By now, most people have heard of the real life superhero Phoenix Jones. He’s certainly been making his rounds on the internet, being the world’s first guy to dress-up and actually fight crime. Like, you know, with his fists and stuff. Most real life superheroes are passive, trying to better their communities by trying to break up fights, calling the police, and giving food to the homeless, but Phoenix Jones is all about actually being a crime fighter, taking down drug dealers and being shot and stabbed several times now. To quote the man himself, “Handing out food to the homeless is an entirely worthy thing to do, but it’s not what superheroes do. If you’re going to drive a fire truck, people are going to expect you to put out fires. If you dress up like a superhero, people are going to expect you to fight crime… I don’t see the point in handing sandwiches to homeless people in areas in which the homeless are getting abused, attacked, harassed by drug dealers.”
It looks like the other real life superheroes aren’t taking to this very much.
In a recent report in the Wall Street Journal (yeah, that one), a hero named Knight Owl was quoted as saying, ““For the first time, we have someone who agrees with our overall purpose but doesn’t agree with our methods. I suppose it was bound to happen, but it’s definitely a growing pain within the community. Whether intentionally or not, he’s representing the community now, and that makes some people nervous.” On top of that, hero Zetaman wrote on his blog, “all of us are afraid of one day someone is going to get killed and it’ll be all over… I don’t need this kind of macho crap in my life and I don’t need to prove myself to anyone, least of all to Phoenix Jones and his Rain City Superhero Movement.” No macho crap while being superhero? Ok.
All of this information, collected from Bleeding Cool, points out the divide between the two groups. We have the Real Life Superheroes, with their sandwiches, and the Rain City Superheroes, with their firsts and stitches. The two have apparently attempted to get along and go on patrol together, but it isn’t really working out. So if push comes to shove, what’s it going to be for our real life superheroes? Are fists going to prevail, or are the sandwiches? And which side is Cap’s side and which is Iron Man’s? Hypothetically speaking of course.
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