"Being a hero's a really great goal anyways, so I guess spiting your dad is a bonus on top of it if you want to look at it that way, and um, sorry about the rambling to myself, it's something I'm trying to work on." 

It wasn't that James didn't [i]want[/i] to become a superhero or the ultimate secret agent or whatever, it was more that he actually wanted to have a choice in the matter before anything else happened. Amazing hamburgers aside, that had really been the point of running away all across the globe like he had. To see the world and learn about himself before committing himself to any one thing. It could potentially have gone easier if he'd explained that to his parents first, but at the time it didn't seem worth the risk of them rejecting the plan and potentially 'grounding' him in a maximum security SHIELD facility or something.

"So um, does the menu look okay? Like I said I'm new in town and I've never been here before, so I'm not exactly sure if this place is up to the standards of Latverian Royalty."