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Assigment 2
David Bravo
VISA 1500
Dr. Terryl Atkins
October 15th, 2021
Assignment 2
In the streets of San Jose, California, there is one person who is highly recognizable for helping the homeless, offering food, water, and some other essential supplements for a living. The local press and people well know the man in the above’s picture as the batman of San Jose, a young student college who is identity is unknown. Cosplay is a part of wearing or characterizing someone so a person can use a temporary identity. For instance, this batman has been highly distinguished from wearing a handmade batman costume. The costume has particular militarized features but with some adjustments and variations compared with some batman costumes on movies, series, and comics.
The Batsuit, fully handmade, manufacturing, and designed by himself. The costume is also protecting him from any kind of criminal activity. The upper part of the costume was built of motocross armour, protecting plating to the torso in addition with a stab resistant in his chess for double knife protection along with the mask that has been made out of polycarbonate plating; therefore, he wears a cape in which makes it a real superhero in the real world aditionally with some design elements are notorious in the costume, such as the black casual shoes, and the contrasting colour of the purple.
The features of masculinity in the suit are evidently as part of the DC comic character in which masculinity has become a more recent feature of the batsuit in the last comic books and movies of the recent decades. The batman of san Jose illustrates this character from dc comics as a part of being a real superhero in the real world. According to the young boy who dresses as a batman to feed and helping people living in the streets. The batman suit has uniquely helping him to interact, engage with the homeless and those with drug addictions where they live in the poorest conditions. He claims that the suit allows him to communicate with those strangers as he can start a casual conversation and offer food. The batman of san jose points out that dressing as a particular superhero and having a conversation with the homeless helps to decrease anxiety and make a strong relationship with them. He takes seriously Batman’s character created by warren Ellis and john Cassady, a batman that does not use violence but is more moral. The batman of San jose is such a human being who chooses to do voluntary work, helping people much as he can.
Work cited
Chiat, K. (2021). Being a superhero is amazing, everyone should try it: Relationality and masculinity in superhero narratives (thesis). 2021.
Lotecki, A. (2012). Cosplay Culture: The Development Of Interactive And Living Art Through Play (thesis). Toronto,ON.