10 MCU Fates Worse Than Death

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.