Real-life league of superheroes in Seattle

[Chris Wallace]

To this degree? To where it actually made headlines?

 

[Paroxysm]

This sort of thing's been happening for a while before Kick-Ass was written.

Has it? Really? or perhaps maybe you wish it was?

 

[BlackLantern]

Has it? Really? or perhaps maybe you wish it was?

I had heard some of it happening back when I was in middle/high school....this was back in the mid/late nineties

a guy in Seattle and another guy in Nebraska....don't know whatever happened to them

 

[Chris Wallace]

This case made national news.

 

[Grillz]

C'mon people. At least act your shoe size.[/QUOTE

Well i'm 18 yrs old, and I do in fact wear 18's so

 

[Scourge2099]

It would be funny if one of these "heroes" seeks corporate sponsors. Like a real life Booster Gold type.

 

[Paroxysm]

or Captain Amazing!

 

[The Question]

To this degree? To where it actually made headlines?

Yeah, I saw a different guy being interveiwed on fox news about this about four years ago. It was mostly a fluf piece, but then so is this. I've heard of a bunch more, and I just checked on youtube and there are a few other news stories and interviews. Another on Fox and one on CNN. Most of them are at least two years old.

Has it? Really? or perhaps maybe you wish it was?

No, it really has.

 

[Paroxysm]

And while police are tolerating their actions, they warn that the heroes may be putting themselves in grave danger. Phoenix claims he has been stabbed in the line of work and the bullet proof vest he wears under his suit stopped a bullet during an incident in Tacoma, Wash. last year. Police have not confirmed his claims.

 

[Paroxysm]

Yeah, I saw a different guy being interveiwed on fox news about this about four years ago. It was mostly a fluf piece, but then so is this. I've heard of a bunch more, and I just checked on youtube and there are a few other news stories and interviews. Another on Fox and one on CNN. Most of them are at least two years old.



No, it really has.

No, it hasn't.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

That cop had a gun though, Phoenix Jones just has imagination.

Cops don't carry guns here.

+1 Mr Jones.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

edit

 

[BlackLantern]

there's also a guy in South Jersey who's been at this for about 5 years....Current did a thing on him in 2007 or 2008

most of these nutters seem to be on the west coast anyway....I highly doubt we'll see any of this in NY, CT, or northwards

 

[Paroxysm]

Cops don't carry guns here.

+1 Mr Jones.

Invite him over for a Superhero sleep over, you can wear your Kick-Ass costume and help him fight the IRA.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Invite him over for a Superhero sleep over, you can wear your Kick-Ass costume and help him fight the IRA.

That's the dream :')

 

[The Question]

No, it hasn't.

Yes it has. This interview is about four years old:

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The Kick-Ass comic came out in 2008. Thus, this sort of thing has been happening since before Kick-Ass was even written. That is a fact, regardless of wether or not doing this is a good idea.

 

[Paroxysm]

Yes it has. This interview is about four years old:

[YT]Yyheqc-6ZM0[/YT]

He saved a womans purse, big deal. Saving lives is harder.

and don't even try and argue that Phoenix Jones saved anyone because this whole story smells like pure ********. The guy owns a ****ing comic shop for christ sakes, it's obvious what his real motives are.

 

[BlackLantern]

He saved a womans purse, big deal. Saving lives is harder.

and don't even try and argue that Phoenix Jones saved anyone because this whole story smells like pure ********. The guy owns a ****ing comic shop for christ sakes, it's obvious what his real motives are.

Glory?? Wimmen??

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Glory?? Wimmen??

Maybe, TEH PENIZ!

 

[The Question]

He saved a womans purse, big deal. Saving lives is harder.

and don't even try and argue that Phoenix Jones saved anyone because this whole story smells like pure ********. The guy owns a ****ing comic shop for christ sakes, it's obvious what his real motives are.

What are you talking about? The point I was making is that this sort of thing predates the Kick-Ass franchise. I wasn't making any judgements about the person in the video one way or another, my point was about the existence of the video itself.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Wasn't Kick-Ass influenced by a video online of some guy dressed up, stopping a mugging in a parking lot?

 

[The Question]

Wasn't Kick-Ass influenced by a video online of some guy dressed up, stopping a mugging in a parking lot?

I never heard that.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Wasn't Kick-Ass influenced by a video online of some guy dressed up, stopping a mugging in a parking lot?

I thought that video could have in fact been real, I wanted to believe it so bad, but it was in fact just part of a viral type campaign to promote kick-ass. If you notice , it's a take on the scene in the movie and cb where he won't leave that guy's side who is being beaten up, I just realized that myself there actually.

 

[Mike_D202]

He saved a womans purse, big deal. Saving lives is harder.

and don't even try and argue that Phoenix Jones saved anyone because this whole story smells like pure ********. The guy owns a ****ing comic shop for christ sakes, it's obvious what his real motives are.

To sell lots of comic books

 

[Webley]

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