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incorporate spoilers for Big Game # 5!In a tragic twist , Kick - Ass ' Hit - Girl has just been killed . A pernicious assassinator trained by her superhero - obsessed Father of the Church , Mindy McCready wasplayed on - screen by Chloë Grace MoretzinKick - AssandKick - Ass 2 . However , she ’s been far busy in the funnies , debuting inKick - Assbut going on to her own ball - trotting comic series , and roleplay as the central protagonist in the recentBig Gamecrossover .
InBig Game # 5by Mark Millar and Pepe Larraz , Wesley Gibson ’s supervillain group the Fraternityfinally encounter their mate . Having stolen time - travelling engineering , Hit - Girl goes back and foreclose the macrocosm ’s poor boy from being assassinate , gather them together as a single combat force . Sadly , as the battle reaches its crescendo , Hit - Girl is shot dead byWanted ’s Gibson , aka the Killer .
Thankfully , in a final twist , it ’s indicate out that there are really two Hit - Girls inBig Gamecanon - the interlingual rendition who went back in time to lay aside the heroes , and the interpretation who now exists in the adapted timeline . This leavesone Hit - Girl still alivein Millarverse ’s on-going shared population .
It ’s a cheap expiry for an ultra - skilled hero …
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Hit-Girl Is Killed by the World’s Ultimate Villain
But Time Travel Shenanigans Mean the Millarverse Still Has a Hit-Girl
Introduced in Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. ‘sKick - Ass , Hit - Girl was raised as an expert sea wolf by her father , the vigilante ' Big Daddy . ' Since then , Mindy has travel the creation kill the planet ’s most despicable criminals , and was one of the Fraternity ’s main mark when they came after Earth ’s torpedo . WhileKick - Ass gains real superpowersto join in the net battle , Hit - Girl relies on her attainment and weapons . unluckily , she finally present a villain with a similar level of acquirement , as the Killer shoots Mindy through the head and is killed in return by theotherMindy McCready .
Hit-Girl’s Death Is Still a Tragedy
Kick-Ass’ Ultra-Competent Hero Deserved Better
While Hit - Girl ’s death / survival is a fun last joke based on the issue ’s sentence travel premise , the eccentric deserve a lot better . It ’s not yet light which Hit - Girl pass - the time - move around Redeemer or the new timeline ’s Mindy - but either way it ’s a honest tragedy , and could even be described as the Millarverse breaking its own narrative rules . Hit - Girl is the most competent killer on the heroes ' side , hence why she ’s able to escape through clock time and bring down the Fraternity . However , this also means that having her be the only major human death in the tremendous hero vs villain battle is a betrayal of how she ’s been portray in every other appearance . Taken by itself , it ’s a cheap death for an extremist - skilled herowho has drop a life honing her ability .
grown Gamepulled every comic under Millarverse ’s umbrella together in a huge confrontation match hero against scoundrel . While the series killed off many submarine sandwich over its run , Hit - Girl ’s time travel mission means she ’s the only victim by the time of its decision . For free-and-easy buff , very little just change , andHit - Girl will likely return in future account . However , for those who have been following Hit - Girl since 2008’sKick - Ass # 1 , it ’s a unrelenting agency for Mindy to lose her life , especially as she ’s immediately replaced with so little fanfare .
Big Game # 5is available now from Millarworld .
