Top 10 Marvel Characters with the Most Wasted Potential

Definitely my #1 pick. I haven't watched Captain Marvel, but from what I've read, heard, and seen from Avengers: Endgame, she's definitely the character with the most wasted potential.

When I first heard she was getting a role in Avengers: Endgame, I wasn't very excited (since I'm not a fan of her), but I was kind of hoping she'd be a good character and a useful addition to the Avengers. The sad thing is, she was completely irrelevant throughout the entire movie except at the beginning and the end.

From what I've read about Captain Marvel (the movie) and what other people have been saying about her, she's a big disappointment. In fact, she had no relevance or weight in the franchise aside from just being an average Mary Sue. I would have been fine if she had died in Endgame instead of Tony since she has no reason for existing (or any reason for us to feel sad for her).

To sum it all up, Captain Marvel is a character that had potential to be good but sadly ended up as an average, boring, and bland Mary Sue. She doesn't even deserve to be in the picture for Endgame since she wasn't even that relevant of a character.

Easily one of the most wasted characters. They could've given us more scenes and characterization for Quicksilver to make his death more meaningful and sad, but he never got the characterization he could've had before he died.

I mean, Tony, Cap, Thor, and the others got some characterization. Why couldn't Quicksilver? Why must he die off with so much potential that could've been developed for him in Age of Ultron?

He was supposed to come back in Endgame. Hawkeye was originally meant to go back to the events of Age of Ultron and bring him back (instead of retrieving his child's glove).

Vision was very promising and interesting at first. He started off strong, but he never got any meaningful development. He was very wasted in Infinity War, where he was nerfed and wasn't even that relevant, making his death feel hollow and not as sad compared to Spider-Man's and Dr. Strange's deaths.

The Phoenix saga gets botched again, and this time they don't have a new director to blame for it, though they can definitely blame Disney.

I think Maria herself is quite well-characterized as a side character, but there's more to her that could've been explored.

I hope we still get to see her in future films.

Like Vision, Loki, and Gamora, Heimdall was horribly wasted. He never got a proper conclusion to his arc and was instead killed by Thanos without any significant development, leaving his death very underwhelming.

Odin in the comics was very powerful and a complete boss. In the movies, he never got to do anything exciting other than giving speeches to everyone. His death may have had a decent impact on Thor, but it wasted his character since we never got to see him in action or at his prime.

Odin was pretty wasted. They should have spent more time in Asgard in the first movie instead of having Thor on Earth for so much of it.

While I admit Black Widow's death was very sad in Endgame, that doesn't excuse her from being on this list. I, myself, like Natasha Romanoff, but I will admit she was quite wasted badly in Endgame. She never got any character arc before she died in the movie, and that's quite sad since she deserves one for being such a great character in the other movies. A shame she didn't get a proper conclusion.

Honestly, I thought they did it well. She died a hero and redeemed herself from the bad things she had done in the past.

Like Romanoff, I like Loki, but even I admit he was wasted badly in Infinity War and Endgame. Instead of getting some really nice and touching scenes in the movies, he just got killed within the first 5 minutes of Infinity War without any emotional moments. It's even worse in Endgame since we never got any good dialogue or characterization.

Not as wasted as the others, but she didn't get enough development for her character.

She was done very well, especially considering the challenge of reintroducing her as a mutant since Fox owned the rights to the mutants.

First off, this guy is NOT Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four. He starred in the very first story in the very first issue of Marvel Comics (at this time, the company was called Timely; "Marvel Comics" was a series). The original Human Torch was an android created by Professor Horton, but due to a design flaw, when the android was exposed to air, it would immediately burst into flames.

The other scientists attempted to contain the android in a steel tube inside a concrete block (for good measure) so he wouldn't cause too much damage. It turns out the tube wasn't as secure as the scientists believed, and a little air got inside. One explosion later, the Torch is running around the city setting everything on fire.

At this point, you might think this guy is a villain. Not the case - it turns out his wanton destruction is a result of the flames being uncontrollable, even by the android itself, who is actually trying to put himself out. After an encounter with racketeers who try to make money off of him, the Torch is soaked in nitrogen, allowing him to control his flames, which essentially gives him superpowers. After defeating the racketeers and delivering them to the police, Horton goes to his creation and tries to use it for fame and fortune. The Torch, outraged, flies off, burning down Horton's lab in the process.

After the original story, the Human Torch was used several times in the 1940s, even getting a kid sidekick named Toro. By the 1950s, Timely rebranded themselves as Atlas and began making horror stories, leaving their old superheroes behind. When Atlas became Marvel in the 1960s, their very first issue was Fantastic Four #1, which contained the more famous Human Torch, sealing the fate of the original.

To my knowledge, the last appearance of the original Human Torch was in one of the early Fantastic Four annuals, where the Mad Thinker reprogrammed him into thinking he was a villain and set him against the newer Human Torch. He has... more

Seriously, she never got the development she deserves. After the 2014 Gamora "reunited" with Quill, there wasn't much interaction.

I understand they couldn't give her scenes during the battle against Thanos, but why not do it after Tony's funeral? Maybe they could have given a few minutes to the other characters like Dr. Strange, the Guardians, and the others that were snapped away by Thanos in Infinity War.

So much frustration with Dark Phoenix!