Clint has no problem tossing uncomfortable truths at people. He's had to deal with enough that he thinks everyone probably deserves a few. This one is on a decidedly different scale, but he still doesn't shy away from this. When they deny it, he just shakes his head.

"Howard Stark looked, sure. But he died and never found anything. But then the world started changing. Stark's kid became a superhero, we had a visit from some extraterrestrial gods. And we found Captain America."

When he lists them like that, he realizes how much the world has changed. He's just a footnote on that story, a story that isn't being written in this world. He swallows.

"It's 2012. And Steve Rogers is an Avenger. I'm on his team."