Who Wants To Be A Superhero?

I'm going to take a quick break from Warhammer to talk about my latest diversion. The new TV Reality show, "Who wants to be a Superhero?"

This show airs on Thursday nights at 8 pm on the Sci-Fi channel. Stan Lee is the host and does an outstanding job.

When I first heard of this, I thought it would be the dumbest show on the air. But being a huge Stan Lee fan from Spiderman and the X-men, I had to tune in at least once.

About 5 mins into the show and I was hooked. I was really, really surprised. If you have not at least tried it out, do so. There are only going to be 6 episodes and we are through 3 already. They are eliminating 2 super-heros every show.

They started with 12 (but really 11, and IMO really only 10) superheroes. They were:
Cell Phone Girl, Creature, Iron Enforcer, Fat Momma, Feedback, Lemuria, Levity, Major Victory (my wifes favorite), Monkey Woman, Nitro G, Ty'Veculus and Rotiart.

Show one (I missed the first 15 mins) showed the opening casting call. The 12 selected hung out for a bit back stage and then took a Limo to the "Lair". Before getting to go into the lair the first super-hero was eliminated.

If you didn't see the promo or figure it out yet, Rotiart spelled backwards is Traitor. He had been trying to get some dirt on the superheroes and had succeeded. Levity was in it for the money. He was planning on making a superhero doll on his character and hoping to make millions. Hmmm, greed is not a great attribute for a super-hero.
So those 2 are already down. And the other 10 enter the Lair. It looks like a condemed building and elevator. When they get to the top, it is a very plush and awesome looking hideout. Wow, I love it.

Then onto the first challenge. They are taken to a busy city area. Here when called, they must go "change" into their costume without being seen and run to an archway. The real test is that along the way they pass a crying girl. Who will stop to help? Only 4 super-heroes stopped to help: Major Victory, Lemuria, Fat Momma and Cell phone girl.
The worst of the group was Nitro G, because not only did he miss the girl, he changed right in the open where anyone could see. Nitro G was eliminated.

Episode 2: Here the 9 remaining heroes are thrown to the dogs, literally. They must jump a fence and fight through 2 attack dogs to touch the back door and help a little old lady into her house. A superhero could quit at any time by calling uncle.
Ty'Veculus & Major Victory made it through with no problem. Iron Enforcer however made it to within a foot of the door and quit (huh?). This is when I started questioning him as a real superhero. All the superheroes either made it to the door quickly or quit within the first 30 seconds except for one, Monkey Girl. After having failing in the last show, she put on a show of willpower I haven't seen in some time. It took her almost 10 minutes, but eventually she made it to the door. Way to go girl.

The most pathetic was Cell Phone Girl who quit after 4 seconds. She jumped the fence, the dogs hit her, she hit the ground and yelled uncle. She was out.

Later they did a costume overhaul, which went well except for Ty'Veculus, who said he liked his, but didn't (it really did suck). After switching back, Stan called for another elimination. Iron Enforcer went. Huh?? Said he couldn't put his finger on it, but it had to do with Iron Enforcer's big gun.
But after he was out, he gets stopped and told, he makes a lousy super-hero but a great super-villian. So I think he was a plant all along. But he does make a great bad guy.

Episode 3:
This came on last night, and when the "Dark Enforcer" came in, it was a great confrontation between the "fallen" hero now super-villain and his ex-teammates.

Later, Stan asks each hero to go to the local cafe and pick up lunch, he wants to see how they think a hero should eat. It is of course a trap. A cute girl or guy is there to wait on the super-heroes as they come in and tries to get them to reveal their secret identity. Here we see Major Victory stumble for the first time as he caved into the cute girls smile. In fact every one of the 8 except Fat Momma and Feedback fell into the trap.
But of course their is always one that screws up worse than the rest. Monkey Woman not only gave her real name, but she did it without even being asked. But she also revealed websites she knew of for aspiring actors. Since she said on her application she was an investor, this threw up a red flag. She admited she was an actress and Stan gave her the boot. Got to be honest.
I really hated to see her go after her effort with the dogs in show 2.

Part 2 took them to the roof where on the next building was the typical hot damsel in distress. They were taken downstairs and brought up one at a time. They job, cross between the buildings on a 8-12" wide beam, get the girl and bring her back, BLINDFOLDED!! Ouch. They were also given a guide rope to hold onto while making the trip.
As it turned out, they laid the beam on the flat ground with mats on both sides, so if they fell off, no one was hurt. Everyone nailed it with no problem. So courage isn't really an issue with these folks. They are willing to overcome their fears to win the game. Not sure if these guys really believed they were 50' up with no safety lines attached, or if they figured it out. Either way, no one seemed to be slowed down by this challenge, which surprised me a lot.

So with no one failing in that trial, Stan pulls out a trick and asks each hero to pick who they think should be eliminated and why. Creature jumped on this one fast and picked herself in the selflessness test. Most of the others quickly jumped on the bandwagon except for Ty'Veculus who picked Lemuria and Fat Momma who picked Feedback.
But Fat Mommas was more out of concern for Feedback, while Ty'Veculus just didn't like Lemuria. Not sure why, I think it had to do with an argument she had with Fat Momma eariler. Either way this was a huge strike for Ty'Veculus and out goes the other Alpha Male.

This leaves only 5 super heroes left with Creature, Fat Momma, Feedback, Lemuria & Major Victory.
If I had to pick my favorites at this time, it would be Creature, just too hot not to like her, and Feedback. Love the outfit.

But my prediction to win will be Major Victory, my wifes favorite. He is just way into this and is nailing all the challenges except that one.

Hope you enjoyed it. Check out their website here:
http://www.whowantstobeasuperhero.tv/index.html

And tune in next week.

Don't worry, more Warhammer stuff later.

Ben