DCEU: 10 Characters Most Likely To Die (And The Movies They'll Die In)

Comic-book movies and death have an incredibly unsatisfying relationship. Most of the people that actually stay dead are the ones we knew would die anyway (Uncle Ben, The Waynes), and the folks we don't expect to bite the dust usually end up coming back to life in a subsequent movie or TV show.

But for all the complaints levelled at the DC Extended Film Universe, one positive element of its trio of films is that they've been much more liberal when it comes to the axing of prominent characters.

The death of General Zod in Man of Steel was hugely surprising, and even El Diablo's demise in Suicide Squad - arguably the film's most fleshed out, well-rounded character - came as a bit of a shock.

And we haven't even mentioned the entire planet of Krypton, June Finch, Jimmy Olsen and Jason Todd. Granted, Warner Bros are doing the whole 'resurrection' thing with Superman, but for the most part, DC's deaths are impactful, unexpected, and most importantly - they stick.

And that surely means we can expect a lot more of them in future, considering the vast slate of films the studio currently has lined up. Here are our predictions for the ten characters most likely to meet their maker in the near future!

Movie He'll Die In: The Batman/The Solo Batman Movie

Why Is It Likely? A year ago this was a ludicrous notion, but now, after all the recent turmoil surrounding Ben Affleck and his relationship with the DCEU, there's a good chance it could happen.

The biggest indicator is that aforementioned turmoil. A month ago, industry pundit John Campea mentioned on an episode of Collider Movie Talk that Affleck, whose confidence was reportedly hit after Live By Night bombed at the box-office, does not want to play The Dark Knight anymore.

Anyone who watches Movie Talk on a daily basis knows that Campea does not like "breaking scoops", so he wouldn't waft any smoke if there wasn't, at the very least, a tiny fire to prompt him to do so.

And that's not all. Last December, Justice League 2 was pushed back to provide Warner Bros a release window for The Batman - could that be PR talk? Could that mean Affleck was originally meant to be in the sequel and now he won't be, so it's been pushed back to allow the project to factor in his absence?

A lot of this is based on speculation, but when you couple all these rumours with the character's age - he's been Batman for over twenty years - killing him off and replacing him with a younger model (Nightwing, perhaps?) wouldn't be entirely implausible.