Note: As of late 2021, this blog is still intended to be revisited and worked on further. It will be updated, as well as built upon, hopefully fairly soon.
The intention of this blog is both to compile a comprehensive list of the survivors and victims of Thanos' "Snap" and to count the statistics for how close it is to the intended 50:50 balance.
So as not to skew the statistics, characters such as those who arrived post-Snap will not be included. So, characters like Keller will not appear on this list, at least for now, since they are also not relevant to the statistics: if Keller specifically had instead been Snapped, then there would instead be another new agent in his place in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. We only know about his existence because he was a Snap survivor. That new role would always by default have to be one of the other 4 billion Snap survivors, so it doesn't matter. This goes for the names on the wall in San Francisco in Avengers: Endgame. It goes for the new agents and Deke Shaw's team in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 6, as well as Izel and Sarge and his team (the show's villains in Season 6 would, again, always have to by default be survivors, when perhaps it would have been other villains had those people survived). It also goes for characters in Spider-Man: Far from Home like Sue Lorman (a role that would always have by default gone to one of the hundreds of students who was Snapped) and Brad Davis (a role that would always have by default gone to one of the hundreds of students who survived).
So, in general, this list is for characters who have been followed through either side of the Snap and not just introduced afterward. I am, however, including Amanda Campbell from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 6 and Jason Ionello's brother and Roger Harrington's wife from Spider-Man: Far from Home, as these are not characters who are defined from inception to fill the purpose of "to be a character who has survived/been killed by the Snap", but rather as just characters who happen to have had implied/stated the fact that they survived/were killed by the Snap.
Confirmed[]
Shown Directly[]
Avengers: Infinity War[]
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Survived:
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Killed:
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10 |
12 |
Ant-Man and the Wasp[]
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Survived:
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Killed:
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2 |
3 |
Captain Marvel[]
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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1 |
0 |
Avengers: Endgame[]
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Survived:
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Killed:
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3 |
4 |
Spider-Man: Far from Home[]
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Survived:
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Killed:
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4 |
3 |
Shown Directly, Unintentionally[]
TV characters shown in scenes set between the Snap in May/June 2018 and the killed characters' return in 2023.
Marvel's The Punisher: Season 2[]
Epilogue set in August 2018.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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2 |
0 |
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 6[]
Set in 2019. Coulson also confirmed to have survived since he lived for a while after The End, which was set on the same day as the Snap.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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12 |
0 |
Marvel's Runaways: Season 3[]
Episode 5 second half and Episodes 6-10 set in August 2018. Characters who were in the Dark Dimension not certain to have been susceptible.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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11 |
0 |
Surmised from Implications on Age, Externally Confirmed[]
Avengers: Endgame[]
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Survived: |
Killed:
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0 |
1 |
Spider-Man: Far from Home[]
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Survived: |
Killed:
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0 |
1 |
Confirmed by Russo Brothers[]
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Survived:
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Killed:
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1 |
4 |
The Daily Bugle.Net[]
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Survived: |
Killed:
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0 |
1 |
Totals[]
- Confirmed directly: 10 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 4 : 12 + 3 + 0 + 4 + 3 = 20 : 22, 48% : 52%.
- Confirmed unintentionally: 2 + 12 + 11 : 0 + 0 = 25 : 0, 100% : 0%.
- Confirmed otherwise: 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 : 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 = 1 : 7, 12.5% : 87.5%.
Total confirmed: 20 + 25 + 1 : 22 + 0 + 7 = 46 : 29, 61% : 39%.
Nearly Confirmed[]
"Missing", Presumed Dead[]
Avengers: Endgame[]
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Survived: |
Killed:
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0 |
1 |
Coloured Character Posters[]
The character posters are otherwise coloured for those who survived and discoloured for those who died, so one would assume these people survived.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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1 |
0 |
Novel[]
Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest Volume Two: Aftermath by Brandon T. Snider[]
Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest Volume Two: Aftermath by Brandon T. Snider is all-but confirmed canon, but not quite 100% confirmed.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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3 |
0 |
Not Clear If They Were Ever Susceptible[]
Avengers: Infinity War[]
When asked if Thanos were susceptible, the Russos hinted he might have been, but didn't confirm it.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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1 |
0 |
Avengers: Endgame[]
When asked if the species Thanos already halved were susceptible, the Russos said they were, but in Avengers: Endgame they say the Asgardians lost half their people - you would expect them to say three quarters if they were halved again the next day.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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3 |
0 |
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 6[]
Enoch is a Chronicom, not just a robot. However, it is unclear how "alive" Chronicoms are.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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1 |
0 |
Marvel's Runaways: Season 3[]
Characters were in the Dark Dimension at the time of the Snap. It's unclear whether they were susceptible.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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10 |
0 |
Surmised from Implications on Age[]
Avengers: Endgame[]
Harley Keener appears roughly 16 in 2023, certainly not roughly 21.
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Survived: |
Killed:
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0 |
1 |
Total[]
Total nearly confirmed: 0 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 10 + 0 : 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 19 : 2, 90% : 10%.
Loosely Stated[]
Actor Decides for Themselves[]
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Survived:
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Killed:
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5 |
1 |
Total[]
Total nearly confirmed: 5 : 1, 83% : 17%.
Points of Contention[]
Anthony & Joe Russo vs. Jon Watts & Film[]
The Russo brothers say May Parker survived the Snap, Jon Watts says she she was killed. Spider-Man: Far from Home confirms she was killed.
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Survived: |
Killed:
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0 |
1 |
Novel vs. Film[]
Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest Volume Two: Aftermath by Brandon T. Snider is all but confirmed canon, but not quite. It states Erik Selvig to be alive. Avengers: Endgame shows him among the faces of the dead characters, though technically only classifies him as "missing" and is thus compatible with the novel, which is pretty much confirmed canon: Selvig survived.
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Survived:
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Killed: |
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1 |
0 |
Angela Bassett vs. Character Poster & Film[]
Angela Bassett stated that Shuri survived. The film puts her face among the dead. While like Selvig, she is merely labelled "missing", unlike Selvig there is no way the Avengers would be unsure of her fate, and Selvig was confirmed by a (pretty much confirmed) canon novel while Shuri was merely a passing comment by Angela Bassett, easily overruled. As well as this, her character poster being discoloured implies she died.
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Survived: |
Killed:
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0 |
1 |
Total[]
Total resolved points of contention: 0 + 1 + 0 : 1 + 0 + 1 = 1 : 2, 33% : 67%.
Total[]
If all taken to be true, 46 + 19 + 5 + 1 : 29 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 71 : 34, 68% : 32%.