"Tony just doesn't understand you the way I do," Spider-Man said, feeling the obscure desire to defend his former mentor. Sure, they weren't on the greatest terms at the moment and might not ever be again, but at least he wasn't a murderous supervillain. Well, not murderous, anyway.

"He doesn't have that ... history with you," he added, tilting his head.

If he noticed that he was echoing Norman's words of a few minutes before, he gave no sign.