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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
And Carol probably adopted it as well because Mar-Vell is the one Kree she knew that didn't suck.
As a hybrid, Carol probably considers Mar-Vell the closest thing she had to a Kree parent (she saw her as the Supreme Intelligence after all) and so took the slight mispronunciation of the name as her own.
Well Marvel has already gave Venom, Gwen, and Miles their own verse series after the success of Spider-Verse, its only about time they move onto to a non-spider character for that.
Though hopefully we don't get anything as bad as Miles-Thor.
Say it with me folks, "By Odin's fade", "Asgard is his hood".
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I know that it's a thing from the comics, and it's silly there as well.
There is only one Thor Odinson. People picking up his Hammer, be it Eric Masterson or Jane Foster, doesn't make them "Thor".
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianIn fairness to Eric I think his case was along the lines "I have to pretend to be Thor so people don't think he's dead"
And when Thor actually came back he immediately no longer continued calling himself Thor and changed to Thunderstrike
So I guess it's less ridiculous than Jane going "There must always be a Thor" and Thor giving up his name so she can be Thor
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 19th 2022 at 4:56:16 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie.""Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor."
It's a long-established metaphysic that anyone who can lift the hammer gets Thor powers, but there isn't really a word for "Person Possessing the Power of Thor". So they just get called Thor as an easy shorthand.
Given how many times it's happened, I do agree that Marvel should come up with an official proper noun for Power of Thor Possessors.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 19th 2022 at 5:35:47 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They flanderized him in the Aaron run to be a sexist idiot.
It was during whole Jane Thor thing, Aaron's very hamfisted attempts at feminism which included turning Odin into the embodiment of the patriarchy so Jane can have a big he-man woman-hater to fight.
As a result Odin got kicked out of Asgard and the entire universe regards him as a has-been loser.
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 19th 2022 at 6:16:07 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Ugh. Honestly, it sounds just like what he did to Cyclops in his X-Men books.
People always snicker about Bendis, but I honestly think Aaron is way worse at shitting on characterizations.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianI'd say the difference between the 2 is that Aaron's style of dialogue doesn't make you want to jab a knife into your head.
Like Aaron's writing can get incredibly stupid, just look at his current Avengers run and stuff like retconning Thoe's mom into being the Phoenix.
But Bendis comes across as downright infantile in his writing. It's a level of a stupidity that legimately makes you question whether an actual adult human being wrote this and I'm only slightly exagerrating on that.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

The moniker was probably coined by Nick Fury as a homage to Mar-Vell. There's a dialogue in Captain Marvel that essentially establishes this when Nick Fury rolls with that pronunciation:
I'm guessing just as Fury titled the "Avengers initiative" after Carol he presumably also titled her as the "Captain Marvel" asset or somesuch. It was probably in Fury's files somewhere and the Avengers rolled with it.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."