"Thor is unable to pick up the hammer. There are a number of women in Thor’s life, and we’re going to tease out for quite awhile the identity of who this woman is. But one of the women in Thor’s life picks up the hammer. She is in fact worthy. And she becomes Thor."
(unless she was Sif to begin with, in which case she will now be Thor *and* Sif. But regardless of whether or not she was Sif before, she's not BECOMING Sif by becoming Thor.)
At any rate, this makes more sense than just deciding Thor should be female. At least there's some rationale behind it within the rules of that universe
.... did you miss that *in the source material* Asgardians sometimes turn into women, or horses? The bit about Loki being a woman, then a female horse, then giving birth, isn't Marvel. It's Norse. The grandchild in question is Sleipnir, Odin's horse.
"A woman is now Thor because the worthy person who holds the hammer is Thor, and a worthy woman picked it up" makes MORE sense than most of the Eddas.
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Date: 2014-07-17 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-17 12:55 pm (UTC)EDIT: Aha! Look at this article!
http://time.com/2987551/thor-marvel-woman/ (http://time.com/2987551/thor-marvel-woman/)
"Thor is unable to pick up the hammer. There are a number of women in Thor’s life, and we’re going to tease out for quite awhile the identity of who this woman is. But one of the women in Thor’s life picks up the hammer. She is in fact worthy. And she becomes Thor."
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Date: 2014-07-17 02:36 pm (UTC)Being worthy of the hammer, and being a woman, does not make you Sif. It makes you Thor.
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Date: 2014-07-17 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-17 08:25 pm (UTC)(unless she was Sif to begin with, in which case she will now be Thor *and* Sif. But regardless of whether or not she was Sif before, she's not BECOMING Sif by becoming Thor.)
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Date: 2014-07-17 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-17 08:56 pm (UTC)"A woman is now Thor because the worthy person who holds the hammer is Thor, and a worthy woman picked it up" makes MORE sense than most of the Eddas.