Jonathan Majors Fired By Disney/Marvel Studios After Assault Guilty Verdict – Deadline

Kang is already a multidimensional being. Loki established that multidimensional beings can look like pretty much anything (even alligators). Recasting Kang is the easiest thing to do in cannon. "Turns out, those Kangs aren't the most common it's actually the new Kang"

I've said it a few times, but I feel like they could have Dr. Doom come in to kill Kang pretty easily. It'd set up a new big bad, introduce the Fox Verse, and even set him up as the leader of any potential Battleworld in the future.

Kang even before the allegations hasn't been received all that well. A soft-reset with Doom might make people excited again. Imo all mystique of the character was already ruined in the Multiverse of Madness post-credits. A FoxVerse Vs MCU battle movie would touch on Endgame levels of hype.

There is president for recasting in the MCU already, they swapped out Hulk and War Wachine without even a line of dialogue to address it.

Isn’t the whole threat of Kang the fact that there’s an infinite number of him? Like, explaining the recasting Kang in the store seems like the easiest job ever.

It still gets messy between needing to promote the first few appearances and the inevitable "snark" among the influencers.

Unless they are willing to edit antman and whatever (it is Disney, they likely can contractually do that), they are still promoting majors every time they encourage people to watch the whole saga. Again, Disney, so I assume royalties aren't a concern, but it still makes the product look bad.

If the movies until now were better received, I could see them trying to salvage it. As it stands? This is an easy out and they can justify all the many missteps and chalk it up to something out of their control. Which may also be an opportunity to further split the overall arcs and reduce the stakes a bit while they build up new characters.

I don't know how DC and WB got away with that. It hurts their reputation in long term.

They really had to. They quickly fired Gunn after media reported on old, edgy jokes. You have to fire someone after a guilty assault verdict if that's your threshold.

Mostly joking, but I wouldn't exactly be mad if they brought Terrence Howard in as the new Kang to really hang a lampshade on it.

The nice thing about Kang being a character with infinite variants who can come from infinite different timelines is that he doesn't have to look one way or another particularly. If there's a blue guy with ominous vibes and time travel powers we can fill in the blanks.

It's literally the exact same situation as Terrence Howard.

Didn’t he piss off Disney after the new Star Wars trilogy? I seem to remember him making some comments that pissed some execs off.

Nah, Disney isn't in any rush to put him back in a movie.

I'd prefer it John gets a shot at a good franchise. Or just a big standalone blockbuster.

I have been thinking this since I first heard about it. Give the role to someone who got the short end of the stick but has the passion.

This is the way!

Kang the Convicted

As much as people like to defend Depp, he's a piece of shit who deserves to lose his status. He has great pr that has made everyone around here ignore his mountains of past abusive behavior and being a creep.

Dude is 60, dating 20 year olds and bitching that they're immature. Him and his ex were mutually abusive psychos, she just happened to be worse, but Johnny Depp is a garbage person

It's easier for Disney to fire a problematic star who is past his prime and doesnt pull audiences anymore than to fire a problematic star who is considered up and coming, and supposed to frontline a big franchise

Depp’s a trash human being, too. Don’t let that verdict trick you into thinking he’s a victim. That whole affair was between two awful people.

Yeah...I definitely believe in the principle of being innocent until proven guilty, and that should apply in all facets of life. I know legally that only restrains the courts and government, but in my opinion, it should apply for everyone - no one should be fired or otherwise treated as though they're guilty before it has been proven.

"Put a chick in it, and make her gay" - Cartman-Kennedy

That would be legit as fuck.

My bet is that they make Revonna “become” Kang prime

While this is a fun idea, I really don't see him as a legit villain. The actor is just so goddamn charming.

Ravonna was hinted as being his variant, they could just replace him with her

Personally hope they just recast and say fuck him tbh. Not many villains are on Kang's level, and we've already seen from covid what happens when Marvel has to respond to a massive shift in plans.

That's true. The TVA is killing all the Kangs so maybe only the variants that don't look like Timely/HWR survive.

Or just say, no the TVA handled all the Kangs, here is Dr Doom.

I wonder if Mayors had something in his contract that only he can play Kang, as some people suspect from not already recasting him.

They can also just bring in ravonna as his variant

Probably just recast Kang. The multiverse thing allows for that pretty easily, and each Kang we've seen hasn't survived their show or movie. The question is if they can get someone as memorable as Majors.

My vote is for Terrance Howard. Go full circle on MCU recasting.

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