10 Recent Movie Deaths That Pissed Everyone Off

Death is a part of cinema just as it's a part of life, and given that the vast majority of movies are about conflict between a hero and villain, it's hardly surprising that most films feature at least a death or two.

It can be gratifying to watch the villain finally get their well-earned cinematic dirt nap, of course, and on the opposite end a hero's sacrificial death might leave us holding back tears.

But what about those movie deaths that simply made us mad and pissed us all off beyond compare?

Well, that's absolutely what happened in these 10 recent films, each of them killing off a character in a way that left the audience wailing with rage and asking, "Why!?"

From hyped-up characters suddenly offed out of nowhere, to beloved franchise mainstays dying for the greater good, and beloved actors getting suddenly dispatched way too soon, these deaths left us all positively shook.

Now, pissing the audience off isn't always a bad thing, and clearly in some of these examples that was always the intended response, but even so, they perhaps underestimated quite how mad these deaths would make people...

Even though the marketing for Thunderbolts* presented Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) as a core member of the anti-hero supergroup, her rather limited presence in trailers nevertheless had some fans convinced that she'd be the first of the heroes to bite the bullet.

And yet, who among us expected her to die that early?

As it turns out, Taskmaster appears in Thunderbolts* for just a single scene, as she and the other Thunderbolts-to-be meet up at the O.X.E. facility and do battle with one another.

In the ensuing fight, Taskmaster is summarily shot in the head and killed by Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and that's that. 

Her screen time ends up totalling less than two minutes, and considering that many Marvel fans hoped that Thunderbolts* would add depth and dimension to a character who had a rather underwhelming introduction in Black Widow, hastily going out like a jobber only compounded how much of a letdown this iteration of the character was.

Taskmaster deserved so much better than this.