Warden

So back when you started, there were some doubts, right?

Were there?

I hadn't heard.

So that's news to you? I know.

What would you like to say to those people who think, well,

I like what this guy's doing, but...

I've elected people to represent me who should be doing this job?

Everything, All the criticism that I've heard of what I'm doing, it

basically boils down to, well, what about the system?

Trust the system.

The system wasn't representing people. But I am.

Daniel didn't really have much to say about himself at first,

so it was really on the journalists in Brazil to find out who he was

and how he came to be that way.

There wasn't anything about him

growing up that would make you think this guy's different.

It was comics, video games and football.

He never talked to anybody about it, any of his friends.

But at some point he just started,

you know, avoiding physical activities at school.

He said he was bored with them.

Definitely not one of the cool kids in school.

But he do these things when we hung out

and I thought it was hilarious because he didn't even care.

He's almost the archetype,

the lost soul, the outsider who suddenly discovers, Hey,

I can have control over my own life in a very big, very powerful way.

Superhero comics and movies have given him the tools to say.

I'm a superhero.

...Murder rates plunged...

New arrests this morning...

A super man is born and he's Brazilian.

Do they like you? I don't know.

And now he's going to finish offall the punks in this country.

Word also started to get out

pretty quickly about the crime numbers the city was posting.

and we had posted double digit declines

that began to attract a lot of attention.

This wasn't Warden bringing balanceto the system.

This was Warden decidingwho gets justice and who doesn't.

There was no system.

Just him.

He's a global celebrity.

And, you know, against like all of the good.

he's doing, the complaints?

They're less than a footnote.

If you want to understand why he became so popular so quickly,

all you have to do is look at his background.

And they find out

we've been living right under our noses in Nova Sao Paulo his whole life.

But as you'd expect, it's the story about his birth that's unusual.

His biological parents are from the state of Pernambuco,

and we find out they both passed away

MARRIED COUPLE DIESAFTER MYSTERIOUS RADIATION EXPOSURE.

from something that looks like radiation poisoning.

The father right before his birth, mother just after COUPLE EXPLORING CAVESDIES OF RADIATION POISONING.

and when no family

surfaces to take the baby, he's placed into the foster care system.

A family adopts him, and from what we can tell, he grows up

normally under the circumstances.

We saw him at the foster agency, We saw him at the foster agency,

three months old

and it was immediatewe knew he was our son.

He was the calmest babywe'd ever seen.

I can't remember him ever getting sick, all through his childhood.

So we were in college by then, and one day he just stopped going to class.

So when I texted him, he told me that he'd been thinking

a lot about the way his mom was killed.

I thought that was weird because he never really talked about her.

But losing his mother,

my wife...

JOBERTO DIASFATHER OF DANIEL DIAS

...was hard for him.

It was hard for all of us.

It's a fact of life in Brazil.

Violence can touch anybody.

And she was in the wrong placeat the wrong time.

He told me that he needed some time off and he wanted to,

you know, figure out who he really was.

Daniel didn't show outward emotion.

He wouldn't cry or ask about her.

He was never a kid who told youexactly how he was feeling.

But somehow, he'd always show you.

He's discovering this strength, this speed, the fact that nothing seems to hurt it.

We don't know when he first noticed there was something different about him,

but we do know he threw himself into figuring out what to do with it.

it almost perfectly fits the contours of the classic superhero origin story.

Now, if you're somebody who doesn't have these things, that's a perfect fantasy.

And that's why superhero stories connect with so many of us.

And now along comes someone who gets to live that story.

So what is he thinking about?

He's growing up reading comic books like the rest of us.

And what those have done is given him a sort of decoder key for reality.

Oh, now I understand why I'm like this.

Now I understand why I'm feeling this way.

Now I understand what I should do.

And what is it that superheroes do?

They fight villains.

We're live looking at Bolivar Street

where according to authorities, one gunman has been holding

passengers hostage on this bus thatwas headed to the state coast.

It was only like four years ago. BUS HIJACKING IN NOVA SPPOLICE STANDOFF NOW IN THIRD HOUR

I had been an anchor on CNE for three years.

You start thinking you've seen everything, even the bus hijacking.

So that wasn't a surprise.

But what happened next? That was.

A bus hijacking in Nova Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Coming to a surprising conclusion...

...a man appears to have leapt through the bus window

at an inconceivable speed, stopping the hijacker before disappearing.

And then the gunman just goes like flying off the bus.

And this... I guess I would call him a kid.

This kid steps off, like totally calm,

BUS HIJACKINGSPECULATION GROWS ABOUT CIVILIAN HERO

like he just got to his stop.

An astonishing story out of Nova Sao Paulo, Brazil.

It was like a scene out of a superhero movie.

The attention of the entire world has turned to the Brazilian city

and to the vigilante hero from last...

- My name is Daniel Dias. - And I want people

like that man who hurt and killinnocent people every day.

I want them to be afraid.

The vigilante named Daniel Dias has left scientists

in disbelief with a slew of abilities that seem more at home.

In a comic... He can leap hundreds of meters.

He runs faster than the speed of sound, and he's strong enough

to bend solid metal.

What we don't know about him, how he exists.

So the day after the bus.

After he introduced himself to the camera, he walks in as if,

you know, nothing happened, like...

Hey guys,

how's it going?

and, oh my God, before he even gets to the door.

I mean, for a shy kid, this

moment is the moment that you dream of.

He was the hero.

Everybody at school knew his name and not just at school.

Now is the biggest story in the world is a comic book come to life.

He's a celebrity.

Everybody wanted to be the childhood friend. DANIEL DIAS WAS MY BEST FRIEND,WE'RE NEIGHBORS FOR 4 YEARS.

Everyone had this one story about the one time I ALWAYS KNEW HE WAS SPECIAL.

they had talked and how from just that they knew how special he was.

Definitely news to him how many friends he had.

We know because we've read the same comics and seen the same movies that he has.

That celebrity is something he must have anticipated since it began.

But there are different ways of interacting with the public.

There's the Bruce Wayne model

where I'm a celebrity in everyday life, but nobody knows I'm Batman.

Then there's the Peter Parker model where I'm the totally anonymous,

mild mannered high school student.

Oh, there's the Tony Stark model

where it's like, Hey, I am Iron Man.

I think if you look at the world today at digital technology,

you think I'm going to spend half my energy protecting my secret identity,

then order 50 sets of matching long underwear

and somebody is just going to find out who I am anyway.

I'll pass on the whole Bruce Wayne thing.

As a public figure, at least

you go into a restaurant and you get drinks on the house.

You know, you get the perks.

There's this big question

What's someone with Daniel's ability supposed to do in the real world?

If you want to make money,

the first thing I think is probably I should play a professional sport.

But as soon as there's even a whisper of that, the International Olympic

Committee, the players associations in every sport, even in America,

they make it known that he's not welcome to compete.

So the next idea is from these American producers

who try to sell him on the concept of a big live show,

kind of a spectacle where he can show off his powers around the world.

That just is like a circus act. He passes.

Some people were even trying to attach themselves to him from all Churches,

the ones talking about like prophecy chosen one stuff that creeps him out.

So if you never had a

friend turn into an object of worship, I'll tell you right away.

I had no idea what to tell him.

I mean, he's trying really hard to be the same person

he was, but his life looks nothing like it did before.

You have people calling him a Savior, God.

What do you tell your friend?

I was like...

Enjoy!

Take the free stuff.

You know, what would you say?

But I think his dad was really the one reminding him, you have a gift.

You can do things.

Look what's happening in the country.

You can tell he's kind of searching for meaning.

And he's thinking, What's my way to go big?

But in all these places, his response is.

I don't want to be part of that.

So you have a superhero.

The first thing I think is he's got to fight crime, right?

I think someone looked at him and figure.

Sooner or later, this kid's going to be busts and bad guys.

He might as well learn what's game's about.

So they let him participate in some police operations.

You'd seen his face. He loved it.

Everybody loved it.