10 Annoying Things Every Superhero Movie Does
7. Fake Deaths
As seen in: Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Superman
No matter the medium, it's always been a running joke that nobody ever stays dead in superhero stories. While characters will be killed off in comics regularly, they'll always return at some point, even if it's years down the line. Movies, on the other hand, speed this process up, to the point where "killed" characters are alive and well by the time the credits roll.
Unfortunately, this has increasingly made death lack any weight, as major characters fake their deaths all the time, with big names like Loki, Nick Fury, Superman and Phil Coulson all being "killed" at some point.
The latter is particularly egregious: his death was pretty much the catalyst of The Avengers getting their s**t together and finally being a team, yet the power of that moment was undermined when he proved too popular, and was brought back to lead the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D TV show.
It's not that superhero movies need to be Game of Thrones, it's just that knowing nobody is ever really dead removes some of the tension, and sets a precedent where audiences assume that major changes aren't permanent.