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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Doing a quick search, Jane Foster was first shown as Jane Thor in What If #10 in 1978. So they had the idea of having her as Thor long before it being it could pander to Tumblr.

Technically, she did not. In that comic, she became "Thordis". Not "Thor".

Either way, What If's rarely count for anything, as they're basically "fictional" stories even in the context of comics. It's the same reason we don't talk about that time when Aunt May was a herald of Galactus or when Stan Lee joined the Fantastic Four as serious parts of continuity.

Jane, as the female Thor, who calls herself "Thor" (as opposed to using a new name for herself), replacing the actual Thor who has become "unworthy", in a story set in the real Marvel universe as part of canon continuity, was effectively created in 2014, as part of a terrible, terrible story arc. THAT'S the version of the character we're going to be getting. There's no chance in hell the movie is going to be inspired by a one-off story from 40 years ago that most people don't even remember anymore. It will almost certainly be based, even if only in part, on one of the worst Thor storylines of the last 20 years.

And if that was the only problem with the concept, we could maybe assume they were clever enough to just lift the idea and work around the flaws (ie, what they tried to do with Civil War), but I don't feel like they can salvage the idea in the current environment.


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