Superheroes

At playgroup last Friday, I guess Benji and friends were playing superheroes. In the evening after I got back from work, Benji was asking, "Why is Zane Spiderman and Ian Superman?" 

"Well, we don't know. Maybe that's what they like", we said.

Benji replied, "I am Monkey Man....... I shoot webs".

Monkey Man? Monkey who shoots web? Wonder if Stan Lee would create a Monkey Man character for his new comic superhero? I suppose since we don't expose our kids to TV and cartoons, it would be perfectly normal for a young boy to conjure up his superhero image from his own creative imagination.

I can already see the plot for how Monkey Man comes to being..... a genetically modified monkey and spider each bit the scientist in a terrible lab accident, creating a supermutation of all three genes, deriving the best qualities of each species.