[It's a tough thing to deal with. That disillusionment. Being failed by other heroes you looked up to. Watching people you'd once respected and proudly fought side by side with scrabbling in the dirt with each other.]

[He'd told Robbie, on the day he left Earth, that the world had gone crazy and he wanted off. It's not a good feeling. It can make the world feel like it's just...broken.]

When I left, that's when I got into it with the Phalanx -- and Galactus. All those people wouldn't have had somebody if I'd gotten caught up in all that nonsense on Earth.

[He wants Sam to understand the weight of this. It may seem like a simple choice, right or wrong, participating in something idiotic or walking away. But it's not that simple, and it means something that Sam did the "simple" thing when it sounded like so many others were incapable of it.]

[Choices like this carry the weight of worlds, of all the people a hero could be saving and helping and protecting if they aren't caught up in ridiculousness and pride.]

The Legion's been teaching you a lot and I've been trying to teach you, too. How to use the powers, the tactics, all of that -- but this? This kinda stuff is what really makes someone a hero. The choices. And whether the ones you're making are gonna do something good for the universe -- for people that need help or protection -- or not.

I know it probably seems like a simple thing -- they're doing something stupid, you walked away. Boom. Done. But this is the kinda stuff that really makes me glad it was you that put on that bucket after me. There's so much good I don't even have to teach you.

You didn't lose sight of what's important and you're trying to be the kind of hero the whole lot of them should be right now.

I'm proud of you, kid.