I've faced down a planet eater, been sucked into the Negative-verse and pit against some of the most terrifying creatures my universe can come up with, and I've had to hunt down and exterminate face stealers that farkin' took the guise of my teammates--my friends--and kill them without a second thought.

You think I throw away my life for no gain? I'm one of the blokes that protects the entire farkin' universe where I'm from.

[Rocket sneers, ears falling back against as his grip on his pistol tightens.]

Seems to me if anyone should be talking down to anyone, it's me to you, considering I'm not the one that lost an entire planet at some point in the course of various timelines.