Disney just fired John Majors, the next Big Bad after Thanos for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

[thewayne]

Granted, they had good reason: Majors was convicted earlier today of assaulting a woman in a car. There are allegations of many other assaults, and there has been a hue and cry to fire him for many months as these allegations have started surfacing. One movie that he starred in - not a Marvel movie - was pulled from release because of this.

This bodes ill for the MCU. It's rough on a movie franchise to fire the next Big Bad when your big tent pole movie for 2026 was Avengers: Kang Dynasty. Thus far, Kang has only appeared in one movie: Ant Man and Wasp: Quantumania (which sucked, IMO) and in both seasons of the Loki series on Disney+. This Rolling Stone article lays out some possible ways to get around the firing of Majors.

The obvious solution is finding another actor, of which there are several options. People have been re-cast in movie series on a regular basis, this is totally doable.

For me, personally, I'd like to see them either dump or postpone the Kang series. The last Ant Man movie was not good, and it wasn't because of Majors: it was because they lost the path of Ant Man, a wise-cracking Average Joe. The great humor that was in the first two movies was completely gone and it just wasn't worth it for me. The thing that made the MCU work for me was the build-up to Thanos: you had all of these individual heroes eventually coming together, and a Big Bad emerges that took their combined strengths to defeat. Now the band is broken up, Cap and Tony are dead (for the time being), some new people are being introduced, let's get some individual movies out and rebuild the team rather than throwing another huge Big Bad on the screen!

AND ANOTHER THING! Stop referencing stuff from the Disney+ streaming service in the movies! There should be a firewall between those sides! That really ticks me off. AND GET OFF MY LAWN!

;-)

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jonathan-majors-kang-marvel-fired-mcu-future-domestic-violence-loki-avengers-1234931990/

More on the conviction of John Majors for assaulting his then-girlfriend:
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jonathan-majors-found-guilty-domestic-violence-trial-1234928607/

Comments

[silveradept]

Yep, that's the correct decision. And it's probably also a good decision to hold off on another worlds-spanning Big Bad until you have another team ready to go to defeat it. Possibly with only a cameo or two from the previous team. There's more than enough characters that you could do this several times over before going back to the well, but we all know that the execs are so very afraid of risk and innovation that they'll never put out something like X-Force or other such things.

[thewayne]

They introduced X-Men at the end of The Marvels movie in the first Easter Egg, but it was clearly an AU.  Hard to say how that will work out.  It's been kind of apparent that they have no intention of introducing the mutants into the mainline Avengers MCU.