More likely to change, [he clarifies.] I don't think I've ever... actually changed from anger alone. [It's too easy to control. Too easy to prevent. Bruce has plenty of experience with that end of things, but fear, that he's never been as successful at.

Then he's listening soberly to her explanation, frown gradually growing deeper. A list of alarming questions immediately crop up, all demanding attention. It's unfeasible to ask all of them at once so he has to pick one. That the Hulk can regenerate organs and limbs is news to him, and might not apply to him, but somehow Bruce suspects that it does. It's another nail in the coffin on his immortality theory, and a grim one.]

Your-- you mean this happened to your father, too? Isn't that-- [The sheer ridiculousness of the idea is suddenly taken over with the hilarious irony of it, and Bruce can't help a snort and a twisted hint of a smirk.] I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but that's... some kind of comeuppance.