Even though I like both versions of Static, I feel like the cartoon added some interesting aspects that the comic didn't.
I feel like I really, reay connected to Robert and Sharon in the cartoon. Robert was a pillar of the community, helping kids keep their lives together by running the community center. He was always firm, but very fair with his kids. When the Bang Babies were created, he even went to the city leaders and chewed them out about not being on top of their stuff. And Sharon, she was that older sibling we all had. She managed to feel so real and natural whenever she interacted with Virgil. I know the comic had his mother alive, but I'd honestly prefer her to be dead. Why?
I feel like her death, the way it happened gives Virgil a further drive to stamp out gang violence. We were always told his mom was passionate and fearless about her work and wouldn't ever back down when people needed her help. And to go out into the middle of a city wide gang riot, and lose her life helping save people, she feels like a hero in her own right.
Robert owns a community center, Jean was a paramedic, Virgil is a superhero, and even Sharon was in training to become a counsler! The Hawkins family, even though they've lost one of their own, are such an amazing family, at least in my opinion.
Thoughts on this?
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