Stan Lee's Superhumans

[Holy Moment]

There's a new show on the History Channel that apparently is looking to establish itself as the successor to Human Weapon. In Stan Lee's Superhumans, host Daniel Browning Smith travels the globe in search of people who can perform seemingly superhuman feats in real life. As you might guess, there's very little skepticism and the show gives a huge opportunity for charlatans to peddle their bullshit. Featured guests include known fraud Tom Cameron (The "Human Stun Gun") and Dennis Rogers, who performs amazingly imitable feats like tearing a phone book in half in an effort to pass himself off as the world's strongest man.

Of course, the death touch had to be covered:

YouTube- Superhuman Shifu Shi Yan Ming's Killer punch.

Take note that they brought in the same expert who also did the crash test dummy tests on Fight Science and Sport Science:

YouTube- fight science - Ninjitsu

I guess her primary line of work now revolves around repeatedly saying "We've never seen these numbers in a lab before!"

[Scott Larson]

It would be nice to see this information presented in a real scientific manner.

[MMAMickey]

Oh dear.

[nomamao]

Well, it's television, folks. What can you say? I hope that more and more people join up with schools to learn the one-inch punch and less learn anything about fighting. It'll make the world a safer place.

[Bad Apple]

It would be nice to see this information presented in a real scientific manner.

It would be an awful short show

"Let's see the 'Human Stun Gun' move the needle on this voltmeter"

*doesn't move*

"Umm, let's see him stun someone other than his own students"

*Replay of Stephan Bonner footage*

Uhh... See you next week when..."

*Show canceled*
*Cut to test pattern*

Not even Penn and Teller's show did it right. None of these guys would sign the release form if they got caught.

Someone has to inspire the next generation of Booj LARPERS

[Dak]

first and foremost I love Stan Lee. He is cool.

Second the show can't be all bad with a super srs spiderman

YouTube- Stan Lee Super Human real life Spider Man | Strongest Fingers in the World

[Vorpal]

That climbing guy was rather impressive.

[Dak]

David Belle aint got shit on monkey man

[Siniq]

1 I'm not a fan of that show, most of what they show is crap

2 Martial arts are a skill set not something you can measure

3 They had a nice one on that marathon runner who's lactic acid didn't rise. Then again they showed that to be possible way before when they measured Randy Couture's Lactic Acid.

4 Stan Lee is cool, but he's getting old. People ran out of super powers around the time the Xmen came out. Like seriously there is only so much you can do to a person and still be able to call him a person.

[Holy Moment]

Well, it's television, folks. What can you say? I hope that more and more people join up with schools to learn the one-inch punch and less learn anything about fighting. It'll make the world a safer place.

It might also cause someone to risk their life against an armed assailant.

Then again, it might be amusing to see a frustrated nerd try to pull of teh death touch against another nerd who also believes it's real. One guy would collapse to the ground thinking he's dead and the other one would panic, thinking he's an uncontrollable monster.

That climbing guy was rather impressive.

Yeah, there are legit guys mixed in with the phonies. They even had the World Sauna Champion demonstrate his heat resistance.

[Phrost]

I caught the one where the guy ran back-to-back marathons for a few days or whatever. They're really stretching the limits of believability, even for an audience that undoubtedly believes anyone in a lab coat is a credible scientist.

[W. Rabbit]

This show just seems a repackaging of Ripley's Believe It or Not, which was a combination of mind blowing oddities and hokey unbelievable yet somehow documentable stuff..

Not to mention the later show hosted by Dean Cain, who also played the actual Superman....hmmm...I definitely smell derivative here.

[helmutlvx]

I hate. FUCKING HATE. that bitch from Fight Science.

HERP DERP I NEVER SEEN A BREAKROLL BEFUR.

ARE YOU A WIZARD?

[Phrost]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6PwUBXe6g

Didn't this guy post here a few years back, with the help of an interpreter? Never did decide if that was real or bullshit.

[Snake Plissken]

Too bad Jack Kirby is dead, we could get him and Stan Lee into a ring and let them fight it out, since Kirby was screwed out of a shit-ton of money