At some point in time my son became a huge Avengers fan, not the movie but the animated Earth’s Mightiest Heroes version on Netflix. He’s four, perhaps too young for it but he has a pretty good grasp of fantasy and reality, especially with cartoons. We play Avengers which is basically just running around the house finding and fighting (pretend) bad guys and only calling each other by our Avengers names:

Malcolm as Captain America

Eva as Wasp

Daddy as Thor

Mommy as The Hulk (I wanted her to be The Black Widow, YUM! but Malcolm was adamant.)

Nemo, The Black Lab as Black Panther

I remember when we were concerned about our four year-old watching this but I’ve decided that if something sparks a child’s imagination and leads to play this is far more exciting than watching the actual show then it can’t be that bad, besides I love that my son thinks I’m  a Super-hero, even if it’s only pretend.