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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

Hitting on the topic of Thor and being true to Norse mythology, I thnk that's my issue with Jane Foster Thor. I have read some of the first run and thought it was great, I think the character is great, but I hate they named her Thor. Thor is not a title, it's someone's name. It's like instead of having another person be Iron Man, you literally have someone else saying they are Tony Stark. Surely there was some other name they could have given her. Still, great character...probably the best of the legacy characters or at least on par with X-23verine.

Jason Aaron lives in the area, so he's always at local Comic-Cons and I asked him about Jane Foster Thor once when he was signing some of my comics. I asked him what he calls her and he said it's just "Thor". I basically said the same thing as you. Thor isn't his title, it's his first name. Again he said she's just "Thor". I didn't want to argue with him because he always seems like a genuinely nice guy, but that answer is pretty frustrating. I also asked him once if the female Thor concept was something he came up with on his own or if the editorial dept. told him they wanted Thor to be a woman to add diversity. Remember this was the same time that Sam Wilson took up the mantle of Captain America and there were many changes going on with other characters around this same time too. He said that he came up with it himself and pitched the idea but they timed it out to coincide with other characters being diversified. I have his entire run of Thor: God of Thunder and the Jane Foster series. He's one of my favorite comics writers, but I agree she should have a different name. I thought Odinson would use the Ultimate Thor's hammer and reclaim his Title by the end of Unworthy Thor, but that wasn't the case.