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Wait till you see this guy, the Emerald Enforcer!

This article is really long, so instead of quoting the whole thing and adding my comment, I'm just going to link it and add my comment.

http://articles.citypages.com/2008-01-16/feature/superheroes-in-real-life/

So people who are probably giant nerds are dressing up as Super Heros and doing Heroic things. I wonder what their health plan is, and I wonder if any of them ever gotten killed trying to be the "Hero". Hmmm, still kinda funny.

Super Heroes: Like all other good people doing good things, but dressed differently.

Two years ago, Wayne saw a commercial for Who Wants to Be a Superhero?—a reality show in which costumed contestants compete for the honor of starring in their own comic book—and something inside him clicked.

I watched episodes from that show - it was so awful it can hardly be described. Usually you'd hold out some hope that it might be good in an 'oh my god how awful' kind of way but it was just, simply awful.

Stan Lee was the Donald Trump of the show and, well, let's just say I don't have much respect for him anymore and, to be honest, I doubt he does.

Still, whatever gets your goat...

Super Heroes: Like all other good people doing good things, but dressed differently.

I believe they can also be seen at the Gay Pride Parade. *nods*

Oh come on, it's not like they're dressed up as Aquaman!

:p

Wait till you see this guy, the Emerald Enforcer!

This article is really long, so instead of quoting the whole thing and adding my comment, I'm just going to link it and add my comment.

http://articles.citypages.com/2008-01-16/feature/superheroes-in-real-life/

So people who are probably giant nerds are dressing up as Super Heros and doing Heroic things. I wonder what their health plan is, and I wonder if any of them ever gotten killed trying to be the "Hero". Hmmm, still kinda funny.

wrong... the term is NOT superheroes (unless they possess some ability greater than that of the normal human) but the term should be Mysterymen. Batman is not a Superhero but a Mysteryman.

wrong... the term is NOT superheroes (unless they possess some ability greater than that of the normal human) but the term should be Mysterymen. Batman is not a Superhero but a Mysteryman.

Don' get all PC up in are Superhero grills...dog.

I watched episodes from that show - it was so awful it can hardly be described. Usually you'd hold out some hope that it might be good in an 'oh my god how awful' kind of way but it was just, simply awful.

Stan Lee was the Donald Trump of the show and, well, let's just say I don't have much respect for him anymore and, to be honest, I doubt he does.

Still, whatever gets your goat...
I liked some of the test.

the best one was that they had to run several blocks to give a speech at some fundraiser.

only Four didn't make it to the fundraiser in time. their reason? they stopped to help a lost girl crying in the street... (THE REAL TEST!)

the reaming Stan Lee gave the others who ran past the crying girl was classic.

Super Heroes: Like all other good people doing good things, but dressed differently.

Is that show still on?

the reaming Stan Lee gave the others who ran past the crying girl was classic.

Whoa, bad mental image...

Wait till you see this guy, the Emerald Enforcer!

This article is really long, so instead of quoting the whole thing and adding my comment, I'm just going to link it and add my comment.

http://articles.citypages.com/2008-01-16/feature/superheroes-in-real-life/

So people who are probably giant nerds are dressing up as Super Heros and doing Heroic things. I wonder what their health plan is, and I wonder if any of them ever gotten killed trying to be the "Hero". Hmmm, still kinda funny.

I wonder if there's a market in being a villain...

Whoa, bad mental image...

Actually, that was really embarrassing for them. *nods*

I wonder if there's a market in being a villain...

You can work in my secret Underground Lair... Once I get the lease.

I wonder if there's a market in being a villain...

Hmmm, you might have a point there....

I wonder if there's a market in being a villain...

Only if you have the equipment for a death ray... without threatening world destruction in some cool, super awesome way, a villain is only a crazy crook in a costume v.v

I wonder if there's a market in being a villain...

I'm willing to bet that secretly, they'd totally pay you to be their villain...

Wait till you see this guy, the Emerald Enforcer!

This article is really long, so instead of quoting the whole thing and adding my comment, I'm just going to link it and add my comment.

http://articles.citypages.com/2008-01-16/feature/superheroes-in-real-life/

So people who are probably giant nerds are dressing up as Super Heros and doing Heroic things. I wonder what their health plan is, and I wonder if any of them ever gotten killed trying to be the "Hero". Hmmm, still kinda funny.

I really like that costume.

Every hero needs a villain.

We do not forgive, we do not forget. We are anonymous.

Another kid, awed by the uniform, just stares silently. "Hi," Geist says with a smile, holding out his hand in greeting. "I'm a real-life superhero."

The kid grabs Geist's leather-clad mitt and grins back. "I'm four!"
lol

There is a Reader's Digest version on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-life_superhero

I can't say I'm totally with these Superman-wannabes...some of them seem have committed crimes (Alain Robert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Robert), George Willig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Willig) and Dan Goodwin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Goodwin)), not to mention others appear to be idealists who cause nothing but trouble (Terrifica (http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=91072&page=1), the New York woman who "saves" girls from bars). Not to mention I'm not so sure I like the idea of "citizen's arrests" that these superheroes are no doubt doing.

Why do the call it a uniform if they're the only one who wears it?

Why do the call it a uniform if they're the only one who wears it?

Because it's unique to their form!

Because it's unique to their form!
I'm pretty sure a brown trench coat and a simple ski mask would be plenty effective at concealing ones identity and provide you with a place to stash an arsenal of kinves, guns, and other equipment.

I'm pretty sure a brown trench coat and a simple ski mask would be plenty effective at concealing ones identity and provide you with a place to stash an arsenal of kinves, guns, and other equipment.

It would also be decidedly un-heroic.

There is a Reader's Digest version on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-life_superhero

I can't say I'm totally with these Superman-wannabes...some of them seem have committed crimes (Alain Robert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Robert), George Willig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Willig) and Dan Goodwin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Goodwin)), not to mention others appear to be idealists who cause nothing but trouble (Terrifica (http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=91072&page=1), the New York woman who "saves" girls from bars). Not to mention I'm not so sure I like the idea of "citizen's arrests" that these superheroes are no doubt doing.

I am totally hooked on these guys...

Hmm, perhaps I should get to work becoming a villain, at least one real enough that they don't have to pay me beforehand and the villainy is at least marginally profitable.

I live right next to Minneapolis and have never seen or heard of this guy until now...

Wait till you see this guy, the Emerald Enforcer!

This article is really long, so instead of quoting the whole thing and adding my comment, I'm just going to link it and add my comment.

http://articles.citypages.com/2008-01-16/feature/superheroes-in-real-life/

So people who are probably giant nerds are dressing up as Super Heros and doing Heroic things. I wonder what their health plan is, and I wonder if any of them ever gotten killed trying to be the "Hero". Hmmm, still kinda funny.Reminds me of the Civil War Reenactments. And I mean the ones involving Captain America and not the ones with the Union and Confederacy.

*contemplates a new summer job*

What a really odd bunch of people.

Strange, see this is what happens when you do too much routine and/or boring work.
They sound like very unbalanced people, how can they judge what other people should do? They could be utterly insane and not care.
It's like creating a world inside of a world, inside your head, but these folks take it seriously.
Well um good luck?

There was a man in the London area, a year or two back, who turned out in a superhero costume to cut clamps off of people's cars...

My embittered, cynical heart was touched. I felt a little bit better after reading that article.

Thank you. :)

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For a topic this nerdy, that's the perfect way to put it.

I wonder if there's a market in being a villain...
nah, Do you know the hassles one has to go through just to get the permits to put lasers on the heads of those frickkin sharks?

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and you pick up an addiction to Lycra or Spandex... your choice.

There was a man in the London area, a year or two back, who turned out in a superhero costume to cut clamps off of people's cars...

Angle Grinder Man! He's in one of the links.

Though I think he might be getting the clamped people in more trouble since the boot has a thing on it about tampering with it...