For serious action fans, this convention is as close as some will get to meeting their real-life super heroes - or just acting like one.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Better get used to it, girl. Yeah, Mike, hey, you're real cute, man.

VOA: standard.other

Things are real bad and it is going to get a lot worse.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

And we need to make sure that they courage they showed, the courage that our forces have shown is actually matched by determination to get the real result."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"As they're working,right now, with these mannequins and role players, in the real world these are real people, and I want them to get good at quickly identifying any injuries,illnesses."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

In the dozen years it has taken him to get the story made into a movie, the exploits of real scientists have come close to what his fictional characters attempt.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

"If we get to the summer of 2011 and people do not feel that we have made real progress, then I do not think there is an appetite here - or an appetite in the U.S.- to say, 'Well let us have another go and another go.'

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

to say 'get real.' What is dangerous is to commit "This is extraordinary, to spend a whole lot of money that we might not have on a system that most certainly won't help when the world is changing, when we're facing new threats, where now more and more military experts are saying there are different alternatives."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30