please do the mad lad MIRIN DAJO , the man who would get an assistant to stab him with multiple real swords through his organs and out the other side and live with no lasting damage . doctors baffled ect ect , and yes there is actual footage . he died after swallowing an icepick or something as he believed it would "de-materialise" inside him . spoiler .. it didnt
...so you can rot out your lungs without any of those pesky redeeming qualities. Now you can get all of your redeeming-ness quality-free?... ...,. .,... Thanks for the post in any case, always appreciated.
"When you were a child, you probably wanted to be a superhero." Actually, I wanted to be a supervillain. Saved up for 20 years, bought an evil volcano lair, and hired hundreds of faceless henchmen with laser rifles. Then some Scottish dude taught a dog to raise its paw and I was just like "Well I can't top that. Pack it in, boys."
@@miguelsilva9085 You can always buy an abandoned volcano by paying the back taxes on it, and fixing it up. You'd have to heavily modify a volcano to make it an evil lair anyway, might as well start from scratch instead of tearing a bunch of stuff out.
Same. "Heroes" tend to be self absorbed douchebags who assert their will upon all of society. The "villains" are sometimes just the nerds they fucked with that just wanted to be left alone. The villains also got cooler costumes, secret bases, and name/costume themes. Heroes are often self obsessed assholes with a messiah and no personal responsibility for a spouse or family or anything of real value. Villains can be equally shitty people or just one of the unfortunate people who noticed something and called it out, like anyone who worked with the Clintons and had a spine or integrity.
The funniest thing about Phoenix Jones in my opinion: he had a rogue's gallery too. Like people legitimately saw what he was up to and decided that what he was missing was a supervillain. The most noteworthy was Rex Velvet who would often try to hijack podcasts he appeared in to call him out and even did the same on social media everywhere, the thing is these were all just people who were just trolling or wanted to gain some attention off of it and he always refused to acknowledge them because of the fact that this is the real world. But it was amusing as fuck how for a short period of time, Seattle became the closest thing we had to a real Gotham City.
It's even funnier considering, if I remember right, Rex Velvet was actually doing charity stuff and volunteering for things during his whole supervillain spheal to keep with the fun of it, so in the end he was the real hero
I always intended to deep dive that side of shit. No doubt, those edgelords were doing the dark lord's work and would be way more fun to hang out with than the weaksauce phonies on the other side...other than Mantis. He's actually a really well adjusted, down to earth, normal human type. He pretty much just makes videos about the Fallout game series on YT now, far as I know and is almost too polite... ... where shit goes full circle and I almost hate how nice he is. Pretty certain that my mean drunk commentator personality attempted to piss him off in a random 2am live stream a couple times and failed to elicit an angry response.
As a Seattleite, I wish he’d stayed on the path of righteousness, because with how the city council and DA deals with crime now (by doing Jack fuck and not putting repeat offenders behind bars) we could really use him right about now.
He was never on the path of righteousness. People like to say he saw himself become the villain because Two-face (a lying fictional character who said it) but PJ was selling drugs since before he became RLSH.
Seattle is such a disgusting shithole. It's so rediculously disappointing how awful it is. I don't understand why anyone would want to live in a lawless, expensive, drug filled hell hole.
@@redcell9636 Some? Which ones aren't using that model? I might have been overreaching in my previous position of supporting the scrapping all of them.
@@MaynardCrow The real BLM, the Bureau of Land Management, is pretty neutral as far as I know. Their biggest crime is letting hippies and activists keep them from letting forests turn into tinderboxes.
Fun fact, in the video game Infamous Second Son, you can find a large public display monitor that occasionally advertises Pheonix Jones. This was before the selling of the drugs.
A superhero that fights criminals and drug dealers at night so that he can corner the drug market during the day is unironically the type of anti-hero story I’d want to see.
I remember down South in England about 19 or so years ago there was a guy that dressed up as Batman and stopped local chavs that were bullying others and generally causing trouble.
there was an argentinian guy dressed up as Batman who witnessed a crime or something and was being interviewed by a news channel and went viral, it is also pretty old, from the 00s. I might be recalling it wrong but it was hilarious
@@wesleyfilms that was in Bath I think during the 90s wasn't it ? and he was called that because he left a Batman cap at the scene of a crime. I don't think they ever caught him.
@@davedogge2280I first heard the term "Chav" a few months ago, and it's one of those words where even if you don't fully understand the meaning, when you see an example of the word personified, it just makes perfect sense
I remember as a kid actually grabbing a bamboo stick that my mom had around for decor purposes and actually training with it in my backyard for like an hour a day to become a superhero. It looked really dumb because i had no idea what i was doing and gained no fighting skill whatsoever.
It should also be noted that Jones had also been responsible for the Death of a Bystander, who was shot from a Drive-by, instead of going to her Aid, he chased the shooter instead and had lost them, leaving the bystander to sadly die from blood loss, the incident fell heavy on his career, and shockingly, he had the Incident Illustrated in a Comic based off his Life as Phoenix Jones
@@mcmaldekyup. He grew up in Shoreline, at least from Jr high on. Running all over town on his gas powered scooter making "deliveries". He tried to get out but I don't think that lasted very long.
The people he beat up seemed to be petty criminals and druggie nuisances that should not be an issue if Seattle police actually did the bare minimum or better put if there was any political will to have them do so.
I actually met him at a convention back when he was still a "good guy". I was working a merch booth with 2 friends and one of them REALLY wanted his autograph. Granted he was funny, and his bit about body armor having inverted levels still stick in my mind, but I remember thinking "Wow. This dude is mental and full of himself. This could go real bad." And like everything else in Seattle, including the city itself, it did :-/
it's not all that bad, i for one LOVE having fentanyl everywhere, rapists released back into the public, and a local government more concerned about their morning coffee order than the state of their city. just stare down at your phone the whole time and it's a wonderful place for sightseeing.
Man this sounds like a conic run that got canceled, orphaned MMA fighter tries to stop crime throughout his city, motivated by his son getting injured due to a robbery where nobody helped him, stopping muggings, chase out drug dealers, all that good stuff, expand to form a super hero team to better protect the city, and then right as Phoenix's dark arc is starting, the book gets canceled by the publisher due to low sales, and everyone moves on.
Well, he isn't the hero Seattle needs, but not the one it deserves, but... ...the one it GETS. (This comment was actually a parody of Spooderman, in case you don't know.)
Remember kids, if you go into Vigilante Crime fighting, make sure you are trained in Self Defense techniques or some kind of martial arts. Also remember that no fight is fair.
@@wesleyfilms well I mean Phoenix did bring a gun, with pepper spray, but he fell victim to the age old adage, you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Phoenix Jones: Counts 6 shots from a revolver, and jumps out of cover Criminal: *Using a .38 (8 shots)* Me: He's a little confused, but he got the spirit.
I'd love to see you do one about the Birmingham Batman. It's such a great story and almost no one knows anything about him anymore. My personal interest is that he stopped on the side of the highway to help my mom change a flat tire when I was 5, so I got to meet him and tour his homemade Batmobile!
Nah I bought them and ate them on my way to Seattle. But I was going to a rave by public transit so plenty of time for the shrooms to kick in. By the time I got to the rave I thought this guy is a little over dressed. But I knew he wasn't part of the party when some guy starts hitting some woman in the middle of the street he obviously went and it was an interesting fight. But it was over real fast with the guy knocked out. People ended up dragging the guy off the road cause Seattle doesn't sleep. Lol but only thing I remember from after that was climbing on top of a stripper pole. So it was a weird interaction. But I did do the typical high kid and got a high five from him.
My favourite moment was when Rex Velvet showed up as a super villain calling our Phoenix Jones in videos and radio call ins. Whoever that guy was he was utterly hilarious.
Wow, the first Mad Lad I've personally met--on multiple occasions no less. He and some of his foster siblings attended the High School I worked at, and his adoptive Mother bought-out a cul-de-sac of houses in a North Seattle neighborhood and opened some rather shady grouphomes for kids with cognitive disabilities (they were eventually audited and shut down by the State). One of my co-workers and her husband were kind of friends/tag-along for him and his girlfriend ("Purple Reign") and I met them a few times at local Pubs.
Dank you should make a sub series called "Bad Lads" where you can talk about horrible people that did horrible things, guarantee you it would be so much better than those true crime channels
Some of it is fine like Mr Ballen his stuff has substance bit some stuff feels likw fucking Tea channels like their talking about the latest drama and not a fucking murder or something
@@slipipipi7971 MrBallen is an awesome storyteller. Love his style. Hate those channels that are like "Makeup and murder teehee" where the most vapid bitch you've ever seen applies $75 of concealer while reading the Wikipedia article for Albert Fish and occasionally going 'like ohmaigawd??!?"
When that picture of Phoenix being interviewed by Megyn Kelly popped up, I sprayed a mouth full of Wild Turkey all over my keyboard, I burst out laughing so hard 🤣
Thank you Dank. I too was struggling to retain bladder control when you were talking about the group of people dancing that were set upon by a nutter in a superhero outfit who proceeded to mace them. Whenever I feel in need of a good laugh I shall conjure up this image. Embarrassing if in public but worth it for the endorphin hit, if that is what it is.......
The idea of Phoenix Jones, a man in gold and black spandex, sprinting up to a group of dancers, pepper spraying them, and then they just up and beat the piss out of him is one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard. But the picture of him standing there like a muppet about to ask if they got games on their phones while holding said pepper spray sent me to another dimension. Godspeed Phoenix. Shame you might be a drug dealer.
id have put my boot through his head no bother, fucker maced me in the face while i was with my wife, all the time he was yelling that i was committing rape, when in reality, me and my wife had just been to our favourite restaurant on our 10 year anniversary, thanks to him, im blind in one eye from a severe reaction to the mace
A mad lad I would recommend would be Bill Foulk the man behind the ash street shootout. Man got 12 or more army rangers to defend his house from a local gang.
One of my teachers invited this guy to our class for a debate on heroes or something like that. I was unfortunately sick that day and never knew how it went.
This is a great video. I moved to WA around 2011 and met Ben quite a few times. I hung around that comic shop that his "hide out" was in. It was actually just the bathroom, lol. The first time I saw a guy come out of it in full costume I asked my friend, "Who tf is that guy?" - and I was given the run down. I remember vividly that day he was trying out something like a Captain America Shield but in his color scheme. He was showing it off to the comic shop owner and super hyped about it. He was in and out a lot while I hung out in there... I met his medic as well. Really nice guy.
Great video. Been living in seattle for 23 years and remember him well. Would see him walking around in the nightlife areas of the city. Always thought he was a clown for the news interviews. Batman never would have hung around for an interview… good to know the back story of him. Great episode
He was in a facebook group my friends and I started years ago, he even let us interview him for our old podcast. I also did some writing for his ex wifes charity website..... It's pretty sad how far he's fallen since then.
One of the heroes from around this time, Omega, is actually a RUclipsr named ComicTropes. He put out a video a little while ago talking about his experiences and his interactions with Phoenix Jones. Actually pretty illuminating and he doesn't bloviate or anything. Very level-headed and casual.
The thing about grappling hooks is they weren't meant for climbing. The were made to grapple horsemen off their horses to be killed or captured by infantry.
🤣 Your laugh combined with the image of a guy in a superhero costume running up and hitting a bunch of innocent people with bear mace had me rolling! Idk if you just have an infectious laugh or it was a combination of that and the image but I haven't laughed that hard in a minute!
What was it that Blade said in the first movie when robbing one of the Vampire familiars? "How do you think we finance our operation? We're not exactly The March of Dimes" 😆
You know despite everything, he did succeed more into what he tried doing than anyone would expect; Even if it did end up crashing and burning. I'd be lying if I didn't say I kinda wanted this guy to succeed in the end.
If you actually read the police reports and eye witness testimony about when he was "fighting crime", it shows he basically liked going around in his body armor with pepper spray and a stun baton and beat up drunk guys. He had real man issues after his MMA career didn't work out and he realized he wasn't Goku. Then when he realized that everyone else realized he was a joke, I guess he just started eating his spinach (smoking crack) and went Popeye on the world.💪
Fun times. I was around in that community, it was a lot of drama mostly and I had a front row seat. I used my 'good' persona to give out clothing, food & supplies to homeless, and a villain online to troll the RLSH on FB.
Honestly the whole real life superhero movement was awesome. Its a shame it died out as this was a thing that attracted weird people yes but they meant well and did good
They're still active but they're nearly dead now. There's only like 10 members still doing anything and most of what they do now is hand out food to the homeless and scare off petty criminals who are tagging buildings or something. The only one I heard about who goes even further than Phoenix Jones and still does it is a guy in western Africa who purposely targets criminals in the human trafficking industry
@@j.2512 Some blue naked guy but sadly he blows you up for doing the right thing and then the movie tries to convince you that's a good thing. The only moral character is Rorschache so commie guy gives the genocider a pass and takes him out. Alex Jones worse then mustache man okay.
The image of this weirdo in a superhero suit running up to a bunch of dancing strangers, thinking hes doing something good, and spraying them all with pepper spray 🤣
Dude your laugh is contagious! You just gave me a great start to my day 😂 I can't stop laughing at the thought of him pepper spray a bunch of awkward dances kids 😂😂😂
Phoenix Jones looks like he could pass off as a Poundland Isom. Also, never thought he could go through a secret passage within a bookshop where he is easily recognisable. It's almost reminiscent of Spider-Man entering a random "Spidey Store" in the videogame adaptation of Sam Reimi's Spider-Man 2.
I had a friend who was in the RLSH community back in the day, and he was always talking about how genuinely batshit Phoenix Jones was and how he'd put other RLSH's in danger or what have you.
Danger? How so? I managed the team and we pushed out many "RLSH" because they just are costumed sandwiche vendors. He was looking for people that wanted to stop crime not give out sandwiches.
@meatbyproducts Hmmm, dealing sandwiches or drugs... Seems like you guys had your priorities in the wrong spot. You kicked out the sandwich guys and kept the drug dealers. Way to go😂
@DamonKirry woah, don't rope me into the drugs. I kicked him out of my house when I caught him with some. He was a good man doing good things for a number of years. The RLSH group are LARPers that wouldn't know how to fight a paper bag let alone a criminal. RLSH as silly and ment to be laughed at. I had no costume, I just managed them and took video of crime in action so we could turn it over to police and get the SPD arrest people.
I remember in 2021 thinking you would run out of mad lads soon and yet here we are. Especially since the level of madness went down in a couple of episodes, but wow. Just wow. The world cannot stop birthing crazy people.
I remember this dude, he just used to bully and harass people downtown after the clubs let out. Never scene him "fight crime" unless you count fighting drunks people for jaywalking
I was just talking to my friends a week ago about vigilantes, and in particular Phoenix Jones. Wild to have a Dankula video the week after the conversation between friends on him. Joyfully watching this one.
"and then this fuckin guy turns up and starts bear macing everyone..." I don't normally laugh audibly when I'm by myself, but shit all if I didn't ugly laugh at this part. @16:10
I remember reading a book about real life superheroes while I was waiting in a hotel lobby (just had public books and it was there) and there are a LOT of different stories similar to Phoenix. I want to say it was "The rise of real life superheroes" by Peter Nowak but I can't be 100% sure. Essentially it had a journalist running around with various different people across the US, going along on stakeouts and whatnot. It was surprisingly interesting.
Here in the US we get stunning and brave even when it comes to stupidity. Say what you want about America, you sure as hell can’t say it’s not amusing. I’d love to see someone step up as Anti-Florida Man and document his adventures. New York can sure as hell use a superhero rn since the police became a dance team or something last i checked.
I had a chance meeting with his entire superhero squad one night after an Anthrax/Testament concert. (I had also partied with Joey Belladonna and met Chuck Billy the same evening. It was a good night) I happened upon them at waterfront park near Pike Place market and just stepped into the circle that was their meeting as if I belonged there. after about ten minutes of their meeting jones finally asked, "Hey, who are you?" and the quick response of "Mister Boat" seemed to satisfy all involved. It was a lulzfest and it was as sad as any pack of larpers I have ever seen. I've seen a few... Because Pacific Northwest. After the meeting I was asked by Jones if I was there to join them and so I explained to him that I was not... but it the most fun way sober up after after a metal show I'd found yet. I'd had a good 20 drinks that evening. Anthrax fucking rules.
15:56 count dankula laughing and describing the situation reminded me of playing GTA vice city 20 odd years ago where i once went in to the nightclub and threw a molotov into the crowd, now i cant get the image out of my head of phoenix jones doing that. Best laugh i had in a while
I remember hearing about Phoenix Jones, right up until his court appearance, at which point his story seemed to completely die out of the national press and went back to a "local story". To hear what happened after THAT is kind of depressing considering the fact that, while not actually effective for fighting crime, was at least a bit inspirational in regard to trying to be helpful to people in general.
His arch nemesis Rex Velvet, is hilarious. He once called in on the radio show Phoenix Jones was on to troll him. On another occasion, when he was on air, the reporter recognised Rex as a photographer of his wedding photos. Rex asked how did their wedding go and the guy replies "we're divorced now. You took more photos of my ex wife than my actual wife." Rex just laughed and replied. "Well of course! I'm a super villain mwahaha!" The dude was a massive troll. He made a dozen videos calling out the Real Life Super Hero movement (RLSH) and vowed he would ruin them all until the Rain City Hero Movement left. (Jones, his girlfriend and a few gay guys who tricked muggers into attacking them. Entrapment at its best, i own the DVD and a lawyer called them criminals themselves).
The movie "Super" (written and directed by James Gunn) also had the plot of a regular guy donning a superhero costume to fight crime. I think it is the best version of that plot concept.
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please do the mad lad MIRIN DAJO , the man who would get an assistant to stab him with multiple real swords through his organs and out the other side and live with no lasting damage . doctors baffled ect ect , and yes there is actual footage . he died after swallowing an icepick or something as he believed it would "de-materialise" inside him . spoiler .. it didnt
seemed really cool, but when I saw the price I immediately lost all interest.
My cousin retired to the Warm Lands about 15 years ago. You can still Google "Iqualuit Polar Man" and find him, though.
...so you can rot out your lungs without any of those pesky redeeming qualities. Now you can get all of your redeeming-ness quality-free?...
...,. .,...
Thanks for the post in any case, always appreciated.
i want it but it's a little out of my budget
Phoenix using the ski mask of the bad guy that originally wronged him is very much straight out of a comic book
It's also just a bullshit story Ben made up to give himself more of a "Comic book" narrative.
And I'm sure probably equally as based in reality as your average comic book as well..........
@@echolalia682 Think about it, would *you* want to wear some random beanie a crackhead left in your vehicle *on your face*?
@@echolalia682Naw Pheonix Jones is legit bruhh he was built different
It's basically a less intense version of Thomas Wayne's Batman using Joe Chill's gun to kill his adversaries.
Jones pepper spraying the group dancing has the same energy as Lancelot killing the wedding guests in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Yes! Perfect comparison.
I guess it was his idiom. 🤣👍
This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let's not bicker and argue about who bearmaced who...
Bump bump bump bumpa. Ah ha!!
But ever since he felt the icy hand of death creeping upon him...
The fact he didn't wind up shanked and bleeding out in a back alley on night one means that this went exponentially better than it had any right to.
Definitely
His suit was "stab proof" lmao
He’s not a pussy, he rolls up to trouble spots at night and beats niggas asses
@lysergicjimmy69 well the $10000 dragon skin vest was bulletproof... but it was still a vest.
He fought drunken bums
"When you were a child, you probably wanted to be a superhero."
Actually, I wanted to be a supervillain. Saved up for 20 years, bought an evil volcano lair, and hired hundreds of faceless henchmen with laser rifles.
Then some Scottish dude taught a dog to raise its paw and I was just like "Well I can't top that. Pack it in, boys."
You might like a video game called the evil genius2 It really helps you fulfill that dream of going to be at james bond Style villain
@@miguelsilva9085i mean, he's probably the reason that the economy is like this, y'know, the volcano market is kinda volatile
@@miguelsilva9085 You can always buy an abandoned volcano by paying the back taxes on it, and fixing it up. You'd have to heavily modify a volcano to make it an evil lair anyway, might as well start from scratch instead of tearing a bunch of stuff out.
Same. "Heroes" tend to be self absorbed douchebags who assert their will upon all of society. The "villains" are sometimes just the nerds they fucked with that just wanted to be left alone. The villains also got cooler costumes, secret bases, and name/costume themes.
Heroes are often self obsessed assholes with a messiah and no personal responsibility for a spouse or family or anything of real value. Villains can be equally shitty people or just one of the unfortunate people who noticed something and called it out, like anyone who worked with the Clintons and had a spine or integrity.
@@jeejjaaj This might be the most clever joke in all of the comments.
The funniest thing about Phoenix Jones in my opinion: he had a rogue's gallery too. Like people legitimately saw what he was up to and decided that what he was missing was a supervillain. The most noteworthy was Rex Velvet who would often try to hijack podcasts he appeared in to call him out and even did the same on social media everywhere, the thing is these were all just people who were just trolling or wanted to gain some attention off of it and he always refused to acknowledge them because of the fact that this is the real world. But it was amusing as fuck how for a short period of time, Seattle became the closest thing we had to a real Gotham City.
It's even funnier considering, if I remember right, Rex Velvet was actually doing charity stuff and volunteering for things during his whole supervillain spheal to keep with the fun of it, so in the end he was the real hero
Gotham is safer than Seattle
Considering that these days it's a lawless wasteland the Gotham comparison is pretty accurate
I always intended to deep dive that side of shit. No doubt, those edgelords were doing the dark lord's work and would be way more fun to hang out with than the weaksauce phonies on the other side...other than Mantis.
He's actually a really well adjusted, down to earth, normal human type. He pretty much just makes videos about the Fallout game series on YT now, far as I know and is almost too polite...
... where shit goes full circle and I almost hate how nice he is. Pretty certain that my mean drunk commentator personality attempted to piss him off in a random 2am live stream a couple times and failed to elicit an angry response.
Iw would've been funny to see Phoenix Jones in the middle of the Chaz protests. Like a little piece of Arkham city.
Somehow having his secret lair in a comic bookshop makes the most sense
Like something straight out of Deadpool 😂
A comic bookshop? What's so comic about it?
As a Seattleite, I wish he’d stayed on the path of righteousness, because with how the city council and DA deals with crime now (by doing Jack fuck and not putting repeat offenders behind bars) we could really use him right about now.
He was never on the path of righteousness. People like to say he saw himself become the villain because Two-face (a lying fictional character who said it) but PJ was selling drugs since before he became RLSH.
lol nahh he'd catch a bullet if he did that nowadays
@@MK_ULTRA420 he almost caught several bullets back then, not that big of a time gap to make what he was doing any less or more dangerous.
Seattle is too far gone anyway
Seattle is such a disgusting shithole. It's so rediculously disappointing how awful it is. I don't understand why anyone would want to live in a lawless, expensive, drug filled hell hole.
Step 1: Create crime.
Step 2: Fight crime.
Step 3: Perfect job security.
Sounds like some three-letter organizations I know of.
@@redcell9636 Some? Which ones aren't using that model? I might have been overreaching in my previous position of supporting the scrapping all of them.
@@MaynardCrow The real BLM, the Bureau of Land Management, is pretty neutral as far as I know. Their biggest crime is letting hippies and activists keep them from letting forests turn into tinderboxes.
@anigerianninja4577 oh yes they are
Problem, Action, Solution
He didn’t fight crime out of a sense of justice, he wanted to preemptively eliminate his competition.
My God
Sounds like a interesting take on a super hero story to me.
So like Stone from Invincible?
that's the most interesting part of the story.
Allegedly
Phoenix Jones is what LTG would've become if he went for the vigilante tech tree instead of fighting games
I remember people saying he, low tier god, looked like a super villain 😂🤣
"Hell yeah I'm gonna piss in your sink"
Sounds like a super villian to me.
Fun fact, in the video game Infamous Second Son, you can find a large public display monitor that occasionally advertises Pheonix Jones. This was before the selling of the drugs.
Oh yeah I remember that holyshit, damn I haven't played that game in forever then again I sold my PS4 a year ago
Damn I miss Infamous.
A superhero that fights criminals and drug dealers at night so that he can corner the drug market during the day is unironically the type of anti-hero story I’d want to see.
Literal red hood energy
Incapacitating a group of dancers with pepperspray is amazing. How confused everyone must have been as that was unfolding.
"Boy,that really escalated. I mean,that got out of hand fast."
😂
It was a dancing gang of inner city youths. You know, like in the documentary "west side story"
Saving the city from the scourge of street dance troupes. Phoenix Jones did nothing wrong.
@@zacharymcmillan2788 (once the mace came out) "It jumped up a notch."
That's the kinda shit you'd expect from a chaotic nightclub video or something.
I remember down South in England about 19 or so years ago there was a guy that dressed up as Batman and stopped local chavs that were bullying others and generally causing trouble.
Turns out Bruce Wayne wasn't from Gotam but form Exeter.
there was an argentinian guy dressed up as Batman who witnessed a crime or something and was being interviewed by a news channel and went viral, it is also pretty old, from the 00s. I might be recalling it wrong but it was hilarious
There was also the Batman Rapist of London.
@@wesleyfilms that was in Bath I think during the 90s wasn't it ? and he was called that because he left a Batman cap at the scene of a crime. I don't think they ever caught him.
@@davedogge2280I first heard the term "Chav" a few months ago, and it's one of those words where even if you don't fully understand the meaning, when you see an example of the word personified, it just makes perfect sense
"you read comics, you watch movies" Count knows so much about us I think he lives inside our walls and knows all of our secrets
Next he’s going to tell us that we like video games and drinking.
@@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 Get out of my head!
He’s hiding in ur roof
I for one was stunned.
I neither watch films or t.v. and I certainly dont read comics
wow I actually sound like a total cunt
The fact that he became a "hero" after seeing his son get a small cut on some glass is still my favorite part. Such a touching backstory.
Lol I mean it wasn't just a small cut apparently. I'd be pretty pissed too but idk if I'd go all Batman in the city lmao
"A small cut"
I remember as a kid actually grabbing a bamboo stick that my mom had around for decor purposes and actually training with it in my backyard for like an hour a day to become a superhero. It looked really dumb because i had no idea what i was doing and gained no fighting skill whatsoever.
Phoenix Jones has just earned himself a lifetime spot on the naughty list
That is funny 😂😂
Wow, Santa feels really strongly about Phoenix Jones
Jones: "Stop! I AM THE LAW!"
*bear-maces a group of break dancers*
It should also be noted that Jones had also been responsible for the Death of a Bystander, who was shot from a Drive-by, instead of going to her Aid, he chased the shooter instead and had lost them, leaving the bystander to sadly die from blood loss, the incident fell heavy on his career, and shockingly, he had the Incident Illustrated in a Comic based off his Life as Phoenix Jones
He turned into a villain lol. Started selling Molly & other things. I have ran into Phoenix a few times. Seen him at raves as well.
He was a villain the whole time, idk why nobody knows this or talks about it, yeah, he was at raves to sell molly
Can do worse than selling molly. It’s not heroin people.
@@mcmaldekyup. He grew up in Shoreline, at least from Jr high on. Running all over town on his gas powered scooter making "deliveries". He tried to get out but I don't think that lasted very long.
The people he beat up seemed to be petty criminals and druggie nuisances that should not be an issue if Seattle police actually did the bare minimum or better put if there was any political will to have them do so.
@@j.2512 Seattle is overwhelmed and not enough cops. It’s a dead city & im glad I left Washington.
I actually met him at a convention back when he was still a "good guy". I was working a merch booth with 2 friends and one of them REALLY wanted his autograph. Granted he was funny, and his bit about body armor having inverted levels still stick in my mind, but I remember thinking "Wow. This dude is mental and full of himself. This could go real bad." And like everything else in Seattle, including the city itself, it did :-/
it's not all that bad, i for one LOVE having fentanyl everywhere, rapists released back into the public, and a local government more concerned about their morning coffee order than the state of their city. just stare down at your phone the whole time and it's a wonderful place for sightseeing.
@206hxcx Oh yes! The muggers everywhere and city parks randomly trying to secede from the union sure are great!
@@206hxcxbased.
At least he didnt get shanked, so yay?
Man this sounds like a conic run that got canceled, orphaned MMA fighter tries to stop crime throughout his city, motivated by his son getting injured due to a robbery where nobody helped him, stopping muggings, chase out drug dealers, all that good stuff, expand to form a super hero team to better protect the city, and then right as Phoenix's dark arc is starting, the book gets canceled by the publisher due to low sales, and everyone moves on.
The Super Hero Registry is something straight out of the Marvel Civil War comics.
There sure is a movie there.
The other hero’s “hero’s don’t fight people”
Phoenix Jones “but I do”
Phoenix Jones is the hero Seattle deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
Na. That city needs Punisher.
@@hawk4192 Sorry DC yeeted him out of the entire multiverse not joking. Take THAT for liking a hero. -DC wondering why it has no customers
@@Drak976
Punisher is a marvel character
Well, he isn't the hero Seattle needs, but not the one it deserves, but...
...the one it GETS.
(This comment was actually a parody of Spooderman, in case you don't know.)
The city needs an entire Army 😂💀
Remember kids, if you go into Vigilante Crime fighting, make sure you are trained in Self Defense techniques or some kind of martial arts. Also remember that no fight is fair.
Just bring a gun.
The ultimate martial art.
@@wesleyfilms
"You call slinging dynamite a martial art?"
"If it works, it works."
@@wesleyfilms well I mean Phoenix did bring a gun, with pepper spray, but he fell victim to the age old adage, you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
@@princetchalla2441 Funny how he worked as a criminal and moonlit as a superhero.
The duality of man.
Or just do something productive with your life... What phoenix did was just drug dealing with extra steps.
That’s a pretty metal origin for a super hero costume: taking something left behind by criminals and using it in your attire
Phoenix Jones: Counts 6 shots from a revolver, and jumps out of cover
Criminal: *Using a .38 (8 shots)*
Me: He's a little confused, but he got the spirit.
Doubt it was a .38 caliber
It was a .22
@@wonderoushistoryofclassicf9193 almost certainly a .22
@christopherflynn5359 I'd bet it was one of those cheapo throw away revolvers from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. (H&R sidekick, RG10, etc.)
I'd love to see you do one about the Birmingham Batman. It's such a great story and almost no one knows anything about him anymore. My personal interest is that he stopped on the side of the highway to help my mom change a flat tire when I was 5, so I got to meet him and tour his homemade Batmobile!
Brum Batman? I'm intrigued...
Man, I haven't heard anyone even mention the Birmingham Batman in for ever!!!!!!
@@blitzerblazinoah6838 Close. Birmingham Alabama. ; )
That's wholesome and way more in line with the old 60s batman. Nonsense Robin this is what citizenship means. Oh jeez you're right Batman.
I met him but I was on some shrooms so I definitely was not in a state of mind to have a conversation with a guy dressed up as a super hero.
Please elaborate
did he sell you the shrooms before hand?
Nah I bought them and ate them on my way to Seattle. But I was going to a rave by public transit so plenty of time for the shrooms to kick in. By the time I got to the rave I thought this guy is a little over dressed. But I knew he wasn't part of the party when some guy starts hitting some woman in the middle of the street he obviously went and it was an interesting fight. But it was over real fast with the guy knocked out. People ended up dragging the guy off the road cause Seattle doesn't sleep. Lol but only thing I remember from after that was climbing on top of a stripper pole. So it was a weird interaction. But I did do the typical high kid and got a high five from him.
TBH if I'd first seen him while on mushrooms I would have Immediately called my supplier and been like "I'll buy your entire stock!"
@@TalenGryphon😂😂😂
My favourite moment was when Rex Velvet showed up as a super villain calling our Phoenix Jones in videos and radio call ins. Whoever that guy was he was utterly hilarious.
Wow, the first Mad Lad I've personally met--on multiple occasions no less.
He and some of his foster siblings attended the High School I worked at, and his adoptive Mother bought-out a cul-de-sac of houses in a North Seattle neighborhood and opened some rather shady grouphomes for kids with cognitive disabilities (they were eventually audited and shut down by the State).
One of my co-workers and her husband were kind of friends/tag-along for him and his girlfriend ("Purple Reign") and I met them a few times at local Pubs.
Dank you should make a sub series called "Bad Lads" where you can talk about horrible people that did horrible things, guarantee you it would be so much better than those true crime channels
Some of it is fine like Mr Ballen his stuff has substance bit some stuff feels likw fucking Tea channels like their talking about the latest drama and not a fucking murder or something
@@slipipipi7971yea I fucking hate those tea channels
@@slipipipi7971
MrBallen is an awesome storyteller. Love his style.
Hate those channels that are like "Makeup and murder teehee" where the most vapid bitch you've ever seen applies $75 of concealer while reading the Wikipedia article for Albert Fish and occasionally going 'like ohmaigawd??!?"
@@thekeyandthegate4093Like it or not their is a market for that content. I wonder... Does this bode ill for the fate of humanity? Surely not.
>impyling Uday Hussein didnt do bad things
wew
That 'secret' comic store room and the costume both rock
When that picture of Phoenix being interviewed by Megyn Kelly popped up, I sprayed a mouth full of Wild Turkey all over my keyboard, I burst out laughing so hard 🤣
Ya, little meat fibers between the keys, I've been there man, I feel for ya 😂
Thank you Dank. I too was struggling to retain bladder control when you were talking about the group of people dancing that were set upon by a nutter in a superhero outfit who proceeded to mace them. Whenever I feel in need of a good laugh I shall conjure up this image. Embarrassing if in public but worth it for the endorphin hit, if that is what it is.......
I could barely breathe through that segment, watching dank laughing didn't help either😂
I wanted to be the punisher when I was a kid.
Thank god I didn’t go down that path…
Especially considering what happened to him in the comics.
Many people who see themselves as *The Punisher* would more likely just be _The Mild Inconveniencer_
Lame
@@Double_Visionlmfaooo
I was a huge Spawn and The Maxx kid.... The Maxx was pretty fucked up looking back on it.
The idea of Phoenix Jones, a man in gold and black spandex, sprinting up to a group of dancers, pepper spraying them, and then they just up and beat the piss out of him is one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard. But the picture of him standing there like a muppet about to ask if they got games on their phones while holding said pepper spray sent me to another dimension. Godspeed Phoenix. Shame you might be a drug dealer.
id have put my boot through his head no bother, fucker maced me in the face while i was with my wife, all the time he was yelling that i was committing rape, when in reality, me and my wife had just been to our favourite restaurant on our 10 year anniversary, thanks to him, im blind in one eye from a severe reaction to the mace
Phoenix son falling on the glass was his Bruce Wayne seeing his parents shot moment
Imagine you're enjoying a dance with your pals when a guy dressed as a gimp screams at you in the cartman coon voice before macing you
This dude definitely deserves a mad lad episode I’ve been following that guy for years this is gonna be good
Garth Ennis and Mark Millar could never make a story as insteresting as this one with any of their superhero takedowns.
IDK man, The Boys was pretty good at points.
@@KaosNova2The comics or the show? The comics were doodoo butter.
Tbh, he looks like a Craigslist version of Goldust.
That is fucking spot on. Gave me a good laugh with that one
Would that make him Angeldust?
A mad lad I would recommend would be Bill Foulk the man behind the ash street shootout. Man got 12 or more army rangers to defend his house from a local gang.
Oh yeah! Tacoma's famous Marines vs. Crips gunfight! Yeah that is one hell of a story!
Bro, I was hoping you would make a Mad Lad on this guy. He is the perfect topic for it.
been waiting for this one since I first found the channel!!
the dancer incident is not only funny but should be used in comic book stories as well! as we humans make all sorts of blunders and bad calls
One of my teachers invited this guy to our class for a debate on heroes or something like that. I was unfortunately sick that day and never knew how it went.
you could have scored some MDMA and missed out
Probably for the best, he might’ve challenged you to mutual combat if you insulted his ego or disagreed with him.
@j.2512 That would’ve been a great day at school
This is a great video. I moved to WA around 2011 and met Ben quite a few times. I hung around that comic shop that his "hide out" was in. It was actually just the bathroom, lol. The first time I saw a guy come out of it in full costume I asked my friend, "Who tf is that guy?" - and I was given the run down. I remember vividly that day he was trying out something like a Captain America Shield but in his color scheme. He was showing it off to the comic shop owner and super hyped about it.
He was in and out a lot while I hung out in there... I met his medic as well. Really nice guy.
You missed the whole part where there were super villians that antagonized him. Everything turned into a pro wrestling drama storyline.
And in reality, they ended up being way better than Phoenix himself.
Great video. Been living in seattle for 23 years and remember him well. Would see him walking around in the nightlife areas of the city. Always thought he was a clown for the news interviews. Batman never would have hung around for an interview… good to know the back story of him. Great episode
he was reborn from the ashes as a supervillain you might say
He started out as Rorschach, ended up as The Comedian.
He was in a facebook group my friends and I started years ago, he even let us interview him for our old podcast. I also did some writing for his ex wifes charity website..... It's pretty sad how far he's fallen since then.
It’s not sad when people fall if they deserve to fall lol
One of the heroes from around this time, Omega, is actually a RUclipsr named ComicTropes. He put out a video a little while ago talking about his experiences and his interactions with Phoenix Jones. Actually pretty illuminating and he doesn't bloviate or anything. Very level-headed and casual.
Bro couldn’t make up his mind on whether he wanted to be Alex Jones or Phoenix Wright.
The thing about grappling hooks is they weren't meant for climbing. The were made to grapple horsemen off their horses to be killed or captured by infantry.
It was only a matter of time before he made his way into the mad lads hall of fame
15:52 Dankula's best laugh so far 💀 Love it
I've seen this dude's story so many times but I still clicked. lol. It's a fascinating character study.
"Thank you, Pheonix Jones! You saved me!"
"You're welcome, m'lady... wanna buy some crack?"
🤣 Your laugh combined with the image of a guy in a superhero costume running up and hitting a bunch of innocent people with bear mace had me rolling! Idk if you just have an infectious laugh or it was a combination of that and the image but I haven't laughed that hard in a minute!
What was it that Blade said in the first movie when robbing one of the Vampire familiars?
"How do you think we finance our operation? We're not exactly The March of Dimes" 😆
I can’t believe I ever forgot about this guy. So nostalgic 😂
You know despite everything, he did succeed more into what he tried doing than anyone would expect; Even if it did end up crashing and burning. I'd be lying if I didn't say I kinda wanted this guy to succeed in the end.
I like to imagine the great dancer macing incident as the scene from Holy Grail where Lancelot goes chopping through a party.
I think we can all agree that Rex Velvet was the true victor in all of this. Truly the People's Villain!
He can’t keep getting away with this!
If you actually read the police reports and eye witness testimony about when he was "fighting crime", it shows he basically liked going around in his body armor with pepper spray and a stun baton and beat up drunk guys. He had real man issues after his MMA career didn't work out and he realized he wasn't Goku. Then when he realized that everyone else realized he was a joke, I guess he just started eating his spinach (smoking crack) and went Popeye on the world.💪
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a meme"
Dancing is forbidden - Phoenix Shake
Dancing is haram, now get bearmaced.
15:55 I'm laughing too. Spraying a bunch of people dancing 🤣
You need to buy that action figure of him, it needs to be on the shelf.
These are our demands. (nah kidding but would be awesome)
Fun times. I was around in that community, it was a lot of drama mostly and I had a front row seat. I used my 'good' persona to give out clothing, food & supplies to homeless, and a villain online to troll the RLSH on FB.
phoenix jones "i use crime...to destroy crime"
You're thinking "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Now to tell you the truth…OH SHIT!!!!
When mentioning Kick Ass and Defendor you should've also mentioned the movie Super. Certified classic right thur
Those dancing people had it coming
Honestly the whole real life superhero movement was awesome. Its a shame it died out as this was a thing that attracted weird people yes but they meant well and did good
100% agree, I wish it had turned out better, against all odds.
Turns out societal outcasts with personal vendettas may be pretty terrible people, go figure
Who watches the Watchmen? 🤔
They're still active but they're nearly dead now. There's only like 10 members still doing anything and most of what they do now is hand out food to the homeless and scare off petty criminals who are tagging buildings or something. The only one I heard about who goes even further than Phoenix Jones and still does it is a guy in western Africa who purposely targets criminals in the human trafficking industry
@@j.2512 Some blue naked guy but sadly he blows you up for doing the right thing and then the movie tries to convince you that's a good thing. The only moral character is Rorschache so commie guy gives the genocider a pass and takes him out. Alex Jones worse then mustache man okay.
The image of this weirdo in a superhero suit running up to a bunch of dancing strangers, thinking hes doing something good, and spraying them all with pepper spray
🤣
Dude your laugh is contagious! You just gave me a great start to my day 😂 I can't stop laughing at the thought of him pepper spray a bunch of awkward dances kids 😂😂😂
Phoenix Jones looks like he could pass off as a Poundland Isom.
Also, never thought he could go through a secret passage within a bookshop where he is easily recognisable. It's almost reminiscent of Spider-Man entering a random "Spidey Store" in the videogame adaptation of Sam Reimi's Spider-Man 2.
What I am more surprised about is how none of the criminals he messed with, wouldnt just ambush him at that place if it wasnt that secretive?
I had a friend who was in the RLSH community back in the day, and he was always talking about how genuinely batshit Phoenix Jones was and how he'd put other RLSH's in danger or what have you.
Danger? How so? I managed the team and we pushed out many "RLSH" because they just are costumed sandwiche vendors. He was looking for people that wanted to stop crime not give out sandwiches.
Good
@meatbyproducts Hmmm, dealing sandwiches or drugs... Seems like you guys had your priorities in the wrong spot. You kicked out the sandwich guys and kept the drug dealers. Way to go😂
@DamonKirry woah, don't rope me into the drugs. I kicked him out of my house when I caught him with some. He was a good man doing good things for a number of years. The RLSH group are LARPers that wouldn't know how to fight a paper bag let alone a criminal. RLSH as silly and ment to be laughed at. I had no costume, I just managed them and took video of crime in action so we could turn it over to police and get the SPD arrest people.
@@meatbyproductsmaybe knuckle sandwiches.
Don't forget "Super" (2010) hilarious! Has Rainn Wilson (Dwight) Kevin Bacon and was directed by James Gunn!
I remember in 2021 thinking you would run out of mad lads soon and yet here we are. Especially since the level of madness went down in a couple of episodes, but wow. Just wow. The world cannot stop birthing crazy people.
I remember this dude, he just used to bully and harass people downtown after the clubs let out. Never scene him "fight crime" unless you count fighting drunks people for jaywalking
Dank I can't help but smile and laugh when you make yourself laugh so hard. Love your videos!
Homeboy legit peppersprayed a moshpit 🤣
I was just talking to my friends a week ago about vigilantes, and in particular Phoenix Jones. Wild to have a Dankula video the week after the conversation between friends on him. Joyfully watching this one.
Dankula is up in your phone trying to get content ideas.
"and then this fuckin guy turns up and starts bear macing everyone..."
I don't normally laugh audibly when I'm by myself, but shit all if I didn't ugly laugh at this part. @16:10
I'm a bartender and I could totally picture you sitting at the bar tossing drinks back and telling us cool stories
I remember reading a book about real life superheroes while I was waiting in a hotel lobby (just had public books and it was there) and there are a LOT of different stories similar to Phoenix. I want to say it was "The rise of real life superheroes" by Peter Nowak but I can't be 100% sure. Essentially it had a journalist running around with various different people across the US, going along on stakeouts and whatnot. It was surprisingly interesting.
Here in the US we get stunning and brave even when it comes to stupidity. Say what you want about America, you sure as hell can’t say it’s not amusing. I’d love to see someone step up as Anti-Florida Man and document his adventures. New York can sure as hell use a superhero rn since the police became a dance team or something last i checked.
I had a chance meeting with his entire superhero squad one night after an Anthrax/Testament concert. (I had also partied with Joey Belladonna and met Chuck Billy the same evening. It was a good night) I happened upon them at waterfront park near Pike Place market and just stepped into the circle that was their meeting as if I belonged there. after about ten minutes of their meeting jones finally asked, "Hey, who are you?" and the quick response of "Mister Boat" seemed to satisfy all involved. It was a lulzfest and it was as sad as any pack of larpers I have ever seen. I've seen a few... Because Pacific Northwest. After the meeting I was asked by Jones if I was there to join them and so I explained to him that I was not... but it the most fun way sober up after after a metal show I'd found yet. I'd had a good 20 drinks that evening. Anthrax fucking rules.
15:56 count dankula laughing and describing the situation reminded me of playing GTA vice city 20 odd years ago where i once went in to the nightclub and threw a molotov into the crowd, now i cant get the image out of my head of phoenix jones doing that. Best laugh i had in a while
Too bad Phoenix Jones is retired now. Seattle really could have used his help during the summer of love.
He's not retired idk why anyone thinks this, he has not vanished at all. He's very active...
@@mcmaldek LIAR!
He did come out to the CHAZ/CHOP
@@meatbyproducts Did he?
@@RoddyFuhr yup. He put out videos from there
Trust me, I was laughing my ass off too at the thought of a 'superhero' breaking up a party by macing everybody 😆 🤣
I remember hearing about Phoenix Jones, right up until his court appearance, at which point his story seemed to completely die out of the national press and went back to a "local story". To hear what happened after THAT is kind of depressing considering the fact that, while not actually effective for fighting crime, was at least a bit inspirational in regard to trying to be helpful to people in general.
It's such a pleasure to listen to your stories. Thanks.
His arch nemesis Rex Velvet, is hilarious. He once called in on the radio show Phoenix Jones was on to troll him. On another occasion, when he was on air, the reporter recognised Rex as a photographer of his wedding photos. Rex asked how did their wedding go and the guy replies "we're divorced now. You took more photos of my ex wife than my actual wife." Rex just laughed and replied. "Well of course! I'm a super villain mwahaha!" The dude was a massive troll. He made a dozen videos calling out the Real Life Super Hero movement (RLSH) and vowed he would ruin them all until the Rain City Hero Movement left. (Jones, his girlfriend and a few gay guys who tricked muggers into attacking them. Entrapment at its best, i own the DVD and a lawyer called them criminals themselves).
The movie "Super" (written and directed by James Gunn) also had the plot of a regular guy donning a superhero costume to fight crime. I think it is the best version of that plot concept.
The Crimson Bolt was fucking brutal.
I was waiting for the day this guy got his own video. Been following him for a while
I'm almost curious what that dipshit is doing now.