Dwayne McDuffie
Plot for 4 Pages
STATIC
"Sample Plot"
First Draft, 8-21-92
"Sample Plot"
Page 1
A food court in a shopping mall. FRIEDA GOREN is impatiently knocking on a public restroom's DOOR. She's frantically telling someone inside to hurry up. Inside the bathroom, a partially dressed VIRGIL HAWKINS awkwardly hops on one foot as he pulls off one of his shoes. "I'm coming, I'm coming!"
Outside, three armed THUGS (serious badasses) are sticking up SHOPPERS in the mall. Several are standing nearby, their hands raised in fear. Two Thugs are relieving a couple of them of valuables (wallets, jewlery.) The 3RD THUG is approaching Freida, who is starting to get worried, she calls through the door without taking her eye off of the cruelly smiling, 3RD Thug, "Virgil, hurry! I'm not kidding!"
Page 2
Inside the bathroom, one panel. We're tight on the back of Virgil's head. We don't get a good look at his face, but he's in costume as Static, narcissistically checking the angle of his baseball cap in the mirror, "Just a second, Freida."
Back outside, the 3rd Thug is pointing his gun at a very frightened Freda while cupping her chin in his other hand. "You hidin' something, Sweetie? Is somebody in there?"
The Thug shoves Freida aside and raps on the bathroom door with the butt of his handgun, "Knock! Knock!"
The bathroom door EXPLODES outward in a shower of splinters. The 3RD Thug is blown off of his feet by the force of the explosion. From this angle, we cannot see what caused it.
Page 3
"Who's there?" New angle is a verticle, half page (left side) splash of STATIC,standing triumphantly in the demolished bathroom doorway. Kirby-style energy "bubbles" surround his hands. Smoke curls up around his feet. This shit looks cool.
Down the right side of the page are three stacked panels:
The two remaining thugs have whirled, guns drawn, towards the source of the sound,"Jesus! He took out Matt!"
"Get him!"
In response, Virgil holds up one admonishing finger, a finger that crackles ominously with electricity, "I love this part."
An ELECTRICAL ARC (these are not lightining bolts, rather, they look like the streams of energy from the "Proton Packs" in the movie Ghostbusters") loops from Static's fingertip to one then the other Thug's guns. They react in pain, and are in the processs of dropping the guns.
Page 4
One of the thugs is holding his burned hand, he's in great pain, his gun lies harmlessly on the floor in front of him. The other thug (who is very big and muscular) is walking ominously towards an underwhelmed Static. The
Thug has his fist cocked back to punch the little upstart. "I don't need no gun to take out a little punk like you!"
"I bet you do."
With a huge CRACK, Static punches the much bigger man in the face with a fist that crackles with electical energy. It's a big right cross that has driven the big man off of his feet, he's falling backwards, arms spread, feet off of the ground like one of those old Kirby shots of the Hulk clocking the Thing.