[ he echoes it back with a hint of confusion, but it clicks that she probably means, like, super powers. Flight or laser eye beams or junk like that. Comic book stuff. ]
We don’t really have—
[ But he cuts himself off, because, well, technically, Peter has powers, but that’s a recent development. He and Gamora are pretty sure, by now, that him having abilities is a quirk of Riverview. Some kind of fluctuation of the portal that gave him an echo of the powers he had had on his father’s planet.
... it’s complicated. And as far as Peter’s concerned, it doesn’t count, because he doesn’t use it. It’s why he completes the thought with a little more certainty: ]
We don’t really have “powers,” per se.
But, yeah. Mostly we stop folks from trying to destroy life as we know it, which usually means we stop assholes trying to dominate the galaxy. And we sometimes thwart the occasional multi-dimensional being trying to wreck a planet.
So a bit of both?
[ And he says it conversationally. “All in a day’s work.” ]
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[ he echoes it back with a hint of confusion, but it clicks that she probably means, like, super powers. Flight or laser eye beams or junk like that. Comic book stuff. ]
We don’t really have—
[ But he cuts himself off, because, well, technically, Peter has powers, but that’s a recent development. He and Gamora are pretty sure, by now, that him having abilities is a quirk of Riverview. Some kind of fluctuation of the portal that gave him an echo of the powers he had had on his father’s planet.
... it’s complicated. And as far as Peter’s concerned, it doesn’t count, because he doesn’t use it. It’s why he completes the thought with a little more certainty: ]
We don’t really have “powers,” per se.
But, yeah. Mostly we stop folks from trying to destroy life as we know it, which usually means we stop assholes trying to dominate the galaxy. And we sometimes thwart the occasional multi-dimensional being trying to wreck a planet.
So a bit of both?
[ And he says it conversationally. “All in a day’s work.” ]