If things get bad enough the Tick stops talking...
He's sent up the Mountain.
Chandra puts a straw hat on his head. Yelena gets him working the garden. Cat is skritched. Both chins..
And the man with the damaged brain who thinks all supers are nuts sits there. And gets very mad the world was wrong to his crazy friend.
Made enough to write.
Spider Jerusalem destroyed Roxxon's Chemicals division for dumping in the sewers. Because the Tick was sad Urchin got hurt.