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Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the latest merch mania. This week, Kang conquers Hot Toys’ Marvel movie lineup, Mega Construx gives you a He-Man sword of your own, and it’s a Spider-Verse special as Mezco and Hasbro swing in with new toys. Check it out!Hot Toys Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Kang Sixth Scale FigureNot even the age-defying charm of Paul Rudd was enough to save Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania from box office mediocrity, but at least the film got the chance to introduce non comic book…

Image via Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Amid all the mumble-jumble surrounding Marvel’s newest controversial actor and antagonist extraordinaire Jonathan Majors, fans of the biggest franchise in the world are already recasting Kang, and the worst possible choice for the character might have just arisen in the depths of Twitter. On March 25, the actor responsible for bringing one of Marvel’s bone-chilling villains to our screens was arrested for equally frightening reasons, after facing alleged assault…

Image via Marvel Studios As you can imagine, there’s only one place to start any roundup of the latest goings-on in the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it’s the franchise’s freshly-installed big bad Jonathan Majors. The actor was arrested on allegations of assault, and while legal team have already protested his innocence, that hasn’t stopped trigger-happy fans from demanding Kang the Conqueror be recast before he’s even gotten his feet wet. Meanwhile, James Gunn has coincidentally claimed that his…

‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ star Jonathan Majors arrested for assault in NY ( Photo Credit – Movie Still ) ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ actor Jonathan Majors aka Marvel’s Kang the conqueror was arrested in New York on domestic violence allegations after a dispute with a 30-year-old woman. According to a statement from the NYPD, the woman told officers that she was assaulted, and was taken to the hospital with “minor injuries to her head and neck,” reports ‘Variety’. A representative for Jonathan Majors…

via Marvel Studios The internet has always tended to operate on the basis of somebody being guilty until proven innocent, and while Jonathan Majors was unquestionably arrested following an alleged assault, the actor and his team have dismissed the allegations as entirely false and have vowed to prove his innocence. However, it didn’t take long for claims to emerge that it’s been a consistent pattern of behavior dating back years for the Creed III villain and current big bad of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but…

Jonathan Majors, seen here in 2021, was arrested in New York City Saturday. Photo: Rich Fury (Getty Images)Jonathan Majors, the actor who portrays the villainous Kang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was arrested and charged in New York City this weekend after an alleged domestic dispute. TMZ first reported the news. Police responded to a 911 call Saturday morning and found a 30-year-old woman who appeared to have been assaulted. The woman said Majors struck her “about the face with an open hand, causing substantial pain…

Kang The Conqueror New Theory Claims He Killed Captain America & Not Thor ( Photo Credit – Movie Still ) Kang The Conqueror has emerged as one of the most powerful villains in the new phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While more of his variants will be introduced in the future, the future looks quite promising. Thanks to the impeccable acting by Jonathan Majors, who has added more fierceness to the character. However, a new theory has come to light that Kang killed Captain America, assuming he had the…

Image via Marvel Studios Jeff Loveness has barely gotten his feet wet as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he’s already become a pariah among certain sections of the fandom after his lackluster screenplay for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania set alarm bells ringing across the entire franchise. Even though the first two installments in the tiny superhero series turned out pretty great despite having a grand total of nine writers credited across both chapters – with Paul Rudd the only scribe named on…

Image: Hot Toys, Lego, Super7Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular look at some of the coolest new toys around the internet. This week Star Wars fever returns thanks to The Mandalorian and Return of the Jedi’s 40th anniversary, Hasbro’s Transformers go giant-sized, and Super7's latest Simpsons toys offer a spook. Check it out!Lego Star Wars Executor Super Star DestroyerThis! As much as we may ooh! and aah! over monstrously large Lego sets like the $850, 7,541-piece, UCS Millennium Falcon, the reality is that most of us…

Image via Marvel Comics Marvel — once a shining beacon for comic book fans everywhere — is now becoming known for formulaic films with half-baked plots and underwhelming CGI. More and more frequently, audiences are considering themselves lucky if a film is above average. The studio has dropped the ball a bit as of late, especially with its latest entry — the one that was supposed to kick start phase 5; Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania — adding to the ever-growing list of Marvel movies that were “meh.” There’s…