Discussion Main / HoldingOutForAHero

Third bullet point cut from the Real Life example of overrelying on extra credit for being stealth Troper Tales and being tangentially related to the trope at best:

• Such as this one history professor who had students dress as a gorilla (covering their ENTIRE body) for the entire day as part of extra credit.

I've removed the City Of Heroes example and wrote a more accurate one in its place.

The original troper claimed the setting plays the trope straight, but he used a long rant from a Snark Media source that intentionally didn't pay much attention to the setting's story in order to snark about it ("That'll teach you to be homeless," anyone?).

Which in turn provoked natter attempting to discredit the snark.

This was the example as it was previously:

* This is pretty much the standard state of affairs in Paragon City, RI, the setting of the MMORPG City Of Heroes. As Scott Sharkey says in Episode 1 of Memoirs of an Urban Vigilante,

Paragon City isn't a safe place. Its streets are cluttered with purse snatchers, drug dealers, gangs, homeless mutants, zombies and air pirates. Nearly half of its neighborhoods have been leveled by cataclysms, natural and otherwise. Hardly a month can go by before it's invaded by interdimensional shock troops or giant snowmen, and a day cannot pass without the mayor being kidnapped by ninjas. Either due to its malfunctioning nuclear reactor or the daily plots to poison the city's water supply the median IQ in Paragon is slightly higher than that of warm Jello. Which is probably why even though all its ills are indicative of deep social and economic problems, rather than demanding international disaster relief or even more sensibly leaving the place to the monsters and moving to somewhere more peaceful (like Sudan or the West Bank), the citizenry have decided to combat their problems by legalizing vigilantism.

** At today's point in the storyline, however, the Paragon PD, Longbow, the Vanguard, and Wyvern are all stepping up in prominence in the game world. And, also, within the game's storyline, superpowered vigilantism has been legal since the 50s.

** As said above, the Paragon PD has superpowered members of their own now, and one superhero named Blue Steel has been working for the Police since the game launched.