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    Flops, spats and Jonathan Majors' conviction: Marvel's 2023 was a multiverse of awfulness

    by Martin Robinson Dec 19, 2023 6 minutes
    Source: Marvel

    This year had already been called Marvel’s annus miserabilis before a Manhattan jury found actor Jonathan Majors guilty of two misdemeanour counts of harassment and assault towards his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, on Monday.

    Now, it’s ending with a damaging disaster for the studio, who stood behind Majors after he was arrested back in March, inviting him to the premiere of Season 2 of Loki despite the accusations of assault by the movement coach who he had met on the set of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

    Jonathan Majors leaves a courtroom in New York (Seth Wenig/AP) (AP)

    Their decision to stand by their man was questioned at the time, as it appeared to prioritise the ambitions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe over the alleged victim.

    Now the man on which the studio had invested so much as the new post-Thanos supervillain, could face up to a year in jail when he’s sentenced in February. Marvel and parent company Disney cut ties with him yesterday after the verdict was announded.

    It caps off a year at Marvel which has

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