026 Peppers origins

Finding Pepper too unusual to just embrace wholeheartedly the way Tony does, Obadiah does a little digging and confronts Pepper with her mysterious background, involving fires, deaths, and a stay at a place called the Brookhaven Institute, for people with severe neurological disorders. If he thinks that story is strange, luckily he never learns the real one—that she’s actually an energy-based trans-dimensional being occupying a synthetic body. “I don’t want to get too sci-fi on you here, although my life has basically become one big comic book at this point so certain ideas are difficult to avoid.”