This is probably better placed in Comic and Hero/Villain Culture, a few boards down in the For Fun! section.
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There are actually quite a few people around the country who do this. In fact there used to be a website dedicated to them I'm too lazy to look it up, but you can probably find it if you search for Real Life Superheroes.
yes i read about Pheonix Jones yesterday on a article online. I also read about a small group of costume heroes in Cinncinati thats led by a hero name ShadowHare. Also in New York there's a heroine name Foxfire that patrols the alleys at night. there are quite a bit of real life superheroes around the country. you can type in Real life superheroes in a search and you'll probably find a list of them. There's even been real life "super villains" as well
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Not all of them wear costumes though. And I will go into that no further, as that is for another forum.
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There's even been real life "super villains" as well
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Here is a further article about the story...sorry some stuff made laugh out loud.
"The other superheroes implied it was just a regular random guy you were trying to force a taco onto"
lol
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His UK contemporaries use coloured lycra as protection against knives and guns and petrol bombs.
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Very cool article. I kind of think this was inevitable, life imitates art and all. I've been following all these stories over the past couple years, and I've been doing a lot of face-palming. Not so much with Phoenix Jones though. He isn't the first "real deal" citizen crime fighter--Dark Guardian and his team put themselves in tough spots all the time, confronting drug dealers in NYC--but Jones is the first to really capture this much mind-share (his totally awesome suit probably helps). It's getting increasingly difficult to look at Phoenix Jones, stab wounds still fresh, and the rest of the Rain City Superheroes, going back out to kick dealers off corners, and go, "Oh, they're just pretending." |
Originally Posted by Iggylove
Here is a further article about the story...sorry some stuff made laugh out loud.
"The other superheroes implied it was just a regular random guy you were trying to force a taco onto" lol Read More http://www.gq.com/news-politics/news...#ixzz1UYGZRiEO |
Still, awesome or not, it's dangerous, very dangerous, and these guys and gals aren't Batman. Most of them have way less training than mall cops. Phoenix Jones is getting his training in the worst possible way: trial and error, out on the streets. Maybe in 10 or 15 years he'll have criminals quaking in their boots, that is if he lives that long.
I had always hoped real life's first vigilantes would be unsatisfied police officers, CIA operatives or Navy SEALS, or something. People with an abundance of skills and tools to keep our cities safer at night. Instead we have average citizens putting on masks. It's pretty bad when you think about it, but I'll draw a comic book comparison to make it clearer. Think about all those ordinary citizens in the comics, the ones who aren't prepared to defend themselves, who are always saved in the nick of time, when the super heroes swoop in to beat up the bad guys, when 911 isn't good enough. Well, what if those super heroes never came? What would those ordinary citizens do then? This is what. In cities like Belltown, and New York, some of them would start to go crazy. They'd start putting on masks. Frail fists shaking, they'd leave their homes and families at night, against any sound mind's reasonable judgement.
Would make a cool comic book.
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Check out Twilight Guardian, by CoH-favorite Troy Hickman. Four issue series, quite good. I believe it's gonna be out as a trade in another month or two.
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Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
Would make a cool comic book.
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Unfortunately I just got word that the TPB has been postponed for the time being. Yes, I'm amazingly sad about that. But if things like this didn't happen, it wouldn't be called the comic book business; it would be called "the happy funtime cotton candy machine"...
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Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Check out Twilight Guardian, by CoH-favorite Troy Hickman. Four issue series, quite good. I believe it's gonna be out as a trade in another month or two.
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I'll keep an eye out for it in the future though. Writing comics must be a lot of fun. I have the big $40 Civil War edition with the full annotated script after the story. It was SO cool reading through the process. Looking back through that stuff has inspired me to start planning out some Mission Architect stories. I know AE is not the same at all; but still, I feel like I have a few tips and tricks to start out with, for moving my stories along.
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Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Unfortunately I just got word that the TPB has been postponed for the time being. Yes, I'm amazingly sad about that. But if things like this didn't happen, it wouldn't be called the comic book business; it would be called "the happy funtime cotton candy machine"...
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I actually read that Phoenix Jones has a confirmed(successful) past in MMA so he's not completely untrained.
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Would explain a few things. Y'know, most of the RLSH community loathes him. They call him a vigilante, not a super hero. In the interview, Jones called them all Real Life Sandwich Handlers or something like that; I laughed. (He's tackling real-life bad guys while they're making sandwiches for homeless people--in their spandex).
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Originally Posted by Premonitions
I actually read that Phoenix Jones has a confirmed(successful) past in MMA so he's not completely untrained.
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Not sure if it should go here or in another section. But found this article and thought it might be of interest.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/dressups...107-19itw.html
A masked superhero vigilante called Phoenix Jones has taken to protecting the streets of a small American town.
Jones, who wears a black and gold costume, patrols the streets of Lynnwood, a town of 35,000 people just outside Seattle, Washington. He wears a bullet-proof vest and stab-protection gear under his outfit and carries a Taser stun gun and pepper spray. Sadly, he does not have a fancy vehicle like Batman - instead he is driven around in a Kia by a female sidekick who does not get out of the car.
The adventures of Phoenix Jones mirror those of the plot of Kick-***, a film directed by Matthew Vaughn in which an ordinary teenager tries to become a superhero.
Advertisement: Story continues below The vigilante told a TV network he had been stabbed and threatened with a gun more than once since he began fighting crime nine months ago.
However, he said: ''When I walk into a neighbourhood, criminals leave because they see the suit.
''The average person doesn't have to walk around and see bad things and do nothing.''
He recently prevented a car theft, chasing away a criminal who was breaking into a vehicle. A witness said: ''From the right, this guy comes dashing in, wearing this black and gold suit, and starts chasing him away.''
Phoenix Jones is thought to be part of a nationwide group called the Rain City Superhero Movement. Its website says: ''A real life superhero is whoever chooses to embody the values presented in super heroic comic books, not only by donning a mask and costume, but also performing good deeds.''
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