With this month's THOR #8, we get the BIG REVEAL on the identity of the mysterious "Lady" Thor. It wasn't as shocking to me as I thought but I wasn't thrilled by it. It wasn't mind-blowing or world changing. In fact, it seems to be an odd echo of what is going on in BATMAN.
I don't want to say too much right now but the reveal seemed wrong for anyone with a bit of knowledge of comic book history.
I will say that I think they lost a great opportunity but all but ensure that the male Thor will reclaim his birthright.
But man, will Odin be p*ssed!
How do you all feel?
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Personally, I'm convinced that Odin is currently being mind-controlled.
Phillip this is an odd one...
I was not remotely interested in this new female Thor.
How many readers are in for the mystery and will find the reveal an opportunity to jump ship?
So I looked up the reveal...
Now I want the back issues and am interested!!
I looked up the reveal also.
I have a question. Does the "Not Yet" still apply to spoilers, or may I ask it?
If the majority here know, then fine.
Not sure who hasn't read THOR #8 yet!
Well, SPOILERS is clearly in the title of the thread. I'd assume that if I hadn't read the issue yet, I should avoid this thread.
Well, here goes.
Since Jane Foster was always considered unworthy by Odin, how does Odin's enchantment on the hammer allow her to pick it up and become Thor?
Odin-wise and Jane Foster-wise, you'll never guess how What If? #10 (1978) ended. (audio)
The name she had as goddess of thunder, Thordis, is incidentally a real name.
A case could be made that Odin's real problem with Jane Foster wasn't that she wasn't worthy, but rather that she was. Ok, in order for this concept to work, we have to ignore a lot of her whiny Silver Age character bits, but hey, it was the 60s, everybody was doing it, at least if they were the love interest in a super-hero comic. Anyway, let's say that Odin's whole plan was to send Thor to Midgard for a couple decades in a mortal form to learn some much needed humility, and then "just happen" to find the hammer/walking stick, spend some time to allow his hopefully improved "mortal " persona and his original Asgardian persona to integrate, then return to Asgard as a new improved Thor and serve as Odin's good right hand. It never occurred to Odin that lame, humble Don Blake might attract a woman that Thor would actually be tempted to stay on Earth for. Odin had to do anything he could (however crazy) to break them up, because the option of Thor/Don Blake marrying Jane and choosing to remain on Earth as a part-time physician/part-time super-hero/part-time mortal husband & father, and leaving Asgard to its own devices would ruin all his plans. It's a stretch, but it does explain a lot of wacky creative decisions over the decades, including that What If? issue.
Richard Willis said:
But who determines "worthiness"? Is it Odin? Thor? Mjolnir?
It could be like a Green Lantern's power ring. The ring picks the successor, not the possessor. I'm sure Odin never chose Beta Ray Bill either.
My thing is that Jane Foster has never been a "warrior", "super-hero", "champion" whatever except when she got merged with Sif in the 70s.
Now that doesn't mean Jane is not brave, she is fighting for her life while trying to maintain her dignity but I can't see her as wanting to be Thor.
According to Thor#136, if Jane Foster got the power of Thor she'd drop the hammer and run off screaming she was losing her mind.
Sounds like this whole thing was just one more way to make the comics more like the movies. Movie Thor is with movie Jane, so put comic book Thor with comic book Jane. Like killing off Happy so they could put Pepper back with Iron Man. Sif, Valkyrie, even Hildegard would have made more sense.
That What If? story, like many in that series, was extremely surreal, especially the ending. Odin marries the woman he was constantly saying in the regular comics wasn't good enough for his son? Makes Odin seem like Zeus in full womanchaser mode.
Thor: "But Father, why can't I marry Jane?"
Odin: "Because, my son...I want her for myself!"
Jane: "But you're like...really really really old! Ew!"
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