Marvel is Gender-bending Thor!

[Sithdarth]

Real world tactical considerations for Thor would probably just be a comfortable shirt and pants that are easy to move in and breath well, as anything that can hurt Thor isn't getting stopped by steel, anyway.

I thought Asgardians have super special magical metals or something. I mean they have the Uru stuff that they make weapons out of (like Thor's hammer and realistically probably some armor pieces) and whatever The Destroyer armor is made from. Also, I imagine that the Dwarfs are in general way better at making super strong metal than humans and of course there is the magic thing.

All in all I think it is safe to assume that any armor an Asgardian god would decided to wear probably offers some measure of protection even if it is only minor.

[Bum Bill Bee]

Am I the only one who predicts a She-Thor vs. She-Hulk comic coming up?

Because y'know I've already seen high quality fanarts of X-23 vs. She-Hulk.

[Aerozord]

ok I got into a mild argument and am unsure if this information even exists.

Is this a woman taking on the mantle of Thor, or is this changing the Norris pantheon so Thor is a woman now?

[Red Mage Black]

Well, from what I've seen thus far, the title of this thread is a little misleading. I tend to assume that gender-bending is something that happens when a male character is changed to be female(or vice-versa) through some usually explained thing(magic, potion, high-tech,etc). It sounds more like, "You can't do your job as well as we thought you could," to Male-Thor and they're handing off his shiny armor and powers to a new character all together. So, my guess is the former.

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Krylo

as anything that can hurt Thor isn't getting stopped by steel, anyway.

I don't think Asgardian armor is just steel, but as far as it's ever probably going to matter to the writer of a comic book, you're probably correct. All superheroes should fight in their underpants though, and if it's not already a special issue it should be.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Azisien

I don't think Asgardian armor is just steel, but as far as it's ever probably going to matter to the writer of a comic book, you're probably correct. All superheroes should fight in their underpants though, and if it's not already a special issue it should be.

I'm reading a manga with an american style superhero where they play this straight. His main reason for dodging enemy attacks is because of how often things like explosions and energy blasts leave him naked.

[PyrosNine]

The Gender bended Thor was in some crazy alternate print comic I read where they ended up raiding heaven near the end or some shit, where Loki convinced Odin that Thor was too proud, so that Thor should be a valkyrie for a while. And Odin was like, "Lol, kay, I see no problem with this." and then Thor was a woman.

...As for Thor, this particular trope is only notable in that the hammer's being given to a woman, as Thor has been found "unworthy" repeatedly, REPEATEDLY because Asgard runs on BS rules (even though Asgard has been blown up and rebuilt like, three times now, and coulda sworn Thor was dead last I heard) and the hammer has been held by some random dude from Canada, a horseman from outerspace, Captain America, and the like, and all of this ignores the fact that Thor is Thor because his name is Thor, not because it's some hereditary title or job, he is the literal freakin' Thor. Amadeus Cho got Hercule's powers for awhile (and I think Thor's too, actually) and nobody called him Hercules. Or Kid Hercules.

I do worry that this might be a short run, because most of the appeal of Thor was that he was Thor, Asgardian god, and this colored every interaction with the rest of the marvel universe. The thee's and thou's man! And then just hand it off to somebody, who from the sounds of it, isn't asgardian and isn't in any edda, and say "Hey, you're Thor now."

Maybe if she says Thee and Thou randomly in conversation, nobody will notice.

[Bells]

Honestly, if Marvel or DC just want to cater to female audience, they could have an entire line of comics based around Gender Bending.

I recall that in the Marvel lore, there are multiple earths (i think the main one is called 616 or something ) and each Earth has a different story and alterations... there is a ''Zombie earth'' there is a ''everyone is apes'' earth... and there is an Entire gender Bended universe. Usually those are all played for humorous and ''what if's'' but it's not like you can't do a decent story there... you just have to focus on not having shitty writing and ''Anal controlled camera angles'' .

[MSperoni]

Originally Posted by Bells

Honestly, if Marvel or DC just want to cater to female audience, they could have an entire line of comics based around Gender Bending.

Or they could just make comics about the women characters they already have, and like, not fuck it up.

[Tev]

Originally Posted by Bum Bill Bee

Am I the only one who predicts a She-Thor vs. She-Hulk comic coming up?

Because y'know I've already seen high quality fanarts of X-23 vs. She-Hulk.

Marvel Comics is making Thor a woman. From Time Magazine:

TIME: How do you think this will impact fans who have been with the male version of Thor for such a long time?

Jason Aaron, writer of the Thor series: If you’re a long-time Thor fan you know there’s kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up that hammer. Beta Ray Bill was a horse-faced alien guy who picked up the hammer. At one point Thor was a frog. So I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while, which surprisingly we’ve never really seen before.

Time: Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They’re Making Thor a Woman

Hope that clears things up.

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Originally Posted by PyrosNine

...As for Thor, this particular trope is only notable in that the hammer's being given to a woman, as Thor has been found "unworthy" repeatedly, REPEATEDLY because Asgard runs on BS rules (even though Asgard has been blown up and rebuilt like, three times now, and coulda sworn Thor was dead last I heard) and the hammer has been held by some random dude from Canada, a horseman from outerspace, Captain America, and the like, and all of this ignores the fact that Thor is Thor because his name is Thor, not because it's some hereditary title or job, he is the literal freakin' Thor. Amadeus Cho got Hercule's powers for awhile (and I think Thor's too, actually) and nobody called him Hercules. Or Kid Hercules.

From the article:

Axel Alonso, Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief: She wields the hammer because Thor can’t. This is different because for reasons we can’t disclose quite yet, Thor is unable to pick up the hammer. There are a number of women in Thor’s life, and we’re going to tease out for quite awhile the identity of who this woman is. But one of the women in Thor’s life picks up the hammer. She is in fact worthy. And she becomes Thor.

There’s only one Thor in the Marvel Universe. The character we know as Thor will not refer to himself as Thor anymore.