In news that would make superhero fans shed a tear, cops in the US have arrested real-life superhero, Phoenix Jones, unmasking the crime fighter and confiscating his suit. 

In case you haven't heard of him, Jones is a 23-year-old self-styled superhero who's made a name for himself patrolling the mean streets of Seattle in a black mask with yellow stripes and a bulging muscle bodysuit. As you do. 

However, over the weekend instead of the bad guys ending up in handcuffs, it was Jones himself.

Officers arrested the masked avenger after he was accused of assaulting several people with pepper spray but Jones claims he was only trying to break up a street brawl.

On his Facebook page in capital letters he wrote: "[I wouldn’t] ever assault or hurt another person if they were not causing harm to another human being."

That said, Jones writes a lot of things on Facebook -- he's listed himself as being married to a woman named 'PurpleReign'.

As expected, Jones's crime-fighting exploits have earned him a fair bit of media attention with even a camera crew trailing him in recent months.

But cops are now bursting Jones's superhero bubble.

"Just because he's dressed up in costume, it doesn't mean he's in special consideration or above the law. You can't go around pepper spraying people because you think they are fighting," Seattle police spokesman Det. Mark Jamieson told msnbc.com.

Not only have the cops unmasked Jones and confiscated his suit, they were also harsh enough to book him under his real name - which is potentially the geekiest name ever: Benjamin John Francis Fodor.