Gear

Richard Osgood Foley also known as the Gear or Richie to his friends. He is the secondary character of the Static Shock animated series.

In the Heroes Coalition fics, Richie is currently a member of the Heroes Coalition and is a part of the Triumph Division.

Appearance
Richard is a young man with blonde hair and he wears glasses over his dark eyes. He is currently wearing a green hooded vest over a black top, light-green pants and white boots.

His costume consists of a green helmet with a glass mask, a sleeveless blue & green body suit with a gray utility belt, black elbow rings, black gloves, black metallic kneepads and green & black rocket shoes.

Personality
Richie Foley is the best friend of Virgil Hawkins. After the Big Bang, Richie came up with the idea of being a super hero.

Over time, he began growing jealous of Static's powers, and yearned powers of his own. He joined Ragtag's gang; Ragtag had the ability to grant others superpowers for a brief period.

Over the years, Richie was exposed to Quantum Vapor residue that was on Static. It boosted his brain capacity, and made him a technopath.

Abilities
Equipment Transportation Weapons
 * Genius Level Intellect
 * Gadgetry
 * Robotic Engineering
 * Technopathy
 * Gravity Manipulation:  (formerly)  As Push, Richie had the power to manipulate gravity. However, the effects were temporary and eventually wore off.
 * Back-Pack: A supercomputer with a neural link to Gear that could cling to his back, or walk on four legs. It had in-built tracking and analyzing equipment.
 * Jet-Blades: Roller skates with built-in jet rockets.
 * Jet-Boots: Boots with jet rockets, which granted him the ability of flight.
 * Jet-Board: A flying surfboard.
 * Zap-Cap, Mark II: Tiny grenades that could eject a constricting wire.

Trivia

 * This character takes elements from Richard Stone and Frieda Goren.