I love these guys.

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A real life superhero is a person who selflessly serves a positive pro-social mission while in a heroic identity or motif inspired and influenced by comic book super heroes. Real life super heroes seek to serve the public trust. As real life super heroes, we seek to inform, and, most importantly, inspire. We believe that the power to enact change lies within each and every individual, and as citizens ourselves, we work to that end.

Some of these guys have made it into the public eye. Most notably Shadow Hare, who you can meet in this video: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Several of them run twitter accounts and blogs, wherein they speak of their own personal inspirations that got them started in the task of battling real-life supervillans. Such as this blog post by Captain Black Which I love.

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If anything I do it out of gratitude. [Personal inspiration Shahed Wali Muhammad] been a ” Capt. Black ” longer than I’ve been alive; giving away the equivalent of a fortune to family; friends and worthy causes because he could do no less and live with himself. [...] For me he’s a daily reminder that we get only the justice we’re ready to tirelessly pursue.

This is Captain Black:

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And This is his RLSH Wiki entry.

Other superhero blogs deal with the more practical side of superheroing, such as this post by Real-Life Superhero Gadgeteer Artisteroi discussing the various types of padding and armour. (As well as this pretty fun article on Grappling Guns)

Meet Artisteroi

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So, please meet, and appreciate your real life superheroes:

Dark Guardian:
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Zero:
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Citizen Prime:
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And, of course, the British contribution - Angle Grinder Man:

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Finally an honourable mention to Electron Boy

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