"It's not all of them," Nico said, making a face. "Just most of them, especially the big name ones. The Young Avengers are pretty decent people, for all they're fans of the old guard." And dorks. Couldn't forget that. "Maybe when the old guard kill each other or die off saving the world from reality-eating menace and the kids my age take over, things will suck less." She shrugged again. "Maybe there are other realities where the super heroes do better. Maybe there are realities where they don't need super heroes because enough people just do the right thing because they should.

"There are worse realities than mine, so there might as well be better ones."