"I know, doing something that somebody told me not to do is very out-of-character for me," Tony retorts with cheerful sarcasm.

"Yeah, I figured that out when it started trying to make bonsai art out of my gauntlet as I was carrying it home," he explains, when Pepper comments on the unusual choice in growth medium. "It's gotten about twice as big since I cut it. Even if you ignore everything else, that's got to be proof that it's magical, because I've never been able to get a normal plant to grow that easily." The only organism he gets such vigorous growth rates out of is mold, generally.