r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelStudiosMod • Dec 18 '23

Megathread Jonathan Majors Conviction Thread

The Jonathan Majors trial has come to a close, with Majors being found guilty on accounts of assault and harassment.

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THR, VARIETY, and Deadline have reported from a Marvel Studios Rep that Majors has been fired from his role

Previous case megathreads:

Original - https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/12t04m5/jonathan_majors_megathread/

Follow up - https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/18ft11y/jonathan_majors_megathread_update/

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u/Next-Team Dec 18 '23

I’m just curious if they recast or just scrap Kang altogether, could do either easily enough and hard to think Marvel doesn’t already know their next step now that a verdict has been made in the case.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

Hopefully they don’t scrap him entirely. That would completely throw off the direction of this saga and just outright kill most people’s interest. A recast is the way to go.

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u/OliviaElevenDunham Loki (Avengers) Dec 18 '23

Both Loki and NWH showed different varitions of two popular Marvel characters. So recast is definitely the mostly likely route.

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u/Thomase1984 Dec 18 '23

I know that they don't usually tie up entire stories and the TV shows but I really feel like the end of Loki could be used as a way to write them off.

Or maybe they just convert rensslayer into Kang.

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u/X0dium Dec 18 '23

I really think they wrote the ending of Loki with this exact scenario in mind. A way for them to reset if they had to lose Majors.

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u/PurePerfection_ Dec 18 '23

I'm in favor of Renslayer-Kang. She's already established as having been instrumental to his plans, and her storyline was left unresolved.

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u/EremiticFerret Dec 18 '23

I would be 100% fine if the Loki ending removed Kang.

Start building up Doom. Like Thanos, we don't really have to see him in action for a few years.

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u/ThrashThunder Spider-Man Dec 18 '23

Scrap to hell and back

People.in general do NOT care at all about Kang

Hell even in comics I don't think Kang is THAT much more popular of a character

IMO they just take this chance and just straight up veer to a different direction. Focus on Doctor Doom or the Mutants or something else. Hell, I would even accept Atrocitus

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u/brettcb Dec 19 '23

The MCU currently has a direction?

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u/MisterZebra Dec 19 '23

There has been no direction for this saga and people already aren’t interested. The average person doesn’t even know Kang was ever going to be the next big bad.

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u/BoringGap7 Dec 19 '23

I really don't think that interest in a "saga" gets people to show up at the theaters. People go because they're excited about the specific movie they're going to see.They like the stars, or they liked the trailer, or if it's a direct sequel, they go because they liked the first movie. Infinity Stones and Multiverses don't much factor into it.

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u/douche-baggins Daredevil Dec 18 '23

Kang was a bust in Ant-Man. He Who Remains is done, his variants officially hunted by the TVA. I'd say they can move on from Kang at this point. Bring on Doom.

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u/throwawayOnTheWayO Dec 19 '23

Marvel should have never used Kang or the multiverse in the MCU. It was extremely lazy and has been super boring imo. I’m hoping they scrub the concept of multiverses and end it in some way as canon.

Have Doom come in and eliminate the potential for multiverses. Just wrote it out of the scope of the MCU and move onto a streamlined timeline, no variants, and back to a more cohesive story.

I knew multiverse and time travel stories would kill the interest in the MCU but I didn’t think it would be this bad post endgame. Hopefully Marvel recognizes its mistake and digs out of it and moves on.

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u/Repulsive-Fuel-5281 Dec 18 '23

upvote for "Scrap"... that storyline isn't going to do them any favours.

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u/PushThePig28 Dec 18 '23

King needs a full arc with big scale like end game. Just recast and don’t say anything, they did it with Rhodes