Weekly Question 07/18/14 #LBHQuery
Earlier this week, as mentioned on the show this week, Marvel announced some big changes for Thor:
Come this October, the one who wields the Hammer will be female. People were up in arms over this! Like it never happened before. This is comics folks, everything changes! Heck, my friend Gavin wrote an article about the other SEVEN TIMES that Thor was a woman.
And that got me thinking, this isn’t the first time Marvel has done this. A few years back, Pepper Potts donned a version of the Iron Man armor as Rescue.
Back in the 90’s, in the MC2 universe, Captain America was replaced by Sharon Carter’s niece as American Dream.
That can”t be right…oh wait, here’s the correct image.
Whilst these were mostly temporary, DC is not above adding to their universe female representations of their popular male heroes, like Supergirl
and Batgirl to name a few
So what about you? What is your favorite gender swapped comic book character? Was it from a ‘What If’ or ‘Elseworlds’? Was it female to male? What about the baddies? I’m sure someone out there likes the Joker’s Daughter!
Let us know in the comments section below or tweet them to us with the hashtag #LBHQuery
DESIRE from Sandman
Mary Jane Watson during the Spider Island arc. Everyone in NYC was gaining spider powers and/or changing into a spider. Cornered, she swats away the monster, jumps and starts climbing the wall. Her reaction? “It’s about damn time!”
this gender swapping stuff is getting old. it’s not clever anymore, if it ever was, which it wasn’t. clever. ever.
Xavin from Runaways.
As I’d mentioned on the Twitter, my favorite all-time gender-swap character (and it truly was not a swap, more like a passing of the mantle) is Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel. She’d been Ms. Marvel for well of 35 freaking years, and she lied in a coma for a good number of those years (thanks Rogue). However, she’d been written as reluctant to take on the name Captain Marvel for so many years (maybe writers thought Mar Vell would return to his “rightful” place amongst Avengers). Yet, it was finally green lit that Carol Danvers deserved to bear that name. Hopefully its not taken back (sorry Wally West).