Prologue
April 22, 2024 at 10:13 AM
NY. 2008 The economy in dollars has long since fallen in value. All the criminals and crime lords united together and rebelled against the United States of America. The leader of all criminal groups remained under the hidden name ไธ Mr. Murder
Mr. Murder seized all power in all of North America, including Canada, and remained in New York. Even the police now belong to Mr. Murder and began to stupidly close their eyes to everything, and as a result began to be inactive. No one now protected innocent citizens or helped them, and the streets of the city were not safe even during the day. The police even released all the arrested criminals by order of the new president of all of North America and now the United States is considered the most criminal country in the world.
But a ray of last hope flashed. People still believe that sooner or later, just like in the movies, there will be someone among them who dares to challenge all the street rats on the streets, as well as their leader, Mr. Murder, and will save their country from crime. Who will this hero be? And most importantly, when will he show up?
POV Dave Lizewski
My name is Dave Lizewski. But for the whole world, I am Kick-Ass. Our real world is not like the one that has been shown or described in rare cases in history books or in rare cases in films. Our reality is much harsher. We live in a scary world where we can be attacked at any moment, even at night, sneak into our home, desecrate us in our dreams, severely beat us, or even take away our most valuable things. For example, a TV or a computer. The only thing that was valuable to me were comics. However, bandits are not interested in such nonsense. They think that these are wimps for kids, and all these costumed clowns in them are simply supposedly jesters and suicides, whom even they supposedly could easily kill, unlike those weaklings. Well, of course! In comics and films, all the villains are stupid! But we have a real world, where all the villains, on the contrary, are smart and never repeat those villainous cliches from the films. And evil laughter is generally considered a sign that the villain is simply supposedly sick and has seen too many movies. Each of us tried to go to school and back unnoticed so as not to get caught by bandits on the way. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didnโt. Our police are completely stupid. They don't help us at all. I remember my dad and I wrote a statement to the police that one of the criminals stole our TV, but instead of accepting our statement, they simply tore it up and burned it, and they sent us away! What is there! They have become completely lazy and stupidly close their eyes, even if, for example, an ordinary citizen decides to become a bandit and protect a store. Basically we have to cope on our own as best we can. Sometimes it works, and sometimes things get worse if we try to interfere. The bandits have pistols and knives. They can easily kill us. Why are these superheroes only in comics and films? Why aren't they real? Now, if they really existed, they would have beaten all these bandits long ago and freed us all from them. And we are forced to suffer because of this. That was until the moment I decided to become one myself... Or at least try. With the remaining money I ordered myself a green wetsuit with yellow stripes. Plus, we had yellow rubber gloves, yellow boots, and a Halloween ninja mask at home, which I dyed to match the costume. I even had a wooden stick that I completely wrapped with green ribbon. I dress up in all this and decide, like a real superhero, to go out into the streets and administer justice myself. Since the stupid police donโt want to help us and stupidly ignore our complaints with criminals, then Iโll take everything into my own hands.
End POV Dave Lizewski
Dave, in a wetsuit, calmly walked around the streets of the city, and passers-by or those who looked out the window when they noticed him looked at him strangely and thought that he was crazy. And some even laughed at him on the sidelines. Some even called him a costumed clown or asked things like:
ไธ Doesnโt he know that Halloween is still a couple of months away?
Having reached the park, he finds an elderly woman there and decides that this is perhaps his chance to prove himself as a hero and he decides to help her. Namely, to escort her out of here before a bandit jumped out at her from somewhere. He approaches her and trying to take her hand says:
ไธ Grandma, itโs not safe here, let me take you!
ไธ Young man, what are you allowing yourself to do? Get your hands off! ไธ The old lady was indignant and began to fight back with her bag.
ไธ Grandma, what are you doing? I'm trying to help you. ไธ Dave said and defended himself from the blows until he tripped over a stone and fell on the cold sidewalk.
ไธ GET AWAY FROM ME, FREAK!!! ไธ she screamed and continued to hit him with her bag. ไธ HELP, POLICE-POLICE, I WAS ATTACKED BY A MUMMER PSYCHO!!!
ไธ YOU OLD FUCK FOOL, I'M NOT A MUMMER PSYCHO, I'M A SUPERHERO!!! ไธ Dave shouted back, but the old woman did not listen to him and continued to call for help and beat him.
Two police officers nevertheless paid attention, ran up and began kicking him, and then handcuffed him, arrested him, and dragged him to the police station.