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“I don't know. Kids are always a gamble. Take Tony for instance. Howard and Maria did something right. I always thought that kid was one lab accident away from becoming a supervillain.”
{A/N: The “one lab accident away from being a supervillain” line comes from The Big Bang Theory.}
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“Gamma rays, huh?” Steve looked at Bruce. “Never heard of those. Some of the Project Rebirth participants were exposed to what the doctors called 'Vita-rays,' but the treatments didn't seem to do much.”
Bruce sighed. “Not at the time, they didn't. Afterwards, though, uh, it turned out there were some long-term effects. Cancer, mostly.”
“So how do gamma rays stack up against vita-rays?” Steve asked.
“As best we can determine," Bruce replied, "the radiation the doctors called vita-rays fell somewhere in the x-ray to gamma ray range of the electromagnetic spectrum. That's ionizing radiation. Very dangerous. In small, targeted doses it can be useful, but mostly it'll kill you.”
Steve turned the answer over in his head for a moment before following up with, “Any other rays I should be avoiding?”
“The only thing worse than gamma rays are cosmic rays," Bruce answered. "You really don't want to get hit by those.”
Steve nodded, “I'll keep that in mind.”
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James Buchanan. George shook his head. James was a fine, strong name. As Winnie's maiden name, Buchanan was a perfectly acceptable middle name. String the two together? They hadn't even realized they'd named their son after a former and altogether forgettable President until it was too late to change it.
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“Thor Odinson,” he rolled his eyes and put up a hand to stop the barrage of questions he could see forming on the lips of the rest of the people in the room. “Yes, that is my real name. I'm Norwegian, not from Asgard. No, I will not pick up the hammer. Yes, I know I look like Chris Hemsworth. No, I've never met him. Can we please get to work, now?”
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