10 Recent TV Show Twists NOBODY Saw Coming

10. Maria Hill Dies In The First Episode - Secret Invasion

Marvel Cinematic Universe fans were stoked to see Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) get an apparently beefy role in Secret Invasion after being kept on the sidelines for so many years, but nope, the Marvel bigwigs evidently had other ideas.

At the end of the very first episode, Hill is shot and killed by Skrull villain Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir). 

And yet, given that Secret Invasion is a show centered around shape-shifting aliens, many fans understandably assumed that we probably didn't see the real Maria Hill die, but rather a Skrull impersonator, right?

Wrong. The real Hill does indeed die in the very first episode, with no surprise return made later in the series. 

It's a shocking turn of events that also left many fans legitimately pissed off, both that Hill didn't get to hang out with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) for a few episodes first, and that her death was basically wasted on a show as aggressively mediocre as this.