Marvel is Gender-bending Thor!

[Bells]

Originally Posted by MSperoni

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

Woooow wow wow!! Hold your horses there future man, what's with all these crazy ideas you're having there?! Let's not go down the crazy hole just yet....!


Next you'll be suggesting that story continuity should make some sense and that large scale event should not be wiped and rendered meaningless within the same year they are created... HAH.... crazy kids....

But one of the women in Thor’s life picks up the hammer.

Well... new Thor is blond. That narrows it down. It's not Syf then...

[Tev]

Well, unless part of the Hammer's power is also transformational blond hair?

[Dracorion]

If that were true, Tev, then Beta Ray Bill would have a flowing mane of blond hair.

In any case, the same writer who's been writing Thor's main title is the one doing fem-Thor, so it's probably a part of the story he's telling, so I have some confidence the whole switch be handled well. Plus, just because Thor isn't Thor anymore doesn't mean he still won't be around to kick ass. He should still be the God of Thunder and be super strong and capable of slicing up bad guys with his backup axe.

[Tev]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

If that were true, Tev, then Beta Ray Bill would have a flowing mane of blond hair.

Bill didn't have hair to magically bleach. Neither did Frog Thor coincidentally.

[Aerozord]

Personally I'd like to see a Thor with red hair and a beard like the actual mythology

[POS Industries]

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

That is interesting, actually, seeing as "Thor Odinson" is just his name. I suppose he'll either simply go by "Odinson" or maybe get all mopey and start calling himself "The Unworthy" or something.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

maybe get all mopey and start calling himself "The Unworthy" or something.

It's modern comics, always bet on the mopiest option

[Aerozord]

But that hurts the comic. Him being the actual deity Thor, is part of his appeal. This kind of cheapens him being Thor at all since, while we know its the same Thor from the myths, now its saying godhood is something you can just give to people.

Apply this kind of logic to other heroes. Imagine if someone else puts on the Iron Man armor and now that guys is Tony Stark.

[Bells]

In my writings i was working in a world where the concept was ''what if all mythologies were correct and real at the same time'' and in that writing, Godhood was a title that a particularly exceptional soul would aspire to and transcend. Some Gods could take hundreds of thousands of years to die out and have to pass their essence to another soul-vessel, while other minor goods of older cultures and less reach in the mind of men, could take a few thousand years... and in that writing, Odin was like this, someone would rise in the ranks once in thousands and thousands of years to become ''The'' Odin.

That was the idea to equate how different cultures and timelines would view and recall the same gods by different names and visual aspects... It would also tie a God figure existence to it's relevancy in the human mind and culture, so more relevant deities would just live longer and be more powerful, and inevitably all would collapse to nothingness anyway as cultures come and go and heaven, hell and earth renew it selves in the mind of men. Even if it took tens of thousands of years...

So, for one, i'm glad to know i can write at Marvel Levels....

Secondly, i can see where they are going with this... kinda... maybe...

And third, they are really going out of their way to make a note that ''This is THOR, not Thor-Like'' but the entire concept breaths on their choice of who takes the hammer and HOW Thor looses it... could be good, 70% chance of it sucking and getting erased before 2015.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

But that hurts the comic. Him being the actual deity Thor, is part of his appeal. This kind of cheapens him being Thor at all since, while we know its the same Thor from the myths, now its saying godhood is something you can just give to people.

The Wrecking Crew are normal humans who acquired the power of gods by accident.

Also: everyone in Marvel history who has picked up Thor's hammer.

In any case, I imagine new Thor will just be taking up the name to try to live up to old Thor's legend.

As far as old Thor's naming issue, I ran into this little gem thanks to the internet:

"But I have many names, serpent, even as you. Vingthor the Hurler, Longbeard's Son, have I been called. Hrodr's foeman, too. In Tyr's ancestral home, wisest Hymir knew my name as Veur; unhappy Hrungnir's playmate some have called me. East of Elvigar in Gianthome they whisper Hloriddi's name. My father called me son. My mother called me darling. And beneath the vaults of Heaven, I am Thor Odinson, the Thunderer, Jormungand's Fear! "

- The Mighty Thor #379

Anyway. Chances are guy-Thor will have the hammer back by 2016 or 17 or something. Even if new Thor turns out to be great, same as the Superior Spider-Man. But hopefully she'll just end up as Thorwoman or something instead of dying or getting depowered.