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Who wants to be a Superhero?

I saw a commercial for this and found the concept interesting. A reality show that people try to become Superheros. 6 episodes with 11 contestants fighting to become the one super hero, 2 contestants are eliminated each episode. I really don’t like the reality show genre, but the superhero twist I thought would be neat.

After watching episode 1 I thought the show really had some promise. The first test came in the form of a spy Rotiart which spelled backwards is traitor. He had on a hidden camera and mic and recorded the contestants getting to know each other. Up for the first elimination was Levity for wanting to make money off his character, Creature because she was a big flirt and Iron Enforcer because he talked about killing people. Levity ended up being eliminated. The fans boys were crying fowl since Levity was the ‘gay superhero’ and that Stan Lee had something against that community.

The big challenge in the first episode was a timed race, but it had a twist. The real challenge was to stop and help a little girl in need. Feedback, Iron Enforcer, Monkey Woman, Ty Veculus, Nitro G and Creature all run right past the little girl. Fat Momma, Major Victory, Cell Phone Girl and Lemuria help the little girl. Up for elimination was Monkey Woman, The Iron Enforcer (2nd time) and Nitro G. Nitro G got kicked from the show for changing into his costume in plain site along with running past the young girl.

The second episode starts out good but toward the end some cracks start to show. The challenge is setup as a little old lady has locked herself out of her house. The contestants have to climb over her back fence and go through her backdoor to let her in. The catch is there are 2 guard dogs in her back yard. The contestants put on protective suits to protect them from the dogs and their task is to just to touch the back door. If the contestants wanted to give up they just need say uncle and the dogs would stop their attack.
TyVeculus does this in 16 seconds becoming the fastest to do so. Major Victory accomplishes the challenge in 17 seconds. Feedback accomplishes it in 33 seconds. Monkey Woman the only female to accomplish the feat takes 9 minutes and 42 seconds to do so. Her determination in this challenge really impressed me.
The other contestants failed. Cell Phone Girl in 4 seconds, Creature in 12 seconds, Fat Momma in 18 seconds, Lumeria in 19 seconds and Iron Enforcer in 23 seconds. Iron Enforcer giving up so close to the door was surprising, he was almost there and just gave up, just strange.
Up for the next elimination were Cell Phone Girl for giving up fast because of a headache, Iron Enforcer (3rd time) being the strongest yet giving up so close to the door, Creature (2nd time) because she was laughing the whole time and Lumeria because she got pretty far but allowed the dogs to drag her back. Cell Phone Girl gets eliminated for having a headache and giving up quickly at 4 seconds. My choice would have been Iron Enforcer since this was the 3rd time he was up for elimination.

So next the contestants that are leftover are given costume makeovers. This is where it starts to get a bit strange. Every costume for every contestant looks great except Ty Veculus. His costume was a serious downgrade to his original one. This had to be done on purpose to cause some conflict and it put Ty Veculus in a bad spot. Do you tell the guy who can eliminate you that you don’t like his choice for your costume or do you just try to deal with it? After showing his new costume to the other contestants Ty Veculus goes back and tells Stan he doesn’t like it and goes back to his original costume. So time for another elimination. Ty Veculus is picked for ‘lying’ to Stan saying he liked the costume, then telling him he didn’t. Feedback is picked because he made a joke referring to Ty Veculus’s costume and Iron Enforcer (4th time) is picked because Stan just doesn’t like how his costume makeover went. Iron Enforcer gets the boot (finally) in the elimination. The way the makeover thing with Ty Veculus was done bothered me. It seemed to be too scripted with trying to cause conflict.
As the episode ends we see Iron Enforcer walking down the street (which looked very much like a closed set) all pissed. A TV sitting on some trashcans suddenly turns on and Stan tells Iron Enforcer that he would make a great super villain. Some cheesy special effects later Iron Enforcer emerges from a van masked as the dark enforcer. An interesting twist I thought, the contestants were going to have a masked super villain to deal with, but as we will see that does not happen.
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