When the Shadow Spear appeared on the battlefield, the Superheroes who had already entered the Sanctuary knew nothing about it.
They were busy running for their lives as the guards inside the warship pursued and intercepted them. They had no time to pay attention to the battle outside.
Send the Superheroes into Thanos's flagship on a decapitation strike.
It was certainly a good idea, but for the plan to succeed, the Superheroes had to be powerful enough to overwhelm every alien aboard except Thanos.
Exceptional physiques, advanced technological equipment, and strange mutant abilities made Superheroes and supervillains stand out among all the people on Earth.
But once they were placed in the wider universe, most Superheroes' supposed abilities became utterly unremarkable.
The alien technology at Thanos's disposal was hardly inferior to that of most equipment-based Superheroes. Only a handful, such as Iron Man, possessed absurd black technology that gave them an edge. Everyone else's gear was actually about on par with the standard equipment issued to Thanos's elite troops.
As for those with superpowers, they had no obvious advantage over the universe's countless bizarre races, either.
The worst off were those like Captain Steve, whose only strength was their exceptional physique. Across the vast universe, races with bodies far superior to humans were everywhere.
Earth's leadership had largely been misled by the Chitauri who invaded New York. They assumed that even if aliens were physically stronger, the difference would be limited, which was why they had devised a decapitation strike.
Far away aboard the command ship, the leaders looked grim after receiving the Superheroes' reports. Had the Shadow Spear not been there to bolster their confidence, they might already have started considering the Noah's Ark Plan.
Even so, the leaders showed varying degrees of panic. Only the two directors, Nick