Superman shot at Six Flags

[snopes]

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*

[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?

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...".

[snopes]

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

[SatansHobbit]

Originally Posted by snopes

Someone else might have handed it to him and urged him to shoot Superman with it, for example.

- snopes

Are there no depths of depravity that Lex Luthor will not sink to?

[snopes]

Originally Posted by SatansHobbit

Are there no depths of depravity that Lex Luthor will not sink to?

Now you know why there's no Lex Luthor character at Six Flags, either.

- snopes

[musicgeek]

Sadly, there is (a Lex Luthor). And a Cheetah. And a Captain Cold. And Sinestro. Where they used to have a cool stunt show at Six Flags New England, they now have a "Legion of Doom" attraction. We took the kids, expecting a stunt show, but instead we were treated to 45 minutes of my life that I will never get back. It sounded like the dialogue was written by a fifth grader, the acting was all terribly pantomimed to pre-recorded voice tracks (which, strangely, were acted terribly as well), and NOTHING happened. The characters explained their origin stories in the same "it's perfectly natural that I'm going into all this detail" delivery that you see from the people on the laxative commercials; there were hints that the Justice League would soon arriive (we were praying that SOMEONE would show up and kick their NFBSKs), but instead the "show" abruptly ended with an invitation for the audience members to get their pictures taken with their favorite villains. (Picture printouts available for a fee, of course.) [/hijack]

[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.

[Grand Illusion]

Wonder Woman can block bullets with her gauntlets, so if they were removing possible shooting targets, why didn't they think to remove her as well?

[diddy]

Originally Posted by Grand Illusion

Wonder Woman can block bullets with her gauntlets, so if they were removing possible shooting targets, why didn't they think to remove her as well?

Probably because superman is more widely known to be bulletproof. WW just blocks them. Superman doesn't have to do a thing.

Erm... what Six Flags Australia...?

Here's a list of amusement parks in Australia, no Six Flags to be seen there!
http://tinyurl.com/3bdpfn

Did this remind anybody else of the Dane Cook "Superbleeder" joke?

"...I guess not. Don't wear the shirt and I wont shoot you in the chest plate..."