That's not how it works. They don't get it and they never will. [A pause.] It's all about priorities. If I'd have gotten that beacon off during the war earlier, before it was pretty much already too late anyway, if instead of Stark and Reed sitting on it, it'd gotten in your hands or Vance's or Angel's...
Well. Somebody would've been trying to steal another Quinjet and hoping it could fly in the vacuum of space.
[Even if Robbie had been too damaged, hurting too much to reach out and help his friend, he was smart enough to have gotten a message off to Vance or the others without being found when he didn't want to be found.]
[And Rich believes he would have done at least something, when the message had basically been 'I who am about to die give you the very last thing I can: a warning."]
Because they didn't ignore it because of all the nonsense going on. They ignored it 'cause it was from me. And because they thought the same things they'd always thought of me. So what could a warning from me be worth?
[Big mouth. Grandstander. Attention hog. Only worried about fame and glory. And nothing underneath. They'd never seen what his friends had seen, the heart beating under it all. Not until his powers caused all their scans to spike and get their attention.]
We're our best selves together. Even when we hit the bumps in the road. You can't be that with people that don't try to see the good in you. [And that's always been the problem.] None of you were surprised -- not a single one of you -- when you found out what I'd become.
[People like Stark had been shocked. Shocked. At the kind of man, at the kind of hero, he'd finally matured into. His friends? Were mostly surprised over the change in powers and costume.]
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Well. Somebody would've been trying to steal another Quinjet and hoping it could fly in the vacuum of space.
[Even if Robbie had been too damaged, hurting too much to reach out and help his friend, he was smart enough to have gotten a message off to Vance or the others without being found when he didn't want to be found.]
[And Rich believes he would have done at least something, when the message had basically been 'I who am about to die give you the very last thing I can: a warning."]
Because they didn't ignore it because of all the nonsense going on. They ignored it 'cause it was from me. And because they thought the same things they'd always thought of me. So what could a warning from me be worth?
[Big mouth. Grandstander. Attention hog. Only worried about fame and glory. And nothing underneath. They'd never seen what his friends had seen, the heart beating under it all. Not until his powers caused all their scans to spike and get their attention.]
We're our best selves together. Even when we hit the bumps in the road. You can't be that with people that don't try to see the good in you. [And that's always been the problem.] None of you were surprised -- not a single one of you -- when you found out what I'd become.
[People like Stark had been shocked. Shocked. At the kind of man, at the kind of hero, he'd finally matured into. His friends? Were mostly surprised over the change in powers and costume.]