"Mind control won't work on me," Atton ticked off, "Flight's easy to deal with if you've got telekinesis, laser eyes probably won't go through the lightsaber, X-ray vision is useless, and super strength is ridiculously easy to work around." Beat. "And that's in the scenario where I fight him head on, instead of just putting a roofie in his drink and dumping him in a trash compactor somewhere."

... look, he was talking about humiliating the guy, not murdering him outright. That was progress!