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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Because there is usually not much which is impacted by a death. Yes, the characters are sad, the loss is felt, and then everyone goes forward again. Especially if it happens at the end of a movie. By the time the next movie rolls into theatres the characters had time to grieve and we are already three steps forward. Not to mention that yes, once a character is death, you have lost a number of story telling opportunities.
Take Cap, if he had actually died in the ice we would have gotten neither The Winter Soldier or Civil War. The notion of someone sleeping in the ice for 70 years and then is defrosted and has to deal with the fact that the world he knew is gone and his love interest is now an old woman with memory problems is in a way more heart-breaking, but also eternally more interesting. As is what happened to Bucky, a good man, who was Po W for 70 years, forced to work as an assassin. Each time The Winter Soldier killed a target, there wasn't just one victim, there were at least two. Again, way more interesting than Bucky having died from the fall and Steve still grieving about him because for him it happened just a few years ago.
What is more interesting, Frigga calling out Loki on his self-hatred, or he destroying himself because she died? To me, the former one. What makes Frigga's death compelling nevertheless is not THAT it happened, but HOW it happened, that Loki lead the killer to her, not knowing what would happen, destroying the one person who still loved him with no "buts" attached to it because he wanted to spite his father. That is the interesting part in all this, not that she died.
Killing Hawkeye's family? Boring. Yeah, he will be grieving, but what's the point in all this? Him actually having a family on the other hand is interesting, because what his action mean to them is another layer one shouldn't overlook. Some with Scott, btw, his main goal in live is to be there for his daughter, but he ends up in trouble and apart from her constantly because he uses his abilities very impulsively.
edited 24th May '16 6:07:23 AM by Swanpride
There's also a very annoying shared opinion that killing his wife and kids would make him closer to his comic counterpart as he's depicted in the fan favorite Matt Fractions series, and that makes no sense to me. A man who has his wife and children violently murdered does not magically become a lovable slacker Manchild.
edited 24th May '16 8:49:03 AM by comicwriter
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- Thanos: The end has come. Global extinction is assured. My forces will guarantee your doom and I will walk on a carpet of your skulls. I have resurrected countless phantoms of your past. Quicksilver. Killian. Malekith. The Red Skull. Uh...a bald guy in an Iron Man knockoff armor? A 50's era computer reel—okay, seriously guys, your villains suck. ... Where was I?
- Stark: Skull carpet.
- Thanos: That's right, thank you. Ahem. The Avengers will be no match for my unbeatable Masters of Evil!
- U.S. Marshal: Excuse me, are you Thanos?
- Thanos: ...yes? I'm kinda in the middle of something.
- U.S. Marshal: This won't take long. Can you sign this?
- Thanos: Um. Okay? (sign)
- U.S. Marshal: Thank you. Consider yourself served.
- Thanos: What.
- U.S. Marshal: That's a subpoena. Zemo's suing you for copyright infringement. He'll see you in court.
- Thanos: This can't wait? I've got this whole annihilation of the planet Earth thing going on.
- Stark: Problem?
- Thanos: No, no, I've got it. I think we might have to reschedule your doom to another time, I have to deal with this.
- Stark: If you need an attorney, I recommend Hogarth, Chao, & Benawitz. I hear they do good work.
- Thanos: Thanks, I'll give them a call. So, does June 6th work for everyone? We'll meet back here, I'll annihilate your planet, we'll do lunch.
- Stark: Sounds good. I'll put it on my schedule. Best of luck.
- Rogers: >.< This is why I didn't want to sign the Accords.
Film Crit Hulk on Civil War and story stagnation caused by assumed empathy
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Good, I hate the way he writes his articles...it is always hard to slog through all the caps and find the point of the article...which, I guess, boils down to "how dare Marvel to make movies which are a little bit structured like a series, expecting the audience to remember what happened in the movies beforehand, and how dare them to take their time building up a big arc instead of rushing to the end so that every movie feels like a stand alone". And my answer to this is always the same: You don't have to like it, but it is an interesting experiment. Claiming that movies have to work as stand alone and need to lead to a full conclusion is just wrong. That's not what the movie going experience used to be. There was a time people were watching shorts and newsreels and serials on the big screen. Not excepting a story-telling construct which obviously works for the audience just because it is different is just incredible snobbish in my eyes.
2 a lot of people disagree with this one because they think he misread the MCU under CW's context while others think he contradicted his indulgence remark in MOS's assumed empathy article when criticizing ant man and spiderman's role. also it's the first time these people on BFD disagreed with him based on their comments.
i agree with the first comment "So, bottom line, I think HULK overstates the case somewhat in terms of the current state of the Marvel Studios universe, but his criticisms can fairly be read as a warning for where we could wind up if they're not careful to rein in their inappropriate instincts."
edited 24th May '16 1:27:50 PM by FictionWriterKing
If you don't love Kurse, BABYSITTER OF ASGARD
then you probably have no joy in your soul
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIn regards to showing characters the spirits of people they've lost: I can think of something they could do with Barton that doesn't involve killing his family. And it would give us a little more background on his character. I'm guessing we don't know for sure that MCU Hawkeye was actually in the circus or any of that, yes? They could at least allude to that by showing him what turns out to be his brother Barney. Or, something that could work for Barton, Bruce, 'and' Natasha: rather than lost loved ones or people they've killed, torment them with all the people they failed to save. I think that would be more hurtful, because even if they've come to terms with their pasts and all the blood they shed, a big part of that was probably because as SHIELD agents/Avengers, they could tell themselves that's not who they were any more; they're doing the right thing now. Getting slapped in the face with the fact that people were still dying because of them would be a pretty harsh blow.
The Midgard Serpent is great at chinwagging. Probably because his chin is so big. Plus he once pretended to be Fin Fang Foom for absolutely no goddamn reason.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersDuring the Simonson run Thor met the Midgard Serpent when both of them were pretending not to be themselves.
They had a nice long chat.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

If Clint's family is around, they can always generate plot for him, and maybe other people. If they are dead, they only generate manpain for him. As for killing a character instead of for example redeeming them in other ways, compare what they can do with Wanda now vs what they can still do with Quicksilver.