Stan Lee must be turning over his grave...
Female Thor was already done in the comic books ages ago from what I’ve heard... so I have been expecting them to roll-out “girl-Thor” for a quite some time now. What I did not expect was that girl-Thor, would be played by Natalie Portman... she’s painfully dull to watch in every movie I’ve ever seen in which she happens to play a part. (Granted, I don’t see a lot of movies where she’s the lead role.)
Apparently in the comics Thor is dead and she’s Thor.
They’re also having Valkyrie rule Asgard and searching for her lesbian “queen”in the next movie.
A lot of people don’t realize in Endgame they started killing or ridiculing all the straight white characters.
No offense, but I sincerely doubt it. He was happy with the direction Disney/Marvel was going; he was gleefully involved.
Stan Lee was a lifelong New York “liberal” (leftist) - as were/are most in the comics industry.
He consciously chose to imbue Carol Danvers with male Mar-Vell’s Kree powers, and named her Ms. Marvel, in 1977 in response to the publication of Ms. Magazine. That was overt feminism by Lee and Marvel - over 50 years ago!
The apparent former patriotism in comics was allowed because, back then, their fellow leftists successfully portrayed the NAZIs as extreme right wing (instead of what they were: just another flavor of socialist) , so it was all right for them to be pro-American in that situation.
As the 1960s counter culture took hold - and with the 1954 Senate hearings on Comics (”Seduction of the Innocent”) well behind them - they really started showing their left-wing colors, becoming more and more emboldened with each passing decade.
Both Captain America (Marvel) and Superman (DC) - the most patriotic characters - became explicitly anti-American as the years went by.
>>Stan Lee must be turning over his grave...
No. I saw Stan Lee a few years ago and he didn’t spend his time at a Marvel panel discussing the past, working in publishing. It was all about the MCU movies and new titles and the chief talking point was “Marvel’s gonna have an Indian superhero, and the new blah blah is gonna be a woman, and ‘we are gonna have a...’”. Pandering at the lowest level. Very superficial. No discussion below that surface.
There was a black Green Lantern nearly 50 years ago. Marvel in the 70s made female counterparts to the male charactes (Ms. Marvel, Spider-Woman, She-Hulk...) but this is ramping up the shift of replacement. A character’s been run out of the lead role of his film series only 4 films into the franchise. It happened in the first film of Captain Marvel. These are characters that have over 50 years of “stories”. That’s a lot of retro-continuity history being revised to dump the “classics” to push an agenda.
I wouldn’t expect an adaptation of the full story arc of any Marvel character’s history but y’might think that they’d at least TRY to capture what made the characters memorable to the public at large.
he was alive when Thor was no longer able to lift Mjolnier and Jane lifted and became Thor. But she cancer and died fighting Magog to save Asgard. But she was brought back .
As Dirty Harry would say:
....”well that’s very stylish.”
Or simply...”swell”