# Has anyone ever tried to be a comic book style superhero? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 12, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138 "2007-11-12T16:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/1 "2007-11-12T16:11:38Z")
You know, with the costume, secret identity, and so on? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/2 "2007-11-12T16:20:44Z")
Well, when I lived in Iqaluit, there was a character who called himself “Polar Man”, who went around in a sort of homemade superhero costume. His good deeds were confined to shovelling snow and informing to the RCMP, and his true identity wasn’t much of a secret, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/3 "2007-11-12T16:28:53Z")
Lots of jokers in badly fitted tights, a couple of vigilante types, but nobody can fight crime the way they do in comics, because in real life they don’t put people into elaborate death traps: they just shoot them. We’re done this topic many times before, methinks, but I have to leave in a minute so I won’t try to do a search. ---
**Author:** ![Emilio\_Lizardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Emilio\_Lizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilio_Lizardo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/4 "2007-11-12T17:04:53Z")
May I introduce you to…[Angle Grinder Man!](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3112670.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/5 "2007-11-12T17:06:41Z")
Here are [ten](http://www.oddee.com/item_87762.aspx). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/6 "2007-11-12T17:24:04Z")
If I told you then my identity wouldn’t be a secret anymore. Oh damn ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/7 "2007-11-12T20:39:53Z")
[QUOTE=Emilio Lizardo] May I introduce you to…[Angle Grinder Man!](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3112670.stm) [/QUOTE] Darn you, **Emilio Lizardo** , I came in here _specifically_ to mention him! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/8 "2007-11-12T20:59:53Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Here are [ten](http://www.oddee.com/item_87762.aspx). [/QUOTE] Nine, really, as I hardly think a cockblocker counts as a superhero. Super_villian_, yes, superhero, no. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/9 "2007-11-13T00:20:21Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Here are [ten](http://www.oddee.com/item_87762.aspx). [/QUOTE] I don’t know about anyone else’s screen, but on mine the phrase “people who desperately need professional help” gets lost between the end of link code and the period. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-tried-to-be-a-comic-book-style-superhero/426138/10 "2007-11-13T01:10:59Z")
Back in highschool, being the crazy scientist type, I was approached by a guy inquiring if I could possible make a superhero costume and gadgets. I was rather flattered but nothing came out of it, I explained him some things about the practicality of the whole thing. Quite a pity really, being the geeky gadget maker of a superhero would fit me very well as a career. 🙂