10 Superhero Movie Clichés Everybody Secretly Loves

10. Nobody Important Dies (and If They Do, They Come Back)

When the MCU began to hit its stride in the early 2010s, many complaints about its stakes began to rise. Many avid watchers of the cinematic universe felt that the main cast of heroes never experienced any genuine peril.

Because nobody died, the stakes seemed fake, and even when they did kill characters - such as Quicksilver and Agent Coulson - they had such little impact in the overall story up to their death that it felt hollow.

The fact that characters seemed close to dying but ended up being perfectly fine later only worsened this sentiment. Nick Fury, Loki, and Agent Coulson coming back after being thought dead became another catalyst for the fans' complaints.

However, though we claim to want the most pivotal characters to die, do we really? We grow with these characters for years and we want to follow them even longer.

Yes, the fake out deaths can break tension for the future, but we don't want our favourite characters dying every other film. We want to see them encounter and respond to a variety of threats, and that can only happen if they can make it a while. We may not want them to live forever but we love that our favourite characters don't die.