Kick-Ass Inspires Real Life Superhero Brigade
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Well, folks, this one’s downright interesting. Seems that a bunch of people started asking the same question Kick-Ass asked: why don’t regular people dress up like superheroes and go out and do some good?
Oh, sure, you’re more likely to find this particular chapter of super heroes making appearances at children’s hospitals and doing volunteer work than you are to find them on a street corner at three in the morning curb-stomping a mugger, but they’re no less super, in their own admittedly rather dull fashion, for the difference.
With names like Citizen Prime, Mr. Xtreme and The Watchman, ordinary people are putting on costumes and going out on their nights to do good in the places where they live. This may well be the highest form of giving, really–and it makes double sense that you’re reading this on a Christmas morning. These anonymous souls are going forth into their streets and doing good for its own sake, and they’re so anonymous about it that they’ve developed their own alternate personae to do the job.
They even have a website you can check out at Reallifesuperheroes.org, where you can follow some of their adventures.
Thrilling? No. Exciting. Not really. Valuable beyond all measure? Absolutely.
See, the fact that you think that what they’re doing over at the RLSH.org is dull… that’s just bad marketing.
They show you what they want you to see because they’re afraid of affecting change, afraid of being groundbreaking and uncompromising.
Some of us are out there doing the real thing, within the law, but pushing the boundaries nonetheless.
We’re inventing creative ways to circumvent and prevent crime. We’re exercising our rights to citizens arrest, as well as keeping with our local carrying laws for non lethal weapons.
We are becoming a movement, and unfortunately we’re going to have to leave the publicity hounds behind, to send a different kind of message…
We’re here. We’re ready to change everything, but we need your help. Whatever it is that you do, contribute it to the cause. We need a network of professionals supporting teams of us out there, as far as intel, strategy, tactics, and tech.
This is not going to be some limp-wristed attempt at a public statement. It’s going to be action. We’ve been waiting for change for too long, time to make some.
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I agree with Z. We’re not just pandering for media attention and accolades on our “heroics” We are average joes, just wanting to do some good in this ever increasing laxed world. The time for change is now.
I was’nt inspired by the comic or the movie. I do what I do because I want to make a difference and this is the method I chose. also a lot of us started doing this long before Kick-ass or watchmen.
there are real people out there doing what they can, putting their life on the line sometimes. not acting out a movie. not acting out a comic. but doing things for real.
this is real life after all.