... Right. Which is why you shouldn't, do anything preemptively. And upset her.

[Come on, Tony, don't make this any more difficult for him than it already is. You're relying on Bruce to explain things. He hates explaining things. It feels like opening up and it involves talking. It's only because he legitimately likes him (and Pepper) that he's attempting this indirect form of direction.

At least this other half he can manage more smoothly.] I'm not reneging, I don't remember. The whole-- Avengers. [Oops, is that a note of subtle skepticism?] I don't remember that. I'm from before.

And you were... here, before. That's when we met.