![]() Time travel makes any number of past or alternative versions of characters possible. The Flash uses every excuse in the book to bring back actor Tom Cavanagh and some version of Harrison Wells. Okay, some version will almost certainly show up. Or some version of them from Earth 2 (or 20) might show up. To be fair, the CW has left a couple of its major corpses in the dirt, but you still never know. Time and again, characters die only to be resurrected. This reminds me of a very similar problem that the CW's DC Comics shows have. But our heroes, great and small, will remain unscathed. And audiences never really have to worry, since every conflict, no matter how huge, will ultimately be resolved with a few bruises. Instead, time and time again, the MCU plays it safe. If that movie wanted to really rock viewers and make the MCU feel truly dangerous, they would have killed off Hawkeye. In Age of Ultron, Pietro Maximoff dies saving Hawkeye, but he's a character who was introduced in that same film and who I think it's safe to say, many viewers have completely forgotten about. Nobody we care about will die, so why worry? ![]() When deaths are always fake-outs, and no significant character ever really dies, we never find ourselves sitting on the edge of our seats. Nick Fury was only faking his death in Captain America: Winter Soldier. The list of fake deaths goes on and on and frankly it's a massive issue for the MCU. Loki "dies" in the second Thor film, only to be revived by the end. Groot "dies" in Guardians of the Galaxy but he comes back as an even more adorable baby Groot by the end of the film. They are, at times, mostly dead. It just doesn't stick.
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