10 MCU Characters Killed Off Way Too Early

10. Kurse

The average movie-goer would be forgiven for assuming that this character was included just for some nice CGI fight scenes. In fact, Kurse is an established character in Marvel Comics lore, every bit as important as the main villain of the movie in which he appears.

In Thor: The Dark World (2013), Algrim the Strong is a member of the Dark Elves, awoken along with his leader Malekith after a five-thousand-year hibernation. He becomes the last of the Kursed, a group of hulking berserkers that tore through their enemies in ancient times.

Later, he runs afoul of Thor and Loki, who are able to best him with one of his own implosion grenades, causing him to be crushed down into nothing.

It's certainly a cool manner of departure - but the problem here is that Kurse is given the Bane treatment from Batman and Robin, i.e. his personality from the comics is stripped away to leave him little more than a mindless beast. Had Algrim been treated more as a real character and not just some dumb henchman, he may have been deserving of a more timely death at the hands of the God of Thunder.

Also, in the comics, Kurse eventually turns on Malekith, so that would've been interesting to see. Oh well.