Static Shock (2000–2004): Season 4, Episode 5 - Fallen Hero - full transcript

Static is profoundly mortified to see his hero, Green Lantern John Stewart, apparently on a crime spree.

Pew pew pew

Ooh!

Boom

We need help here, fast!

Pew pew pew

There he is!
Down there!

Crash

Jump!

Watch it!

Boom

Keep firing!



Boom

boom

Hold steady.

Boom

Fire!

Pew pew pew

♪ Here we go now
here we go now ♪

♪ He's incredible ♪

♪ He's invincible ♪

♪ Here we go now
here we go now ♪

♪ He's incredible ♪

♪ He's unstoppable ♪

My favorite color, gold.

What are you waiting for?
Stop him!



Yeah?
Me and what army?

That's the Green Lantern.

'Nothing can stop him.'

Theme music...

♪ Fight the criminals
chase the bad guys ♪

♪ Save the world
fly through the sky ♪

♪ Half kid half amazing ♪

♪ Okay Static Shock
who you're facing ♪

♪ Yeah one zip
then you zapped ♪

♪ Good against evil
get trapped ♪

♪ Look in my eyes
I've got the power ♪

♪ Villains run from
Static shower ♪

♪ Superhero Static Shock ♪

♪ Woo-hoo ♪

♪ Superhero Static Shock ♪

♪ Woo-hoo ♪

♪ Criminals get twisted ♪

♪ This superhero gifted ♪

♪ The bell rings
and I'm back in school ♪

♪ Nobody know what I do okay ♪

♪ Superhero Static Shock ♪

♪ Woo-hoo ♪

♪ Superhero Static Shock ♪

♪ Woo-hoo ♪

♪ Superhero Static Shock ♪

♪ Whoo-hoo ♪

♪ One zip then you zapped ♪

♪ Good against evil
get trapped ♪

♪ Look in my eyes
I've got the power ♪

♪ Villains run
from the static shower ♪

♪ Criminals get twisted ♪

♪ This superhero gifted ♪

♪ The bell rings
and I'm back in school ♪

♪ Nobody know what I do okay ♪

♪ Superhero Static Shock ♪

*STATIC SHOCK*
Season 04 Episode 04

Episode Title: "Fallen Hero"

Garbage! Pure garbage!

I hope you're not talking
about my cooking, son.

That's Virgil.

He never appreciates
how hard it is

to make good food.

No, I was talking about this.

They're saying
the Green Lantern's

turned into a criminal.

Pops, he'd never do that.

Just because the Green Lantern's
one of your heroes?

Don't be so naive.

Oh, you believe something

just 'cause you saw
it in a newspaper

and you're saying I'm naive?

Calling the Lantern
a crook is whack

and I'm not buying it.

He's a first-class act
all the way.

- Pictures don't lie, V.
- Oh, no?

Then what about the one
you made on your computer

with a poodle's head
and Sharon's body?

Ha, that did look pretty real,
but people saw Green Lantern.

Maybe they were hypnotized.

Or maybe GL's trying to
smoke out some bad guys, or...

Hey, maybe he's having trouble

coming up with his
Justice League dues.

Microchips,
the miracles of modern science.

More valuable than gold,
and a lot lighter.

This is not looking good.

I'm gonna go talk to him.

Ah, Static,
I really wouldn't do..

Thud

Yo! Green Lantern!

Static.

What are you doing?

What does it look like?

It looks like you're
taking something

that doesn't belong to you

but there's gotta be
more to it than that.

- Maybe I just got tired.
- Tired?

Of living in the same old dump,
of having all this power

and nothing to show for it.

But you're a hero!

Ha! That and a dollar
will get you an ice cream cone.

You'll see what
I'm talking about.

Maybe not now,
but when you get to be my age.

I don't think I'm ever
gonna see things that way.

Come on, GL.
Put everything back.

- Please?
- Whatever you say, hero.

Crash

I gave the microchips a charge
that's the opposite of yours.

I hope it knocked
some sense into you.

Hope this knocks
some sense into you!

Snap

You can do what you want to me,
but not to my friend.

Huh?

Ah!

That thing about doing
what you want to me

I take it back.

Ah, great.

Slam

thud

Think you'd lost me?

Think again.

Come to reclaim your face?

Wait till you see
what I take from you next.

You're not taking
anything else from me.

This is payback time!

Well, what are you waiting for?
Oh, yeah.

You don't wanna waste what
little energy you've got left.

Alright, then.
Here I am.

Aah!

Need to work on your aim.

I want my lantern back, Sinestro.

Anything happens to me,
you'll never get it.

I'll make that trade
if you force me to.

Looks like you're
losing your leverage.

Aah!

Pew pew

Boom

There'll be lots more
green lanterns after me.

You can count on that.

Johnny, Johnny,
you've got me all wrong.

I'm not gonna finish you off.
Just your reputation.

I'm gonna do every lowlife
thing I can think of.

By the time those other
lanterns get here

everyone will be as sick
of the color green as I am.

How could the guardians
ever have let you

into the Lantern Corps?

Those self-righteous
little twerps.

They give me all this power

and then expect me to be

satisfied fighting crime?

I'd be crazy not to
conquer the universe!

That's just the word
I was looking for.

- Crazy!
- Got work to do now, Johnny.

When I'm done,
you'll regret the day

the guardians ever
gave you that ring.

'It hasn't been
a good day for superheroes.'

'Green Lantern's crime spree
has continued unabated.'

'And in the process,
he's made a fool of Static'

'a fool in need of a shower.'

Hey! I was watching that!

I never wanna hear
the lantern's name again.

Taking this a little personally,
aren't you, Virgil?

No! He's let us
all down, right?

I mean, everyone
who believed in him.

Virgil, he's only human.
He's not perfect.

But it never hurts
to keep an open mind.

I know all I need to know.

I'm finished
with the Green Lantern.

All that time
we worked with him.

Who knew he could turn so evil?

We should have been
able to tell somehow.

Hey, what chance did we have
if he could fool Batman?

Aah!

Boom

Aah!

Oh!

Look at him run!

First he's a thief,
now a coward.

When it comes to idols, I sure
know how to pick 'em, don't I?

Hang in there. One more fight.

Just what I expected you to do.

Pew pew pew

- You see where he went?
- A flying green guy?

How hard could he be to find?

Static! Gear!

You sound almost surprised.

Listen to me!
You've got the wrong guy.

Right.
And my shoe's untied, too.

I'm serious.

So are we!

Now you have to listen.

You got nothing I want to hear.

Pew pew pew

Maybe he's not
such a coward after all.

He's still a thief.

Thud

Static, you have
to believe me! I...

I'm through believing
in bogus heroes.

Hello, Johnny.
Having a bad day?

Oh, a temper like that

maybe you deserve to be in jail.

What do you want?

The ring. Hand it over.

Alright. Be that way.

It's not on you.
Where'd you hide it?

Well, there aren't too
many places it could be.

Why do you want the ring?
It's out of power.

It'll make a nice keepsake.

I keep asking myself
why he went bad.

I just don't understand.

Human nature. Go figure.

But you know what
I don't understand?

Why he didn't
recharge his ring.

Yeah, it doesn't
make any sense.

And I don't think
it's gonna be one of those

"you'll understand when you
get older" things either.

Well, gotta jet.

Hey, where'd that come from?

Static, you have
to believe me! I..

He gave it to me.

Why would he do that?

I'm gonna find out.

Meet you back at the station.

Found my ring, huh?

So you did put it there.

- Mind telling me why?
- Would you believe me?

I don't know.
I guess we'll see, won't we?

A few days ago
I got a distress call.

It was from a ship that
crash-landed on an asteroid.

The rest of the Justice League
were on missions of their own

so I went there by myself.

The pilot was
the only survivor.

I had to get him to a doctor,
but it was a long way back

I decided to recharge my ring

so it would have enough energy
for the return trip.

I took my lantern out
of its inter-dimensional pocket

and started to say my oath.

In brightest day,
in blackest night..

Then I got a surprise.

Aah!

It was all a setup.

Sinestro wanted
the only thing of real value

I've ever owned,
my power source.

When I recovered,
I followed his trail

but my ring started to run low.

I was trying to save energy
for one last fight with it.

But then Gear and I found you,
and you had to use it on us.

Our bad.

Not just bad,
horrible!

He's doing everything he can
to destroy my reputation.

Why does he hate you so much?

He hates all green lanterns.

He used to be one of us,
but then he got power hungry.

I helped take him down.

Oh. My dad was right again.

There was a lot more
to this than I thought.

So do you believe me
or am I still a bogus hero?

Yo, Gear!

'Static! Static, is that you?'

Gear!

That's not going to work.

Just hand over the ring, punk.

You're the only one
he could have given it to.

It is pretty valuable.

"Captain Dwayne's Decoder Ring?"

It's a collector's item.

No more fooling around.

The ring! Now!

You'll have to get it from me.

Johnny?

- Sinestro.
- 'So they let you out.'

Good behavior, no doubt.
Well, not to worry.

You'll soon start
misbehaving again.

See? Now, let me
have my little keepsake.

Don't try to bluff me.

That ring's out of juice,
but mine's not.

A certain friend of mine
gave my ring a charge.

'It's different, but it works.'

Alright!
Let's finish him off.

Go help Gear.
This is personal.

Like I said,
I'll go help Gear.

Looks like you've had enough.

Guess again.

♪ Yeah unstoppable ♪

Oh! Ooh!

♪ Come on
this'll take me down ♪

♪ Uh huh ♪

I'd love to keep going, Johnny

but you've got
other things to do.

♪ Does it the way
that he want it ♪

'Like saving these poor people.'

It's them or me, Stewart.

- We got it!
- You keep kicking butt.

Hey.

♪ Now the tables have turned ♪

♪ Who they all blame
who they jealous of ♪

♪ You're the reason
they can't hang ♪

♪ Can't stay out my way ♪

♪ And every no pain
nothing to gain ♪

Couldn't have done it
any better myself.

Pew pew pew

boom

End game.

Looks like your batteries
are running a little low, too.

We're still evenly matched!

Think again. I've got
an unlimited source of power.

That would be me.

Huh?

- What's going on?
- There were two of 'em!

♪ Can't stop ♪

♪ Here we go now
here we go now ♪

♪ It's incredible
just meant to be ♪

♪ Here we go now
here we go now ♪

In brightest day,
in blackest night

no evil shall escape my sight.

Let those who
worship evil's might

beware my power,
Green Lantern's light!

'Whoa. We really need an oath.'

I guess we owe you an apology.

No, you don't.

It's not easy believing
in a fallen hero.

Thanks.

Yep. He's definitely a hero.

You know what, V?

He's probably thinking
the same about you.

Theme music...