"You're from almost a thousand years in the future?! That's crazy. But wouldn't going back in time upset the timeline and mess up your present?"
Time travel is more than theoretical to Peter, knowing now what the Avengers had to do to reverse Thanos's snap.
"Or would it create an alternate timeline…"
That's mostly musing out loud.
That last part, oof. He can sympathise a little bit. He reaches for Bart's hand, offering a squeeze without thinking about it. (Also look, an excuse to hold hands? Why not take that?)
"Great power, great responsibility," he says. As light as he tries to keep it, there's still too much emotion attached to that phrase now. May had said that to him before she died, and it does weigh on him.
Oh, but right, secret identity.
"I mean…I heard that once, about superheroes."
It's…an attempt at recovery.
"I guess it's like you have to do it because you're the one that can. If you don't use the power you have for good then what's the point, right? Where I'm from, I read that Iron Man — he's like this super cool big deal hero — started doing things like making clean energy and helping people instead of, uh, making weapons to use in wars. I guess it was some epiphany he had, but that's kind of the same thing? Maybe?"
This is a much better attempt at recovery. He actually knows plenty more about Tony Stark, but what he says is true. They read about him in more than one of his classes in school.
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"You're from almost a thousand years in the future?! That's crazy. But wouldn't going back in time upset the timeline and mess up your present?"
Time travel is more than theoretical to Peter, knowing now what the Avengers had to do to reverse Thanos's snap.
"Or would it create an alternate timeline…"
That's mostly musing out loud.
That last part, oof. He can sympathise a little bit. He reaches for Bart's hand, offering a squeeze without thinking about it. (Also look, an excuse to hold hands? Why not take that?)
"Great power, great responsibility," he says. As light as he tries to keep it, there's still too much emotion attached to that phrase now. May had said that to him before she died, and it does weigh on him.
Oh, but right, secret identity.
"I mean…I heard that once, about superheroes."
It's…an attempt at recovery.
"I guess it's like you have to do it because you're the one that can. If you don't use the power you have for good then what's the point, right? Where I'm from, I read that Iron Man — he's like this super cool big deal hero — started doing things like making clean energy and helping people instead of, uh, making weapons to use in wars. I guess it was some epiphany he had, but that's kind of the same thing? Maybe?"
This is a much better attempt at recovery. He actually knows plenty more about Tony Stark, but what he says is true. They read about him in more than one of his classes in school.