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The admirer of theMarvel Cinematic Universehave take their share of withering loss over the years , rise that doing superhero workplace is never an prosperous job . Marvel pic are sometimes criticized for their convention , with outspoken detractors citing the inevitable triumph of the " good guy rope " as a recurring theme among a sea of intimate story beat . But when looking objectively at the track platter of some of the MCU ’s most celebrated heroes , their films are inevitably filled with deprivation , whether it be from defeat at the hands of a villain or personal injury .

The loss many Marvel Cinematic Universe heroes have felt come in many forms . Occasionally , a scoundrel will get the upper manus by the end of an MCU movie , get out the like of the Avengers scramble to follow together for a response . Other times , these release are much more personal , with single character confront intolerable hardship through the death of their have it away ones . Whatever the case , the flagship faces of Marvel Studios ' films sure have n’t had it easy navigating their lives as public protectors throughoutthe MCU timeline .

The MCU is fill up with characters do incredible feats , and on function this sees them defy remarkable odds to overcome their adversaries .

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10Spider-Man: No Way Home Is The MCU’s Most Brutal Solo Movie Ending Yet

Peter Parker’s Factory Reset Is An Incredibly Bleak Prospect

Peter Parker is wedge to bear one of the most depressing fates of any solo hoagy in the MCU .

Theending ofSpider - Man : No mode Homesaw Peter Parker come back to his root as a well-disposed neighborhood Spider - Man , stranded in a lilliputian apartment in New York City . The tyrannous loneliness of being pass over from the minds of everyone in the main MCU timeline is instantly felt as Peter settles in to his new living , sever from his cushy connections with the late Tony Stark . So soon after the dying of his beloved Aunt May , Peter Parker is forced to bear one of the most uncheerful fates of any solo hero in the MCU .

9Thor Lost 3 Major Times In Thor: Ragnarok

The God of Thunder has been the MCU’s punching bag.

Few type in the MCU have suffered from more loss than Thor . InThor : Ragnarokalone , Thor had to number to damage with losing his don , his hammer , and his eye , all while being forced to destroy his ancestral homeland along with his long - lost sister . Even if Hela was evil , Thor was hesitating to repair to wildness , having already have the throes of a fraught familial kinship with his dramatize brother . Piling on the deaths of Loki , Frigga , and Jane Foster , Thor ’s power to endure hardship has become utterly unmated in the Marvel Cinematic Universe .

8The MCU’s Heroes Faced Their Worst Loss In Infinity War To Thanos

The effects of The Snap are still felt throughout the MCU’s most recent stories.

After come through in his programme to wipe out half of all life in the creation , Thanos indisputably became the strongest MCU villainever presented . The devastating loss stand by the entire cosmos due to the Avengers ' inability to stop the Mad Titan will forever be the superhero team ’s majuscule unsuccessful person . Even if they were capable to eventually bring back the evaporated population , the disastrous result of the five - yr " Blip " still haunt the MCU to this day , with time - displaced character struggling to make out to grip with their new place in the world .

7Baron Zemo Successfully Broke The Avengers Apart

If it weren’t for Thanos, he likely would’ve stayed successful.

Even if his victory was n’t as majestic as Thanos ' , Baron Zemo dealt the second - gravid nose candy to the Avengers by successfully organize the superhero team ’s profligacy . Manipulating Tony Stark and Steve Rogers by using Bucky ’s history as The Winter Soldier against them , Baron Zemo basically won , even if he offend up being catch , splitting the Avengers from the inside out . If it was n’t for Thanos pull the hero to work together on a orbicular graduated table , they likely would ’ve stay that way for good .

6War Machine Was Injured, Then Replaced By A Skrull

Few founding MCU characters got as rough a deal as Rhodey.

Unlike most of the biggest loss heroes in the MCU have suffer at the hands of writers , War Machine ’s retro deficiency of participation in the serial publication revealed inSecret Warsdid a disservice not only to the character , but to the taradiddle itself . After being paralyzed in a friendly - fire accident inCaptain America : Civil War , Rhodey was let out to be a SkrullinSecret Wars , retroactively quash his wallop on the level since his injury . With the unspecified prison term frame in which Rhodey was held in a Fracking Pod , it ’s unclear how much of his current character electric arc is actually his own .

War Machine ’s ex post facto lack of participation in the serial give away inSecret Warsdid a disservice not only to the persona , but to the story itself .

5Star-Lord Lost His Father Figure Right After Acknowledging Him

Peter Quill’s parental figures have been an emotional roller coaster.

Many Marvel heroes are known for their absent parent or guardians , but Peter Quill may just take the patty when it comes to trauma with Father-God material body . After already fall behind his female parent to cancer at a unseasoned years and growing up to be abducted by noncitizen , Star - Lord pick up that his biological founder was actually a deranged Celestial bent on conquering the Galax urceolata in his alikeness . Recognizing Yondu as his actual beginner figure only instant before his expiry , the veridical tragedy of Peter ’s relationship with Yondu is that it was acknowledge too late .

A mystical cosmic race , the Celestials inhabit hefty roles in both the MCU and Marvel Comics canon , though only a few have appeared in movies .

4Shuri Lost Her Entire Family In The Span Of A Few Years

Wakanda’s Princess is no stranger to hardship.

Beginning animation in the MCU as a bright - eyed Q to T’Challa ’s James Bond , Shuri had to grow up tight , chop-chop morphing into a untried woman who could borrow the dual roles of Wakandan ruler and the new Black Panther . Over the course of only three old age ( from her own perspective , thanks to the Blip ) , Shuri miss her beginner , brother , and mother . The frequent last of Wakandan royalty may have led to Shuri at long last giving up the title of the nation ’s ruler , or else choosing to nurture a relationship with her nephew , her last living stemma relative .

Over the course of only three years , Shuri recede her Father-God , brother , and mother .

3Scarlet Witch Lost Her Brother, Partner, and Kids

Wanda’s recurring grief led to her turbulent MCU character arc.

Wanda Maximoff has a unparalleled bow among the characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe , going from baddie to hero to villain again . get up in warfare - torn Sokovia , Wanda drop off her parent , country , brother , lover , and childrenat a rate of intimately one - per - appearance , consistently marking her path through the series with unmitigated grief . As if to emphasize this point , Scarlet Witch ’s last show in the franchise is the film in which she pall herself , ultimately reconciling her choler with a final deed of sacrifice .

2Captain America Became Displaced From His Time

It’s one thing to lose people, but Steve Rogers lost his entire world.

The consequences of wake up decades later after being freeze in ice took a while for the MCU to explore , but as Captain America came to grips with the foreign futurity around him , the see-through horror of his situation slowly set in . Not only was Rogers robbed of his burgeoning love sake , Peggy Carter , but he wake up in a new world he had no shape of character reference for . Even if Captain America go a rare well-chosen retirement among the MCU ’s heroes , his delusion sequence inAvengers : Age of Ultronhinted at the true despair of his deracination in time .

Captain America has been a staple fibre of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Phase 1 , and here is his intact timeline from the beginning to the present .

1Loki Loses Everything To Save The Multiverse

The God of Mischief marked his development into a hero with the ultimate loss.

The variant of Loki that the Avengers permit to lam via the Tesseract went on to have one of the most significant arcs in the entire MCU , punctuated by a wakeless loss machine characteristic of a hero . Loki became the new God of Time , cutting himself off from his have sex I and maledict himself to forever only observe them while remaining isolate at the Citadel at the death of Time . Though he began the series as a baddie , Loki ’s sacrifice was one of the expectant departure feel by any hero in theMarvel Cinematic Universe .

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