Avengers 4: 10 Most Likely Characters To Be Killed

5. Hawkeye

Ever since The Avengers, Hawkeye has pretty much looked like a nailed-on certainty to bite the big one before too long. He's always been viewed - rather unfairly - as a secondary hero and a slot filler. He had no story of his own, aside from allusions to his shared history with Black Widow, and he had precisely zero chance of a solo movie.

Since then he's come quite a way, with the revelation of him having a family and him getting a meaty part at the end of Captain America: Civil War - not to mention the misdirection of him looking like dead meat in Age Of Ultron. But he's still in a precarious position and it's precisely because his death would come with an emotional punch now.

After his family was revealed, he's had an even bigger target on his back, and the sorry fact is that his arc now only makes sense if he follows his good guy story to its natural, devastating end and dies.