That One Static Shock Episode Where A Dude Shoots Richie
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2023
- What happens when the quiet kid can't take it anymore?
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No lie, this episode got me a week suspension and two years mandatroy counseling because we were asked in class to write about a lesson we learned from a movie or show. I chose this as an example of bullying hurting everyone and also gun safety because Richie wasn't the intended target, but got shot unintentionally. Teacher freaked, school thought I was gonna shoot it up, all that.
Wow that is sad
Sheesh, they should've understood what you were saying that bullying is bad thus should be dealt with, not ignored, but victims who turn guns on their bullies when there are less extreme ways to solve a bully problem are worse, and that they need to monitored and get serious help.
Honestly, if I was your teacher, I would've given you an easy A+ for that message.
@@ThisisKyle oh yeah, after like three sessions my counselor told my parents there was no reason for me to be there but it was madatory so...
Don't get me wrong, I was a weird kid and a little troubled, but I was never the type of kid that presented a danger to others. It was just an overreaction on the teacher's part. We never really got along that well anyway.
@@kinghyperheart1571 you would think that as a teacher they would have that capacity for critical analysis but apparently not
@@TheMrDrProfGamerman they liked completely missed the point didn't they?
Jimmy is Nick's victim: Jimmy, the victim, is getting a harsher punishment than his abuser. That is what Virgil means.
Thank you; you get it
I don't understand how he doesn't understand that.
@@JamoStar21 After seeing a bunch of his videos I feel like Shady has a real hard time seeing the forest for the trees, he flip-flops on so many things then tries to justify it without seeing the big picture- it's kind of why I've been trying to avoid watching more just because of things like this. I only watched this video because of the Static Shock theme.
It's not surprising that he missed what Virgil was communicating. It benefits no one to punish the victim and give an instigator a slap on the writs then dismiss that by saying "WeLl, hE wAsN't InStIgAtiNg JiMmY wHeN tHe iNcIdEnT hApPeNeD!" Jimmy was at his limit and felt alone- he had no one because it didn't feel like there was anyone there for him- there's a big differences between actually being alone and FEELING like you're alone. And because the bully got off essentially scot free, he has the potential of setting someone else off- the SOURCE wasn't treated, the surface level wound was and because it was treated so poorly both kids may never get the help they truly need and will just continue the cycle. Shady doesn't really see that- maybe he doesn't WANT to see that because of his mentality. I'm thinking that this is the last video I'm gonna watch.
I think the author here sees the punishment in regards to the actions each character has taken. As an onlooker they think the punishment is fair because Nick only singled out and physically assaulted someone, while Jimmy threated and accidentally discharged a gun. In society the punishment's for those actions are what each character got in the story (personally I think locking someone in a metal container for even a few minutes should be given a harsher punishment). I don't think the author considers the line being made from Vergil's perspective of how Jimmy had some justification for his action and as a scared, emotionally venerable, teenager the actions would have been seemingly more justifiable and how Nick's actions are way worse. Vergil has a biased here and it shows that he thinks the whole situation is bad and nick is responsible for the actions of others who he cornered. @@JamoStar21
This goes back to earlier in the video when he shows the episode saying where is the teacher in all this. She is called eagle eye for a reason. We all knew those teachers that would get you for any little thing and you get in trouble but then there's that one person or group that are doing the same thing right next to you and yet they don't get in trouble you do. The kid was being bullied and was seen as the worst person because he decided to bring a gun. But the bully just gets community service.
Let's look at a real life example of this, the UA-cam prankster that bullied a person in a mall just because he could. The guy was just working is food delivery job when the prankster is in his face and touching him. They are both adults. But the worker pulls a gun out after repeated words of get away from me. Prankster doesn't listen and the delivery guy pulls his gun and shoots him in the stomach. Yeah he probably could have gotten a cop at the mall to help. But in the moment you people act on things.
The delivery guy was cleared of attempted murder but still got discharging of a weapon in public. And the prankster. He is making faces outside while his mom laughs and says this wasn't what we wanted.
I didn’t catch this as a kid, but it’s legit impressive how Static was able to keep a level head in the gym. He arrived too late and found his best friend lying on the floor shot, yet he didn’t go ballistic and attack Jimmy. Nor does he try to use his powers to pull the bullet out of Richie’s leg like how Magneto did with Xavier in First Class. He ensures the gun is out of reach, and then stabilizes Riches and yells for someone to call the paramedics. For someone of his age, that’s a high level of emotional maturity.
Kid faces off against supervillains on a weekly basis, so he likely picked it up from that.
It's also possible Mr. Hawkins had his son go through some first aid/emergency response classes too.
This is probably my favorite episode of Static Shock. I love everything about it. Especially the background music, that was my favorite part of the whole thing. It wasn't superhero stuff. It was real life.
@@hariman7727His mom was also an EMT, so I’m sure she made sure her kids knew some medical things before she was killed.
It wouldn't surprise me if he trained himself for it beforehand. He had two good motivations for that: One, being a superhero without healing powers, and two, losing his mom, an EMT, to gun violence (in the DCAU continuity)
All of that almost purely comes from his parents. They literally taught him how to act in those scenarios, though not as directly perhaps.
But more than that he's receptive to that kind of information and I think at this point in the show he has had a lot of crisis moments against villains to hone that skill
"Hey, wanna see a gun?" that's just southern hospitality.
Can confirm
Yeaaa kinda lmfao
To be fair to Jimmy reporting things to school officials in the us is dam near useless
It's true, when someone pulled a knife on me, I got in school suspension while the other guy got suspended but was allowed to come back.
Happened to my the school conspired to hide what my bullies did to me but had it not come to a head the abuse would have continued. Should add for context I did eventually snap did something foolish (no one was harmed) but it got the police involved and it was their investigation that proved the school was systematically against me because the other kids were “more valuable” to the school’s image
That's very true. The idiots in that blasted office do zip crud.
or anyone these days. we've pushed the "only punish the victim" thing all the way up to law enforcement.
@@mikeyman1974 that's f up. Sounds like the hazing incident with the dark skin guy in a different country where the guys were let off Scot-free because of their parents influence.
My theory is that the reason they had ordered the episode in the way they did is because it's likely the initial moment Richie got shot may have come across as too intense. So, as a way for the studio to ease the tension building up to it, they revealed it at the beginning so that kids don't get caught too off guard when it happened.
It could otherwise be taken as a "don't help the struggling person or you'll get shot" moment and I think that was on their minds when they put it first. If the opening premise is "Richie got shot" it seems attached more detached from the immediate cause and effect link of Richie trying to help trying to help the kid with the gun and better attaches it to the overarching bully and gun control situation
It could also have been something with how American shows were censoring things at the time. The ending of a season of Saylor Moon where the characters are near death made a lot of little girls cry so much and give up on life that there are records of children going to the hospital because of that finale. Same thing with the episodes of Pokémon and the guns. Maybe this was the only way they could show the gun being pointed at the bully without getting pulled. At least they showed it once because I remember that episode. And it may have been pulled after but those cries the boy had when he was in the locker really hurt me because I also had a huge fear of dark inclosed spaces. So those tears felt so real to me.
It could also be done to emphasize the effect this kind of can have on other showing how hard it hit Static.
@@C0ldIronyeah came to say pretty much this. Having this story told by Virgil talking to a therapist emphasizes the lasting effect traumatic experiences like this have on kids after they happen, and hits on the messages the episode is trying to teach throughout (Virgil understanding that he could’ve defended Jimmy, that mentioning the gun was a red-flag, etc.). It’s a much more effective way of humanizing the situation in my opinion
I agree with Shady that I'm not a fan of In-Medes-Res (starting in the middle of the action and then rewinding), but I think what works about this is that it is all narrated verbally by Virgil. It's one thing to show what a character is feeling, but actually having him articulate his deeper emotions about it to a counselor may be better (in this case). What thoughts are going through his mind when his best friend gets shot? In what ways does he feel he might be to blame? To whom or what does he direct the anger of his confusion? These things you can't "show", so having him wrestle with them verbally to a counselor can make the message clear, -especially when the episode is written as a lesson for kids.
I think you Vergil's "He got off easy" was delivered as a comparison to Richie's fate. Nick got basically a slap on the wrist, whereas the bullet for him was instead received by Richie, which Vergil, has Richie's best friend, likely is bitter about, with all his anger.
At least, that's how I personally took it.
I think it's both, that Nick deserves the time in Juvie and that Nick should have the bullet in his leg/cast.
It's a very emotional moment, and Vergil wouldn't have Nick shot if it would heal Richie if given the choice, and would prefer nobody got shot.
Don't you love episodic shows where they can have a serious episode like this and then the very next episode, Richie's leg is fine and Virgil's anger is gone? M/sarcasm>
@@Nymphonomicon pretty sure Richie was in a cast for at least half a season.
I wish Nick would go to Hell.
@@Nymphonomicon To be fair, this was the season two finale.
This episode foreshadows that Richie has the type of interventionist personality that makes him a damn fine hero later in the series. He face down A GUN without powers or a safety net and successfully de-escalated the situation. That is impressive! The trama from being shot also didn't make him more hesitant to help people in the future. That's some serious heroic chops right there!
I mean to be fair that was an accident due to others rashness. I doubt he personally blamed Jimmy for that even if it was his finger pulling the trigger.
@@speedy01247 It would be very easy to though. A lot of lesser people would be done with him there and then.
“Monsters aren’t born, they’re made”. This is something a lot of people need to understand and realize in order for incidents like the one in this static shock episode to be severely reduced in frequency. Most of the people who do these things do them because they have reached a breaking point and develop a scorched earth policy; because they feel like no one cares about them and they perceive themselves as outcasts and rejects in the eyes of society. We need to set up systems that legitimately help people and keeps them from reaching this break point. For instance, the Stop Bullying Act here in a the U.S. has probably caused more harm than good as rather than punishing the aggressors and incentivizing them to stop doing what they are doing, it just punishes the victim and pushes them further and further towards their break point.
well that and it pretty much flipflopped which one is the bully. In my day I got bullied for being different, now you're considered a bully for threatening the PC new world order. Huge shock THAT is the version that gets a lot of government support, while I got shafted and literally told "the bullies need help more than you, we'll help them."
And the part where you stand up for yourself and defeat the bully still lands you in detention. I can understand fighting them in general is wrong but when one is backed into a corner what else can you do?
Most of the time, it's because the school don't want to get sued. Understandable but at same time, it sounds more like they wanna save face.
@@KairuHakubiNo one's considering you a bully, for not being PC. Either way, being anti PC is just being a jerk
Mind if I ask what exactly the "stop bullying act" is?
@@anti1trainingbeing anti PC is doing your own research and finding out the cult like mob is lying to you and the moment you question it you are immediately attacked and called a bigot for not bowing to what they ordered you to believe. This happens constantly and daily.
It literally ticks me off whenever a student who's suffered greatly gets the worst end of the stick while the punk who's been dumping on the victim gets off easy. Even as Adults crud like this happens.
Hopefully the parents will deliver a harsh punishment
@rosegirl3220 A kid like that? He obviously already gets worse then youd expect on a daily basis or they just don't care.
As much as it angers me, too. Jimmy did make the decision to try and kill Nick, which is worse than what Nick was doing to him. In situations like that are the Bully's actions that led to it, but it was still the victim's choice to resort to it instead of going to someone who could do something about it. I mean, there are times when a bully gets what they deserve. An example being a Silent Voice, a japanese anime movie.
Dude, fuck Jimmy, he BROUGHT A GUN!!!
Facts and people wonder why there's so much crime and shootings in major cities nowadays.
Nick and his friends are guilty of numerous assaults. The locker thing can be attempted manslaughter. They locked him in a confined space and left him. If no one found him, he would’ve died. Even if he was left over the weekend before someone found him, he would have suffered physical damage as well as mental damage. Nick deserved to go to jail for multiple felonies.
imagine if Jimmy was claustrophobic, now thats a horrific form of torture. even I would be suffering in a locker, if I can't fully extend my limbs I get claustrophobic. (like its fine if Im crouching and theres enough space ahead or behind me, but if I can't move in any direction and I can't stretch my legs or arms I start getting antsy, usually in car rides where Im in the backseat)
@@speedy01247 I think he was claustrophobic🤨 when he got out of that locker he had a pretty BAD reaction. I mean, if I was shoved into a locker for an extended amount of time, I wouldn’t have a pleasant reaction either. Poor kid though, he ended up in juvie😢
Exactly, he should have been in juvie for that locker incident because that was just as bad as attempted murder.
You know, I fully get where this is coming from and it's always horrifying to think about the "What if" of a situation but saying that Nick should go to jail on multiple felonies because he locked someone in a locker as a prank is absolutely an Olympic level leap. Should he be punished? Yes. Suspended? Yes. Expelled? A bit harsh but not out of the question. But to ruin this man's entire future to such a severe degree because he locked someone in a locker as a prank is overkill to an almost comical degree.
It would be misdemeanors not a felony for the simple assault. BUT there could be a kidnapping charge which is a felony for the locker.
Locking someone in a locker is horrible but it's not attempted murder unless that was for days not hours.
Being held against will is kidnapping so that's the more relevant charge.
The saddest thing about this episode is the fact you would NEVER see something like it in a modern show.
Genuine lessons nowadays would never be as impactful as this.
I love when “kids shows” do things that you would never expect like this, as long as you don’t traumatize the audience it’s completely fine to have episodes like this.
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Extra points if you traumatized the audience. Makes it more raw and proves a point
@@anti1training Need me more of that courage the cowardly dog shit fr 🥰🥰
@@user-gp5yz5yz4x Dang, now that's a classic style of cartoon that no longer exists. I'm so sorry 😭
Nah fuck that, the audience gotta be traumatized too. Fuck em
Probably the most infuriating/sadly realistic part is that the bully who pushed Jimmy that far basically got a slap on the wrist.
Jimmy himself put it best too, the guy wasn't sorry, he was just scared because the gun equalised things between them.
I'd say Nick was moreso scared because the situation suddenly became life and death. The gun did not equalize things, it turned the tables, giving Jimmy even more power than Nick had previously.
@@ShadyDooragstrue, but that's kind of the point, to paraphrase Syndrome; Nick backed off and respected Jimmy only once he became a threat.
Not saying Jimmy was in the right or that Nick is at all responsible for what he *almost* did, but it does show that bullies sometimes only understand brute force. Jimmy just took it too far.
@@filipvadas7602if you're already bullying someone it stands clear to reason that you're not capable of empathizing with people or treating them with respect. Some people will only understand with physical force and unfortunately Jimmy's friends weren't down to beat up his bully, so he how to take matters into his own hands and the only guaranteed way to hurt someone is with a gun
@@ricardolarios2518 Yes, but... a GUN. A FUCKING FIREARM. That's where I stand with Shady. Shady mentions learning self defense techniques. Even if telling an adult doesn't work, that doesn't allow you to immediately escelate to lethal force. The right way is rarely the easy way.
@@Elitex62 Problem is, as a victim of bullying that almost took it too far myself...? Eventually, you no longer care if its the "right way" to do things. You just want it all to stop. And learning to defend yourself is great, but what if you put up a fight and then lose? You get hurt more. As a man in his 30s that nearly used an old 90s School Desk (the big ones made of wood and metal) to kill someone in his teens, I can tell you now... There's a point where you no longer care, and what becomes "reasonable" and "proportional" no longer matters. For me, I lost all semblance of reason. The worst part was, I was a gentle giant and this kid was scrawny compared to me. But I was gentle... So he thought he could get away with it. The teachers, the staff? They did nothing. He was bullying me IN CLASS, IN FRONT OF A TEACHER, and nothing was done about it.
So... I snapped. I stood up, knocked him on his ass with a single shove, and picked up my desk, screaming, "I will [CTRL+ALT+DELETE] you and your family, you [expletives galore]." I felt something slam into the back of me, but didn't even budge. But that ONE singular bump momentarily knocked me just enough out of my rage to look at who had the GALL to try and stop me. It was the teacher, DESPERATELY trying to knock me over, or pull me down. She was 5'4", 60-something years old, and weak as could be. She couldn't even budge me. Three other kids tried to stop me, too, but by that point, I had decided that it wasn't worth it. So instead, I threw the desk across the room, where nobody was, and watched it create a gods-awful mess... Before shrieking at the top of my lungs in rage... Before promptly throwing the four people trying to restrain me off of me and storming outside.
From there, I cried endlessly until the police arrived in a panic, thinking I'd just killed, or tried to kill, someone. Finally, after that insane outburst and near-lethal experience, the school did something. They tried to expel me, but my mother knew about the bullying and had called on three separate occasions about it, and recorded them all. She threatened to sue them into the ground if they did that, so they FINALLY did something about the bullying problem. And nobody ever fucked with me again.
I tell you this to make you realize that sometimes... There is an EXTREMELY high risk of someone who is bullied no longer caring what's the "right way". Its naive to think just learning self-defense and telling adults will work. Its a pipe dream, honestly. The "fight the bully, and they'll back off" spiel doesn't actually work, more oft than not. Sometimes, you *must* terrify your antagonist into a gibbering mushy puddle to get them to stop... I got lucky, and was distracted enough to regain myself, even if only for a moment so I could throw the desk away before my rage reignited upon seeing my bully's face again.
You speak like someone who has never experienced the darker side of bullying, but I won't presume based purely on a small comment like that. But seriously... Its not so easy as you think.
Look Shady you missed the mark. Virgil is saying that Nick got off easy compared to his victim Jimmy. Jimmy spends most of his time being bullied. This causes depression and often times suicidal ideation or homicidal ideation. Jimmy was constantly pushed and pushed. Every time he tried to make friends it blew up leading to increased isolation and depression as well as more bullying. Which can lead to suicide or homicide. Jimmy just wanted the bullying to end. In this episode the only two victims are Richie and Jimmy. While the man who instigated all the abuse for no good reason got off with a slap on the wrist so to speak. Despite "0" tolerance for bullying the American education system turns a blind eye 90% of the time. Jimmy did what he thought he needed to do to stop the bullying.
You missed the point of Shady’s argument Matthew, either listen to it again or just stop commenting altogether. Mkay?
@@V1nce_man "or just stop commenting altogether" How to be rude for no reason with someone that disagreed with someone else.
@@ZelphTheWebmancer
Hush, if you don’t like how I reply or comment to people then I don’t really care. No one does. Stop being a keyboard cyber warrior.
@@V1nce_man You cared enough to respond. And not being rude is not about "cyber warrior" or whatever dafuq you are talking about, is just about not being rude for no reason. It ain't that deep.
@@V1nce_man>"don't be a keyboard warrior"
>is the only keyboard warrior
Not many mirrors in your house, huh?
Let’s be real. Virgil was speaking at the end from an emotional space. He is saying compared to the person who had been terrorized and ended up in jail from a mental health problem, Nick got off easy by never seeing the inside of a jail cell.
The school system is god awful. We let kids get bullied to hell and back. Then whenever the bullied kid tries to stand up for themselves even a little bit the teachers get on the bullied kid. Its no surprise why that kid might snap yet we all act like it is a surprise.
I hate this society.
Yeah, it's a huge problem, and there's sadly too many in school staff who want to blame the victims because of zero confrontation culture/self esteem culture.
It’s also due to schools in the U.S. being usually underfunded, and as a result they don’t want to flirt with the idea of being sued by parents if they take a stand against a bully, because they simply don’t have the money to afford it.
@@fighter1375 Under funded my ass. Look at the budget and you shit bricks it more than the military budget everyone memes about.
Eh, I would say it depends on the school. Some faculty and staff protect bullies and are too easy on them. But then, you have those that have a zero tolerance policy for bullying and won't hesitate to suspend. Fortunately, I have been on the latter side. I remember how someone who bullied me in Middle School and got a very stern talking to from an angry faculty member, during a meeting me and the bully had in her office. She also talked about how as a mother, she would raise hell if someone bullied her children, so the idea of her children dealing with that also hits home for her. The bully also got suspended. We need more people with a spine.
I feel ya bro
The thing most people forget in regards to empathy is that there's a limit.
Maybe. I always saw that empathy has no limits. You can empathize anything since people do bad things because they were hurt. Even someone who’s born evil didnt choose to be that way.
You can empathize and disagree at the same time. Empathy is separate from assessment of actions, in my opinion
@@BebeSensei Nah, empathy NEEDS limits, serious limits.
@@BebeSensei I can see where you're coming from, but at the same time, nobody is wanting to empathize with Hitler.
@UnCulturedSwine.07 Exactly.
Your both right understanding others doesn't mean you condone crap as shady often points out
Yeah, Kanye had the right idea but he was a little too enthusiastic if you know what I mean
As someone who was bullied relentlessly as a kid i can confirm that telling an adult does absolutely nothing and its worse if your bully finds out you did so. I personally understood jimmy taking a gun to school, hell I considered it myself. Its a dark thought that comes to your head when you feel cornered and out of options. You make a good point that jimmy had other choices but he felt those choices didnt exist and that if he didnt end his bully things would get worse. Kids often dont know they have those options and especially for an introvert they wont ask around about said options. This episode for me hit close to home when I was young and did help me understand that if I acted on those thoughts something bad could happen.
They constantly encourage you to tell someone…..and it never actually does anything. Seriously I don’t think a single damn time has telling an adult helped me.
@@starrsmith3810 You can even see this represented in media as well. Whenever it comes to dealing with bullying its consistent that the teacher/principal or whatever are useless and telling them does not solve jack shit. Frankly the ONLY solutions to deal with bullying are to:
- Do nothing and just endure the bullying until they get bored
- Leave the school
Anything else either results in the victim being punished by those they sought safety in or the bullies ramp up the bullying, or nothing happening and the bullying continues until the victim developes lifelong trauma or kills themselves. When the punishment for being a bully is a slap on the wrist it merely further encourages bad behaviour.
Yeah, it sucks. I've been bullied to hell and back, I tell a teacher about it? "Well maybe if you weren't dressed like/act like/insert other victim blaming here" I fight back about it? "Sage you can't go around hitting others" and I won't lie, I have thought the same thing, the only thing that stops me every time is thinking "What would Spiderman think of you if you do this" [Yeah, I was a nerd as a kid, but to me it helped].
Sadly, we live in a society where teachers don't give two flying fucks.
Not to mention the 'learn to defend yourself' thing doesn't really work in an academic setting with zero tolerance. You're both getting expelled even if you were just fighting back to protect yourself. Granted, he could have fought him after school, but he's still a pretty small customer and he would have to defend himself against an entire gang of highly athletic assholes. Nothing about that fight would be fair, even *if* he was properly trained and physically a bit more intimidating. What Jimmy really should have done was either talk to his parents or the school counselor. Hopefully, his parents could have transferred him to a different school or raised hell with the faculty at his current school (Maybe put some distance between Jimmy and the bullies. If they continued to break the rules enough by harassing him, they could get expelled. Honestly, the ring leader should have been suspended or expelled a long time ago. Constantly fucking with him. Trapping him in a locker. Roughing him up in the parking lot.) Or the school counselor (who seems like a pretty reasonable person) could have discussed his grievances with the rest of the staff and helped Jimmy to address his issues in a healthy way or put his problems into another perspective or given him the appropriate medication. I'm not saying any of this would necessarily would have worked, but I don't think these possibilities were ever really addressed in the episode itself. Then again, with teachers turning a blind eye for so long, and his parents clearly not able to empathize with him, maybe he's concluded that since so many adults are useless, maybe *all* adults are equally uncompassionate. Especially when he's been failed by the people who are *supposed* to have his best interest at heart. That being said, of course it's unforgivable to shoot someone in anything other than immediate self-defense. That's never *ever* the answer. Even bullies have loved ones and potential to become better people. You have no right to be their executioner, especially when you don't know their motivations or what their home life is like. But it is still hard to not see why Jimmy felt cornered.
Same... absolutely same like ths original commenter was it by me... and no fighting baxk only brought me in trouble or they just came back in bigger numbers....
As someone who was mentally abused for my Autism by my peers to the brink of insanity, this episode really hits me hard.
The peers’ teasing was a kindness compared to the abusive foster parent’s teasing.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131being stabbed in the heart and shot in the heart both can cause people to die of blood loss
Freshman year of High School, someone broke into the school and spray painted a bunch of threats on the walls. The next day was the anniversary of Columbine. Half the students don't show up. Through the day more get taken home by their concerned parents. The doors we had for our classes were steel with no windows. Everytime someone knocked it was loud. In my JROTC class, my desk was directly in front of the door. Everytime someone knocked the other students would get up and run and hide in a corner. I sat there going, "TAKE ME, GOD!"
Nothing serious happened on campus that day. Found out later, through my father who was a police officer at the time, that two kids were arrested near our high school. One was caught carrying a metal pipe. Another was carrying a knife. If I remember correctly, our local paper also reported a girl was walking to the Sixth Grade school, that was near our high school. She claimed that two boys approached her waving guns. She ran and the police were called. I don't know if they were caught.
What kind of messed up town was this?
@@MASTEROFEVIL look up the columbine massacre.
I got bullied a lot in High School and told my Mom, who contacted the principle, the guy got suspended multiple times, and always came back and did the same thing. I even got bullied by his friends. I eventually told my Mom that I would end myself if she continued to take me to that school! So I dropped out and got therapy. My point in telling you all of this is to say you can do what parents and teachers tell you to do and nothing good comes from it, you will still suffer in the end!
This is unfortunately true.
I’m sad that was your experience but happy you got out.
@@emilypeterson1133 Thank you.
from my experience getting bullies in trouble just gets them to bully you even more and have even more of their friends after you because they're all mad at you for snitching. Unless the school starts actively keeping them away from you or you just skip town it never ends :(
Facts. The teachers knew Jimmy was being bullied, and they have the brain cells to suspect he would be bullied worse when they weren't present. They didn't do shit about it. It would be pointless for Jimmy to tell them, they already know.
I will admit that Jimmy could have told them they broke his mouse or stuffed him in a locker, that would be a step further than verbal goading, so MAYBE some kind of action would be taken, but what action? They would bring Nick to an office and tell him off, then dismiss him? Call his parent/guardian? You really think that's going to motivate Nick to STOP screwing with Jimmy? More like pouring gasoline on a fire. The first think Nick would do is find Jimmy and take out all of his frustration on him, make him pay for escalating the situation, and Jimmy likely knows that. We can't ignore the fact that the people supposedly responsible for keeping order and protecting the kids are inept and incompetent, if not indirectly promoting this kind of behavior.
Unfortunately, in this breeds violence. If we are being completely honest, Jimmy's best course of action in the case of physical abuse is to respond in kind. The moment Nick touches him, whoop his ass, beat the tar out of him. Jimmy likely would lose (Nick has 2+ guys to back him up), but at least Nick will think twice about trying that next time.
The problem is 1. kids who fight back (no, not with damn guns, I mean they defend themselves when attacked) often get in trouble for doing so, and 2. not everybody is built for that. Some people are timid, averse to conflict or at least violence, even pacifists. Its absurd to expect every kid to be ready to fight for their lives.
“All I wanted was to be left alone and they wouldn’t even do that” is something I felt so many times in high school.
Nick's actions do tecnically fall under criminal harassement
Personally, I think the early reveal of Ritchie getting hurt works out. It frames everything that comes after, like the meeting with the councilor, as Virgil processing the event and coming to terms with what happened and his own helplessness during the actual moment. Despite having superpowers, Static gets there too late to stop it and has to deal with a friend being hurt and possibly being killed.
As for why Nick "got off easy," it's because he pushed Jimmy constantly. He refused to stop when Jimmy told him to, and he constantly brought him down. At a certain point, what Jimmy did while not acceptable were certainly understandable. Jimmy was a victim of abuse at the hands of Nick and neglect at the hands of his teachers and school staff, and when a victim inevitably lashes out it's wild and uncontrolled and while the action is carried out by the victim, ultimately the root cause is who pushed thek to that point. There's a reason police arrest people who mastermind a heist even though they weren't involved in the action.
Yeah. The point of the episode is not the shock of what happened, but the impact on Vergil and everyone else, and the causes of what happened.
Talking about throwbacks with Vergil’s sitting posture. This man just called Armandillo an “anthro” and not a furry. Now THAT’s a throwback
Whatever.
I'll never forget telling my teacher about my bullys bullying me and her response was "what do you want me to do about it"
Ok I’m gonna ask a dumb question
WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?
10-1 odds that If your response was "just stay out of my way while *I* deal with it" she'd have done something REAL quick.
Reading these comments really opened my eyes to the failure of the U.S. school system. My bullying ended when I went to the vice principal, but clearly mine was the exception and not the rule. Hope you’re all doing better and see better days
This episode relates with me a lot.
I was constantly bullied in Primary School and still am a bit in my last year of High School. I always wanted to teach my bullies a lesson (even if it means seriously hurting them), so I watch this video sometimes to remind myself that it can affect my future more than it can affect theirs.
I can share in that sentiment. I was also bullied because I read military books, and it didn't help my father was a police officer in our small town. So, getting confronted by angry students because their parents got arrested for something was common. How I wanted to get revenge on them, so badly.
I did get revenge, in a way, over fifteen years later I went back to my home town, sadly for a funeral. I met a lot of familiar faces, including many of my bullies. They never progressed far in life. One was flipping burgers are McDonald's. Others were working dead end jobs with their family and social circles in ruins because they cannot seem to get along with anyone. Essentially living an isolated and decaying life. Normally I would laugh and rub their faces in it. Now I just feel pity for them.
@charlessaint7926 you should rub it in their faces
@@charlessaint7926Im sorry too derail the conversation, whats your favorite military books? Mine is the Survival manual 21-76.
@@murderman8578 typically theres no need to, just showing up and being infinitely more successful than they'll ever be is enough to depress them for years to come
@@murderman8578The best way to rub it on their face is to be happy. For some reason, your enemies hate it when you live your good life
This is a powerful episode it shows what can and will happen if you push a good person to thier limit
Thats absolutely not true.
If you are bullied and your instinct is to bring a gun and use deadly force or even the threat of it, you arent a good person pushed to the limit.
@@alexramos7708The lesson is to not push people to their limits and to watch out for signs
@@alexramos7708 You have clearly never been in a bullying/harassment situation where you are made to feel truly helpless. I'm in no way saying that a gun or deadly force is the right answer BUT there are times when it feels like the only option other than taking your own life. There were multiple times in this episode where people on all sides made bad choices & those bad choices had consequences. Nick & his friends were told to stop multiple times (also they are old enough to know they shouldn't be acting that way in the 1st place). Virgil & Richie should have told teachers & Jimmy's parents what was going on. Jimmy should have told the teachers what was going on. Also he should have told his parents about Nick breaking his computer because destruction of property is a CRIME. Hell, when the computer got broken police should have been involved because again, CRIME! Also trapping someone in a locker is NEVER ok! If Jimmy had a panic attack & died as a result that's at MINIMUM manslaughter! Even if he just needed a doctor that's assault & unwilful confinement.
@@alexramos7708 It's definitely true. You can break a good person. If it's your go-to right away then yeah probably not good. But good people can break and resort to such a thing.
@@alexramos7708
As someone who was absolutely bullied and utterly demolished to a borderline spiritual level when I was in school, it was only my mom’s emotional support and the strong principles she instilled in me, I can’t say that things wouldn’t have happened. Not while being entirely honest with myself who I was decades ago. But my mom went through a rough childhood and managed to keep a smile and an optimistic attitude, so she was a massive role model.
It is easy when you have never been denied every single alternative and crushed under the weight of the world. If you believe that someone desperate for a way out from under that pain and isolation, desperate for ANY power they can take back in their life and seeing no peace within their own mind and heart…
You need to have compassion for them, even if they themselves won’t recognize it for what it is anymore. Because it is a very dark place. I made a lot of friends with those that live in the dark corners of the mind and brought them back from the gates of desperation.
There are good people lost in the dark.
In the end, Nick's reputation is completely destroyed by his own bullying actions with Jimmy and his parents are very disappointed in him.
That is true. He put everyone at risk, and his two idiot friends unnecessarily escalated the situation when Ritchie de escalated it. Nick got off with a slap on the wrist, but word travels fast. No girl would ever think to date him and nobody would ever think to associate with him
@@Gundam4
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@@Gundam4 Nick's Dad: Pack your stuff and get out of the house! Now everyone knows that you're a dumb bully! I don't know when you going to grow up!
@@Gundam4 What pissed me off the most is that the two guys who tackled Jimmy has the gall to stare at him as if it was his fault, as if they weren't the ones who escalated it in the first place.
@@Gundam4 Word travels fast, nah. Hahaha. Women and men are like Rick most of the time, but pretend to be "good people", then Jesus Christ sends them to hell.
By personal experience, asking for help when you are getting bullied almost never works. The best case that ever happened to me was that they would stop for a week, then resume doing the same things or even worse. Bullying only stopped when I started getting into fights with then. I don't blame Jimmy for not even trying to tell the teacher or the principal because he surely have suffered bullying his entire life and knew it would be pointless to ask an adult for help.
This is what I miss about the older cartoons, they respected their audience. There was no fear of dealing with heavy subjects and those situations are well represented and not just preachy.
We have the same cartoons today, people just call them woke. Now it's woke to say basic things like "racism is bad". That's a huge red flag for our society
@anti1training actually it's called racist to say racism is bad and that everyone should be treated equally and based on the content of their character. It is woke to attack people for their race, literally call white people the devil and the reason for all evil in this world, and demand that you deserve special treatment (and others deserve extra punishment) because of your race.
@@anti1trainingCan you name a few? I desperately need something new to watch that doesn't treat their audience like they're infants
@@WriterNZane What do you qualify as "treating their audience as infants"? And are you asking about specifically super hero shows?
@@WriterNZanebluey, I may not like the show but it is so great in talking to kids like little adults. Disney is censoring episodes but if you are a parent or know parents that don't know how to communicate with their children, that show has many different episodes on how it can be done or at least open the doors for communication.
He gets off easy because he is just now getting punished. It isnt justice for years of his behaviour.
Nobody really does anything until someone is hurt.
@@nationalinstituteofcheese3012 he hurt someone long before then.
There's enough blame for everyone in this situation not just one particular person. Yes, Nick wasn't doing anything in that one moment, but it was his actions that led to this, Jimmy could've just as easily been suicidal. You can blame Nick's parents for not seeing the signs in their kid and not putting their gun someplace safe. You can blame the school system for not putting a stop to Nick's action and letting it get this far.
In the end I think the lesson is how everybody needs to keep stepping up, to prevent these thing from happening again. Virgil knew Jimmy for a while, but never really tried to reach before it was too late. Showing kindness to that kid at the end shows he can still help others by acting in the moment.
I think Virgil saying Nick got it easy was him referring to how he only ended off with suspension for what he had done meanwhile somone like Richie was shot and Jimmy was swnt to Juvy
I like how the armadillo wishes for his detention. I hope that the armadillo guy was watching the news when the incident happened
"I said detention! Not this! NOT THIS!"
17:01
Something I noticed: I think the fact that he's holding it with the proper grip (as opposed to holding it with your palm UNDER the gun as you see in a lot of games and movies) shows that he's been considering this course of action far more seriously than the sole presence of the "battle journal" implies.
Which makes this episode all the more horrifically disturbing, tragic, and sad in hindsight.
well... he did have a manifesto ( a journal where people would write down their darkest thoughts and plans to cause a tragedy)
Oh wow i didnt notice that. Yeah hes using the actual proper grip.
Or he understood the basics of using a gun because he saw that's how his father held it.
@@hariman7727 Not everyone's dad uses a gun in front of them.
Authority only helps if the bully is unpopular. Nick clearly wasn't. I know from firsthand experience that if the bully is involved in a school organization, be it the cheer team, dance team, or football team, the teacher will tell you to ignore it, because of the difference in social class between them and you. Adults won't do shit. You handle it yourself with self defense classes, fighting the bully with your hands, or growing emotional armor.
I was bullied for 6 years almost every day in school from mid elementary to end of middle. Watching this episode is cathartic in the way where I almost see Jimmy as a hero for finally sticking up for himself, albeit in the most extreme way which I dont support, something I could never do. I'm a pacifist who wants to just get along with people, but that doesnt stop the resentment I have been carrying over the years. When you graduate and get on with your life, those feelings of helplessness and hatred for your bullies dont go away. They fester inside and become triggers for other things like inexplicable bouts of aggression and manic depressive disorder when things dont go right or if your caught off guard with a situation you never asked for like a bully at work.
Shady I dont know if you understand how it feels, but when your a kid getting bullied, it turns into the only world and experience that you'll ever know til you reach adulthood. And then you grow up with the monkey on your back that makes you a monster you never asked for and find out bullies never went away, they just got smarter. HOAs and cash advance scams I'm looking at you.
Shady's black and you ask him if he understands how it feels to be bullied.
That's like asking a knife if it understands how it feels to be stabbed.
Shady is 6’7 and has never gotten bullied he is privileged and will never understand the struggles of the weak.
You're asking a lot out of a guy more likely to be on the opposite side.
My problem with Nick's punishment is it's unrealistic. What school bully do you know that has ever gotten punished for anything?
They get punished later on in life
@@greenarrow.That's not a comfort to their victims.
It does happen, unfortunately. Some bullies are VERY good liars, and principals/teachers can play favorites.
@@greenarrow. One of the women who bullied me as part of the popular clique, from first grade all through high school, is currently working in a job that pays roughly 1.5x as much as mine (maybe even 2x), has a family, a nice house she had built for herself, and her family's wealth has only grown over the years.
Now, you tell me where this "punishment" comes in?
I love the therapy advocation here, telling people and letting them know that it's okay to talk about what happens in life...then again I love having cartoon character in that particular situation in general
The fact static shock hasn’t had an actual movie live action or even animated should be a crime against humanity!
Part of that could be due to a lawsuit between DC and the late Dwayne Mcduffie’s estate in the 2010s
Kudos to Richard Horvitz as Jimmy. He really CAN act!
And yes. Richard Horvitz, aka Alpha 5, aka Billy from "Grim and Evil", aka Invader ZiM.
He sounds different compared t ohow I usual hear him. Maybe it's because he's younger or doing a more natural voice, idk. This certainly shows range though.
And Moxxie
And kaos
He also did the voice of Oliver in KND-Operation: C.R.I.M.E.
I was the quiet kid once, back when I was around 10 years old. Two years of hell.
Thankfully there weren't guns, but we still had our fists. He attacked me during P.E simply because my very existence bothered him and naturally i fought back, but only a few scratches. At one point he grabbed my head and kneed me in the eye. I had to go to the hospital and thankfully I didn't receive any permanent damage, only having to wear an eyepatch or something to cover the eye for a few days.
First day I got back, me and my bully got sent to the principal's office. We explained the situation and...
Nothing. My bully bawled tears about how much he was sorry and the principal let him go, with him only having to write an apology letter to me. That's it.
I understand that expelling a 10 year old kid does not seem right, but on the other hand, I had to spend 8 hours in a hospital waiting room, afraid I was gonna go blind! At least suspend the guy, or fail the class I was attacked in! Don't just slap him on the wrist!
There was one other incident there where I was hit with a metal shopping cart on the head and bled from the head and looked like a freaking Viking. I still have the scar to this day, but that one was more accidental, so I didn't get to mad. Getting stitches for the first time was not fun, let me tell you that much.
That episode is powerful and have a good life lesson on gun violence, bullying and crimes
Eeyup. I was in HS, Senior Year, when that episode aired. I'm probably wrong, but it feels like cartoons in this day and age don't push boundaries anymore. They play it way too safe. Though, there's a part of me that isn't surprised with both sides of the isle ready to wage social media crusades.
I dont think this episode did anything but push antigun propaganda with that final psa. It did more to emphasize trauma induced by violence when we take into account the first episode where static was given a gun a his mom dying from a gun. Remember the majority of reported gun violence statistics are actually suicides (63%-69% variance per year) follwed by gang violence. The bullying message was spot on.
@@zachfreedom644School shootings are still common place and so are mass shootings.
@anti1training school shootings are not common the majority of school shootings happen in liberal places with high amounts of gun control laws and by people who illegally aquire those firearms. Also since 1990 all school shootings have happened in gun free zones. The same cultures we have that support bullying also support belittling human life, and selfish shortsighted decision making that leads to school shootings. Also most mass shootings are gang related
@@zachfreedom644 That is not true. School shootings very often use legally bought firearms or one's passed down. That is legal. And yes, they are common. Of course, a school is a gun free zone 💀
Even then, you're not going to glorify vigilante justice fool. That's a major slippery slope that would get even the good guy killed.
No one said anything about liberal, but since you are, you're missing many factors, including population density and location. Don't blame liberals for school shootings. That's not why they happen. Don't use ignorant bias to spread misinformation. You're using correlation to misread stats. I'm willing to bet you get your info from UA-camrs.
Where a mass shooter targets has little relevance to the problem. Mentioning it's a gun free zone is only a distraction from making actual solutions. The issue is still someone with mental illness easily obtaining a firearm. It's not just a mental health issue. It's a gun law issue. There is no denying these facts. Can't have your cake and eat it too. When will people understand that gun laws are necessary. Mass shootings happen in Texas all the time as well. Including at Church's.
Proproganda is denying that guns are an issue. Gun laws may effect your idea that the country is gonna turn in you, or maybe that Grandma Betty doesn't feel safe if she can't access one, but these are facts and facts do not care about others feelings. Preparing for doomsday or not feeling safe is not a valid enough reason to keep gun laws loose.
It's also a myth that strict gun laws are linked to more shootings. As you said, gang violence exists. Are you counting gang violence amongst those shootings that happen in liberal areas? Because that doesn't help your point, it helps mine. Gang violence isn't relevant here, as you said. You can't be biased. You need to hold everything and everyone by the same standard.
I also enjoy that this episode doesn't fall into the "Guns are Evil" trope. It places the responsibility of the incident on the parties involved, not the devices used.
Guns are inherently evil tho lol its a tool with the design purpose being to cause damage
9:25 is where I paused but I just gotta say.
I didn't even THINK about any in-universe reason for Virgil to be approached because I just assumed it was just cause he's our POV character.
But now that you pointed that out just.. ooooooof Jimmy! Jimmy my boy Jimbo, Jimbob Squarekid... THINK MAN.
As a teen, I could relate to Jimmy a lot. Good episode. I really liked Static Shock
Reporting things to school officials only lets the bullies know it's getting to you at least in the u.s because most schools will never issue a punishment big enough to stop the bullying
I think Virgil saying "He's getting off easy." Means that bullet could of been in him not Richie.
14:37 Geez, that cry sound so genuine, i actually felt a bit uncomfortable hearing that.
Also always felt it was bad Vergil was mad at Jimmy as he didn't mean to shoot Richie, hell Richie managed to talk him down and if the two bullies had simply stayed put, things would've ended without anyone getting hurt.
Virgil is still just a kid himself though, and had just watched his best friend get shot.
@@sandydog426 Yeah but he's also more mature than most his age and understands empathy, hell he even shows it to Hot Streak at some points, the same SOB whose tried to murder him and tortured him when he didn't have powers.
You'd figure he'd be intelligent enough and mature enough to know Jimmy would never shoot Richie on purpose and get all the facts.
I always interpreted that as Vergil being mad that Jimmy ever decided to go that route to begin with, which is also foreshadowed by his visceral reaction to Jimmy offering to show them a "real gun" in the first place. Also, whether the shooting was accidental or not, he still went over to the community center with the intention of shooting someone.
On top of all of that, no matter how smart or intelligent you are, strong emotions can make even the most grounded individuals irrational and unsure what to think of a situation, and this applies to Vergil as well.
I mean, if Jimmy didn’t bring the gun at all, Richie wouldn’t have been shot. Accident or not, Jimmy bares responsibility of Ritchie getting shot.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105Emotions blind us
Shady: at least I’m safe inside my mind
Viewers: at least I’m safe inside my mind
As someone who is also Pro 2A I liked this episode. Cause it isn’t about the gun it’s about what drives a seemingly good kid to do bad things. Jimmy doesn’t turn evil, he’s crying and angry and scared the whole time. Some people are traumatized into doing terrible things in an attempt to alleviate the pain.
Yup its a good metaphor for how guns aren’t the problem, it’s people who cause problems. Fire is a dangerous thing that can cause many problems but it’s also what sparked our evolution. Same with guns, in the right hands they’re useful tools to obtain food and clothing and be used for personal self defense.
Back in the 90s people did view these tragedies more like this. I remember episodes from a lot of different TV shows handling this issue: Seventh Heaven, Walker Texas Ranger. The narrative did tend to be this: a kid gets bullied at school, gets access to a gun, and goes ballistic. The question we faced then was how to handle bullying to prevent these things from happening.
Now people just want to blame the guns. It is no longer the fault of the bullies pushing them over the edge, nor the fault of the kid seeking attention. All fault now falls on the guns, and the only solution is to ban guns. I think we need to relearn this 90s view. Guns are only instruments that get brought out when real problems have escalated too far.
This is a prime example of why you leave people alone.... Also the human mind has it's breaking point
I'm on both sides. I was a bully and was bullied myself. I barely got physical with anyone while when I was bullied, people would just get physical.
I got a knife pulled on me in 9th grade and I grabbed him, but the teacher thought I pushed him down. Even if I did push him, you can self defense isn't tolerated.
I got two days of in school suspension because they wanted me to do work and knew if I was home, I would just be playing games. The guy was allowed to come back, finish the school year and still messed with me.
You know how messed up the schools are.
How was that person still allowed in school if they had a weapon?
@@MASTEROFEVIL because "reasons". Honestly it's been over a decade but the school was crap just like the previous school I went to when I moved to the new state. It's just a bunch of bad schools
@@mandalorianhunter1 Education is a joke
@@MASTEROFEVIL the system really is
@mandalorianhunter1 I honestly don't have a reasonable response to that. You were right to defend yourself, and the teacher should have understood that.
I appreciate that this episode did a good job of showing Virgil's human side, and the guilt that he felt not being able to save his friend being shot.
I wonder if Jimmy might be claustrophobic, which explains why he freaked out, when the bullies shoved him into the locker.
@Nonjola Even if you're not, the thought of being in that tight a space, wondering when or even if you're going to be found and let out?
Most people are going to freak out.
@@Beohuneverybody says they aint claustrophobic, but they change their tune real quick when i shove em in The Cave
If he wasn't before, being shoved in a locker would certainly make him develop it.
@@dragonheart1236the Cave..? 😨
It’s sad how realistic this is
4:06 because armadillo man is the box ghost of static shock. He is not a threat to anyone
14:15
Yeah pretty whiled that we got Richard Horvitz playing Jimmy.
The fact he also playes Moxie from Hell of a Boss, somehow makes this hit different.
I think the ending is meant to show that Vergil is helping the bully victim sooner rather than later. He's not letting the situation build up again like it did with Jimmy.
When you feel less alone, it can literally be a difference between life and death. Reaching out to someone who feels alone, you never know how much of a difference you could be making to that single person.
When I was a kid I was relentlessly bullied by a whole mess of kids. When I reported that I was getting bullied walking home, it took weeks for the school to stop denying that the kids giving me a hard time even went to that school. When I told the teachers about what was happening, they would just talk to the kids, and it would just make the bullying worse. Added to this was how my parents always told me to never get in trouble at all (my dad worked with the school and repeatedly ordered me to stay out of trouble, and report everything to the teachers and principal).
Unfortunately schools these days aren't great at "conflict management" between students. A lot of students don't have the hope of their lives getting any better and so any form of punishment in school really has no effect on them. Even more so, the teachers just don't want to do any more work than they need to. I think they see the same problems come up year after year and even if they fix things once and for all in one year, a couple years down the road the same problem will pop up with different students. I don't know the best way to fix it, but things NEED to happen.
This episode is a very powerful one. I will mention this, as someone who was on the end of bullying and with how Jimmy responded and that last portion where they said he was getting counseling. Being bullied constantly can and does have a big detriment on how you view your options mentally. Sadly we don't know the full extent of how long Nick was bullying Jimmy, if Jimmy tried other options like telling other adults and nothing came of it beyond Nick getting a slap on the wrist and a "don't do it again". Nick and his friends doing what they did in public kind of shows that they know they'll get away with it, since Nick doesn't show much if ANY hesitation in his actions. Jimmy might have felt he had no other options, and of course we have to keep in mind these ARE kids/teenagers who aren't the most rational people in high stress situations and especially when you're not physically strong. Virgil's lack of helping (and keep in mind I'm not blaming Virgil or saying he's at fault) beyond some kind words and hanging out with him COULD make it seem like Jimmy had nobody to turn to or that nobody thought he was worth helping....and so in his mind the options grew more and more narrow, and with Nick asserting his power over him constantly? What's more powerful than a fist, but a gun?
This IS all speculation on my part of course, and I could be dead wrong. It's just my perspective as someone who was...kind of IN Jimmy's position and how he could come to his conclusion of what he was doing WAS his best option....just not a good one as you said.
Edit: I DO want to make a clarification, no I was NOT going to ever make the decision Jimmy did with his bully. My solution was, for the sake of not triggering some automation, removing MYSELF from the equation to stop the bullying.
I have been there with the clarification, but with more emphasis on wanting the misery to *end.*
This was a very powerful analysis of the situation. I never considered a timeline of bullying and as someone who was a bullying victim, I can tell you that sometimes they just do it to get a reaction and "just ignore them" is not a good solution. There is no "good solution". Bullying can get worse the more time passes with it happening.
Being shoved in a locker may seem tame, but based on his reaction to being in the locker he appears to be claustrophobic so it's worse for him than it would be for someone else.
Your ability to remember the things you said to keep up with past statements is something that I really admire about you as a person. I really want to learn how to do the same thing so that I can be consistent like you are in your videos whenever you do your video "essays" or "reviews" I'd like to be able to do the same thing day to day. Just wanted to comment this because I just wanted to compliment you as a person.
I watch my own videos all the time, either to study them or just for entertainment, so it's not difficult for me to remember what I've said in the past. Part of making an argument is addressing any counterpoints that can be used against you. When I'm writing these scripts, I think of counterpoints and sometimes go "Wait, I said something similar to that in a past video. Am I contradicting myself?"
@@ShadyDooragsyou even said it yourself in the Hank's Bully review, that there tends to be an exception to many situations, sometimes to defend ourselves we literally have no other choice but to get down to the level of those trying to hurt us, and in this case sometimes even if you emphasize with someone on the opposite end of a situation, it doesn't make what they're doing okay.
In Hank's situation, he had already tried as many "good" solutions as he could. He worked within the system multiple times and it failed him. In this episode, we never see Jimmy try using the system. Jimmy hadn't reached the point yet where he had no other choice.
@@ShadyDoorags In addition, he didn't try any other means of force. He goes from running or cowering straight to lethal force.
@@ShadyDoorags same mistake Daria and Jane made in "Arts and Crass", people need to try the system before completely writing it off.
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This episode of stack shock is a good example of both bullies and guns. It's a perfect balance of talking about issues.
Showing Ritchie being hurt at the beginning works, because in situations like this, far too often it isn't until *AFTER* that people "learn a lesson".
This episode hits alot harder as an adult. In both middle and highschool I wound up getting bullied ALOT. When I was in middle school the obvious answer was try to talk to someone about it unfortunately the school favored the rich kids and did nothing, scratch that they tried to imply I was the problem and years later I found out there was a incident where there was a meeting they said my mom might be "a bad mother" and she damn near them for that.
The school itself would then go onto harass me for getting a eyebrow piercing suspendeding me for doing it the next year which I still don't think is legal.
Then I get to highschool its the same school (they were connected for few years) only now the rich kids know I'm an easy target. They rip up my leather jacket, spray paint all the papers in my binders and that was just freshmen year. The idea of getting revenge did become a daily thought.
Now at 30 I actaully work at a juvie and bullying is the last thing I tolerate. I'm quick to make conversations and even become pretty friendly with the akward or annoying kids no one likes becuase I remember what that was like. Alot of the kids I work with just made a mistake and I try to remind them this is just a bump in the road and it doesn't have to define them.
Freida used Charm. It was SUPER effective!
One of the interesting things about guys.
Men and Boys receive so few compliments that when they do,
they become FOREVER MEMORIES.
Yeah, in these days where men are downtrodden as we are against manipulative women and a society that favors them and hates us, a truly kind and caring woman that genuinely compliments us is a rare, but powerful moment that sticks with us.
@@kinghyperheart1571waahhh
Too true. Someone told me I had an attractive voice a few years back.
I’m a female but I’m autistic so I’m the same way.
It's... painful how often I think about this exact thing.
Frida gracing Jimmy was the most important day of his life. For Frida, it was Tuesday”
Man💀
This did not help after I saw the part where she said she wasn’t interested in him at 13:50💀😭
I completely forgot about this episode until Jimmy got shoved in a locker. Richard Horvitz's delivery in that scene hit hard for me as a kid. Thank you for covering this episode.
I think it’s the difference of effect of the punishments have on Nick and Jimmy that bothers Virgil.
Even if Jimmy manages to do well and turn things around after his time in juvie and counseling. He will still have a criminal record hanging over his head hurting his opportunities of career employment and college education.
That’s why Virgil felt like Nick got off too easy with his punishment ‘cause in long run this incident won’t hurt his future as much as it hurts Jimmy’s.
Man i miss shows that kept it real
You know, for kids!
Nostalgia Critic reference
Remember Superman watching his best friend get killed in front of him thanks to Darkside.
This episodes reminds me of how the Columbine shooters were bullied and showed many warning signs. Ultimately people blamed video games, rock music, and guns rather than the apathy and incompetence of authority figures
You have to admit, without easy access to guns, they couldn't shoot anyone. Remember, they got those guns from their homes.
@@Alverant There are many other ways you can get access to a gun that you just don't know of. It probably would just delay their plans, if they were so determined they probably would get it in a way or another. I know it would make it harder for them to get access to it, but I don't agree with "without easy access to guns, they couldn't shoot anyone"
That's a myth that has been circulated too far. The Columbine shooters weren't the victims of bullying, nor were they known bullies. Neither were abused at home as far as anyone could tell either. They were just... Fucked in the head and managed to bring out the worst in each other.
They shot innocent people too, right? They went too far.
@@Alverantif someone is so determined to hurt someone, they're going to find a way. You gotta stop blaming the weapon and start looking at the actual problem.
12:30
Let's be honest:
Jimmy has the Rizz without even knowing it, he focuses way more on his computer and studying than chasing after girls, it's what made him irresistible.
Freda wasn't even in to him anyway.
@@GeekZone210 no, but she noticed him enough to ask for his attention and help. Plus, bear in mind she probably only told Nick she wasn't interested in Jimmy because Nick was implying that she was lowering her standards by associating with him, peer pressure can make people say things they otherwise wouldn't say, chances are Freda probably would at least go on a date with Jimmy in other circumstances.
This episodes message still remains an important topic. Bullying can lead to serious outcomes if no one helps the kid.
Man I remember watching this on tv
One of my favorite episodes
Thanks man
Also 6’7 here as well know the exact same feeling but more football than basketball
Bro, when he walked up to Virgil and said "wanna see a real gun" i lost it😂 reminds me of Ed Wuncler III walking up to Riley Freeman during the Garden party episode and asked him "hey litte man, you like guns" 😂😂😂
12:14 My dumb ass would miss all of these signs
If we can reasonably extrapolate that someone driving someone else to suicide is homicide, it's reasonable to assign some responsibility to a bully when the path of decisions can be traced back to them.
As someone who was bullied and didn't get into the ballistic solution, the episode makes it a point that authority figures wouldn't do anything to help Jimmy by establishing that a teacher, who was *VERY* quick to point out Virgil was late to class, couldn't see something as blatant as a greaser-like student messing with another student's property *on a table they weren't supposed to be sitting at*.
Jimmy's breaking point wasn't being made fun of or being rejected. It was having his things broken, being physically ganged up on. Being stuffed into a cramped locker outside of school hours, potentially ending up trapped all night or multiple nights if someone hadn't found him. You can see it in how he breaks down inside.
The bully in quesiton got off light because he was directly responsible for someone's rapidly deteriorating mental health, and actively so. Every action he took was one of cruelty, and completely unjustified. And those actions not only destroyed someone else's mental health, but got an innocent person hurt.
As a person who was bullied during elementary and middle school, this episode was hard to watch the first time and it's still hard to rewatch now 😔
It goes without saying that this is one of if not THE most memorable Static Shock episode.
To this day it's still a perfect example of the kinds of bad things that can happen because of bullying, Whether it be a school shooting or a student committing suicide.
But looking at it from Jimmy's point of view, On some level you can't really blame him for wanting to shove a gun in Nick's face after everything he did. And to some degree Nick deserved it but sadly people like Nick think that just because they come from a prestigious family they can treat whoever they want however they want, Thinking that no one can touch them.
But at least Nick somewhat got punished in the end with suspension and community service. He may have deserved worse but that was better than nothing.
As for Jimmy well, Like I said his motives were understandable. But at least someone (IE Richie) had the common sense to talk Jimmy out of it, In fact Richie spoke nothing but truth when he said that Jimmy may be upset about what Nick did to him. But if Jimmy pulled that trigger it won't matter tomorrow because Jimmy would just be rotting away in cell, Killing Nick wasn't worth throwing Jimmy's whole life away.
While showing the climax at the opening may take away the shock factor of Richie getting shot, it also creates a sense of dread as the characters talk about what led up the point; this further amplified by the cold opening showing only that the gun shot wasn’t IMMEDIATELY lethal and leaving the audience wondering if Richie would pull through.
14:26 I got invader zim flashbacks. Which made me upset because I want Angry Beavers flashbacks lol
That episode shows that bullying can have fatal consequences
19:12 I haven't seen the episode, but from what little I know about Virgil, he was implying that Nick should get juvie too.
If other shows in the future (both animated and not) do anti-bullying episodes I hope they putt more focus on how most schools and teachers are utter shit at doing anything remotly useful at putting a stop to bullying and more often than not they make things worse by punishing the victim instead. I think it's about time the institution itself gets called out cause this shit is getting out of hand.
Shady Doorags, we love you and I am praying for you. Thank you for creating this content. Hugs little brother.
16:12 ya I can't blame him for having a gun with easy access we know that there are moldable criminals with superpowers.
you will never see a eps like this on tv anymore. (sad because this eps open your eyes to true reasons sch##l sh##tings happen in the first places and are still happening.)
honestly this a eps that covers a major subject.
Even if a bully has a "reason" for doing what they do, it doesn't excuse them doing the thing in the first place.
No anger here shady, but you missed a big point when you said the incidents of bullying were separate and isolated. that's factually untrue and subjectively untrue, Jimmy was targeted to be a victim and harassed over time: his bullying was consistent and ongoing, and at the very least in his mind, all one huge repeated, chronic occurrence. You're right that the bully's dues were already just and I also don't agree with the same line you took issue with, for largely the same reasons. But Jimmy, while not justified, was much more understandable than you seem to grok.
You know what makes this episode even scarier...the fact that there are REAL kids like Jimmy who've been in his shoes.
As Static said in the PSA; almost every day, students are gunned down by peers. Most of the time it's retaliation against bullying and other times, it's from different reasons. But in terms of the former, I doubt telling a teacher would do ANYTHING to stop the bully issue.
When it comes to punishment, school officials are VERY complacent about how they act towards bullies.
(NOTE: Speaking as someone who was a bully victim throughout much of his school life, I know what I'm talking about)
16:56 all hell breaks loose
I think that starting with the climax was smart to do because this is a kids show. It played on kids WB with the same audience as Pokemon and Xiolin Showdown.
Starting with showing that Ritchie was shot and is alive is a way to introduce a heavy topic to the audience, without scaring a bunch of kids and making them think a character they love was killed. A weakened climax is a fair tradeoff to make it palatable for its designated audience.
Funnily enough, it would have a weak climax anyway if it was linear. Almost immediately after Richie is shot, the situation is resolved and Ritchie is shown limping in his cast. The plot of Virgil's trauma and recovering after the situation drags out the event so that it has a sense of dread and attention that a linear plot would have completely ignored.
I haven't watched the episode, so i'm just guessing, but just my 2 cents.
Nail = hit on head.
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