Last December, a Manhattan jury found Jonathan Majors, who plays Kang The Conqueror in the MCU, guilty of a misdemeanor reckless assault charge and a lower-level charge of harassment. The news was shocking and seemed to have caused issues for Marvel Studios, which planned to present Majors as the next existential threat within the MCU, replacing Thanos as the ‘big bad’ for the next phase of movies.
However, on February 5th, Majors’s legal team filed to have the verdict set aside in a 41-page brief which cited that evidence at trial was not sufficient for a guilty verdict. Citing that, the only video evidence of the encounter showed Majors to be running from his alleged victim, Ms. Jabbari.
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They also state that the jury was improperly given instructions to consider two different theories of the crime that are at odds with each other. The first was intentional assault, and the second, which Majors was found guilty of, reckless assault. Since both could not be true, Majors’s team believes they can get his verdict set aside as an error by the court.
But even so, Majors legal woes are far from over, as more women have come forward alleging abuse just days after his most recent legal filings. The New York Times reported that Jonathan Majors had a history of physical and mental abuse towards two women he dated. They also stated they spoke with more than 20 people he worked with on Lovecraft Country who said he would regularly get confrontational with women on set.
The two women who are claiming abuse are Maura Hooper and Emma Duncan, who had previously dated Majors. Among their claims, Hooper says Majors pressured her to have an abortion against her own wishes. And Duncan says she was thrown across a room with Majors threatening to make sure she would ‘never have a child.’
Hooper’s relationship with Majors began in 2013 and ended in 2015, while Duncan was with Majors from 2015 to 2019.
The New York Times article also alleged an unknown number of women had also claimed abuse but were not willing to come forward at this time. As of the reporting of this article, no evidence of the claims presented by Majors or Duncan has been presented. Major’s attorney did address the claims simply, stating accusations of assault are untrue but that, specifically, Majors and Duncan had a heated relationship.
As of now, it’s important to see what the results of Majors’ motion to set aside his verdict will be and if Major will still be sentenced on April 8th or not for the assault on Jabbari.
Fire him. Again. lol