"A lot of superheroes deal with time travel or alternate universes and find out ways it could go wrong. I know a bunch of people that've seen potential futures where they've gone bad -- it happens more easily than you'd think in our line of work." A shrug. "Superheroing can be awful. You can lose people or get tortured or traumatized until you're completely crazy. And because there's time and interdimensional travel, heroes sometimes get confronted with the what-ifs. The possible futures, or the alternate worlds where they already went bad."

He pointed to the ground.

"But all that matters is what you're doing in the present. In this one. If you saw a glimpse of what could've happened if you were pushed past the moral event horizon -- well... it's not like you're the only one who has a breaking point. Everyone does. And yet, everyone still has a choice in how they react when pushed past it."