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[video, ID: "miles morales"] frank sinatra plays softly in the distance

So, this is gonna sound kinda random, but. I've been wondering for a little while...what's New York like here? I just wanna know if it's anything like the New York from my world.

Actually, now that I think about it--how does the New York here compare to New York where you came from? If you've ever been there, I mean. 'Cause now I'm wondering about all the different versions of it we probably know.

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Then...why don't you keep a secret identity? Wouldn't that be a lot safer?

Probably. But hey, it's too late now. Only Spider-Man really keeps one up anymore.

[Yeah, he'd certainly HOPE he keeps his identity secret. Especially after nearly blowing it within minutes of showing up here.]

Really? Nobody else?

[Thinking about it, though. Who else DOES have a secret identity? None of the Ultimates, none of the X-Men...his uncle did, kind of. But that doesn't feel like it should count. No, the only people Miles can think of are Peter Parker (before he died), and Spider-Woman.]

...Is it a Spider-person thing?

It seems to be. After the superhuman registration act, after the Siege of Asgard, and just about everything in-between, the superhero community got pretty intimate amongst themselves because of all the things that happened, so we found ourselves hiding a lot less.

Then again, Jessica Drew is pretty loudly Jessica Drew, but I think she's not really a "Spider-person" in the ... Spider-Man sense.

What does that mean?

Edited 2015-06-12 05:21 (UTC)

Well, she's not really based in New York, for one thing.

You mean there are superheroes who aren't based in New York?

[He thinks he might have heard about Europe having some supersoldiers, once, but he isn't sure. And besides, that doesn't count. As far as this continent goes, Miles is pretty sure all the heroes are based in New York. He'd have heard otherwise, right?]

The Avengers have a base there, but they tend to work more worldwide now. Spider-Man and Daredevil are the main ones who stick close to home.

But not Spider-Woman?

No, and that's partly because stuff got really complicated for her.

More complicated than normal superhero stuff?

A skrull took over her life and ... I guess you can say that it changed everything for her. I know that there were a lot of tensions because of that. How do you reenter a life taken away from you?

I don't know her personally, but I'd say that "alien bodysnatching" is a level of complicated that none of us ever want to deal with.

Oh.

Yeah, that sounds pretty complicated.

...so she left because of that? To like...do superhero stuff somewhere else?

I think so. I know she wasn't on the Avengers roster for a bit there. She's back now, though!

In New York with the rest of the Avengers?

How many Avengers do you guys have?

... I haven't counted recently, but I did come up with an idea for an app. Back home, that is.

I could count then!

And New York is the base of operations, but ... it's a world wide group. We do things everywhere.

Whoa. Sounds like a lot, then.

The Ultimates back home were a pretty small group--only like five or six heroes, I think.

Unless you count SHIELD, then it's hundreds. Or thousands?

Oh, so it's one of those things.

SHIELD has had its fingers in the Avengers back home, but they're generally mutually exclusive groups.

Thankfully.

Huh. I think for us, SHIELD founded the Ultimates and still kinda runs 'em. Or at least works really closely with them.

[He's not really sure, honestly. He hasn't been an Ultimate for very long.]

...what do you mean, 'thankfully'?

That's how it is in another universe, too. [It sounds terrible.]

And SHIELD is nothing but trouble where I come from. Let's just say that they're involved in stuff they shouldn't be involved in.

Well, that sounds ominous.

If your SHIELD is genuinely dedicated to playing hero, then you're lucky. Trust me.

Of course they are. That's what they're there for.

[Oh Miles. So sweet. So young. So clueless.]

Why, is yours not?

Edited 2015-07-01 04:27 (UTC)

Not ... particularly. They mostly just dabble in business that isn't theirs. You know, bringing in a shady bossy organization without scruples to handle stuff that should probably be handled on the up and up for once.

Oh. That's too bad. [He really doesn't know what else to say to that.]

I guess we lucked out with Nick Fury. He runs SHIELD on my world, and he's always been really good about it.

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