Better at being a Hulk sounded so ridiculous to Tony, not like better at being human, which was tragically impossible and emotionally devastating if he kept thinking about it, but genuinely ridiculous, like a better mutation, like any one was more important than the other at their inception. They'd find out in a few hundred years, maybe. It would be just Tony's luck to be around to see it.
"It's...ah..." Pepper, Tony thought sounded like a reasonable answer, not just because she was in his head, but he started to laugh again as Jess came close, her voice with its warm, rasping timber tickling in his stomach before she even touched his head. "Good people. Image is important. All some of us got, Brucey."