Remember how we posted that community profile about Kai Budde? How he and his blue ox Babe roamed the countryside, leaping tall buildings in a single bound while turning back time by circling the planet one thousand times in a second?

We may have found his Kryptonite.

No, there’s no glowing green rock here. Tom Welling isn’t batting his baby blues to make every girl at Smallville High swoon. We’re talking about Kai, the brilliant automaton designed by German scientists for TCG supremacy. As with most dirty-kneed seven-year old all-American boys, Kai’s glowing green rock comes in a different form:

A girl.

Well, okay. A woman. One woman, to be exact. Kim Caton. A short, energetic, sometimes-tomboyish-sometimes-girly-girl native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Playing a strong League of Assassins draft deck, her 2-0 hit the room as breaking news, spreading like wildfire that only the Man of Steel himself could stop. A girl? Kai lost to A GIRL???

You might not think it’s that big of a deal. I mean, 50.1% of the earth’s population are girls in some, way shape or form, but do you know how many of those ladies had ever defeated Kai in sanctioned TCG play before now?

I’ll give you a hint. It’s less than two.

Kai lost to Portugal’s Sonia Oliviera at the latter’s hometown Grand Prix Portugal in 2001. That’s it. Other than that, in ten years of organized play, no woman had ever defeated the Juggernaut of Steel until Kim did it…and she didn’t even know who the man was.

“To be honest, I’m kind of glad I didn’t know before the match…I probably would have been pretty nervous,” says the clinical director, who works with mentally retarded children. Playing games practically from the womb, Kim credits her father Bob with introducing her to what can only be described as a way of life. “All my guy friends are gamers, and I’d been playing Lord of the Rings and Star Wars competitively for a while, so when they all started playing, it was just a matter of time.”

Kim’s attached herself to the game, citing its multifaceted nature and lack of resource deprivation as its most attractive qualities. As to the question of why she plays while most women don’t, she cites the fact she started gaming at such a young age, adding, “By the time I was old enough to know the difference, it was too late.”

Kim thinks the Vs. System motif and its timing in relation to the recent rash of super-hero films will make the idea of TGC playing more acceptable to women. Of course, it doesn’t matter to her either way; whether she’s gaming with her buddies, being the girly-girl, or cheering on the Eagles, one thing’s abundantly clear: She can beat anyone on any day. Even Superman.