Reply to: Is Odin taking a leaf out of Cameron's book?

[d000hg]

The agenda that black people are as good as white?

More seriously it's a bit of a quandary because creating new heroes who are female/black/gay/whatever seems even more gimmicky to me (I'm sure they do exist but haven't the same status). Established heroes have a brand/cachet which I assume is hoped will survive the transformation.

[Troll]

Do you object to black superheroes?

Not per se.. rather the changing of an established icon to suit some current agenda - given current demographics it may have been better to have made Captain America a Latino

[d000hg]

Do you object to black superheroes?

[Troll]

& Captain America is now Black

Has New Labour taken over Marvel?

[kal]

This is nothing to do with Hollywood, this is in comics.

What the article doesn't explain is HOW they are able to do this. Don't they have storylines to follow - how does Thor suddenly become a woman? Is it simply a new comic with a female Thor or is Thor going to somehow switch gender? Will male and female Thor coexist in the comic-book universe?

And does this mean Wonderwoman will become a man?

Even more bizarre as the Thor of Marvel comics is based on the actual Norse gods of old, I can imagine quite a few Vikings being miffed by this. Give it 12 months and the resultant uproar will result in him reverting to a big hairy bloke waving a large hammer around

[d000hg]

In keeping with the relentless over-compensating Hollywood propaganda of all-action superwomen having to contend with ineffectual nincompoop guys

This is nothing to do with Hollywood, this is in comics.

What the article doesn't explain is HOW they are able to do this. Don't they have storylines to follow - how does Thor suddenly become a woman? Is it simply a new comic with a female Thor or is Thor going to somehow switch gender? Will male and female Thor coexist in the comic-book universe?

And does this mean Wonderwoman will become a man?

[kal]

It's not true that he's "always been a bloke waving a big hammer about" - he spent a few weeks as a frog, fighting rats:

Nothing wrong with that, perfectly sensible. Now if they had turned him into a female frog, that would have been ridiculous!

[MicrosoftBob]

Never watched Dogma then?

Marks out of ten I'd give her one

[d000hg]

I think God should be cast as a woman too.

Never watched Dogma then?

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

I think God should be cast as a woman too.

What do you mean 'should be'

[UglyBetty]

I think God should be cast as a woman too.

[OwlHoot]

Watched the last Thor movie recently and enjoyed it for the mindless action flick that it was.

But I see that changes are afoot BBC News - Marvel Comics recasts superhero Thor - as a woman.

Thor is the Norse god of thunder, always been a bloke waving a big hammer about and one of the few that can go toe to toe with the Hulk. But it looks like Odin has decided that he needs 'more women in his cabinet'

In keeping with the relentless over-compensating Hollywood propaganda of all-action superwomen having to contend with ineffectual nincompoop guys

[Pondlife]

It's not true that he's "always been a bloke waving a big hammer about" - he spent a few weeks as a frog, fighting rats:

Thanks

[NickFitz]

Watched the last Thor movie recently and enjoyed it for the mindless action flick that it was.

But I see that changes are afoot BBC News - Marvel Comics recasts superhero Thor - as a woman.

Thor is the Norse god of thunder, always been a bloke waving a big hammer about and one of the few that can go toe to toe with the Hulk. But it looks like Odin has decided that he needs 'more women in his cabinet'

It's not true that he's "always been a bloke waving a big hammer about" - he spent a few weeks as a frog, fighting rats:

[SpontaneousOrder]

It sounds stupid on the face of it. What next, Hamlet, Hitler and Henry the Eighth cast as women?

Although the 300 films & comic type books are equally distorted, in different ways, from the legend/myth, but are very successful.