A new YouTube video has compiled an epic list of everyAvengersstar’s death in a horror movie before they joined theMarvel Cinematic Universeand rocketed into the stratosphere. The nearly 6-minute video is a violent collage of all of our beloved Marvel characters getting brutally killed in some really well-known horror movies, as well as some lesser-known (and pretty cheesy) Drive-In flicks. While not horror movies,Avengers: Infinity WarandAvengers 4are going to have some pretty major fatalities, so this list might get an epic, superhero-sized makeover in the next few years.
The video starts with the man who started it all: Robert Downey Jr., the man behind Mr.Tony Stark, aka,Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr. is seen in 1994’s incredibly violentNatural Born Killersgetting gunned down, execution style, by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis. It’s an overly dramatic, but fitting clip to start this compilation. Next up is Mark Ruffalo, long before his Bruce Banner and Hulk days, getting a good knife to the gut and then getting some kind of animated death at the hands of an animated demon in 1994’sMirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance.
James Spader gets gunned down by Michelle Pfeiffer in 1994’sWolfand even gets a bonus clip of a brutal death in 1985’sThe New Kid, which is a far cry from the villainousUltron. Next on the list is another villain, but not just any villain. Thanos is the big bad and Josh Brolin is the man behind the motion capture magic and we see the actor die a pretty peaceful (if you don’t think about what’s actually happening to him…) death in 1997’sMimic. Samuel L. Jackson never does anything half-assed and before he was Nick Fury, he got to die in quite possibly the best way in 1999’sDeep Blue Seawhen a great white shark breaches and eats him from behind.
Scarlett Johansson is better known asBlack Widowtoday, but ironically back in 2002 she was webbed by a giant spider inEight Legged Freaks(though she doesn’t actually technically die). Jeremy Renner is up next in 2007’s28 Weeks Laterwhere he dies looking more like the Human Torch as opposed to Hawkeye and a lot of people remember Renner in that movie as getting the short end of the stick and particularly that scene in the zombie classic. Next up is Chris Evans, the man behind Captain America wearing some awesome sandals and getting cut in half in 2007’sSunshine. The acting clearly rivals Robert Downey Jr.’s dramatic death inNatural Born Killers.
Chris Hemsworth technically died in 2012’sCabin in the Woodswhile he wasThor, so this clip must have just been added as an honorable mention. Or the clip was added because it’s hilarious, it’s hard to tell, but watchingHemsworth broout and take a dirt bike off of a sweet jump into an electronic invisible wall is pretty amazing and deserves repeat viewings. Regardless, you should check out all of these clips below, courtesy ofFilms Against Humanity’s YouTubechannel.
