There Have Been Tons Of Great MCU Moments, But These 10 Are The Most Emotional Ones

Not including the many death scenes!

Not including the many, many emotional deaths Marvel has slammed us with, there have been several scenes that just hit us right in the feels.

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They either broke our hearts, mended them, or both. These scenes also gave us some incredibly brilliant performances and did not fail to bring the feels.

Withoutout further ado, here are 10 of the most emotional MCU moments of all time.

🚨 Oh, and obviously, SPOILERS AHEAD!!! 🚨

1. Ayo finally frees Bucky from Hydra's control

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In what was probably Sebastian Stan's most emotional and heartbreaking performance as Bucky Barnes, we see a worn-down Bucky, who the Wakandans have been helping, and Ayo, a member of the Dora Milaje, finally setting him free from his mind control.

A few of the things that made this scene so powerful were the looks of pain, hope, and regret on Sebastian Stan's face while Ayo says Bucky's trigger words to him one more time and the look of relief knowing he was no longer under Hydra's control and his free will was really and truly back.

2. Wanda can't feel Vision's dead body

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This one really hurt. Wanda seeing Vision's lifeless body and not being able to feel him at all was painful to watch, especially taking into account what Wanda said to Vision while the two were together in Avengers: Infinity War. ("All I feel is you.") Elizabeth Olsen's performance throughout WandaVision was absolutely incredible, but this and what came after with Wanda creating the Hex by letting all her pain explode was no doubt her best.

3. Bruce and Natasha talk about not having a future together

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We all know that story: two people love each other but can't be together. Well, Black Widow and the Hulk know it all too well. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, during a quick pit stop at Clint's house, Nat and Bruce have a sweet and intimate moment together, which is interrupted when Bruce wants to face reality. He tells her they would never work, they could never have kids, but that doesn't stop Nat, and for the first time, we see her open up and talk about her past as she tells Bruce she was sterilized when she was in the Red Room. It's one of the realest moments in the MCU, but it's also one of the most heartbreaking.

4. A journey through Loki's life

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After being captured by the Time-Keepers for stealing the Tesseract, Loki is forced to relive key events in his life. At first, he goes back to Asgard where he looks at Frigga's body and sees her die. Despite being his villainous self, we see a tinge of guilt and regret in Loki's eyes as he is forced to relive these events. After this, he sees Odin saying goodbye to both Thor and himself in Ragnarok before he leaves for Valhalla. But what shakes Loki to his core is when he witnesses his own death at the hands of Thanos. However, that was not the end. We see Loki's story end with a hug from Thor, meaning that was the last thing he felt.

5. Iron Man, Captain America, and Winter Soldier fight in Civil War

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The epic final battle between Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and Bucky Barnes brought on a lot of heightened emotions (and a lot of different feels) for many different reasons. Most importantly, seeing the two friends, Tony and Steve, turned enemies was especially powerful. The two perfectly capture the gravity of the situation in two lines: "He's my friend, Tony." "So was I".

Then we see Tony confronting Bucky about killing his parents while under the control of Hydra. While our hearts break for Tony, you also feel for Bucky as well, especially when it comes to a single moment when Tony asks, "Do you even remember them?", and Bucky replies, "I remember all of them."

Lastly, there was a moment which not only shocked fans but also hurt us right in the feels. As Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes were walking away from a bloodied and beaten Tony Stark, Tony says, "My father made that shield. It doesn't belong to you," and we see Captain America drop his shield. Altogether, it was one of the most emotional fight scenes in the MCU.

6. Clint and Yelena talking about Nat

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Yelena was tricked into killing Clint Barton and spent a long season trying to track him down. However, Yelena and Hawkeye's fighting comes to an end when the two realize just how much the other loved Natasha and how much they both miss her now that she's gone. It's a bittersweet moment where the two people who Natasha Romanoff loved most finally come together in their grief.

7. Happy Hogan and Morgan Stark at Tony's funeral

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After that extremely emotional memorial for Iron Man, we come to this. After years of taking care of her dad and buying him all the cheeseburgers he could eat, Happy promises to do the same for Morgan Stark, Tony's daughter, at his funeral in Avengers: Endgame. It was just a few seconds, but it was an emotional few seconds. We can rest easy knowing that Morgan is going to have both Happy and Tony watching over her.

8. Yelena visits Natasha's grave

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After Avengers: Endgame, some fans were disappointed that Natasha didn't get a proper send-off. Even though, as we all know, that's the last thing she'd want. So, at the end of the Black Widow movie when we got to see her sister Yelena Belova visiting her tombstone, it was the closure we needed. A truly beautiful and emotional moment. Simple and sweet, just like Nat was.

9. Killmonger's iconic final words

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In Killmonger's final scene, after an epic battle with Black Panther and just before his death, the two sit together and watch the sunset. In a moment when two enemies finally become friends, Erik Killmonger says what is probably one of the most important and deepest lines in the MCU, and, as it turns out, the late Chadwick Boseman was partly responsible for it.

After T'Challa offers Killmonger the chance to live, Killmonger immediately declines, knowing this means a life behind bars. This leads to his iconic line: "Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships because they knew death was better than bondage."

After Chadwick's death in 2020, director Ryan Coogler revealed that originally the script called for Killmonger to ask T'Challa to be buried in Wakanda. It was Chadwick Boseman who then changed this.

"Chad challenged that and asked, 'What if Killmonger asked to be buried somewhere else?" – Ryan Coogler

10. And finally, Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man Saves MJ

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This one broke me. As we all remember, Peter couldn't save Gwen Stacy in time in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which was probably one of the most painful death scenes in Marvel history. However, when Tom Holland's Spider-Man was stopped from saving his MJ in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Andrew's Peter did not hesitate to dive after her and save her just in time.

What hurt the most was Andrew's amazing acting after getting her to safety, the emotions we see in his face, the remembering that he couldn't save his Gwen. This brought back so many painful memories. It was oh-so much to take in, but it was still such a beautiful scene. One that was perfectly executed and acted out. Not to mention a great fan service.

What are your favorite emotional MCU moments? Let us know in the comments.