Who says it's not one of them? (I doubt it though)
Thor is now the goddess of Thunder
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Who says it's not one of them? (I doubt it though)
Tyrant Rave
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Marvel would much rather cancel their series
The Elite
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Thor is a marketable name. They do this for a while, get new female readers, then reverse.
Edit: Is this 616?
Sibersk Esto
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Body shape, face shape; if all comic artists can draw are dudes with boobs, that's the real problem
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They've been doing just that for years, if it's her this is a more forefront attempt at it.
Sometimes, I don't think people understand what a retcon is.
Marvel can and has said "Thor is not Thor anymore" multiple times. And now they're doing it again.
And the "just create new characters!" argument always feels disingenuous because comics create new characters fairly often. The reason you don't know about them is either because most of them fail or you'd have to actually read comics to know they exist (which most of the folk in these threads don't do, ironically).
AyaisMUsikWhore
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She looks BA. I like it. Don't care to much about the nitty gritty of the whole timeline. She's Thor and that's all there is to it.
WanderingWind
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Valkyrie was pretty bad ass in the Defenders. She's criminally underused. Like Thor, but without compassion and a sword.
MHWilliams
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They called Masterson Thor even though he clearly wasn't the same guy. He didn't become Thunderstrike until after Thor returned.
I think that's the thing that gets me. People who are saying "why? I don't like this thing" seem to be people who do not read the comics. They don't pick up Thor: God of Thunder, Avengers, or Avengers World.
Thor will be a woman for the foreseeable future. He was dead for years, with no title or anything. And then things will shift. That's comics. Jason Aaron is still writing the book. He's doing a good job with God of Thunder, and Marvel currently doesn't do the editorial cock-up, so this was presumably his idea. Let it ride.
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There is nowhere in any Marvel multiverse where Marvel has to answer to DC's anything.
We care about it for men too. It is just up until now, the 'default' was male. So unless the features were clearly so alien as to make gender moot, a character is assumed to be male unless enough of their characteristics show them to be otherwise.
It is why Samus was assumed by many to be male. In the absence of anything that suggests she is female....
Deified Data
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Sif inheriting Mjolnir for a while would be pretty cool. Is her series still on-going?
Pai Pai Master
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When it comes to The Avengers they are in fact the big three.
Purple Cheeto
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This is like the horrible defense Riot Games' character artists came up with to defend the fact that every female champ was rocking G cups.
Scientist Supreme!
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Man you guys are so cynical. Of course, this is not going to stay but Jason Aaron has great fit with Thor so changing the status quo could be fun.
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Samus is literally the one example anyone can usually think of. And yet, everybody still automatically thought she was a dude, despite the arguably feminine waist/hip ratio of the armor. I guess the problem is with us.
BeatResetsTheWorld
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What...it's like you literally ignored every post in this thread. And those suggestions are equally weird. Those are names not titles!
Parallax
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theres still a male thor. odinson isnt going anywhere
DonasaurusRex
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I believe new Thor turns out to be Thors long lost sister....so i guess if you're into that kinda thing.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
god i hope it isnt angela. and if so, marvelman better be right around the damn corner
Pai Pai Master
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DonasaurusRex
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thats not valkyrie
True per Marvel canon.
This is why I still can't quit comic books
Deified Data
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"Nurp"
DonasaurusRex
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..marvelman or miracle man? I do believe it is angela though , probably fall out from the original sin crossover ill have to pick up in trade.
I read the op. After the racist reaction to Miles Morales, I plan on ignoring all reaction to this change as much as possible just to save my own sanity. If Satan can dissolve marriages or Doc Ock can be Spider Man, a woman can be Thor.
My suggestions are awesome.
Pai Pai Master
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And it's purple too. It never fails to crack me up.
I said sometimes. Of course in the absence of reason or taste it is certainly abused, but that is to a different end.
Sibersk Esto
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Finaika
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20 years?!
I read the op. After the racist reaction to Miles Morales, I plan on ignoring all reaction to this change as much as possible just to save my own sanity. If Satan can dissolve marriages or Doc Ock can be Spider Man, a woman can be Thor.
My suggestions are awesome.
It's funny because no one on this thread reacted in any way you thought.
Your suggestions are lazy.
Affeinvasion
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Squadron Supreme?
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People thought/think Samus is a dude because there is pretty much no way to discern her gender while she's in suit. Especially with the original's NES graphics. I'm sure a lot of people also thought/think she's just a robot.
DC's last big, full universe reboot was Crisis on Infinite Earths, which came out in 1985. They've had smaller ones (namely Infinite Crisis), but as far as a wholesale wiping the slate clean like the New 52 did....yeah. You're looking at about 20-30 years.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
either or is fine. i dont really care what they call him, just use the same magic they used to bring angela into 616 and do it to him. he and union jack can go around and fuck shit up
greendomo's ghost
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Don't know why everyone is getting so upset. No way this stays permanent. Think of Cap's death, Superman's death, Batman's broken back. Heck Thor's already been replaced before by Beta Ray Bill and Thunderstrike.
I'd put money on male Thor returning right around the time that Thor 3 gets it's theatrical release.
I'd put money on male Thor returning right around the time that Thor 3 gets it's theatrical release.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
is there a metroid cover that looked like that? ive only seen the 8 bit one
I mean, fine. In later games, though, it was obvious to me. I guess most people still got confused, but their probable "every badass in space armor must be a dude" bias didn't help.
Also, imagine if Samus had a boob plate. Wouldn't she be a better character, simply because of how easy it would be to tell she's a girl? Right bros?
Pai Pai Master
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This comes up in pretty much every comic thread.
There are people who simply cannot STAND the idea of "temporary" status quo changes. They seem pissed that these things never stick and won't give the story any thought as a result. They're the kind of people that wanted Bruce and Steve and Peter to stay dead. Which is a fine opinion to have but that's not how Marvel and DC operate, and we just gotta deal with it.
I used to think this way, I would get so annoyed any time a "death" was announced or something crazy was going to happen which they would claim would "SHAKE THE FOUNDATION OF THE MARVEL/DC UNIVERSE FOREVER."
In reality, you kinda just have to roll with it, knowing that things won't stay this way, and just enjoy the ride while it lasts. Yes Marvel still puts out some shitty ass books like Age of Ultron, but you're telling me that Jason Aaron is writing a story like this and people are writing it off just because it's obvious that she won't be "Thor" forever?
I wasn't a big fan of Amazing Spider-Man "One More Day" and beyond, but Superior Spider-Man was an awesome way to shake things up and breathe new life into a series that was experiencing a funk. Granted, God of Thunder has been fantastic and I don't feel that way about it at all, but we all knew Peter was going to be coming back and that didn't lessen my enjoyment of Superior Spider-Man at all.
I have faith in what Aaron's got planned for these characters and I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out, because it will be new and fresh. Then we can give Thor his hammer back and whoever this woman is can become her own character, having held up the mantle and honoured Thor's legacy. And she'll be way cooler for it and everyone can be happy.
At least wait until the #1 is out before you discount it entirely for things you don't even know are true yet, bros!
That is from the 8-Bit release. The 1993 re-release to be exact. Same image used on Metroid II for the Gameboy, IIRC.
Quite possibly. These continuity changing line wide revamps don't come along nearly as often. Crisis on Infinite Earths was 1985, new 52 was 2011. There were some smaller less catastrophic continuity sweeps on the meantime but prior to New 52 it was still pre-crisis vs post-crisis.
But hey, you never know. Someone could decide next year it's not working out and do it all over again, just isn't likely.
I'm aware and I understand where you are coming from, I just have a different perspective. In Masterson we had Thor's host, changing into Thor like he always did, except not, because his mind was still Masterson. It's an entirely unique situation. They called him Thor because in a lot of ways, he was. But different.
Edit : fixed date for the new 52
Broad shoulders are also a male attribute. And samus has some ginourmous shoulders
It's the cover for the GBA's "NES Classic Series" port of the original.
I mean, yeah. In later games, Nintendo stopped being coy about it because the secret was out.
Still, the whole of the character's design is that her gender is ambiguous. You still have to play a Metroid game (or Smash) to find out she's a woman. Before I played Metroid Prime, I thought she was a dude. I don't know if making her discernibly female would make her a better character since she's fine as she is and the Power Suit is a great design as is.
It should have been Storm to wield Mjolnir.
story behind this?
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