It did mean something. And I can't say that I wasn't glad I could do something worthwhile. I've always felt that way about the superhero thing. Who can say they've saved the world more than once? Or the galaxy? Or the universe? Not bad for a normal guy from Long Island, y'know?
Hell, I was a nobody growing up. A high school dropout. Then I got my GED and flunked out of college, too. And even as a superhero, I was just another face in the crowd.
[A pause.]
But then the Annihilation War happened, and I was the only Nova to survive when Xandar fell, and I took on the whole Nova Force and a lot of people needed my help.
Thing is, though, when you do those things, sometimes you're the only thing people have. After the war, I had eight-by-eight planetary distress calls in the tens of thousands and when you're just one guy, you can only get to so many in time to save people. There were so many that I got there just...just a little too late.
[He looks away from the screen, lost in that for a moment.]
That's the price. When you make can a difference. You gotta live with all the times you couldn't.
And sometimes you...well, you don't get to live. I died. I don't even know how I'm here right now. I wasn't the only one who did, in all the craziness. I knew a lot of good people that didn't make it through the Annihilation War or through some of the conflicts after and unlike me, they didn't come back.
[He's making it all sound so negative, though.]
But was it worth it? Yeah. Hell yeah.
[He'd give his life again, to stop the bad guys and save his friends. He probably will, at some point.]
You can do that, too. If you want. Sounds to me like there's a lot of people that need help in this universe, regardless of how we really got here, regardless of who or what brought us. Now's your chance. And there's a lot of people here that could show you the ropes.
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It did mean something. And I can't say that I wasn't glad I could do something worthwhile. I've always felt that way about the superhero thing. Who can say they've saved the world more than once? Or the galaxy? Or the universe? Not bad for a normal guy from Long Island, y'know?
Hell, I was a nobody growing up. A high school dropout. Then I got my GED and flunked out of college, too. And even as a superhero, I was just another face in the crowd.
[A pause.]
But then the Annihilation War happened, and I was the only Nova to survive when Xandar fell, and I took on the whole Nova Force and a lot of people needed my help.
Thing is, though, when you do those things, sometimes you're the only thing people have. After the war, I had eight-by-eight planetary distress calls in the tens of thousands and when you're just one guy, you can only get to so many in time to save people. There were so many that I got there just...just a little too late.
[He looks away from the screen, lost in that for a moment.]
That's the price. When you make can a difference. You gotta live with all the times you couldn't.
And sometimes you...well, you don't get to live. I died. I don't even know how I'm here right now. I wasn't the only one who did, in all the craziness. I knew a lot of good people that didn't make it through the Annihilation War or through some of the conflicts after and unlike me, they didn't come back.
[He's making it all sound so negative, though.]
But was it worth it? Yeah. Hell yeah.
[He'd give his life again, to stop the bad guys and save his friends. He probably will, at some point.]
You can do that, too. If you want. Sounds to me like there's a lot of people that need help in this universe, regardless of how we really got here, regardless of who or what brought us. Now's your chance. And there's a lot of people here that could show you the ropes.