Tony hadn't thought of it that way, pouting in consideration as he leaned over the bench to deposit the D.A.T.A. unit onto the scaffold where he could try to climb his way up, his legs better designed for this kind of traversal to get him to a watchful perch than scuttling around on the floor. In Tony's experience, he had more often been thankful for his paranoia rather than feeling overprepared, though he could maybe see where it had left him a little frayed around the edges.

"I don't like waiting for the worst to happen," he eventually said. "It could be too late by then." But it wasn't like they could have a contingency prepared for the vast range of possible threats the Agrii were evidently capable of inflicting upon them. How they had to deal with a baseline creep with a vendetta would not be the same as how they would have to deal with Thanos.