Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24174049-20131117220811/@comment-1895174-20131119233252

Here's the thing...

If a character is from the comics, not a villain, and doesn't have a notable death in the comics, he's not going to die. For the most part. Cyclops and Darwin in the X-Men movies are notable exceptions to this, as is Prof. Hamilton in Man of Steel. There's also some in Thor: The Dark World that I'm not mentioning because not everyone has seen it yet. Hawkeye, who doesn't fit those criteria, has plot armor as thick as a the sides of a bank vault.