Random Marvel Movie Scenes That Were Way More Brutal and Disturbing in the Comics (12 items)

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  (#11) Bucky Barnes' Death

  Batman had Robin, Green Arrow had Speedy, and Captain America had Bucky Barnes. In the 1940s, comic books started to emphasize that they were for children by giving all their major heroes a kid sidekick. Bucky Barnes was introduced as a young lad who fought alongside Captain America against the evil Nazis.

  Eventually Barnes was killed off in spectacularly brutal fashion. Racing to catch a plane filled with explosives, Captain America wasn't quick enough to stop it, but Bucky was. The last thing he says to Cap before the plane explodes is that he can defuse the bomb. (Bucky was wrong.) 

  In the movie version, Bucky was Captain America's childhood friend who became a highly skilled soldier and part of Captain's team of elite commandos. And while Bucky was killed off, it was in almost offensively unceremonious fashion: he gets shot out of a moving train without so much as a word said between him and Captain A. Of course, he doesn't stay dead - he later comes back as The Winter Soldier - but Marvel could have at least made his fake death more meaningful. 
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  (#4) The Prison the Guardians were Held in is a Luxury Resort Compared to its Comic Counterpart

  One of the biggest ways the Guardians of the Galaxy film differed from its comic was the depiction of the Kyln, the prison where all the characters were sent and started to work together. In the film, the prisoners seemed rowdy and dangerous, but there was never a clearly defined sense of danger.

  The prison in the comics would eat the prison in the movies for breakfast. It's not only one of the most dangerous places in the galaxy, it also has a 99.999% inmate mortality rate - most don't survive more than three years. It doesn't sound like a place where a gigantic tree can just walk up and take a battery off a wall. Again, Marvel is in the business of making mostly family-friendly entertainment, so depicting a prison where people are brutally murdered left and right probably wouldn't fly. 
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  (#2) Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's Incestuous Relationship

  This example may not be as brutal as others on this list, but it's pretty upsetting. When they were introduced in the film Avengers: Age of Ultron, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were shown as siblings who deeply cared for one another. In the comics, that relationship was taken to the extreme when one storyline had them become lovers as well as siblings. That's something you'll likely never see in the family-friendly Marvel Universe. 
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  (#3) Hank Pym's History of Domestic Violence

  When Marvel made Ant-Man, they made a bold decision to not focus on the original version of the character, Hank Pym. Instead, they chose to focus on the lesser-known Scott Lang. Hank Pym was still in the film, played by Michael Douglas, but one of the most infamous moments from his comic history was unsurprisingly left out. Out of everything he has done, the comic book version of Pym is perhaps most remembered for hitting his wife Janet out of anger. It's been an unfortunate stigma on the character since it happened, and while the movie mentioned that Pym had a temper, it never suggested that he resorted to domestic abuse. 
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  (#1) The Red Skull's Backstory

  Marvel has a tendency to make their heroes fight darker, mirror-versions of themselves in their films, and the first Captain America movie is no different. In Captain America: The First Avenger, Cap faces off with his arch-nemesis the Red Skull, who is revealed to be created by the same serum that turned Captain America from a shrimp into a beefcake. Although his rhetoric and demeanor matches more closely with the original character, his power level and origin matches more closely with the Ultimate version of the character. In that world, Steve Rogers has an illegitimate son who's taken and raised by the government. He has the same powers as Captain America and seems polite and kind, but on his 17th birthday, he reveals himself to be a true psychopath, butchering over 200 people and slicing up his own face in a way that makes him look like a Red Skull. This is way more brutal than anything Marvel would want in their films, especially when it was still trying to launch its cinematic universe. 
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  (#10) Instead of Disappearing on His Own, the Marvel Heroes Shoot Hulk Into Space

  Before Avengers: Age of Ultron was released, there was massive speculation about what would happen to the Hulk by the film's conclusion. Trailers depicted the Hulk going insane and forcing Tony Stark to fight him, which lead many to believe Marvel was setting up for its famous Planet Hulk storyline. In that event, Marvel heroes deemed the Jolly Green Giant too dangerous and shot him into space so they wouldn't have to deal with him anymore. 

  Of course, that didn't happen, and the film ended with Hulk stealing a Quinjet and disappearing somewhere in the world by his own free will. He's entirely absent in Captain America: Civil War, but knowing he'll show up in Thor: Ragnarok means he winds up off-planet any way. Marvel is choosing to send Hulk into space in a different way than having his friends betray him, which makes sense, but robs the plotline of some of its emotional heft. 

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