Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman 590
An anonymous reader writes: Marvel Comics has announced that Thor, the thunder god whose story has been told in comic books, movies, and TV shows since the 1960s, will fall from grace, and no longer be able to wield his hammer Mjolnir. A brand new female character will take up the name Thor and continue the series. Jason Aaron, the series writer, said, "This is not She-Thor. This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is THOR. This is the THOR of the Marvel Universe. But it's unlike any Thor we've ever seen before." Marvel's Wil Moss added, "The new Thor continues Marvel's proud tradition of strong female characters like Captain Marvel, Storm, Black Widow and more. And this new Thor isn't a temporary female substitute — she's now the one and only Thor, and she is worthy!"
Thordis! (Score:4, Informative)
One of the early What If? comics Marvel put out was about Jane Foster finding Thor's Hammer instead of Don Blake. There is a hilarious summary of it here [tumblr.com]. Not sure if it's the earliest example of Thor as a woman but's its gotta be close!
Re:Ridiculous! (Score:2, Informative)
The comics canon is very different from MCU canon already. Loki's a teen, Bucky Barnes was Captain America until like, last year. Thor's mom runs Asgard, Asgard is floating over the midwest US, Steve Rogers is aging to his actual age, and oh, Nick Fury's a white dude with a half-black son named Nick Fury Jr. who actually looks like the MCU version.
Re:Ridiculous! (Score:4, Informative)
Not the original poster, but I agree. I think it's great to have strong female main characters, on an equal footing with strong male main characters. But this ain't it. They're taking a character who is male, both in mythology and in their own storyline, and changing him into a woman. Why? Because they can't write female leads so they'll just take a male one and give him boobs? Because a female main character can't be successful without all the momentum gathered by that character being male for a thousand years?
Ridiculous seems like a reasonable summary.
Re:Tales of Asgard... (Score:5, Informative)
Loki, proto-furry.
Re:Congratulations? (Score:1, Informative)
sexist beliefs
They're not beliefs, you idiot. They are grounded in human biology. You may have drunken enough mercury-laced Kool-Aid to believe that humans lack sexual dimorphism, but I assure you, if you ever see a human woman naked, you'll notice that she doesn't have a dick and balls. I'm telling you this so that you might prepare yourself for the day that your fantasy of a completely homogenous human race is shattered, you'll be slightly prepared for it -- though I know it's a lost cause, because I've seen your posts and I know what a fucking idiot you are. You're simply too stupid to accept reality. Sometimes I wonder if you're a bot programmed to say the stupidest shit imaginable just to remind everyone that inbreeding can be a serious problem.
They have gone further before (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Ridiculous! (Score:5, Informative)
Freyja would be the goddess of fertility and Eir the goddess of healing
Thor is the god of thunder and battle
They should have created a new character instead of taking one based on a Nordic god and made it a woman.
Like Thruer, Thor's daughter.
When you take someone's place you take their responsibility not their name.
Oblig Penny-Arcade - Black Heimdall (Score:5, Informative)
In Marvel Lore, anyone who is worthy may wield the hammer and gain the power of thor... this has included
A horsefaced dude (beta ray bill [wikia.com] who now wields a dupe of the hammer, sorta)
A frog named Throg [wikia.com]
it has also been wielded by Storm (who is a woman) and Captain America. [wikipedia.org]
This is a non-story, and not the first time a woman has wielded Mjolnir.
Re:Ridiculous! (Score:5, Informative)
Thor is never female in that story, he's cross-dressing pretending to by Freyja in full bridal dress and veil using her clothes and jewelry with rocks for boobies to fool clueless giants. The entire setup is extremely humiliating for Thor and he's not at all identifying with or acting feminine and only Loki saves him through clever excuses. The only one to get a peek under the veil is Trym the giant king looking to get a kiss and quickly reconsiders. When Thor is handed the hammer during the wedding ceremony he goes on a slaughter killing Trym and all his kin for what he's had to endure. Nothing in the ancient tales suggests he's anything but a male and masculine god.