Avengers: Age Of Ultron - 10 Plotholes That Almost Ruin It

5. Why Didn't Quicksilver Just Carry Hawkeye And The Kid To Safety?

Heroic sacrifices are all well and good, but they're usually not as flawed as when Pietro gives his own life to save Hawkeye and the Sokovian kid from Ultron's hail of bullets.

He's a superhero, capable of incredible speed (to the point that bullets are easily dodgeable earlier in the film) and feats of strength: yet instead of picking up Barton and the kid (not out of the question since he can easily shoulder-barge Ultron to the floor), he just stands in the way and dies. Given how fast he is, he would literally have to stand and watch the bullets bore into him slowly.

The other point, rather more pertinently is that Quicksilver clearly fails to actually stop any of the bullets. The Quinjet is obviously armed with some significant artillery (if it was shooting hand-held ammunition, it would be useless against vehicles), and if you needed any further evidence of the fact, just look at Quicksilver after he's shot. He's literally swiss cheese, with entry AND exit wounds.

In other words, all he did in reality was slow the still fatal bullets down. And yet Hawkeye and the kid miraculously survived. Praise Jesus.