Captain America: Civil War - 11 Things That Definitely Won't Happen

4. Aunt May's Assassination

In the aftermath of Civil War (which you have to imagine will play a major part in the rest of Phase 3), Spider-Man pays the price of his public unmasking (which isn't even a certainty for the movie, given how it destabilises the impending new Spidey series by removing his secret identity) when Aunt May is almost assassinated. The chances of it happening in Civil War as a means to convince Spidey to change sides can't have escaped all fans, but there's simply no way we'll get to see this particular emotional hand-grenade go off. Introducing and basically killing Aunt May before Spider-Man even gets his own series would only have worked if Marvel had done the right thing and brought in Toby Maguire for an arc-ending cameo that would have allowed for him to hand over to a brand new Spider-Man at the end of Civil War. As it is, we'll have Tom Holland, who can't see his family under threat before anyone cares about them, unless they're going to start with him as the black-clad symbiote Spider-man loved by fans. And that's just too much of a good idea to be true. The Alternative If the Russos are genuinely going to go with a gut-punch death to one of the superhero's families, there are precious few possibilities. It won't be Pepper Potts, because nobody would mourn her (and Iron Man isn't going to switch sides), and almost everyone else with loved ones is absent. The only option would be to kill Hawkeye's family, but the problem is that he's not really enough of a key player. Yes, that would re-unite the Avengers with added vigour against their assassin (someone like Crossbones, probably), but the only character who would likely defect in the wake of that would be Black Widow, and she's never been sold as a lynchpin sort of figure to date. It's more likely that they'll simply miss out the kill for effect element.