How Avengers: Endgame Delivered A Satisfying Ending (But Game Of Thrones Failed)
3. Not Wasting Major Characters (Mostly)
How Endgame Delivered: Okay, so Endgame did waste one major character, that being Captain Marvel. After being teased in Infinity War's post-credits and having her own solo film right before Endgame, it was expected she would have a huge role, but she was barely in the film at all.
That being said, the original six Avengers all got their time to shine in the movie - it was their movie after all - and as we've covered, their arcs were brought to a satisfying close.
Scott Lang and Nebula also had significant roles, and it was great seeing them interact with the other Avengers. It also showed just how far Nebula had come from being a pretty one-dimensional villain in Guardians of the Galaxy to one of the MCU's most compelling characters.
Rocket also got decent screen-time, even if he was slightly sidelined to give focus to the bigger players of the story.
If there is one other character who may have felt a little wasted, it would be Rhodey, but it's not like any other post-Iron Man 3 films did much with him either.
How Thrones failed: If it were just the minor characters who were wasted - like Melisandre - it wouldn't be such a huge deal, but season 8 unforgivably wastes two of the series' biggest characters: Jon and Cersei.
We've covered Jon enough, but there's still plenty of things to say about Cersei. She's the series' most despicable villain, and after the White Walkers' premature defeat, she was to be the final boss. But they barely did anything with her.
The only real notable thing that Cersei did this season was have Missandei beheaded. Otherwise, she spent the season staring out windows, complaining about the Golden Company's lack of elephants, sleeping with Euron, and then watched King's Landing get burned to the ground.
It's a crime that the character - and Lena Headey's talents - were so thoroughly wasted, and Cersei's underwhelming death with Jaime just made it that much worse.