Avengers: Endgame characters: Who will die and who will survive?

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Sam Wilson / The Falcon

Again, Sam is likely to be one of Cap’s chief mourners, dark lacy veil and all. This could be the very thing to bring him and Bucky together as friends.

Two pals, both alike in dignity, in the MCU where we lay our scene…it would make sense, wouldn’t it? Avengers united (coincidentally also the name of their five-a-side soccer team).

Chance of survival: As high as the Falcon flies.

Okoye

The very idea of Thanos besting Okoye is laughable. That’s it. That’s our argument.

Chance of survival: Try her.

Nebula

Nebula came into her own during Infinity War, and she has made great strides, from being a villain to becoming an unlikely ally to our mightiest heroes. Why build her up to break her back down (poor choice of words, our bad)?

It would be a shame to waste all that character development (and the talents of Karen Gillan), and we would like to see one movie where Nebula and her sorta-sister Gamora get to actually function together for more than 10 minutes. Come through, GOTG 3.

Chance of survival: Very high.

Peter Quill/Star-Lord

Yes, Peter has some atoning to do after he gave in to his baser impulses and inadvertently helped Thanos to finger-snapping victory. But it wasn’t really his fault; it was a crime of passion and one Marvel at least seems willing to forgive.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 would work without some of the gang, but it would never work without its heart. Whatever you think of Buff Andy Dwyer, he is just that.

Chance of survival: Disgustingly sequel-high.

Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel

Again, you don’t employ actual Oscar-winner Brie Larson and kill her off within two movies. What sort of bad business would that be? That, and the fact Fury takes his time flaking to call her up, gives us the utmost confidence that somehow she’ll not only survive, but thrive in Endgame.

Also, there are sequels.

Chance of survival: Very sequel-high.

Bucky Barnes

With Chris Evans’ Cap looking likely to go beyond the veil in Endgame, it would only make sense that his very best pal in all the world, and the man whom he saved at the expense of his friendship with Tony, should survive to mourn him personally.

Bucky shall be Rose DeWitt Bukater to Steve’s Jack Dawson: “Now you know there was a Steve Rogers, and that he saved me…in every way a person can be saved.”

After all, what’s “Until the end of the line” if not Marvel’s “I’ll never let go”?

Chance of survival: There’s enough room on the door for him at least (very high).

Shuri

Again, she is a child, you monsters!

Shuri’s formidable grayed-out poster was a hard pill to swallow when it emerged, but there’s no way Marvel would kill off someone quite so beloved for good — certainly not someone who can both affectionately roast T’Challa to within an inch of his life, and safely retcon any situation with the power of science.

Chances are we’re losing at least one of the Science Bros (cue 2012 Tumblr flashbacks), so as much as anything else, we need Shuri and her wildly advanced skills to replace them. Science pros over science bros.

Also, we’ll strike if she dies.

Chance of survival: Fight us, Marvel.

T’Challa / Black Panther

Us looking at Black Panther’s ashes: WHAT ARE THOSE?

Even if there wasn’t a sequel in the works, we’d bet on T’Challa and not just because, as a cat, he has minimum nine lives. He helmed one of Marvel’s most successful movies, he is extremely well-placed to usher in a new era, and his undeserved disintegration had us wailing. Frankly, there’s nowhere else to go but up.

Chance of survival: T’Challa forever!

Peter Parker / Spider-Man

You do not cast future Oscar winner and all-round cutie patootie Tom Holland as Spider-Man, allow him to say seven soul-destroying words to rip out our hearts, and then let him go on his merry way. You just don’t do it.

Also, it’s worth noting that we’ll sue for damages if you do. So just consider that, Mr. Feige. Then who won’t feel so good, hmm?

Chance of survival: Extremely high, the highest, and then higher than that. We will entertain no other possibility-high.

Let us know in the comments below if we have our list in the proper order before Endgame premieres April 26.