10 Franchises That Killed Off The Wrong Person

Emma Stone was one of the few good things about Sony's hasty reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, having lost faith in Sam Raimi's vision right around the time he put Toby Maguire's Peter Parker in a black suit and emo fringe.

The Amazing Spider-Man turned out to be an equally slip-shod tonal mess, but there was always that one bright shining beacon amidst the awful filmmaking. The actress brought something genuine to the films, her natural chemistry with Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man leading to the only scenes that didn't feel forced, awkward or overwritten.

Then they killed her off, because that's what happens to the character in the comics.

Who Should've Died Instead:

If anybody knows who Gwen Stacy is, it's as the girlfriend who dies. So when it happened in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, it wasn't so much an emotional gut punch as a sad inevitability. What would've been interesting, and actually devastating, would've been some subversion; switch in Mary Jane Watson.

A trick like that, killing off a newly introduced key player, would have shown Marc Webb and co. understood what the fans expected and possibly given the Amazing series some longevity.

Heck, this almost happened with the original movies; the third act of Spider-Man was The Night That Gwen Stacy Died, only with MJ in it, but Sam Raimi didn't have the stones to commit.