10 More Best Things The MCU Did Differently To The Comics
2. Tony Stark's Death
With both Infinity War and Endgame including quite literally endless amounts of tragic character deaths, you know that someone has to really go the extra mile to be considered the saddest death in the MCU thus far.
Tony Stark was the first MCU hero to grace the big screen, and the witty, sarcastic heart of the majority of the Avengers films. There’s been over ten years for fans to form bonds with the MCU Iron Man, which makes his climactic death at the end of the Infinity Gauntlet arc all the more devastating.
It's also especially crucial when you remember just how many times Tony has been killed and brought back in the comics. Between The Crossing storyline, his teen death in Onslaught, and several robotics-based fake out deaths, comic readers likely have very little response to Iron Man "dying" in comics. Meanwhile, there was likely not a dry eye in the house for the vast majority of people watching Stark die in the cinema.