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Specs and Trapper are fictional characters featured only in the animated series Static Shock. They do not appear in the comic book series that the show was based on.
Specs and Trapper are two young but self-centered geniuses that are first seen in Static Shock Season 1 in the episode The New Kid. They were students (Upper-Classmen) of the Vanmoor Charter School for Science, where they also taught a class of younger students. They also worked secretly for Edwin Alva, Sr., who gave them an assignment to capture Static.
In the episode The New Kid; Virgil Hawkins (Static's secret identity) was accepted into Vanmoor for a six-week period with high-tech learning facilities. Virgil got lost on campus on his first day; he asked Specs and Trapper for help, but the door they showed him led outside. He later discovered that they were his teachers. While they had their students busy working, Specs and Trapper were working on trying to lure out and capture Static. Trapper in a huge robotic suit went out into the streets in public and started causing a panic blasting anything in sight, while Specs was back at their private lab montioring Trapper's progress. When Static came to stop what he saw as a huge robot; it hit him with a charge. He was able to blast the robot back, but was left drained. Trapper in the huge robotic suit pursued Static through a couple of alleys before Static came back at the robot, fully recharged. Unable to win, Trapper released a large sphere, which turned out to be full of gas, and escaped. All the while during the fight, Specs had recorded Static's power, intending to use it to track him.
The next day, Specs and Trapper give their class of students a new assignment: a program for an electronic eye that can find any electromagnetic power source that was dialed into it—and told them that their grades would suffer the more it was delayed. When Specs and Trapper returned to their private lab, they are confronted by Edwin Alva, Sr., who rages at them for not bringing him Static. Specs and Trapper are having difficulty capturing Static alive because Alva wants his Bio-Research team to study the DNA of Static because he is a Bang-Baby and has been giving Alva problems, and a live specimen is better than a dead one.
The next time Specs and Trapper go to their classroom they see that Virgil has already completed the programe for the electronic eye. Specs and Trapper take the completed programe to their private lab to install it into their newly built Alva Machine. Meanwhile, Virgil—acompanied by his classmate Daisy, and suspicious of Specs and Trapper being funded by Alva—sneaks into Specs and Trapper's private lab and overhears Specs, Trapper and Alva in conversation about their plan while the Alva Machine powered up. Virgil and Daisy were both seen, and escaped the lab; while Virgil went to change into Static, Specs and Trapper were about to have the Alva Machine try and get Daisy when she was saved by Static—and they both have to avoid all the suprises the Alva Machine has until Static safely dropped Daisy off.
Static tried blasting the Alva Machine, but it was covered in a ceramic that could not be affected by his electrical powers. He then buried it in rubble, but it just dug itself out. So Static decided to bring the Alva Machine to Alva himself. It finally ended when Static held Alva in front of the Alva Machine, knowing that Specs and Trapper whould not fire upon their benefactor. Specs thought that he could still stun Static when the power went out, thanks to Daisy and the other classmates pulling the plug on the fuses for Specs and Trapper private lab. The Vanmoor Charter School for Science was closed down because of Specs and Trapper.
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