Sam wasn't entirely sure how he'd let himself get talked into this, but at some point someone had mentioned setting the record straight, and while he hadn't tried while they were all trolling the anon meme (though he had defended his own honor with a few anonymous, poorly spelled comments), in a venue like this there would be no doubt as to whether it was really him and whether he meant business.
He wasn't expecting much - he went to high school, he knew exactly how effective trying to tell people to shut up about something was - but it was worth a try.
The first question he'd gotten, unexpectedly, was about his "dads," and so Sam set a new record for "how many questions before a spectacular meltdown" when he snapped out his answer (his dad was back in his own galaxy, getting hunted down by the same bunch of jerks from Chitauri Prime who tried to destroy his homeworld, and he was going to go back there and find him after all of this stuff so he didn't need a new dad and stop trying to give him one or four) and stormed out of the room in the middle of the panel.
(There was some cooing in the audience, a couple of comments about "woobie" and "sad tiny son," and, within a few hours after the panel, a dramatic uptick in how many superfamily fics started with Sam despondent about the apparent death of his father while on the run.)
Sam
Sam wasn't entirely sure how he'd let himself get talked into this, but at some point someone had mentioned setting the record straight, and while he hadn't tried while they were all trolling the anon meme (though he had defended his own honor with a few anonymous, poorly spelled comments), in a venue like this there would be no doubt as to whether it was really him and whether he meant business.
He wasn't expecting much - he went to high school, he knew exactly how effective trying to tell people to shut up about something was - but it was worth a try.
The first question he'd gotten, unexpectedly, was about his "dads," and so Sam set a new record for "how many questions before a spectacular meltdown" when he snapped out his answer (his dad was back in his own galaxy, getting hunted down by the same bunch of jerks from Chitauri Prime who tried to destroy his homeworld, and he was going to go back there and find him after all of this stuff so he didn't need a new dad and stop trying to give him one or four) and stormed out of the room in the middle of the panel.
(There was some cooing in the audience, a couple of comments about "woobie" and "sad tiny son," and, within a few hours after the panel, a dramatic uptick in how many superfamily fics started with Sam despondent about the apparent death of his father while on the run.)
(For the love of God, nobody show him those.)