This can lead to some ofthe best superhero movieshaving bittersweet or just genuinely sad endings.

So the sadness within a superhero movie can often make it even better than it’d been before.

There’s a lot of moral complexity and the antagonist of the film actually prevails.

Peter Parker (Tom Holland) turns to dust in Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) arms in Avengers: Infinity War

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It’s not just sad, it’s evocative.

Everyone suffers in this movie, and it doesn’t stop at any point.

Batman loses in a way he never has before.

Wanda killing Vision in Avengers: Infinity War.

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Were they going to recast T’Challa or kill him in-universe?

Her character arc in the movie is phenomenal and one of the best inPhase 4 of the MCU.

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The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.

Seeing how terribly the little guy was treated in his past and how he was created is truly heartbreaking.

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It’s one of thedarkest plots in the MCU.

He holds too much responsibility.

It’s only in the very last scene that something truly goes his way.

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Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) is a deeply tragic character within the project.

Because of this, Eric will never be at peace.

He will always be in agony over this horrible loss.

Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach kneels in front of a grave on a rainy night in Watchmen.

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They could only finish the movie thanks to the help of stunt doublesChad StahelskiandJeff Cadiente.

For a character so surrounded and driven by violence, he finds love.

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In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.

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Miguel pins down Miles as he tries to escape the Spiderverse in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

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Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.

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When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.

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Letitia Wright as Shuri full of emotion looking into the sunset at the end of Black Panther Wakanda Forever.

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Peter Parker in Spider-Man suit with mask off holds a dead Gwen Stacy, crying in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

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Rocket Raccoon, voiced by Bradley Cooper, looks worried in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.

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Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.

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Peter walks away from his discarded Spider-Man suit in an alleyway garbage can in Spider-Man 2.

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Brandon Lee as Eric Draven in the full black costume and white face makeup in The Crow.

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Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, bloodied and running angrily through the woods in Logan.

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Logan sees the titular hero, AKA Wolverine, in his twilight years as his healing factor has begun to fail him, and he has begun to age more rapidly. Set several years in the future, Logan finds himself caring for an ailing Professor Xavier, whose mind has begun to succumb to dementia, making him an incredibly dangerous mutant that can cause widespread destruction accidentally. But when the preoccupied Logan is asked to meet with a woman that requests he transports a young girl to a mutant haven known as Eden, he learns that she may have his DNA and that the fate of mutant-kind may rest in her hands.

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