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What will happen to the MCU without Jonathan Majors? How Marvel might shake things up

LOS ANGELES — It’s been a bleak year for Marvel Studios. On Monday, Marvel cut ties with Jonathan Majors after a New York jury found the actor guilty of assaulting and harassing his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. (Majors was acquitted of a different assault charge and of aggravated harassment.) It was the first public acknowledgment that the studio will be altering course in response to its ...
Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror in Marvel Studios' "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania."

LOS ANGELES — It’s been a bleak year for Marvel Studios.

On Monday, Marvel cut ties with Jonathan Majors after a New York jury found the actor guilty of assaulting and harassing his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. (Majors was acquitted of a different assault charge and of aggravated harassment.)

It was the first public acknowledgment that the studio will be altering course in response to its once-promising star’s legal troubles. Majors, who made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut during the first season of “Loki” in 2021, was arrested in March just one month after impressing audiences with his turn as the villain Kang in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”

It’s another blow for

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