Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20161216073105/@comment-1031724-20161220074720

I was just going to mention the heat of the tesseract, maybe it reached a high temperature because of its power that will burn any mortal that tries to use it. Red Skull probably got burned by its power, and his remains transported to Yggdrasil. Note how the tesseract burned through the floor of the ship and fell into the ocean.

So maybe in its case it wasn't touching it in itself that killed him, it was trying to use its power while touching it. Or maybe, as Aggression said, he held it for too long. (How long did Fury hold the tesseract for?)

Back to the villains, I could live with all other Phase 3 villains' survival if they kill the Guardians 2 villain (still Ayesha, right?), to provide a climactic ending to a film I know will be awesome (much like how I go by the "Kaecilius is dead" interpretation for Doctor Strange until further evidence comes up), and I think as long as they make her an interesting villain, you all shouldn't be too disappointed because even if she survives she's not likely to return until such a time as a Guardians 3 comes out, because if the Masters of Evil form they'll be fighting the Avengers rather than the Guardians so there's really no need to keep a Guardians villain around, and plus, we've got the redemption of Nebula, which will be the first major redemption in the series (Gamora got hers early in).

For the style of death, again the MCU is missing a good falling scene for a villain.