No, but I'm kinda thinking of maybe talking some sense into them.
[A pause.]
They're why I stay away, y'know. Yeah, people up in space need someone, and yeah, there are villains that need to be stopped before Earth is even a gleam in their eye, but that's not the only reason I spend so much time away.
I do it because I'm sick of how everything's become. Because it's easier, I guess, just to avoid it and go places where it's simple.
[It's a lot easier when you know exactly who the bad guys are. They're the creepy Lovecraft tentacle people, or the mind-controlling robots, or the giant homicidal space bugs.]
But I miss my family. And I hate how I'm never there for my friends when they need me. And Namorita is back and she's going to want to be closer to Namor and her kingdom and I want to be close to her.
And there's you. That's the world you live in and even if there's a lot of things I can teach you up there in space, you've got your family to go home to, and people on Earth you want to protect. If people like Banner are dying, if heroes are hurting each other, they might accidentally hurt you -- either by you getting in the crossfire or being left alone to fight something because they're too busy fighting each other.
[He'll never be able to forgive himself if that happens, if he comes back from some alien galaxy to find yet another person he cares about is gone, that Sam died because of stupid drama, or died alone trying to protect people when he should've had people fighting at his side.]
I haven't been able to just to...fly around on my own here. I forgot what it felt like to be connected to things again. To people. If I do make it out of here, if I don't have to go back to what I was, maybe it's time to go back to Earth.
[Maybe it's time to spend a little more time on Earth in between all the space stuff. Maybe that's what all this nonsense needs. Someone stepping up and reminding them what it's supposed to be about. Someone they can't ignore.]
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[A pause.]
They're why I stay away, y'know. Yeah, people up in space need someone, and yeah, there are villains that need to be stopped before Earth is even a gleam in their eye, but that's not the only reason I spend so much time away.
I do it because I'm sick of how everything's become. Because it's easier, I guess, just to avoid it and go places where it's simple.
[It's a lot easier when you know exactly who the bad guys are. They're the creepy Lovecraft tentacle people, or the mind-controlling robots, or the giant homicidal space bugs.]
But I miss my family. And I hate how I'm never there for my friends when they need me. And Namorita is back and she's going to want to be closer to Namor and her kingdom and I want to be close to her.
And there's you. That's the world you live in and even if there's a lot of things I can teach you up there in space, you've got your family to go home to, and people on Earth you want to protect. If people like Banner are dying, if heroes are hurting each other, they might accidentally hurt you -- either by you getting in the crossfire or being left alone to fight something because they're too busy fighting each other.
[He'll never be able to forgive himself if that happens, if he comes back from some alien galaxy to find yet another person he cares about is gone, that Sam died because of stupid drama, or died alone trying to protect people when he should've had people fighting at his side.]
I haven't been able to just to...fly around on my own here. I forgot what it felt like to be connected to things again. To people. If I do make it out of here, if I don't have to go back to what I was, maybe it's time to go back to Earth.
[Maybe it's time to spend a little more time on Earth in between all the space stuff. Maybe that's what all this nonsense needs. Someone stepping up and reminding them what it's supposed to be about. Someone they can't ignore.]