Greetings,
One can't take credit for the following, but directs you instead to the respective sources;
Heroes In the Night: Heroes Profile #76: Dark Spartan
and very humourously (spelled for the British readers);
The Guardian: (Guardian.co.uk) and their comments section. The British, as we see from our CSPAN viewing of their Parliament, are not quiet shrinking flowers when expressing their opinions. Better yet from an American perspective, they are better informed and reasoned in their responses. And Funny. Gloriously Funny. Smart, Concise, and wickedly withering.
Overall, their opinions are the opinions of many Villains, and many citizens around the world, some samplings (and they are all very good);
Have to say I generally agree with you. I can just imagine the appearance of The Dark Spartan causing more hassle, and granted some laughter, and causing commotion where there was none before thereby taking up precious police time. Grown men living out a comic book fantasy. On the other hand it kind of makes me want to turn into a villain and give them a good beating. my name? Man with two pool balls in a sock man.
And
4 August 2011 7:54AM
Do they use their facebook to get new contracts.
Two lads stole my car the other week. Know who they were, but coulnd't prove anything.
Offer Dark Sparticus or whatever 100 quid to beat them to a pulp?
Offer Dark Sparticus or whatever 100 quid to beat them to a pulp?
Could be onto something here. Start an online vigilante agency. Cool.
And
These people need to watch out. The young troublemakers on their streets might be wearing hoodies today, but before you know it they'll be in dark blue shirts with GOON written across the front. And in the background, in a haze of smoke, there'll be a small chubby man in top hat, tails and a monocle cackling like a seabird.
And then, then there'll be trouble.
And
4 August 2011 8:04AM
Stop it, STOP IT for God's sake!
I'm trying to work, but I can't see the keyboard for the tears.
Cheeses swept! That's the best morning laugh I've had for ages.
Lovely article and great comments.
I'm trying to work, but I can't see the keyboard for the tears.
Cheeses swept! That's the best morning laugh I've had for ages.
Lovely article and great comments.
Don't these so called 'superheroes' feel just a little embarrassed?
AND
4 August 2011 11:25AM
@Newtownian1:
Plausible - especially when you consider an earlier incarnation "The Guardian Angels". This is simply eccentric fascism.
Let us bear in mind that the very nasty Hungarian extreme-Right political party Jobbik has lately tried selling itself as an auxiliary to the national police force in protecting the public from molestation by Jews, Roma, gays and other such undesirables.
They wouldn't get away with it here: the public in this country remain highly unwilling to take orders from anyone but warranted and sworn regular police officers, to the extent that even Community Police get regular aggro for "not being proper police at all." The Guardian Angels did make an appearance in London about twenty years back, but soon disappeared after finding that people would deliberately seek them out to provoke trouble in the knowledge that they had no more powers than any other member of the public. But I do worry about a blurring of the line whereby private security guards etc. start acquiring police powers, or behaving as though they had them.
Where I live an idiot boy from the local mental hospital sometimes stands on a traffic island wearing gumboots and a yellow fluorescent waistcoat with "POLICE" written on the back with a felt-tip marker, trying to direct the traffic. Motorists local to the area treat him with weary tolerance, knowing that he can't really help it.
Winston Churchill
Villains point things out. It is the most indicative quality and function of a Villain.
