Research Into Super Hero's

Watchmen is a book based on the idea of masked avengers with superpowers going around fighting crime and the trials that go along with it. This made me wonder is this purely fiction or are there people that actually try to copy their fictional hero's in real life. As I investigated I was astonished by the number of examples so I narrowed it down to 2 particularly interesting examples. The first is a man that doesn't actually have a super power but instead just an ordinary angle grinder. Angle-Grinder Man does not fight bank robbers or villains but instead he fights meter-maids. When ever a car gets clamped from being illegally parked he soon appears wearing blue tights and a gold cape with of course his trusty angle grinder to bust off the clamp. Just like a true super hero he asks for no money in return as well he conceals his identity to prevent a hefty fine. The second hero is a man that does not where a cape nor does he fight bad guys instead he has a true power. Like many fictional hero's he acquired his power from a dramatic event his turned out to be a series of epileptic seizures that severely altered his brain. This transformed him into a human calculator. Daniel Tammet does incredibly long calculations in very short periods of time. He accomplishes this by not memorizing the number but instead feeling the number and actually seeing flashes of lights that reveal the answer. It seems like a little bit of a hoax but you can't argue with his world record, which is reciting pi up to 22,514 digits in 5 hours. This is similar to the smartest man on the earth from watchmen in that they both have the ability to learn. Daniel Tammet was also put to the test by having to learn Icelandic know as one the hardest language in only a week. To test if he succeeded he went live with interviewers in front of millions and was able to carry on a conversation. This shows that to some degree super powers and masked avengers exists but in different ways than they appear in the comics. (youtube: Daniel Tammet to see full story)