[Discussing a new hero who definitely isn't just another that's been rebranded after committing a crime. Don't include narration.]

"If you have a valid concern about Defiant," Director Piggot spoke, "I think it would benefit us all to hear it."

He opened his mouth to speak, but she'd already raised her hand to stop him. “Rest assured, Triumph, if you were to allege criminal activity, we would arrest and detain him until a case could be made. We’d pull him off this wholly voluntary task and if your charges were serious enough, send him to the Birdcage. I suppose we’d have to adjust Dragon’s battle plan against the Nine, she would likely be forced to rethink her idea of having the suits stationed in Brockton Bay, so she was better able to defend herself.” (Interlude 15; Rory Christner)

[When younger. She's woken up after being injured by a supervillain, and has just expressed that she's glad she didn't gain powers herself. Don't include narration.]

“They’re monsters. Freaks. Lunatics. They fight only because they have the impression that they’re stronger than their opponents, and when they aren’t they run.” She thought of the squad of capes that had accompanied them. “They abandon the rest of us.” (16.x)

[One of her captors has just threatened to pick her apart.]

“Please do. Waste time. You won’t accomplish much. Look at me. You know as well as I do that I wear my shame and disappointment on the outside, for the world to see. I had the muscles of my legs torn apart years ago on the job, lost the ability to keep up exercise, coupled with hours behind a desk, hours of the dialysis and recovery from surgeries, no time to take care of myself with work. I know I’m ugly, I know I’m fat. There’s nothing you could say to me that I haven’t said to myself a hundred times over.” (16.3)