[The irritation doesn’t faze him - probably because he’s quite used to it - but he does find it interesting. A note for later, perhaps.]

Like me? No, I can’t be replicated. Not all the way. But they will like me, in time.

[Or like him enough.]

If I wasn’t suited to be leader, why else would Shockwave choose me?

[It’s a rhetorical question, mostly. He’s aware Vergilius has no idea who that is.]