Thor Will Now Officially Be a Woman in Marvel Comics

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://time.com/#2987183/gay-census-bisexual-cdc/

But don't call her a goddess

From now on, the comic book character Thor will no longer be represented as a man in Marvel comics. ABC’s The View announced Tuesday that future stories will feature the god — not goddess — of thunder as a woman.

“This is not She-Thor,” senior writer Jason Aaron said in a Marvel release. “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.”

According to an impressively comic jargon-filled tweet, the female depiction will still wield Thor’s weapon of choice:

[WinkyDink]

1. Sorry, but that is simply bizarre. NOT "PC;" NOT "Equality": just bizarre. But I'm a D.C. gal. ;-)

[Enrique]

2. Thor, you'll be a woman soon

[Electric Monk]

22. Neil Diamond or Urge Overkill?

[NightWatcher]

26. ...soon, you'll need a man.

Thanks for the earworm

[packman]

3. I demand equal time

Make a WonderMan complete with golden lasso and invisible plane.

[JHB]

13. Mavel already has a Wonder Man. Since 1964.

But easy to miss. He was dead for a while.

[BillZBubb]

4. I don't get it? In Norse mythology, Thor is the son of Odin.

Why make this change? Why not create a new character? Are they that short on creativity?

[reddread]

6. yes, yes they are.

[Dr. Strange]

10. My suspicion...

a gimmick to sell more books. Which often works in the short run.

But of all the superheros out there, this was one of the strangest choices to try this particular tweak with.

[JHB]

15. Yep. It'll last as long as Superman's death or Batman's broken back

Maybe a year. Two, tops. Probably much, much less.

[rocktivity]

12. If they're too lazy to build a character from the ground up

why not Thor's daughter Thruer, whose mother was killed by a serpent? Or any of these female Norse mythological figures:

Hel - Queen of Helheim, the Norse underworld (perfect villian)
Freyja - Goddess of love, fertility, and battle
Hlín - Goddess of consolation and protection
Jörð - Goddess of the Earth
Yggdrasil - Goddess of life. Tree of life. Connects the 9 worlds.

That didn't take me long to look up.


rocktivity

[ProdigalJunkMail]

31. ^^^ this n/t

[JHB]

42. Actually, Hel is a villain in the comics...

Hel (or Hela, to Marvel)

[reddread]

5. Dont call it Marvel Comics

Call it Disney's pirated property, mismanaged and misbegotten.

[Jackpine Radical]

28. Not just Scandinavian, but Germanic & Baltic (particularly Lithuanian).

Thor, Thunar, Thunder, Donner, usw.

[Retrograde]

44. A gimmick to sell more issues?

Why not feature some of the other strong female characters from Norse mythology, such as Sif or Freya? Or even one of the Valkyries.

[BoWanZi]

8. I don't get it, why change the character of a long established story line like that?

I wonder if this will hurt sales of new Thor comics?

If the character regularly changed hosts ala Dr Who, then all for it but this? Just seems odd.

[Boxerfan]

9. That is going to play havoc on my favorite (stupid) joke...

The God Thor became bored with other Gods & went to earth to have a night on the town.

Thor wakes the next morning with a stranger in his bed. he gets up & proclaims-I'm THOR!!!
The stranger rouses-Your thore-I can barely walk!

[dipsydoodle]

14. lol

[steve2470]

37. .....

[Shrike47]

39. Like that one, I do.

[MannyGoldstein]

11. Andy Capp's become a cabaret singer

And Charlie Brown... I can't bring myself to say it...

[Archae]

16. Even money says this story is bogus.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

18. It's not

It's been announced in a ton of places.

[Archae]

24. Lot of stories were "announced in a lot of places."

But they ended up in Cracked.com's list of BS stories.

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/frozen-causing-divorce-6-lies-that-went-viral-this-week/

[Xyzse]

17. It seems like they will argue that Thor is the mantle/title.

Where there are different Thors, but what makes Thor is the hammer.

I don't know how I feel about this.

[Electric Monk]

25. Like the Green Lanterns? lol

[JHB]

40. "Whosoever holds this hammer ... wields the power of Thor"

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

19. A frog wielded the hammer at one time too

Really not a big deal. I find the attempt to change comic origins as a selling point tiresome, and would prefer they create a brand new powerful female character rather than trying to rebrand an old male one.

[JHB]

20. Ah, it's actually another substitute Thor. Been 2 already...

...3 if you count the frog.

“Thor, the God of Thunder, he messed up. He is no longer worthy to hold that damn hammer of his. And for the first time in history that hammer is being held by a woman,” said Goldberg.

Unfortunately while there was some joking to be had about who the character really is, no hard information was given other than, “The story behind her is she created herself. She was saved by Thor and she came down to Earth, followed him, and made herself look like Thor and so now she’s taking over.”

http://www.themarysue.com/marvels-new-thor-is-going-to-be-a-woman/

[steve2470]

21. I'm all in favor of strong female comic book characters, however...

I dunno, Thor has been long established to be a man. I don't get it. As Rocktivity said above, why not use an existing Nordic female character ?

[MattBaggins]

23. People in this thread apparently do not know the comic books

Odin created Donald Blake to be a host for his son and the two can exist independently of one another.

I suppose Odin decided he wanted another daughter and made a new body.

[reddread]

35. you mean Kirby created Marvel Comics as we knew it,

and everything since then has been a bunch of necrophilia trading on his explosive creativity
while stealing and withholding credit and compensation.

Don Blake was minding his own business when Kirby brought another iteration of Thor to Marvel.

[JHB]

41. Looks like another Beta-Ray Bill/Thunderstrike/whatever-they-called-the-frog scenario

Thor once again falls from the Asgardian version of grace, so a woman gets to pinch-hit for a year or two until Goldilocks comes back and she gets shunted off to "extra in a superhero crowd shot" status.

[MohRokTah]

27. I wonder who will play her in the movies?

I vote for Katee Sackhoff

[BainsBane]

30. Good choice!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

33. indeed! n/t

[steve2470]

36. I could go for Carrie-Anne Moss too, she was kickass in The Matrix series

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie-Anne_Moss

[Xyzse]

45. I've been a fan of Laura Vandervoot for a little while.

They are nice choices, but they skew young nowadays. So, if they did choose, I'd recommend this person.

[Bad Thoughts]

29. She will never be a strong woman in her own right

She will be the female version of a man. It shows had bad comic book developers are at making strong female characters. At least they could make Thor transsexual.

[steve2470]

32. yes transexual would make perfect sense nt

[Warren DeMontague]

34. She's still got a big hammer

just sayin'

[randome]

38. Archie Andrews dies and everything else goes to shit.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[flying rabbit]

43. I know

a rift if the comic universe. What has been done cannot be undone. Until you get a new team of writers.