Avengers: Endgame - 10 Scenes Everyone Expected To See (That Didn't Happen)

10. Nebula Defeats Thanos

Few fathers in cinematic history have been harder and crueler to their daughter than Thanos to his adopted daughter, Nebula. He’s replaced her with cyborg parts every time she lost in sparring to her sister and tortured her to get said sister to take him to the soul stone. After helping him in his quest to vanish half the universe, she changes sides and swears she’ll be the one to kill him.

Few had reason to hate Thanos pre-snap (except maybe Drax) more than Nebula, but in the end, it was Tony who defeated the mad titan. It makes sense, as the film is more or less Tony’s, but many thought it’d be Nebula who pulls the trigger.

She did end up killing her own self, who travelled time from 2014, but it didn’t have the same emotional sting. Nebula is a relatively small character in the MCU, so having her kill the main villain of a 22-film arc may have been somewhat anticlimactic for die-hard Marvel fans.