That makes sense. It really does. And it should be enough for Peter, but somehow it isn't.
"Right now, I'm just -- I'm just a Neighborhood Friendly Spider-Man. I'm still trying to figure everything out with my powers, because I know that if I don't practice, I'm just gonna cause problems for everyone else."
He swallows, thinking of the fight against half of the Avengers; he'd gotten beaten down to the point where he couldn't do anything except lay sprawled out on the tarmac. And yeah, the other half of the Avengers left him alone after that happened, but that was because at heart, even if they really were wrong like Mr. Stark said, they were still good people. And he's sure that Mr. Stark and the others knew that too.
Peter couldn't always count on the people he fought to be good people. If he got laid out like that in any other combat, he'd probably be dead. And if he wasn't dead, whatever enemy he was combating would probably use him against his allies -- like a hostage.
And Peter didn't want that. If he were dead, he couldn't be of use to anyone. And he didn't want to be used against his allies, either.
"But eventually, I got to think about what I want to do with my powers. After I graduate from high school." A beat. "Or college. And I think about these kind of things a lot, because when you can do the things that I can, but you don't, when bad things happen, they happen because of you."
That's something Peter knows from experience.
"And," he says, taking a breath. "I don't know what bad things I should be stopping, because there's so many bad things happening to so many people every day."
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"Right now, I'm just -- I'm just a Neighborhood Friendly Spider-Man. I'm still trying to figure everything out with my powers, because I know that if I don't practice, I'm just gonna cause problems for everyone else."
He swallows, thinking of the fight against half of the Avengers; he'd gotten beaten down to the point where he couldn't do anything except lay sprawled out on the tarmac. And yeah, the other half of the Avengers left him alone after that happened, but that was because at heart, even if they really were wrong like Mr. Stark said, they were still good people. And he's sure that Mr. Stark and the others knew that too.
Peter couldn't always count on the people he fought to be good people. If he got laid out like that in any other combat, he'd probably be dead. And if he wasn't dead, whatever enemy he was combating would probably use him against his allies -- like a hostage.
And Peter didn't want that. If he were dead, he couldn't be of use to anyone. And he didn't want to be used against his allies, either.
"But eventually, I got to think about what I want to do with my powers. After I graduate from high school." A beat. "Or college. And I think about these kind of things a lot, because when you can do the things that I can, but you don't, when bad things happen, they happen because of you."
That's something Peter knows from experience.
"And," he says, taking a breath. "I don't know what bad things I should be stopping, because there's so many bad things happening to so many people every day."