The eager anticipation on Tony's face instantly dropped at Jess' answer, and her smile didn't put a dent in his frown. Okay, maybe he had skipped ahead a few steps again and the context cues weren't obvious enough. At the very least, though, she could have thrown out a few names for some enlightening discourse. Or went for flattery, flattery would have been nice.
Regrouping, and rewinding, flipping his hands back over each other and resetting his scene, Tony established, "You're Joe Average, first guy you run into on the street out there. Who's your favourite hero?" This time it was hypothetical, though, because it didn't seem like Jess wanted to be on his team for this conversation. "Spider-man," he answered for her with confidence. He let that ruminate for a beat before it dawned on him that this could be misconstrued and explained, "Not that the Avengers are a popularity contest. God knows." That should have been obvious. "But he's good," Tony said, hand over his heart to show that he didn't mean in skill. "Genuinely good, and he'll be out there doing what we do anyway whether he has to do it on his own or not."