Well hopefully it won't come down to that, though it wouldn't surprise me at all if it did.

[His tone is light and teasing at this point.] The way that everyone talks about you, it always makes it sound like you hate all nice things. But I understand well that just because someone occasionally takes advantage of others it doesn't mean that they spend all of their time punching adorable baby animals and shunning anything sweet or rich.

Frankly, I'm surprised that some of us are still complaining about you all the time. Compared to the guy who's controlling things right now, you were a saint! I don't remember you ever locking me up in this dreary lab area and making me go hungry for weeks and weeks.

That's just the way it goes sometimes - once someone decides that you're a "villain," it's hard to shake that off.