Real-Life Superheroes Becoming an Alternative Law Enforcement

Certain individuals in America have finally managed to live out something kids have dreamed of for decades: Being a superhero. Some might think that this is a product of recent harsh realities in this country being too much to bear for parts of the populace and a jumping into a deep-end fantasy blended with reality. Well, the real reality (as redundant as that sounds) is that these real-life superheroes seem to be understanding reality better than those who say they're attuned to the increasing dark realities of America. These particular superheroes are doing what most people who lament the state of the world aren't willing to do: Scan the streets in big cities late at night to fight crime and help provide things to homeless people who live in the streets while we sleep.

Call these new superheroes the new Dark Knights if you wish. However, this trend is starting to expand lately and almost turning into major business enterprises. When it starts coming down to making money and who gets the most publicity, it turns into some blistering fights among these new superheroes--very similar to how it is with the classic superheroes in comic books of the modern era. It's starting to create an interesting debate that may be approaching: Are these superheroes truly helping the downtrodden or using their philanthropy as a chance for publicity and creating a new, lucrative business that the business world couldn't have possibly imagined would ever happen?

Then you have that other possibility of these people going a little over the edge into fantasy and convincing themselves they have real super powers when they really don't.