Disney/Marvel Studios Fire Jonathan Majors Following Guilty Verdict in Assault Trial
Marvel Studios and Disney have fired Jonathan Majors after he was found guilty of reckless assault and harassment in his domestic violence trial.
A studio rep confirmed the news to our sister site Deadline.
Majors made his MCU debut as the Kang variant He Who Remains in the July 2021 Loki Season 1 finale, but wound up slain. Weeks prior to his initial March 2023 arrest, he appeared as Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the closing scenes of which portended a greater presence for his variants moving forward. In Loki Season 2, Majors played the old-timey variant Victor Timely as well as reprised his role of He Who Remains, though the way the season ended, a path arguably was laid out for a Kang-lite MCU, even though Majors was set to take center stage in 2026’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
A verdict was reached Monday in Majors’ high-profile trial over the alleged assault of ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. A New York jury found Majors guilty on one charge of reckless assault in the third degree and on a harassment charge.
The actor was found not guilty on a charge of intentional assault in the third degree and not guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree. He will be sentenced on Feb. 6.
Jabbari alleged that she was assaulted by Majors in the backseat of a car earlier this year. According to her testimony, Majors became upset when she took his phone out of his hands and saw that he was sending text messages to another woman. He allegedly snatched the phone back, causing what Jabbari called “excruciating” pain and bruising, along with a fractured finger.
Majors’ initial arrest had an immediate impact on his career, beginning with the U.S. Army dropping the actor from its commercials. More importantly, it also raised questions about his future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
He was rumored to be appearing in the second season finale of Disney+’s Loki, but the episode came and went with nary a cameo from Kang. “That report was crazy, I’ll just say that,” Loki executive producer Kevin Wright told TVLine after the finale hit Disney+. “That just shows you, I don’t know what people are talking about.”
Wright also insisted, with a firm “no,” that there was no footage intentionally left on the cutting room floor as a result of Majors’ brouhaha. Rather, “the story that is on screen is the one that we set out to make,” he said, adding that he and Loki’s other creatives had no plans to set up a bigger MCU arc.
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That took longer than I thought it would.
Minutes after the conviction wasn’t fast enough?
These days people are usually fired after the first whiff of a rumor of a possible accusation. Actually waiting until someone is proven guilty is quite refreshing.
100%
u mean if he was white he be gone asap
You mean like how no one hired Johnny Depp while his trial was ongoing? /s
#whitemanmartyrcomplex
Or how Ezra Miller’s Flash still continued amid his wild behavior.
he wasnt fired just couldnt get hired
Johnny Depp isn’t a good comparison. Depp is a money maker and a big name.
I think they learned not to rush to drastic measures after all the drama with firing and then eventually rehiring James Gunn.
and how ellen where it was an OPEN secret for years was a vile toxic bully was allowed to have 1 final goodbye lap season
many many white str8 men were fired on the spot for much less
Making a mistake with Ellen doesn’t mean it was wrong to fire the white guys.
“mistake” it was years long mistake
same with whoopi the anti jewish beep head
the double standards is unreal from all sides
seems to be fashionable now to be anti white and witch hunt and jump on bandwagon if aimed at white str8 people
its south park stuff
I’m playing the world’s smallest violin in your honor
Some Jews pass as white and enjoy white privilege based on colorism, but Jews are a Levantine Middle Eastern ethnic group with a long-standing history of being discriminated against. Conflating them with “white” ethnic Europeans who were often their abusers and committed genocide against them less than a century ago is the most antisemitic thing I’ve seen today, okay?
Here’s hoping they cast Damson Idris as the new Kang!!!
I mean, duh. Recast. They did it with Rody. They’ll recast here as well.
Or maybe Chukwudi Iwuji… maybe by making his High Evolutionary from GOTG 3 a Kang variant.
Damson would be great. So would Nonso Anozie, David Oyelowo, John David Washington, or Adewale Akinnoye-Agbaje.
He can be really menacing and I’m sure he can pull off any accent,bit he looks younger..maybe than he even is…but that’s a good choice
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That was surprisingly quick. Figured Feige would want to preserve his franchise at all cost that he’d cut him some slack until Secret Avengers finished filming.
Why would he want all that negative press of keeping a man found guilty of assault in a major role?
You do know Feige let Joss Whedon helm Avengers 1 and Age of Ultron when the man already had a handful of allegations against him and this was before Charisma Carpenter spoke up. Everyone likes to pretend Kevin Feige is a pro-woman equality ally and champion for all in reality he is no different than Epstein. He may not have done the deed himself but he is sure as hell not part of the solution.
Nobody sees the director in IMAX.
Doesn’t matter if its the lead actor, director, or the nameless waiter who provides to craft services no one should be hired with that rep. The fact is Feige hired these people to begin with, I don’t know the whole stoy behind Majors but Whedon had a lot of allegations on him it only got public when Carpenter talked and it got in the spotlight. If Feige was an ally as he claimed he never would have allowed such people with reps regardless of their postions. Feige may be the head of a billion dollar franchise but he sure as hell does not care for the work place safety of his meal ticket.
I dont think any of the other people you mentioned were convicted of anything? Its one thing to think something as opposed to it being public knowledge with a criminal judgement.
Hopefully, they move on from Kang altogether. Majors did is best, but Kang just isn’t that interesting.
So glad I’m not the only one that feels that way.
If they want to move on from Kang, Loki S2 already solved the problem.
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All they have to do is say it did.
Exactly! Mention something in the same conversation about Loki to catch everyone up to speed and move on.
Actually, Deadpool 3 is RUMORED to be about Deadpool traveling the Multiverse trimming loose threads. Theoretically, it could be used to bring the main MCU into a universe with the X men.
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It wouldn’t take a lot of effort to trim Kang, officially, as well. They need a new masterplan. The Multiverse stuff is stupid and complicated and isn’t going anywhere good.
Yeah comic book adaptations do lend themselves to flexibility
From the AP’s coverage of the case:
“A few months later, while filming in England, Majors allegedly blew up on Jabbari again after she came home from a bar “tipsy” with a friend. In a recording played for the court, Majors can be heard berating his girlfriend for not living up to the standards set by other spouses of famous men, like Coretta Scott King and Michelle Obama.
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“I’m a great man. A great man!” Majors declared. “There needs to be a great woman who makes sacrifices.””
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Talk about egotistical…
Ego isn’t pretty.
If you have to say it, you’re not it. Ditto on Chris Brown claiming to be a goat.
Egotistical is a great word to describe Jonathan Majors and he is getting what he
deserves !
He was abusive and he was talking down to her like he was some kind of a King
or a God…
He’s definitely not either
of those.
Hopefully, his ex girlfriend doesn’t fall in to the same kind of relationship with someone else…
I wish her healing, happiness and the best of luck….
This was a bigger issue than trumped up charged. In my opinion the D.A. Bragg could not withstand another lawsuit against his office. This was a total travesty as most of the public was shocked given the number of videos displaying his ex-girlfriends behavior.
I dont think many were shocked at all after the series of texts he sent trying to manipulate his girlfriend into not going to the hospital after some injury he caused her.
I thought Thanos was way scarier. Hope they recast with an actor with more gravitas. Not famous I mean but poised like someone who can convincingly do Shakespeare. I wanna be scared out of my wits that he’ll seriously dunk on and/or kill the Avengers, you know?
Just bad writing with the way the character was introduced IMO, we’ve been complaining (IMO justifiably) about MCU deaths being meaningless in the multiverse but it doesn’t make a villain seem like much of a credible Avengers level threat when his first 2 appearances result in the variant being killed.
The multiverse stuff is too far out science wise. It is too sci-fi for the masses.
I mean I guess? I thought his performance in Ant-Man was like a blue baby having a temper tantrum. Maybe it’s just me?
Time to shut Marvel down. Poison to the very core
Thank you marvel a terrible character terrible actor this would have been the final nail in marvel franchise go back to thanos loki ultron and introduce Dr doom
I don’t agree that he’s a terrible actor—he was superb in Lovecraft Country. But the character of Kang did absolutely nothing for me in either Loki or Ant-Man.
It is no longer “the alleged assault”. Can we at least believe women after there’s a verdict?
I’m more concerned with the fate of “Magazine Dreams.” My friend Harrison Page played his father and from what I hear (not from him; he’s too modest) it was the performance of his career. Now there are doubts it’ll ever be released.
I have little doubt that someone will pick it up in a year or two.
More likely they’ll wait a while and then just dump it on Hulu.
This was a bigger issue than trumped up charged. In my opinion the D.A. Bragg could not withstand another lawsuit against his office. This was a total travesty as most of the public was shocked given the number of videos displaying his ex-girlfriends behavior.
A) Saw that coming a mile away.
B) I say recast – have John David Washington take over a Kang (and have his father cast as Doctor Doom).
C) Ant Man 3 actually opened the door to recast – in the scene with the Council of Kangs. Have, the middle of area, a portal (ala Sling Ring) open, and a device come in – picture a Beer keg shaped device, but with shades of Green and Silver around it. It explodes and everyone in the council is killed. And in walks Doom, voiced by Denzil Washington. He exclaims “There are none before Von Doom” and there appears a new Kang – John David Washington, and another, also John David Washington, and another (you guess it). Each one is slightly different, but have the Kang look but with a Doom color motif. Doom is then responsible for the replacement of the Kang with his descendant, from a future time.
(And we also learn that Doom has other plans – to use the Kangs as a distraction, while he gathers the Ten Rings, the Eternals Uni-Mind device, a large part of the Wakanda Vibranium asteroid, and other devices – so that he can then re-animated and take control of the Knowhere Celestial Armor).
Not at all surprised. I’m a little surprised they waited until the trial was over, but it is refreshing to see them wait for an actual verdict.
RIP Marvel Phase 5.
Good, he won’t be missed.
Don’t understand how a someone with everything can risk it. He is a good looking bloke, move on and find someone else. He is convicted and deserves everything he gets. Good looking guy like that will be popular in prison…I hope.
Reimagine the new main Marvel villain as a woman and offer the role to Majors’ victim. Wouldn’t fully fix the situation, but it’s a start
If he was white he would have been out at just the accusation. Like Justin Roland. B**** people are so privileged.
Sure Jan.
Tough leaning lesson for this guy.
Never been in favour of someone’s personal life affecting there carrier. Yes we all know it does particularly in this field of work. Does not mean I have to support it.
On the plus side it’s not new for the MCU to recast actors so for them it’s not a major problem. Just hope that they now pick someone who can at least pass for the part that Johnathan Major portraited.
IMO Women do not read your other half’s cell phone messages, Men too Reason|Jealousy. This seems to happen more often than not and then it gets the person all worked up and it starts fights. I think this couple is better off apart, their personalities just didn’t mesh.