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On 14 Feb 2022, PaxPerPoten <PaxPerPoten@magik.beanz.net> posted some news:sufb2o$1aimm$4@news.freedyn.de:

The country is falling apart because of blacks. Send them back to
Africa !

If Disney does not dump this savage black animal, the market needs to
DUMP DISNEY BACK TO THE STONE AGE.

The entertainment industry is in turmoil following the arrest of one of
its new rising stars, and now charges have been made, The Walt Disney
Company is dictated by its own history and may respond as it has done
before.

The domestic abuse allegations made against Johnny Depp from both the
press and his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, left the movie star out of
work and exiled from Hollywood. Depp’s career took a nose-dive when, in
2018, News Group Newspapers LTD publication The Sun published a story
claiming the Pirates of the Caribbean star was a “wife-beater.”

What ensued was years of domestic violence litigation both at the London
High Court in the United Kingdom for the libel case against The Sun
(which Depp lost in 2020 and subsequently lost his appeal request in
2021) and the following $50 million defamation case the actor set
against Amber Heard.

The latter came after Heard published an Op-Ed in The Washington Post
about her experience of being a victim of domestic abuse and assault.
While Depp was never named, many outsiders took that the Aquaman (2018)
actress was documenting her relationship experience with the actor. In
2019, two months after the published essay, Depp sued Heard, and three
years later, the two would end up in court in Fairfax County, Virginia,
to testify their cases.

Both Depp and Heard were found guilty of defaming each other, but it
would be the Captain Jack Sparrow star that would come out the winner in
the eyes of the public and through the damages dealt by the jury.

Despite his win in Judge Penney Azcarate’s courtroom, Depp has not been reinstated in any of his previous roles. During the libel trial in
London, Depp was forced to resign from his role as Gellert Grindelwald,
the dark wizard antagonist in Warner Bros.’s Fantastic Beasts franchise.
His time as Jack Sparrow in Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s billion-dollar Pirates of the Caribbean series is also at its end.

So, the actions that were taken against Depp by the House of Mouse —
that is, the company’s reaction to the domestic abuse claims and his
loss at the London courts where Justice Andrew Nicol decided that claims
of abusive behavior were “substantially true” — must then be extended to
any other actor who ends up in a similar situation. Disney’s own history
is likely going to dictate the outcome of one key Marvel performer.

The Jonathan Majors arrest and what could happen next.
The Jonathan Majors arrest shocked many. Over the weekend, Kang the
Conqueror actor and star of the new Creed III (2023), Jonathan Majors
was arrested in New York City over claims of assault and aggressive
behavior. While Majors’s team quickly responded, saying the actor looks
forward to clearing his name (despite an outpouring of claims from the
industry stating otherwise), yesterday proved that the story is far from
over.

Per The Guardian, it has been confirmed that the Lovecraft Country actor
has been charged with the following:

“…the district attorney’s office confirmed the actor had been charged
with several counts of assault in the third degree, three counts of
attempted assault in the third degree, one count of aggravated
harassment in the second degree, and one count harassment in the second degree.”

Majors was released on his own recognizance and granted a limited order
of protection. His next day in court is on May 8, 2023.

The assault complaint comes from an unknown female accuser who claims
the actor struck “her about the face with an open hand, causing
substantial pain and a laceration behind her ear” and that he “put his
hand on her neck, causing bruising and substantial pain.”

Despite the unsettling claims, Majors’s defense lawyer Priya Chaudry
stated the team was quickly gathering evidence to prove the actor’s
innocence and would present findings to the District Attorney’s office
in order to get the charges dropped. This was Sunday, and Monday proved
that would be fruitless as Majors was charged.

If Disney were to follow in the footsteps of their handling of the
Johnny Depp situation, then this would mean that both CEO Bob Iger and
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige would have to remove Majors from
the Marvel Cinematic Universe and replace him as Kang the Conqueror in
response to the alleged assault.

The actor Jonathan Majors first made his appearance in the MCU back in
2021’s Loki television series, where he starred as He Who Remains — a
Variant of Kang the Conqueror. Then, just last month, Majors became the principal antagonist in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
alongside Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man. This subsequently set up the rest of
Phase Five and Phase Six and suggested an even larger-than-expected Kang presence right through to Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (2025) and
Avengers: Secret Wars (2026).

How the future of the MCU now factors in Majors’s Kang is anyone’s
guess, as neither Disney nor Marvel has spoken out on the issue at hand.

Do you think Disney will deal out the Johnny Depp treatment in response
to the Jonathan Majors arrest situation? Let Inside the Magic know in
the comments down below!

<https://insidethemagic.net/2023/03/jonathan-majors-assault-disney-johnny -depp-history-th1>

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