01/09/2026
Marvel had no business making some of these deaths feel this personal 😭
Marvel has built decades of stories around heroes whose deaths became defining moments for their respective franchises. Tony Stark sacrificed himself defeating Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, Yondu died saving Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Aunt May was killed in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Logan died protecting Laura and the other young mutants in Logan.
Death in Marvel can get complicated because the MCU and wider Marvel films now involve alternate universes, timelines, variants, and characters occasionally returning in different forms. That doesn’t erase the original scenes, though. The deaths that hit hardest usually came after audiences had spent years watching these characters grow, making their final moments feel like the end of an era.