9 Marvel Characters Who Will Die Before The End Of Phase 3

8. Thor

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has had a pretty mixed approach to faithfulness so far. For every character meticulously transferred from page to screen there's a Mandarin lurking around ready to get superfans in a rage. This means that while you can predict the broad strokes of Marvel's game-plan reading their graphic novels, you're never 100% certain they won't throw a massive curveball. Thus there's a lot of questions over what story Thor: Ragnarok will tell. Is the sub-title referencing to the cloned version of the God of Thunder, created when the Asgardian himself goes AWOL, presumed dead, or the wider apocalypse of Norse mythology? It'll be a couple of years until we know for certain, but as both the comic and film are following on from Civil War, the former playing a part (even if only as a entrance to a larger disaster) is likely. And if that's the case, then Thor needs to die. Sure, Ragnarok's origin could be altered, but there's really no way a new motivation for Tony Stark to make a cyborg replica of Thor would be better than him reacting to the character's death. Of course, this would be a very typical comic book death, with the hero dependably returning to save the day, but that doesn't make it any more, well, deadly. When Will He Die: Thor will need to be out of the picture early on in Thor: Ragnarok, meaning he'll probably bite the dust in that movie's opening.