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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Looking at upcoming issues and previews, Thor will still be around but using Jarnbjorn instead. I guess he loses the right to Mjolnir as result of his actions in the past when he enchanted Jarnbjorn out of pride and has now caused the death of a Celestial and previously the Earth. I don't think this will last very long though, just like Steve Rogers no longer being the cap'n won't last. Things change, but seem to always return to formula, and now with the movies acting as a major interest boom the comics like to ride on those interests. Good examples: The Avengers teases Thanos and then Thanos is suddenly brought back from the dead, the Amazing Spider-Man uses The Lizard and then in the comics Lizard becomes the main villain for a stretch (same for ASM2 with Electro), and I'm sure that when the movie is close to releasing Apocalypse will become a world-shattering villain again for the comics. So while this new character (or not so new apparently) may stick around after Thor reclaims his right to use Mjolnir, they'll probably be like Beta-Ray Bill where they get their own version of Mjolnir, but not the original. Hopefully it's some good reading and maybe, just maybe, we might see a figure out of it. Though I would feel hurt that we see a brand new character in figure before one of many more deserving older characters.

There's a big apocalypse event coming up in the pages of X-Men within the next two years. Marvel's been hinting at it for awhile, so it'll be right before the new X-Men film hits.

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Originally Posted by Lionheart

Thor is the Norse god of thunder. Thor is a male god. I don't understand how they can change the gender and still have the character as 'Thor'?

It would be like making 'Venus' or 'Aphrodite' a man. Odd choice.

As far as I'm concerned Valkyrie was a female-ish Thor, and she was from the legit mythos (more or less).

From the comics, this isn't the first time. A What If issue in particular has gone in depth with it before(using Rogue), and it's always been the enchantment on the hammer as opposed to the person themselves. So she's not Thor Odinson. She's just the wielder of Mjolnir with the full power of Thor Odinson because of that.

Like Eric Masterson before, among others.
In the long term, she'll probably eventually get her own hammer and be inducted into the Thor Corps. Not sure. A lot of changes might stay if they start being reflected in the films. Like that Falcon Cap. If the movies go that direction, that may not change back anytime soon.

Depends on what Marvel is doing. Are they finally going to let their characters start growing, or are they going to keep them on this permanent rinse recycle repeat so nothing ever actually changes.