Good. [He's been snooping. Naturally. Just like he saw Vance talking about that 'tarnished brand' nonsense. His blood is practically boiling.] I'm not going to tell you where you should go or what team you should be with or who to trust. You're smart enough to figure all that out for yourself and I don't have any right to.
But my opinion is you should still have the superhero training wheels on, kiddo. The mentoring part sounds right, but tossing you on the front lines of the big leagues, when you're still learning? The reason it happens here is we can't help it. Multiversal apocalypse, what can you do?
But our world has thousands of other heroes that could be handling the whole "it all comes down to you and if you fail the world will die" type superheroics. That shouldn't have to be your job.
You're doing an amazing job at taking all this on and I'm glad I'm getting the chance to teach you, but it shouldn't have to be this way, where so much is on your shoulders. That they'd choose willingly is --
[He's fifteen. Yes, Robbie had started young, too, but that was the whole point of the New Warriors. They'd worked their way up. They'd practiced. They took on small fries until they learned how to take on the big problems like the Sphinx. And nobody expected them to be the ones that had to save the world, it just sort of happened that way sometimes.]
[And look what happened to Robbie in the end, starting that young. After Nitro did what he did, the world had tried to tear him apart -- and almost succeeded. During a time he should've only been worrying about college credits and getting the attention of girls, he'd had to worry about not getting beaten to death in prison.]
It's rotten is what it is.
[Training him was right, but setting him up in that position? When the Avengers were supposed to the safety net? Terrible.]
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But my opinion is you should still have the superhero training wheels on, kiddo. The mentoring part sounds right, but tossing you on the front lines of the big leagues, when you're still learning? The reason it happens here is we can't help it. Multiversal apocalypse, what can you do?
But our world has thousands of other heroes that could be handling the whole "it all comes down to you and if you fail the world will die" type superheroics. That shouldn't have to be your job.
You're doing an amazing job at taking all this on and I'm glad I'm getting the chance to teach you, but it shouldn't have to be this way, where so much is on your shoulders. That they'd choose willingly is --
[He's fifteen. Yes, Robbie had started young, too, but that was the whole point of the New Warriors. They'd worked their way up. They'd practiced. They took on small fries until they learned how to take on the big problems like the Sphinx. And nobody expected them to be the ones that had to save the world, it just sort of happened that way sometimes.]
[And look what happened to Robbie in the end, starting that young. After Nitro did what he did, the world had tried to tear him apart -- and almost succeeded. During a time he should've only been worrying about college credits and getting the attention of girls, he'd had to worry about not getting beaten to death in prison.]
It's rotten is what it is.
[Training him was right, but setting him up in that position? When the Avengers were supposed to the safety net? Terrible.]