Knock Out realizes only now that he's had a very incomplete understanding of the way Rogue's powers worked this whole time. They had never discussed them in detail as imPorts, the topic never moving much beyond a cursory explanation of why she frequently wore gloves, and he'd thought it limited to absorbing others' powers.

"I see," he says slowly, and the smile he gives her is something somber and rueful both. "Perhaps we'd better not, then. The last thing you need is to go through everything I've seen and done, to say nothing of inflicting my psyche on you."