a black female or Hulk becomes an asian, or Whor.

Static was a completely new character. Nothing was "forced." He became popular in his own right. Not because he was shoehorned into an existing property.

>>93673325
Why is forced diversity Black hero always electric or technology based?

>>93673401
Except that he is Black Spiderman

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>>93673190
Buy his new action figure and new DVDs. The only merch the cartoon had was mostly books.

>>93673444
He isn't replacing Spiderman. There's no "force" in your cry of "forced diversity"

>>93671273
it says (You) but it's not me. hmm this is quite a conundrum. i'll respond anyways

>>93673468
Except most fans will want his yellow,black and blue suit like >>93670547
The dvd's are a good start though. Hell, push for a deal with Netflix even.

>>93671742
Thor though, but I can see how he would have quicker access to lightning from what i can gather

>>93673421
>>93673444
I guess you boys haven't heard of Miles Morales

>>93672052
that other spiderman was the worst

>>93673577
If Young Justice S3 does well, we could see a Static and the Runaways (idk what to call them) spinoff with El Dorado, Longshadow and Samurai.

That seemed to be hinted at throughout YJ: Invasion.

>>93670423
They shouldn't have done McDuffie like they did. He's cursed them.

It sucks because I really want to see IJ2 get Static DLC.

>>93671742
He could have the strongest magnetic powers in DC.

no Magneto in DC.

>>93673468
But that's ugly as sin though.

>>93673619
Miles Morales isn't black or else he would have lightning powers.

He's clearly latino Spider

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>>93673747
DC not DCAU faggot

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>>93668639

>all characters that control the same element are the same

>>93673646
The others quit by the end and Static joined Young Justice.

>>93673747
Polaris would be a good mirror-villain for Static. every hero needs one.

>>93673444
No one fucking said that. What we mean is has the charm of Spider-Man. Jesus fucking christ.

>>93673977
>having those powers

>quitting

Nah. Just setting up the spinoff/crossover episode where they save YJ and then form their own team.

>>93673468
>DCAU and New 52 Static have great costumes

>Go with that piece of shit instead

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>>93671321

>>93673401
This senpai.

>>93673998
It would be really cool to see Arsenal form his own version of The Outsiders.

>>93674032
I hate it too but I'm glad his original costume has a action figure. It's only fair that his first costume get a action figure. But I wish they would make a figure with one of his cartoon costumes.

>>93668672
This lawyers on the Milestone side.

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>>93671163
This. Tell DC you want Milestone characters back .Keep talking about Milestone characters on social networks .

>>93668639
OG Black Spider-man

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I hope they put the rest of the seasons on DVD.

Isn't he in the future?

>>93675497
same

Fuck Milestone.

>>93673717
>Miles isn't black Spider-Man
Once again /co doesn't read comics

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>>93673325

(You) don't even know what "forced diversity" is. Static Shock came out during a time when that wasn't even a thing.

>>93671967
I like his Nu52 outfit

>>93673717
>what is Venom Blast

>>93674782
If Hudlin's writing I'd rather they stayed gone.

>>93673091
Name your favorite superhero. I fucking dare you.

>>93672947
That's like saying Captain Marvel and Superman are the same character

>>93673325
>I'm a fucking casual

>>93673809
Read more comics.

>>93671698
>>Black Vulcan

That guy is Hannah Barbera's property thought and iirc in Young Justice they used some OCs loosely based in the 4 Super Friends ethnic heroes so maybe even if they are part of the same conglomerate there are some rights issues.

>>93671698
>Soul Power
>listing a character made up for the Static cartoon
Why do this