However, as several recent news stories have demonstrated, sometimes people put on superhero costumes with absolutely no intention of fighting crime and wind up saving the day anyway.

Most of us are probably aware of people like Phoenix Jones , who dress up like superheroes and patrol the night looking for crime and/or collecting aggravated assault charges.

4 Woman Dressed as Wonder Woman Is Attacked by Transient, Rescued by Guy Dressed as Superman

Last week, a man and a woman dressed up as Superman and Wonder Woman (respectively) were out on Hollywood Boulevard filming a segment for Jimmy Kimmel Live wherein they dumped buckets of water on a Polish tourist.

Jimmy Kimmel Live

As one does.

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However, in the middle of the taping, a lady hobo dressed in cowboy boots and misplaced fury ran up to Wonder Woman and punched her in the face. She then ripped her own boots off and tried to pelt the Amazonian princess with them, but Superman (who looks amazingly like a time-lapse photo of William Fichtner) jumped in and deflected one of the boot shots with his Kryptonian might. The assailant evidently realized she was outmatched and fled, vowing that both heroes would be "dead by tomorrow," which would be funny if death threats from a transient psychopath weren't so goddamned terrifying.