CUViper

I’ve always wondered…

You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 70% Superman 70% Green Lantern 65% The Flash 65% Iron Man 60% Robin 55% Catwoman 40% Hulk 40% Wonder Woman 30% Supergirl 30% Batman 20%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Spider-Man and Superman — I guess that makes me quite the goody-goody.

Tests like this are interesting, but not because of anything they reveal to yourself. Most of the time you’ll feel quite pleased with the result — since you provided the answers, of course it will align with your self-image. It’s more revealing for others as a way to see through your eyes in the mirror.

It might be a cool social experiment to flip it around — I tend to be curious about the way others see me. For example, if someone else found that I closely resemble the Hulk, that might indicate some areas for personal improvement. Anyone want to fill out the same quiz about me and let me know your result?

One of my favorite things about reading books is when I find something immediately worth quoting. I found this bit in The Fellowship of the Ring:

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

J.R.R. Tolkien

I enjoy the fact that a passage from a fantasy novel, written over fifty years ago, can still have so much relevance. Just replace “the Dark Lord” with “terrorism”, and Tolkien might as well have been Nostradamus. He often said that he wasn’t trying to make any metaphors with reality, but I suppose things like this are just universal truths. It is what we do in fear that is dangerous to our way of life, more than any one person who would do us harm.