Superman shot at Six Flags

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Comment: While at a Six Flags amusement park, my friend noticed they had
DC comic book heroes like Wonder Woman, Batman, Robin, and Flash. He
asked where Superman was. The theme park employee told us that Six Flags
does not use a Superman. He said a 10-year old boy at Six Flags Australia
thought the Superman character was real and shot him. Is this true?

[BamaRainbow]

Um, there's NO way it's true.

1--Six Flags doesn't even acknowledge owning a property of any sort in Australia (this can be found at the official website).

2--Superman most certainly IS a character at the Six Flags Theme Parks. Whether ALL the Parks have Superman "performing" every day may be up for grabs, but my "local" Park (Six Flags Over Georgia) advertises "Join Superman, Batman and ALL your Justice League favorites". (I'd be very astonished that a Park employee wouldn't know that Six Flags--in a corporate sense--uses Superman, but to lie about the Australia thing is a bit stupid.)

Now, Six Flags wouldn't be able to have a SuperBOY character since DC's involved in a lawsuit over the rights to the character but, for now, as long as Six Flags and DC have their current agreement, Superman should be available at the Parks (well, at least, as long as they have someone capable of decently fitting the role--admittedly, a bit more problematic than for Batman or Flash).

Wouldn't a ten-year-old be old enough to know Superman wasn't real? And what was he shooting him with? At my local Six Flags (same as BamaRainbow's), you have to pass through a metal detector to get in.

"Join Superman, Batman and ALL your Justice League favorites".

So no Aquaman? *rimshot*

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Originally Posted by Skyshot

Wouldn't a ten-year-old be old enough to know Superman wasn't real? And what was he shooting him with?

A normal ten-year-old, probably. But not everyone is normal.

- snopes

Originally Posted by Skyshot

Wouldn't a ten-year-old be old enough to know Superman wasn't real? And what was he shooting him with? At my local Six Flags (same as BamaRainbow's), you have to pass through a metal detector to get in.

Originally Posted by snopes

A normal ten-year-old, probably. But not everyone is normal.

How many normal 10 year olds pack heat?

That sounds too much like the scene in "Hollywoodland" where the actor that played superman had to "talk down" a kid from shooting him with a gun. I think the line he used was, "Think of the person it might kill when it bounced off me...".

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Originally Posted by Doug4.7

How many normal 10 year olds pack heat?

If you want to get picky, nothing in the description given in the OP says the 10-year-old brought a gun with him to the park. Someone else might have handed it to him and urged him to shoot Superman with it, for example.

- snopes

[Dondi]

Originally Posted by Doug4.7

How many normal 10 year olds pack heat?

That sounds too much like the scene in "Hollywoodland" where the actor that played superman had to "talk down" a kid from shooting him with a gun. I think the line he used was, "Think of the person it might kill when it bounced off me...".

I'm also thinking of the movie "Unbreakable", where Bruce Willis's character has to talk down his son.