the ninja girl next door

When we got home from seeing Superman Returns, I went into my room and turned on the light.

That was when I noticed that the adorable Kitty Suzuki was sleeping on my bed!

As far as I know, this is the first time she has slept in my room, or in fact, anywhere on the second floor. Good progress.

Superman has never been my favorite hero.

I was saying this to mrpet last night, after we finished seeing Superman Returns. Superman isn't a very complex character. Yeah, he has these powers. But he's not smart, or conflicted or anything. He always saves the city before saving Lois Lane. Kryptonite is his only weakness, and it's kind of a dumb weakness. He never learns to delegate, or use his powers to get people to listen to him and improve themselves, unless it's something trivial like "Smoking is bad for you."

He's always solving the short-term problems. What about long-term problems like war and not enough food? They can't be solved just by putting your body and your powers in front of something. If you give a man a fish... but the thing is, he doesn't actually have those tools. He needs to take leadership training. Attend Democracy School and teach others to be activists. Something, anything!

For this reason, I've always liked Batman and the X-Men better. They have real internal conflicts. They know how to work as a team, to some extent. The things that happen move them. The huge things, but the little things too.

( Spoilers here. )