[AgileSiamang7]

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Originally Posted by Yellow Ranger

I look at it like this: A female main Rider would pretty much be the equivalent of a female Batman,Prime,Spiderman or Iron Man in the West and just as unlikely to happen for the same reason I said earlier: execs think rightly or wrongly boys wouldn't support a heroine.

I mean heck there was a shitfest over a woman getting Thor's powers in the comics awhile ago and this is a demograph you'd think would like that kind of thing.

Difference is, here we're suggesting a new season where the main rider simply is a woman, rather than retconing or replacing Bruce Wayne, Orion Pax, Peter Parker, or Tony Stark in their already developed roles with a woman, who takes their hero name (though why a woman would call her self BatMAN and not Batwoman would be odd, so really only Optimus Prime would work gender neutrally here).

The Thor situation is an entirely different thing of its own.

The reason there's a shitfest over Thor is because:
A.) the retcon they pulled to say Odinson was unworthy of his powers didn't even explain why, they just had Fury whisper in his ear and poof, no hammer for Thor,
B.) They haven't bothered to reveal who new Thor is yet, dragging out the mystery to make it seem more interesting (event though the whole point of Thor's hammer is worthiness, and if we can't be told who the new Thor is why should we just consider her "worthy"?"
C.) Crusher Creel, the Abosorbing Man, goes from a mostly neutral in regards to why he feels like attacking a Thor that day to becoming the writer's strawman for every person complaining about Lady Thor, because apparently the man who fell in love with and married a supervillainous who regularly brutalizes She-hulk would give a damn about who's wielding the hammer, and go on a rant about how she should get her own identity and blah blah.
C1.) Also, why the fuck would Titania spew some "girl power" nonsense and knock her man out over this? She's proud there's a female Thor? Again, where's this sisterhood when she's ambushing She-hulk? Changing character's attitudes to sell your story is nonsense.
D.) This is more of a personal thing, as I defend the use of superhero deaths in comics to a certain extant, but here's my problem with this story: Thor has recently been killed off twice. Once in the Ragnorok arc around the time of Avengers: Disassembled, and later during Fear Itself. Superhero deaths, to me, arent' about "Oh they'll be back eventually", but more of a "Great, now the one hero I was reading won't be around for a while. What am I supposed to read now?"

If the only X-men you liked was Nightcralwer, his death in Second Coming robbed you of a reason to continue reading X-men. If Nightwing is the only member of the Bat-clan you have an interest him, if DC was to suddenly cancel his series you'd have no way to get your Grayson fix.

Fans just recently lost Thor, twice over, and while the Tanarus arc was brief, we had no idea at the time that that would be the case, and the bullshit retcon where Tanarus had always been the Avenger thunderer gave some of us worry that this arc was going to last longer than it should (say maybe 2 years at most). Steve Rogers is still around, and we at least know Falcon and are aware of his right to be Cap just as much as any of Steve's allies. Steve didn't lose an arm when they depowered him, and with the way everyone is trying to recreate the Super-Soldier serum being a constant thing in the MU, it won't be long for Steve to be back in shape if they really wanted it to happen.

Removing Thor, not only from his power but his freaking first name (they Literally only call him Odinson now, which is demeaning to the character in so many ways) but most of his powers. Now he just has his axe they just introduced from his early adventures and a tattered red cape. Also he's missing an arm, so now has a...not a cyborg one, more of a magical metal replacement? That part confuses me, but still, at the end of the day they mutilated the original Thor, not even having the decency to just kill the character and leave him whole and with some respect for him intact (implying that he had some secret that made him not worthy, but not telling us leaves a future retcon open that will piss fans off more than anything happening now), and yet we're supposed to love new Thor why? Because Mjolnir flies for her better? Because she can make lighting curve and track her enemies instead of just blast forward or raining down (which is legitimately cool visually, but still)?

When Monica Rambeau briefly took the name Captain Marvel, or even now that Carol's taken the title, at least the original Kree was dead, and they didn't have to imply some fault with him while doing so.

I don't particularly mind new Thor, but there is too much "shut up and accept it" coming out of the writer's mouth for me to defend it.