"Yeah, well-- I've heard all that before too." But fortunately, that's not the way he's using it.

"Okay, well... years ago, the sky like, opened up, right? And these aliens came through to attack Manhattan. That's the first time anybody ever saw the Avengers. Guess that's what got them together, these aliens."

He shrugs his shoulders. "I guess I was about-- twenty-five? Deployed at the time so I only saw it on the news. But man, it was a trip."

He hums. "Then this giant purple guy came years later with some insane god complex, I guess."