# Every Man Who Ever Wore A Superman Cape As A Kid, Honor This Brave Little Hero. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405 "2006-11-30T23:37:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/21 "2006-12-01T13:07:04Z")
[QUOTE=KGS] This may come as a surprise to you, but not all burglars are so criminally sociopathic as to blow away a 4-year-old kid with a plastic sword. They rely on intimidation and fear to get what they want. If something doesn’t go to plan, they’re more likely to turn tail and run. [/QUOTE] “Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot.” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/22 "2006-12-01T13:47:10Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] “Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot.” 🆒 [/QUOTE] Sherlock Holmes? Roy Rogers? Max Planck? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/23 "2006-12-01T14:01:25Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Sherlock Holmes? Roy Rogers? Max Planck? 🙂 [/QUOTE] . . . . . [\](http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20050218a.gif) . . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/24 "2006-12-01T14:17:16Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] :eek: OMG! The chances of the robber just blowing the kid away, were alot higher than what actually happened. [/QUOTE] Nobody knows this. Going from armed robbery to murder is a step that the vast majority of robbers never make. A robber still knows what a child is. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/25 "2006-12-01T14:23:17Z")
Chalk me down for the kid being brave and lucky. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/26 "2006-12-01T15:05:22Z")
If that were my kid, I would feel huge and equal amounts of love and fear. It is amazingly brave for a child to confront “evildoers” like that. Heck, sometimes my kids don’t want to talk to family they haven’t seen in a few weeks. But, I would be absolutely terrified and the boy’s immersion in fantasy land. Sure, he’s only 4, but stern discussions about what’s real and what’s fake are needed. My son is almost 7 and he is convinced that another boy in his class at school has a real Ben10 watch (it’s a show on Cartoon Network). And the boy has a secret lab under his house. And it’s all REAL. Really, it’s all real. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/27 "2006-12-01T15:23:11Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] :eek: OMG! The chances of the robber just blowing the kid away, were alot higher than what actually happened. He wasn’t brave, children have little or no concept of mortal danger. That’s why we don’t turn them out into the street at four years old. I once cared for a three year old who jumped off a roof while wearing a Batman costume. I had a long. serious talk with him about make believe and reality. At the end of my monologue, I asked if he understood that Batman can’t fly. He nodded solemnly, but as I walked away, I heard him say, under his breath, “But Superman can.” See? No concept. [/QUOTE] I assume the kid hadn’t seen the last few Batman movies… ---
**Author:** ![Firebringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@Firebringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firebringer)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/28 "2006-12-01T15:51:56Z")
Serious Kudo’s to the kid, he stood up and confronted what he saw as evil and a threat to his family. Hope the guys behind the Power Rangers franchise make sure he get’s some merchandise. He deserves recognition far more than a lot of the fools the media portrays as being a hero. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/29 "2006-12-01T15:55:06Z")
What they really ought to do is have him as a “guest star” on one of their episodes. I don’t think anything could more clearly show him that the MMPR aren’t real than to see them sitting around, getting their makeup applied and wires clipped to them. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/30 "2006-12-01T16:11:41Z")
The kid was very lucky, his sister is very lucky and the Boy was very brave but also needs some work on his concept of reality. From the bottom of the article: > [@](#): > > Evans said family members are struggling to help their children understand their ordeal. A counselor said Stevie needs to improve his distinction between fantasy and reality, said Heather Evans, Stevie’s aunt. > > **“He fully believed he morphed,” she said.** > > Mary grasps her danger better. She stayed home from school Monday and Tuesday. > > “My doctor said I get a day off,” she said. > > “My mommy said I was crying in my sleep because I had bad dreams.” Of course I suspect my son was more than capable of confusing fiction with reality to near this level when he was 4. We had to tell him that dressing as Superman for Halloween did not mean he could fly. Jim ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/31 "2006-12-01T17:47:08Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] Going from armed robbery to murder is a step that the vast majority of robbers never make. [/QUOTE] So the next time you get mugged you’ll tell the guy to go to hell, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405/32 "2006-12-01T22:07:59Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] I bet Bruce Wayne feels pretty dumb when he finds out about this. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but if the young Bruce _had_ seen off his parents’ mugger with a Roy Rogers cap pistol , he wouldn’t have _become_ Batman, and generations of kids wouldn’t have had him as a role model for confronting armed bandits with toy weapons and, uh, my brain hurts. What’s the greatest good for the greatest number here? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-man-who-ever-wore-a-superman-cape-as-a-kid-honor-this-brave-little-hero/382405.md?page=1)