Marvel Entertainment has brought the hammer — more like the Mjolnir — down on any criticism that its comics are male-dominated, announcing Tuesday that one of its biggest superheroes will now be a woman.
Thor, the lightning-wielding superhero played by the Chris Hemsworth in the Marvel movies, will be recast as a female in new comic book series that will launch in October. “We’re really excited about this; it’s definitely shaking things up,” Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Axel Alonso told the Daily News. “Thor is the broad-shouldered masculine epitome. But you see from the teaser image that the new Thor is not to be trifled with, either.”
Alonso wouldn’t give any hints about the identity of the character who will be under the helmet of the womanly warrior. He would only say it’s a character that current “Thor” readers will recognize. “We’re going to draw this out,” he says, almost teasing fans. “We’re not going to tell you right away who it is. It’s going to be a mystery ripe with red herrings and twists.”
The old Thor, that is to say the male warrior, will still be hanging around, but will be reduced to a depowered mortal unworthy of Mjolnir — the warrior’s magical hammer — and all that comes with it. And it won’t affect Thor in the popular Marvel flicks — Hemsworth is under contract for at least the next three installments.
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