Who's Tigra More Worried About?

I was rereading Avengers Academy #9 as prep for a different post I have planned (probably get to it tomorrow), when a bit of dialogue near the end of the issue jumped out at me.

After Tigra tells Hazmat, Veil, and Striker they're welcome to return to the Academy if they want, Speedball tells her she's a great example to the kids, and if they don't realize it now, they will someday. Tigra's response is 'Thanks, Robbie. I hope you're right. I really do.'

Which part do you think she hopes he's right about? That she is a great example for the students, or that they'll figure that out someday? I figure it's the former. After she has that chat with Robbie, she goes back to her quarters and watches that video of the students beating up the Hood and making him apologize. There's not a discernible expression, except maybe contemplative.

At least some of her anger at the students was that what she badly wants to do, but didn't, they went ahead and did. Her perspective could be that's the only difference, that they went through with it and she didn't. I don't know if she ever had a shot at the Hood when she and some of the other heroes were rounding up the Hood's crew, but I doubt she'd have any trouble getting five minutes alone with Parker Robbins in a windowless room with no security cameras if she wanted to.

Depending on how you look at it, her choice could either be the mature recognition revenge solves nothing. Or it could be she recognized there would be consequences for taking those actions, and she wasn't willing to deal with them. That she went public with what happened to her as a way of dealing with it and helping others is a sign she's recognized the former, but getting past her desire for revenge entirely is going to take time. Which is probably why she wound up watching Robbins get humiliated by the students on video. It's a process.

What Hazmat, Striker, and Veil did suggests they have learned either lesson yet. They thought their actions would accomplish something positive, and didn't realize there might be blowback from it. Since they're sticking around, there's at least a chance they can learn those things, but considering how she's still trying to work through her feelings, Tigra might wonder if she's the right one to be teaching them.