Even with all the crazy story lines, sometime alien beings, incredibly powerful superheroes, beautiful landscapes, and epic budgets, comic book movies are really just about the human experience. As much as we love to get hyped up about battles and the settling scores, we often fail to admit that we’re into comic book movies for the emotional parts as well. In the end, we’re really just looking for a good story that makes us feel deeply. Comic book movie deaths are one way to get us all crying.

Our heroes suffer unimaginable loss throughout their stories. And even on rare occasions we experience the loss of a great hero that we have come to know and love. It’s hard not to get choked up when a character we so deeply care for has to suffer the loss of someone they love. And it’s even worse when we have to lose a favorite character or beloved hero ourselves. Often the characters we lose do not go gently, they suffer some of the most heinous deaths of all time. Comic book movies have a way of doing everything bigger and better, even the deaths can be more dramatic, more painful, and more trying for a fan to take in.

Without a doubt the moments where we find ourselves trying to hide our tears from our friends are some of our favorites across all universes of the comic book movie world. Today we honor the times when we have to bite our lips and try to hold it together. Here are our picks for the 10 Saddest Comic Book Movie Deaths out there.