Editing Character:Ethel Carlyle (section)

== Character Description ==

Ethel spends a lot of time reading comic books.  They give her some of her best ideas.
 
As a kid, Ethel was extremely smart and almost painfully shy.  At various points picked on, ignored, beaten up and mocked, she found solace in her older brother's comic book collection; she learned to read partly by looking over his shoulder while he read the latest issue of <i>Iron Man</i> or <i>Fantastic Four</i>.  Though he died in a car accident when she was seven, Ethel still remembers how it felt to sit beside him and read those stories about heroes who used their minds to fight evil.
 
She still sees that as her job now, and she's recently started working on projects that she can use to make that happen.  She knows she's not strong; she's had pneumonia almost every year since kindergarten, and her 8-year-old next-door neighbor can arm wrestle her and win.  But she has the solution to that: she has science!  And when she finishes working on her next big project, then evildoers everywhere: beware!