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On 16/04/2025
Hello everyone!
They dress up to combat insecurity in their neighborhood, or to help their fellow citizens in need.
The phenomenon appeared in the United States in the 2000s, and is called Real Life Super Heroes: the superheroes of reality.
There are said to be a few hundred of them in North America, a handful in France. They inspired the comic book Kick-Ass (2008), which was brought to the screen in 2010.
However, unlike what happens in violent fiction, these vigilantes generally focus on social issues, dealing less slaps to criminals than helping the poor.
They are, to borrow a phrase from the book Real Life Super Heroes (published by Serious Publishing 2012) dedicated to them by photographer Pierre-Élie de Pibrac, "a metaphor for the heroic act that self-sacrifice and solidarity have become in our society".
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