Static Shock/Heartwarming

• The episode "Flashback", the episode opens with a statue being erected to honor the heroes who died in the Dakota riots including Virgil's mother. Later Static and Gear see Ebon chasing a girl who turns out to be a bang-baby with the power to move through time. They rescue her and she decides to become a superhero to use her powers to help people. Static convinces them to go back five years to the riots in Dakota to save his mom. In the past Virgil meets his mom and tells her he is her son from the future. She says how proud she is of him. He warns to her stay put because she is in danger and she promises. Meanwhile Ebon kidnaps Timezone and steals a truck full of Big Bang gas to create an earlier Big Bang. Static and Gear stop him but Static sees his mother back to work pulling a Heroic Bystander before the remote Timezone uses shorts out and they are pulled back to the present. Virgil runs home and realizes that his mother still died in the riots. The kicker is, his dad tells him that on the night she died her coworkers heard her saying she was very proud of Virgil and kept referring to him as "my son, the superhero". It may also double as a Tear Jerker episode.
• "Frozen Out" qualifies as well. While it may be par for the course for a Christmas episode, it is very touching, especially when the "villain" is just a little girl lost.
  • Static hugging poor Permafrost, and him wiping away a tear at the end are just two touching moments from said episode.
• At the end of "Static in Africa" Virgil talking to Anansi, telling him how being one of the few black superheroes made Virgil feel like a valid hero himself is heartwarming enough. Then when Anansi tells him that Static is a great hero and that he is a hero not only to the people of Dakota but to Anansi as well... *wipes away happy tears*