Around 2009, the rumors started to spread stories of a masked vigilante jumping out of the shadows to help the citizens of Seattle.
A guy in a skin tight rubber suit, tall and pretty ripped.
He wore a hooded rubber mask that covered his eyes like the batman cowl.
He had black gloves and a black chest plate molded into a six pack with a gold chevron across the chest.
One night, a guy named Dan was walking through a parking lot in downtown Seattle when he came upon a menacing looking dude trying to break into a car.
Dan pulled out his phone to call 911, but before he could reach the police, something totally insane happened.
The masked man emerged from the shadows and chased the would be car thief away.
Someone else said the guy in the costume stopped a mugging.
Another person saw him break up a fight outside a bar.
There were more and more encounters like this.
It became clear the rumors were true.
There was a dark knight out there patrolling the streets of Seattle, and he called himself Phoenix Jones.
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