Let's pause for a moment for BDA's definition of a Super____: Someone with superpowers/someone who is a super hero/villain is someone who inherently stands out in the crowd they are in (Important distinction) because of thier powers/who they are. Tony Stark, super rich, famous dude with a badass weapon suit. Hulk, giant green dude. Thor, god like being from a species so advanced they basically live between dimensions, ditto for Loki. Hawkeye, most likely semi-mutant ridiculously good with a bow, super smart.  Cap, mutant human that's pretty much impossible to kill...really good with a discus for some reason. These people stand out and are Superhero's on earth because they are among humans, who are...well... pathetic. But in Asgard/the other dimensions (Frost giants etc etc) He's literally just a guy, not special, just another kinda famous guy with an important dad.

In every MCU movie up until this point we have been following Superhero's and Supervillains. People who are so above the rest of the population they are attempting to save/enslave that they become these god like figures. That's all we know. Up until this point, we've had earth, Asgard/other planes whatever they're called, and the floating rock place in the Thanos teaser. That's it. Until now, we could easily just assume the entire galaxy was just filled with these god like beings and us.

Now let's look at Gaurdians... we have... almost none of that. In fact I'd argue that there is only one...possibly 2, super anythings in Guardians. Ronan and Thanos. Peter is just some ass-hole petty thief raised by Ravagers, Gamora/Nebula are just some random girls Thanos picked up in the midst of slaughtering thier planets and turned into weapons, Rocket is a by product of mad science, Drax is just another criminal, and Groot...well he's just kinda along for the ride. This is a movie ABOUT nobodies, sure if they were on earth Peter could maybe be seen as a sort of Superhero, he has some pretty cool toys, but out here in the galaxy, he's just another dipshit. They all are. They are nothing special. Further, there's an entire Galaxy of no bodies out here just trying to live thier life, occasionally getting fucked over by these super's.

I was thinking about it today actually, and basically every single one of our core cast has been screwed over by a super. Gamora/Nebula, they were fine and happy until Thanos wanders in and kidnaps them. Drax, well family killed that whole thing yeah. Groot...well baby Groot Jr. kinda speaks for himself on that one. Rocket... kinda breaks the chain a bit. But Peter, Peter's actually kinda interesting cause technically he's screwed over by two different super's. Ronan obviously, boom, crash, I will destroy you all etc. But also, if we take the clues dropped, his dad (Peter's half human, holding the stone for longer than normal etc, Dad's a super.) kinda fucked him over royally. Hiring a bunch of Ravagers to bring him back after his mom died and then never really even bothering to check in when they don't show up for 26 years. Talk about an absent father. Which I mean, "Yeah alright, no shit Sherlock, the bad guy is bad what's your point?" Try doing this to any other MCU movie. I honestly can't think of another one where that's happened. Primarily, we must fight the bad guy because he's bnad, or he hurt me, let's go get my friends and we'll fight you. But I can't think of one where the entire core has been affected on an individual level like that by the bad guy. Which is frankly why I really like what they did with Thanos in this movie. We don't NEED to see him being evil...we see his effect on the universe, this dude has done and caused some serious shit, on literally a galactic scale. That's a guy you watch the fuck out for.

Anyways...weird tangent there.

Basically what I think I'm trying to get accross here is that this is the first MCU movie where our heroes aren't super's, they are just ordinary people amidst a sea of other ordinary people trying to live in this Galaxy. And they just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and get drawn into it all. And that, too me at least, is way more interesting than just another movie about a bunch of people with super power's. And on top of that, it also expands our understanding of the universe that these guys are living in, from this point on, it's not just about earth, there are billions and billions of other people out here getting fucked over too. (I'm really hoping they do something more clever than "Now the Avengers save the GALAXY too by working together! Dun dun dun!!" But hopes aren't high on that one.)

That said, I know nothing about the comics or what the Nova is "supposed" to be, but the Nova Centurions sound like it could be pretty cool. But I also really like the idea of the Nova just being this army/police of normal people trying to maintain order in the galaxy, every once in a while getting destroyed by these "natural disasters" of Thanos showing up for a bit to fuck shit up.

Anyways...long, rambly, probably didn';t say much. That's a BDA post for yah.