12 Movie Deaths You Knew Were Coming (That Still Broke You)

12. Wolverine - Logan

We all knew it—once the words “Old Man Logan” first escaped Hugh Jackman’s lips, the writing was on the wall for the Australia star’s most beloved screen role. Jackman’s iteration of the gruff X-Men antihero predated the entire MCU, with his first appearance in the iconic super suit hitting cinemas way back in 2000. Seventeen long years later, it was time to say goodbye to the universally adored character, and who better to do the elegiac job than Walk the Line helmer James Mangold?

And yet… Maybe it’s because the flick toned down the more pointlessly bleak elements of its source material. Maybe it’s because the hard-R rating let the hero use his claws more than ever before and, despite his advancing age, this gory skill made him seem all but invincible.

Whatever the cause, by the end of the film we were wishing the irritable anti-hero might somehow make it out alive despite knowing a necessary heroic sacrifice was on its way, making the inevitable ending even more powerful despite its predictability.