I was watching G4 Underground, a brand new series on G4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G4_(TV_channel)) and they did this whole feature on real life superheroes. Yeah bonafide people who believe they are superheroes. Neither of these guys had powers but they dressed up in their outfits and went out fighting crime and keeping the public peace.
For a moment I was cracking up at this poor sad souls. I love comic books and I always dreamed that I would wake up one morning and have some awesome powers. It's one of the reasons why I love watching Heroes. Waking up one morning and having super powers? That would be too awesome.
But I am grounded in reality and I know their is no such thing as human flight, teleportation or having fire come out of your hands. Sure people can be super heroes without powers I mean look at Batman but still I do not think even Batman is possible. I mean the guy is filthy rich and McGuyver skills and knows nearly every martial art known to man. The man has technology that no normal person would have access too. So yeah a person can not wake up one day and be like Batman. It is not realistic.
Coming back to this show, that is what these plain joes tried to do. They go out at night in spandex and leather (I am not kidding) or their $5000 specially made outfits (again, not kidding) and try to fight the good fight. Stopping crime, keeping drug dealers off the streets, trying to be Super heroes. Noble idea I must admit, stupid in execution. You are a grown ass man. Leave the super heroics to the 'real' Heroes, police officers. The world is not a playground and people get hurt, people die.
We do not need 'super' heroes, we need people with common sense.
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