Originally Published in September 2014
It was announced yesterday that a major Marvel comic book hero is now a female. There are few details at this time, but Thor the God of Thunder will now be portrayed in the comics by a woman. Thor #1 will feature a brand new God of Thunder (he's not getting any gender altercations or anything). The comic is set for release this fall.
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| Is that Thor Thor?? |
It was announced yesterday that a major Marvel comic book hero is now a female. There are few details at this time, but Thor the God of Thunder will now be portrayed in the comics by a woman. Thor #1 will feature a brand new God of Thunder (he's not getting any gender altercations or anything). The comic is set for release this fall.
Now the conservative side of me feels this may be strictly
for the PC crowd to include more female comic characters in bigger roles. This has upset a lot of the comic geeks on
the internet. And I can see where they’re
coming from.
Comic Book Purest on the web hate almost everything about
change in a comic or comic character.
They hate when an actor is announced to play the title character in an
upcoming movie adaptation. They sit
behind their monitors and keyboards, and just complain and complain about how
different or how character is and how much the movie is going to suck.
They do the same when a new direction is announced in
comics.
Now with Lady Thor?
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| Lady Thor |
I’m actually okay with it and here’s two reasons why.
The First Reason
Loreli, Araceli, Emma, and Madeline.
My four daughters.
Loreli likes comics. Emma likes Doctor Who. Araceli wants to
like them both, but says she likes them to fit in. Maddy is too small right now, but she’ll more
than likely follow suit.
A few years ago, I came into possession of about 2000 comic
books dating from the late sixties to the early eighties. I was only able to obtain Marvel comics, but
I’m assuming this guy had the same range of DC too. But in this cache of comics, there were
comics I was not going to read ever.
Those were She-Hulk, Ms Marvel and Spider-Woman.
Yes they were all women, that could have been the reason why
I didn’t read them. But honestly, I wasn’t
interested in their stories. Back then
they were pretty much just the female version of their male counterpart.
Hulk, Captain America and Spider-Man.
So I offered them up to my kids. Loreli took them all.
What I didn’t realize being a guy and always subjecting my
daughter to my geeky male heroes -
Spider-Man, Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, etc. I didn’t give her any
lady geek heroes to look up to.
She had them now.
While they may not be as mainstream as Hulk, Captain America
and Spider-Man, they were to her and her sisters.
So If Lady Thor gives them something to look up to and their
a positive role model. Then I’m okay
with it.
The Second Reason
The second reason I’m okay with it is based on money.
While I have no idea how Lady Thor will come into
being. My theory is that Thor Thor (you
say things twice when you mean the original one or to stress importance)…
I’m hungry, but not
hungry hungry.
... did something stupid and doesn’t feel he is worthy
enough to wield Mjolnor, his Hammer. So
he drops his hammer in a fit of depression and Lady picks it up becoming Lady
Thor.
It is a great way to
tell a different story from a character that’s been in comics for over 50 years. But what those internet haters don’t like to
do, they don’t like to think anywhere past their own hate.
The success of comic books lead way to comic book adapted
movies. More people see movies than read
comics. Thor Thor has been in three Marvel
Movies as a dude. He is also going to be
in Avengers 2 next summer…
As a dude.
When Comic Book Movies come out and they have a different
variation of a character from the books, the comic books seem to follow
suit. It’s their way of making the
transition easy for new readers to recognize a character they saw on the big
screen.
In the comics, Wolverine originally was a short and not very
handsome. In X-Men: The Movie we were introduced to Hugh
Jackman. Hugh is the opposite. After X-Men:
The Movie, Wolverine got a little more handsome.
We were introduced to Agent Coulson (played by Clark Gregg) in the movie, Iron Man. After that he showed up in the Thor and
Avengers movies as well. He eventually
became a recurring character in the comics.
So, Thor Thor in the movies is a dude. Lady Thor isn’t. Since Avengers 2 is going to be a 2 hour
commercial for Marvel Comics, it’s safe to say if Marvel wants to keep
collecting that cash, Lady Thor will change back to Thor Thor by next
summer.
Because there’s going to be someone who goes, “Hey, I like
that Thor! I want to go read about him.”
He goes to the comic store and picks up the current issue and on the
front of the cover he sees Thor has breasts. “Hey this isn’t Thor Thor!!!”
Is Lady Thor going to be gone forever once Thor Thor comes
back?
Probably not, it’s probably a way to introduce a new
character as well as get in some new readers before the movie comes out.
It’s not a terrible thing.
So internet, get over it!
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