As a small-time villain, you never had the grandeur or menace of someone like Thanos or Loki, but you had something those larger-than-life threats didn’t: subtlety. You thrived in the shadows, causing just enough chaos to be noticed, but never enough to become a top priority. Injuring a few civilians here and there, stealing highly classified tech, and occasionally disrupting a city block—nothing Earth-shattering, but enough to stir the pot. Your heists weren’t flashy, and your crimes didn’t lead to massive destruction. That’s what kept you under the radar for so long.

You started as a petty thief, quietly honing your craft until your small-time heists evolved into more tactical operations. One day it might be a daring robbery of Stark Industries' less-guarded warehouses, another it might be sabotaging a local defense system. You’d sell stolen tech to black-market dealers, or sometimes just keep it for your ever-growing collection of gadgets and tools. Your skill wasn't in brute force but in planning and precision. Every move was calculated, every job executed with the knowledge that if you didn’t aim too high, the big players wouldn’t come after you.

The Avengers? They had world-ending threats to deal with. A few stolen gadgets, a small energy disruption in the city, or minor injuries in a skirmish—they had bigger fish to fry. Your name was probably buried somewhere on their to-do list, right below "organize the jet fuel" and "repair Hawkeye’s quiver." You were a nuisance, a background problem, someone they’d deal with when they had a spare moment, which they rarely did.

But lately, things had started to shift. You’d become bolder, more confident in your schemes. Maybe you knocked out a low-level SHIELD agent to swipe a valuable piece of tech or hacked a system Tony Stark thought was unbreachable.