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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 28, 2020 8:06:18 GMT -5
Personally, I've always been a big Sif fan, and never cared for Jane Foster. I found her a pretty lame character. I realize that she's been redeemed as a character in recent years, but I'm fairly ignorant of comic developments from about 1990 on (with the exception of a few titles) so that stuff doesn't really register with me.
Anyway, who would you pick for Goldilocks to spend eternity (give or take a few millennia) with - Jane or Sif?
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Post by brutalis on Apr 28, 2020 8:13:20 GMT -5
Not read anything of Foster with cancer becoming a female Thor so can only base my decision upon what I have read. Absolutely no reason Thor would be attracted to a whining (as she was portrayed during her time as his nursing assistant) mortal. Sif is a warrior woman capable of standing beside him in battle and more than capable of knocking sense into his stubborn mule head. Big Daddy Odin at least had that one decision correct.
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Post by rberman on Apr 28, 2020 8:18:18 GMT -5
Is Sif, like Big Barda, a stand-in for Roz Kirby?
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Post by berkley on Apr 28, 2020 8:22:59 GMT -5
I always see Jane Joster as a Lois Lane type and generally one aspect of the inherently wrong-headed impulse to make Thor more like Superman, so the sooner they got rid of her the better, to my taste. The Kirby/Lee Thor became an infintely better book after they ditched all that Don Blake soap opera stuff and turned it into a wildly creative SF-fantasy series. Bringing her back at all, let alone having her "become Thor", was a terrible idea and another sign to me of how creatively bankrupt Marvel has been for many years, not that any more were needed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2020 8:48:33 GMT -5
Sif. I agree with some of the above posts. Jane would have been better as just another supporting character rather than Thor's love interest. And I liked that the Don Blake ID was abandoned after he learned some humility.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 28, 2020 9:22:52 GMT -5
I'm with berkeley: "Thor" became infinitely better when Lee and Kirby wrote out Jane and brought in Sif. I hated it every time they brought Jane back, even when it was only for a single issue. I couldn't believe anybody harbored any nostalgia for that cipher of a character. At least the MCU gave us a Jane worth knowing (though even there I prefer Sif).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 28, 2020 10:36:14 GMT -5
Sif, Sif, Sif, and lest I'm not making my point: Sif.
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Post by badwolf on Apr 28, 2020 11:03:02 GMT -5
Sif. He's got to have one of his own people.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 28, 2020 14:53:46 GMT -5
I think that Thor being caught in a doomed love story with a mortal is a great dramatic idea, but in the comics it never really worked. Right from the start I preferred Sif (except for those few issues in around issue #200 in which Gerry Conway turned her into a whimpering damsel in distress).
I wish Sif had had a stronger solo career; I hoped for a long while that she might join the Avengers, not as Thor's girlfriend, but as a hero in her own right.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 28, 2020 14:55:04 GMT -5
Jane Foster started out as a poor imitation of Lois Lane. If she ever got better I never saw it.
Sif wins by miles.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 28, 2020 15:24:29 GMT -5
I vote none. He should be free to be with a variety of women just like Cap or Iron man.
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Post by Farrar on Apr 28, 2020 16:40:51 GMT -5
I think that Thor being caught in a doomed love story with a mortal is a great dramatic idea... This. The love between a god and mortal is doomed from the start, such drama! but probably too much for a 1960s comic. In a way Thor-Jane reminded me of those great--and usually tragic--stories/myths I loved to read, about what would happen when the Greek or Roman gods/goddesses fell in love with mortals (or just lusted after them). The end results were usually disastrous. |
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Post by brutalis on Apr 28, 2020 16:41:26 GMT -5
By the Bristling Beard of Odin! The MCU Movie Thorbowski from Endgame deserves an equal partner like Volstagg! There I Said it! Oops, wrong thread?!? They can fight over the video remote and whose turn it is and fight for that last slice of 3 day old pizza!!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 28, 2020 17:24:38 GMT -5
Thor’s treatment in Endgame was an abomination. There I said it.
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 28, 2020 18:16:05 GMT -5
Thor’s treatment in Endgame was an abomination. There I said it. Yeah, he was basically just comedy relief in that. Sad! Wondering who'll be the new Avengers leader with Cap & Iron Man gone after Endgame, it sure ain't gonna be Thor after that performance. |
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