I don't know how anything gets done in the Negative Zone.
[ It's not like someone who willingly called himself Annihilus was likely to need to be happy in order to plan a war, though, and he probably doesn't deserve any of Robbie's sympathy.
The Negative Zone was soul-suckingly bleak. That wasn't the point, however, so Robbie elected to hide his further confusion about whether or not the real solution would be to use the precog even sooner and realize that keeping anyone in the Zone was the bad idea. Maybe the way to prevent Rich's war was evacuating the Negative Zone before anyone got too damaged. It doesn't matter. It's history. ]
And I don't know if I like the idea of letting them attempt the crime. Sometimes, things go wrong. One punch, and someone falls and hits their head on the curb and dies. It's too risky. Everyone would still be culpable - they'd all be accessories to murder. Captain Marvel, the precog, everyone. The blood'd be on their hands.
[ That was how superhero responsibility worked. If you knew something might go wrong, and you did it anyway, it was your fault when it went wrong. Robbie still struggled with remembering that in a chaotic situation, but, in the calm of his quarters, here's no problem. ]
Wanting to lock up the bad guys... that's about ego. I know, I've got a big one too.
[ Thinking that he could make a positive difference - it was the same ego that got him in trouble in the first place. ]
They'll drag you down with them, if you try to muscle your way into the argument.
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[ It's not like someone who willingly called himself Annihilus was likely to need to be happy in order to plan a war, though, and he probably doesn't deserve any of Robbie's sympathy.
The Negative Zone was soul-suckingly bleak. That wasn't the point, however, so Robbie elected to hide his further confusion about whether or not the real solution would be to use the precog even sooner and realize that keeping anyone in the Zone was the bad idea. Maybe the way to prevent Rich's war was evacuating the Negative Zone before anyone got too damaged. It doesn't matter. It's history. ]
And I don't know if I like the idea of letting them attempt the crime. Sometimes, things go wrong. One punch, and someone falls and hits their head on the curb and dies. It's too risky. Everyone would still be culpable - they'd all be accessories to murder. Captain Marvel, the precog, everyone. The blood'd be on their hands.
[ That was how superhero responsibility worked. If you knew something might go wrong, and you did it anyway, it was your fault when it went wrong. Robbie still struggled with remembering that in a chaotic situation, but, in the calm of his quarters, here's no problem. ]
Wanting to lock up the bad guys... that's about ego. I know, I've got a big one too.
[ Thinking that he could make a positive difference - it was the same ego that got him in trouble in the first place. ]
They'll drag you down with them, if you try to muscle your way into the argument.