Jonathan Majors, who had been positioned to play the next main villain of the biggest movie franchise of all time, was convicted of assault and harassment on Monday, and about an hour after that verdict came down, Marvel Studios fired him. Thus ends a year of uncertainty during which the Marvel Cinematic Universe has cratered both creatively and in terms of audience interest (link to something), and which resulted in the whole MCU slate being delayed a year while the powers-that-be try to get it together.

Without Majors, the big immediate question is easy: What is Marvel going to do with Kang the Conqueror, who was supposed to be the Thanos of this era of the MCU? The easiest option is to just recast the role, which they've done before with Terrence Howard and Ed Norton in the franchise's early days. Majors has thus far only appeared in Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania--a movie that's proven to be pretty unpopular--and the two seasons of Loki. That's more screen time than Howard or Norton had in the one movie they each appeared in, but not too much more. I doubt audiences have gotten overly attached to Majors at this point.

If Marvel wants to go the recasting route, it would probably be fine--or it wouldn't be any worse than the current status quo, at least. But I have a different idea that Marvel may well have already set in motion: It's time for Ravonna Renslayer to step into the spotlight.