As it turned out, ordinary people are all hypocritical, and Shiller was no exception.
He hated rebooting the cosmos because it ant erasing the significance of the living beings within it, rendering their efforts to survive aningless.
But when it ca to himself, he felt that nullifying his and his friends' efforts slightly was acceptable, because if he didn't, they would have to put forth even more aningless effort to clean up the ss caused by the current situation.
Of course, Shiller wasn't insane enough to reboot directly. His actual idea was to have Barry take him through ti to remind his past self who wanted to vacation like ordinary people not to be too optimistic and that it was better to stay in the sanatorium, slacking off without going out.
Since Shiller wasn't very confident he could persuade himself, he needed so evidence to prove that if he went on vacation, it would trigger a series of chaos afterward, and the best evidence was the docuntary fild by Eddie.
The tiline Shiller was now in was after he had beco famous, and the docuntary had been released. So, he copied the film footage and so more crucial analysis clips, as well as many rumors spread by marketing accounts, and returned to the day before he had set out for the West Coast.
He left these materials on Shiller's desk, and when Shiller saw Barry, he understood what was going on. After glancing at the footage, well, turns out the internet celebrity was himself.
Frankly speaking, no version of Shiller wanted to be plagued by such trouble, and the Shiller who hadn't yet departed had more free ti to contemplate what this chaos could lead to.
Truth be told, as many have analyzed, working for law enforcent isn't sothing disgraceful, and as a professional, it's quite hard to avoid.
At least many of Shiller's teachers and classmates, both in his previous and current life, had such experiences, inevitably cooperating with so official organizations and even participating in several secret projects.
But as the saying goes, you know your own business best. The biggest problem now was that he didn't realize his backstory was copied from his previous life and another one had been added, naly, that he was an immortal from the Soviet Union.
He could partake in the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an Arican, or even as a Chinese-Arican, but he couldn't do so as an immortal who had survived since the Soviet Union's establishnt.
Then the FBI and S.H.I.E.L.D. would inevitably ask, what do you want to do? What have you done? After you've done what you did, why are you covering everything up so that we can't find anything?
This is similar to the fact that what is scarier than a cockroach appearing in front of you is that cockroach disappearing after just a second.
Shiller could completely understand Nick and the FBI Director's fear; if he had known about this additional backstory, he wouldn't have fabricated the latter.
But Superego and Arrogant, two petty characters, dug such a big hole for revenge because of his past mory deletion, and he had been following the script for this Soviet's origin for a long ti before he even knew what this body's backstory was all about.
It would be alright if it were just a simple clash of background stories. After all, Shiller had never personally stated his past, everything was conjectured by others. If there were any contradictions, he could just flat-out deny it.
But these two backstories were well combined.
Nick couldn't figure out why Shiller initially agreed to work for law enforcent—there had to be so reason, just like in his previous life, as Shiller didn't look like soone who'd like to interact with law enforcent.
Doesn't Nick know his own colleagues? The jobs they could provide were typically low-paying, high-demand, and far from ho. All of these conditions were ones Shiller would avoid. How could he be so kind to take on such work?
Therefore, there must have been sothing disreputable, akin to the unwilling experts often recruited by the FBI, who must have had so motivation to work for them willingly.
But Nick just couldn't find out what it was.
This was actually because Marvel is a comic world, where everything not focused on is presented with comic logic.
In comics, there is a concept called a storyboard, which can be understood as a film shot. If the cara points here, the story unfolds; if not pointed here, there is nothing.
The narration of a story is divided into many storyboards, and the ti jump between them can be quite significant. For example, one storyboard may show him as a child, and the next he's already an adolescent.
So how do you present those intervening ten or so years? Often it's through characters' dialogue, like when he becos a youth and reflects on his childhood, telling what he did as a child.
Common sense would tell you that a good comic won't use thousands of storyboards to show every detail of a character's life from childhood to adolescence to youth—the logical frawork of the comic world doesn't support it.
Therefore, the backstory written by Superego that fits the world's logic was also presented in the form of comics, aning the whole story was only comprised of a few storyboards.
They probably consisted of attending university, praying in church, going to high-class parties, drug addiction, and working for law enforcent.
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Don't be fooled by the small number of storyboard scenes; the main draw of Marvel Comics is the sheer volu of content. With so many characters, many of them only get one or two scenes during major events. Characters who have their own origin stories are pretty exceptional; for many, it takes decades to accumulate a nearly complete origin story.
Shiller's origin story, fabricated by the Superego, is already quite comprehensive. However, inevitably, there are many details missing, such as why Shiller initially decided to work for law enforcent.
So might think that if Nick were to look into soone else's background, he would definitely find sothing because the plot requires it, but that's only if the character is an original from Marvel.
As a character created by Marvel, Nick has plot requirents, and naturally, when necessary, the universe administrators and editors will fabricate background stories for others to help him push the plot forward.
The problem is that Shiller is not a Marvel character; his backstory was written by the Superego, and Marvel's universe administrators wouldn't take the ti to add details to his backstory—and since the Superego didn't write it, Nick obviously couldn't find anything.
So, this matter will beco a perfect misunderstanding.
Shiller might be a long-lived Soviet, sobody who, before he had t any superheroes, had dealings with law enforcent for so mysterious reason that couldn't be investigated.
It was this very résumé that allowed him to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and beco a psychological consultant for superheroes, and even during the Superhero Registration Act, he managed to completely turn the situation around solely through his deterrence.
Doesn't it sound like a very complete conspiracy?
In fact, it is a complete conspiracy, but not one born of Greed, but of Superego's pettiness and arrogance.
If it were before, Greed would surely have to argue with them about their pettiness; if you're going to fabricate, at least give access to the mories so I can be prepared.
But when it cos to deleting mories, he himself is also at fault, so he had to accept it and take so rather double-standard actions to prevent the event from happening beforehand.
But as it turned out, the cartoon world simply doesn't allow for ti travel to prevent tragedies.
Before setting off, Shiller decided to stay in Arkham Sanatorium. First, a bunch of people tediously invited him out, just hoping he'd take a vacation and relax.
Shiller tried to get rid of them by claiming he was too busy with work, but everyone thought he was too overworked and that this was bad for his ntal state, and insisted on dragging him to go on holiday.
Knowing he couldn't go, Shiller pretended to have ntal health issues which only made everyone more worried. After much discussion, Stark decided not to go.
Eventually, Shiller had Helen and the Guardians of the Galaxy play along, causing so chaos in the cosmos that required Shiller's intervention, which finally allowed him to escape and not get involved in the shooting.
As a result, without Shiller diating and persuading Steve and Peter to each support one side to balance the relationship between Stark and Strange, their animosity beca ridiculously intense and finally erupted on the beach.
Stark, unable to attract attention with his surfing skills, was already fuming; Strange made sarcastic remarks on the side, and Steve and Peter, busy greeting the New Warriors Team, didn't even notice when the two were about to co to blows.
At the ti, Stark wasn't wearing his Battle Armor, but he was at least physically fit. Strange didn't need to wear anything to use Magic, but with so many witnesses around, he couldn't really escalate the fight—so the two ended up in a draw.
As they were fighting, Sandman arrived, and Strange and Stark were thrown into the air.
Strange instinctively used Magic to protect himself, which interfered with Stark summoning his Battle Armor. The Battle Armor ended up crashing into a nearby beach bar, causing a major commotion.
The incident made the news that very day, and both n's reputations were thoroughly ruined. To make matters worse, an anxious Stark steadfastly refused to admit fault, leading to a public opinion backlash that accelerated downward.
Unsurprisingly, the trouble fell onto Pepper's shoulders. Pepper tried to convince Stark to apologize publicly, but Stark flatly refused, and they had a huge argunt which left Pepper so enraged that she had to be hospitalized.
When the news broke, Shiller knew it wasn't good. With everyone together in this state, trouble was inevitable. After thinking about it, he felt he still needed to go.
So, he had Barry take him back to the past, bringing all dia and news reports from the first tiline, where Shiller beca famous, and the second tiline, where Stark and Strange made headlines together, to the third tiline's Shiller.
Upon reviewing the situation, Tiline 3's Shiller knew that he had to go to the shooting because, aside from him, no one else would be able to handle an agitated Stark, and the situation would inevitably turn chaotic.
So he chose to still accompany the group to Hollywood for vacation, but this ti his strategy was to stay as silent as possible, not to show his professional skills, to be an unnoticed nobody, which should allow him to keep safe and not cause any trouble.
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