Killing the heroes

[Kirmit]

Do you think there'll come a day when Marvel decide to start killing off their heroes? I'm not talking temporary deaths like in the comics but fully permanent ones and I'm not talking minor heroes, I mean their big hitters like Thor, Hulk, Iron Man etc.

 

[Sexy Magician]

I'm fairly convinced we will see Captain America die and Bucky take his place as the new Captain America, other than that who knows

 

[Cooty_Cat]

Sooner or later every comicbook hero dies... just to be brought back.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Too bad Peter Steele isn't still around for this superhero craze. He could write a song called "Everything Dies Except Comic Book Characters."

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

None of the big hitters are going to die permanently.

 

[Bayne]

I think eventually the MCU will have to kill off someone, and when they do, I hope they don't just resurrect everyone and completely cheapen the story. I don't think bringing them back would really even be necessary for the MCU. I rather suspect that eventually (20 years, maybe longer) Marvel will press the giant reset button on the entire MCU and start all over with completely new people anyway, and since it's really not possible to bring out a dozen new issues every month the way it is in the comics, I don't see why they couldn't just let some characters stay dead until the MCU is complete.

 

[DrCosmic]

Why does Marvel have to kill anyone exactly?

GotG has given us our fourth or fifth (or sixth?) non-death and it was as successful commercially and critically. After doing that four times in a row and there being none but the smallest critique on it... do they ever have to kill someone off for realzes?

Cap, because of the big epic storyarc follow up to Winter Soldier is most likely to take a hiatus do the Death of Cap/Cap Reborn storyline. But other than that? Marvel has no reason to just leave money on the table by benching a household name.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

MS is a movie studio that is basically a one-trick pony. they do movies based on Marvel characters and nothing else. To kill off these characters will hurt them in the long run, especially when reboots are a no go. They'd limit themselves even more with their possible films. that's not an issue today, but they have to think about a time, somewhere in the future when they run out of new properties to bring to the screen, the character catalogue of Marvel is big but not unlimited.

so, no. don't kill the characters unless absolutely necessary

 

[Infinight888]

If an actor is adamant about not returning, I expect they will, but not for any other reason.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Well they have killed some X-Men, only they retconned it later.

 

[Bayne]

The point in why they will eventually have to kill someone is because you can't drag on a huge, epically heroic saga for years and years and yet have the heroes all come out of it completely unscathed. Someone has to die eventually, otherwise the stakes become less and less believable.

 

[metaphysician]

The point in why they will eventually have to kill someone is because you can't drag on a huge, epically heroic saga for years and years and yet have the heroes all come out of it completely unscathed. Someone has to die eventually, otherwise the stakes become less and less believable.

Assuming facts not in evidence: the MCU is not a "huge epic saga". Its a setting, in which *numerous* stories occur, some of them huge and epic, some of them smaller and more intimate.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Well they have killed some X-Men, only they retconned it later.

They retconned it because it was very poorly received. I'm sure Marvel noticed.

 

[highbloodman]

Usually that's the best way to end a series. Maybe.

 

[Marvelocity]

Maybe they kill Stark or Cap in Avengers 3, but that would be it for the big hitters.

They'll probably kill Hawkeye, but I doubt anyone would notice.