10 MCU Fates Worse Than Death
Being consigned to a rock in the middle of space for all eternity can't be fun...
There has been an ongoing joke for years now about how hardly anyone dies in the MCU. From Coulson being brought back for Agents of Shield to the countless times that Loki supposedly "died," the actual body count of any of the heavy hitters in the franchise have been fairly slim across over 20 films. Death might not be the end for some of these characters, but what actually ends up happening may be even worse.
Across every other movie, many of our favorite heroes have been put through hell that no one would be able to recover from. Whether it be emotional turmoil or having to deal with something haunting you the rest of your days, these characters clearly paid a hefty price for defeating their foes.
However, even the villains have suffered long enough, with some of them having questionable endings that make their actual fate seem way worse than just a standard death.
No matter what kind of death these characters might have encountered on screen, some may have gladly traded their life if it meant not having to carry on.
After going through more lifetimes than one would ever need, these friends and foes might not even be afraid of death anymore. Hell, at this point, it'd be a relief.
10. Yellow Jacket Shrinking Into Infinity
On its own, Ant-Man fits the bill as just your average Marvel movie. While the charm of Paul Rudd can bring quality to almost any project, the actual substance behind this film is not necessarily going to give someone like Iron Man or Captain America a run for their money any time soon. There's a lot of middle of the road stuff on display here, but defeating Yellow Jacket takes one of the most morbid turns in the MCU.
In the grand scheme of things, Yellow Jacket is your typical disposable villain, but the real stakes at play is Scott Lang's daughter Cassie. Determined to do anything he can to protect her, Lang shrinks between the molecules and goes subatomic, as he proceeds to tear through all of the wires in the Yellow Jacket's suits until he starts to short circuit.
For any other movie you'd expect the villain to spontaneously combust or something, but we're left uncertain whether Yellow Jacket actually went subatomic or not. Though we are told the horrors of shrinking between the molecules from Hank Pym, Lang is able to break out of it with the help of Pym's technology, but we're never really told what became of the villain.
You can chalk it up to shoddy writing if you want to, but the thought of the Yellow Jacket shrinking into infinity and being pulled every which way sounds much more painful than if he had just died.