I hate being powerless.

[And here's where everyone in the world is wrong about him, when they assume that he wants to suffer or that he's being selfless in his quest to heal the world's pain.]

And I don't mean superpowerless. I mean that feeling where you can't control anything that's going on. Being at somebody else's mercy. Other people, the government, God... I hate having to stand back and shut my mouth and just let things happen.

When I left my world, when I first came here and saw this fucking tattoo on my wrist and found out I had these nanites in my blood and read this whole goddamn file they were keeping on me... I don't know if you know the feeling, if you're used to all this shit from your world, but I wasn't. Everybody else might be ignoring it, but I knew from that second I was officially government property. And I wasn't about to have that.

You know what's more powerful than any government? Money. No matter what situation you're in, if you got the money, you can get out of it. So I did what I do best. I got to work on my own little security plan.

It's as simple as that.