Source: techaeris.com
7. Everyone Else
Or at least half of everyone else.
As most all of you probably know, the upcoming film, at least in part, is based on the Marvel Comics story Infinity Gauntlet. In that story, Thanos assembles all of the Infinity Gems into the Infinity Gauntlet, a relic of unlimited power and multiverse shaping potential. Also, Thanos is in love with death. No, like, not in a poetic context, he is romantically in love with the physical representation of death who, in the Marvel Universe, is a female grim reaper. So, to appease her, Thanos’s first act is to erase half of all life in the entire universe. It got fixed later on, but that is Thanos’s opening gambit.
It’s kind of a big deal. And so as far as movies go, that’s not a bad inciting incident. Take all the MCU characters you aren’t planning on having work with the Avengers in the main plot and open the movie with them disappearing in horror. Nick Fury? Temporarily erased. Wong? Him too. Jane Foster, Pepper Potts, Bucky Barnes, Yondu, maybe someone like Daredevil if they felt like getting the obligatory Netflix/films crossover out of the way? All gone. And all to be slowly returned at the end of the film.
Odds of death(s): 1 in 15
