Jonathan Majors ‘heartbroken’ over Robert Downey Jr’s return to Marvel as Doctor Doom: ‘I love Kang, Doctor Doom is wicked’

ROBERT DOWNEY JR  REVEALED THAT HE WILL BE RETURNING TO THE MCU AT THE 2024 COMICON, IN  SAN-DIEGO 

 

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For the unversed, in December 2023, Marvel dropped Majors after a New York jury convicted him of assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, following a trial. Both Robert Downey Jr and Miller have faced legal issues but they continue to work in big budget films. While Downey Jr, despite serving a jail time in the late ’90s for possessing drugs, went on to star in the Iron Man series, Avengers franchise and Oppenheimer, for which he won an Oscar, Miller acted in The Flash and the Fantastic Beast franchise after being arrested. 

The actor couldn’t help but draw comparisons between his situation and the treatment of other Hollywood stars with troubled pasts. “I think it’s fair that Mr. Downey is being and has been treated with patience and curiosity and love and that … Miller’s gotten the same treatment and they’re being allowed to work their art and be creative at that level,” Majors said, referencing both Downey and Ezra Miller. “I didn’t really get that,” adding, “They’re being allowed to work their art and be creative at that level,” Majors.

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Despite the setback, Majors remains optimistic about his career. He’s currently filming the revenge thriller Merciless and hasn’t ruled out a return to the MCU as Kang in the future. “Hell yeah, I love [Kang],” he reacted. “If that’s what the fans want, if that’s what Marvel wants, let’s roll. Hell yeah.”

When Downey Jr hung up his boots as Iron Man from MCU in the 2019 film, Avengers: Endgame, it left his fans teary-eyed as his character died in the film. When fans had made peace with the fact Downey Jr’s iconic character has retired from MCU, five years later, at the San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel announced that the actor would return to the MCU as Doctor Doom for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Reacting to the news, his Iron Man co-star, Gwyneth Paltrow, who played Pepper Potts, said, “I don’t get it, are you a baddie now?”

The character of Doctor Doom first appeared in The Fantastic Four in 1962 and is depicted as the monarch of Latveria whose goal is to bring order to humanity through world conquest. The character has also come into conflict with other superheroes in the Marvel Universe, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, X-Men, and the Avengers.