Do modern Marvel writers hate Thor?

[Daska]

It seems like ever since Marvel got rid of Donald Blake they have had to come up with different ways to maim Thor. Without Donald Blake Thor is overpowered so writers have to try to find ways to make him less strong and they have been destroying his personality ever since.

[Havok83]

It seems like ever since Marvel got rid of Donald Blake they have had to come up with different ways to maim Thor. Without Donald Blake Thor is overpowered so writers have to try to find ways to make him less strong and they have been destroying his personality ever since.

Do people miss Donald Blake?

[Cronus]

I dont. I would love to see Cates work on Thors character development exclusively.

[Daska]

I personally miss Donald Blake. Though I understand why many Thor fans were happy to see Marvel get rid of him. I was just saying that back when Donald Blake was around Thor had a distinct weakness allowing writers to write Thor as powerful as they wanted. However, since Donald Blake has departed Thor has no weakness so writers have to come up with new ways of weakening him because he is too strong over wise. Which has pretty much just caused tons of negative stuff to happen to Thor.

[Electricmastro]

Generations: The Unworthy Thor & The Mighty Thor #1 (2017) is really making me wonder if Jason Aaron disliked Thor Odinson.

[Alan2099]

Most of the Marvel Generations books seems to focus on how great the new characters were and how much better they were than the old ones. Hawkeye seemed to be an exception to this.

Thor and Wolverine were the two worst.

I personally miss Donald Blake. Though I understand why many Thor fans were happy to see Marvel get rid of him. I was just saying that back when Donald Blake was around Thor had a distinct weakness allowing writers to write Thor as powerful as they wanted. However, since Donald Blake has departed Thor has no weakness so writers have to come up with new ways of weakening him because he is too strong over wise. Which has pretty much just caused tons of negative stuff to happen to Thor.

Not just a weakness, but I think Blake added humanity to Thor. It gave him a strong link to the modern world that helped to ground the character. Having a grounded more down to earth look at Thor also worked to make the Godly aspects of the title so much stronger and impressive in comparison.

I also really liked Thor's brief time as Jake Olson. I thought that was a nice twist on the Donal Blake persona.

[Cronus]

Generations: The Unworthy Thor & The Mighty Thor #1 (2017) is really making me wonder if Jason Aaron disliked Thor Odinson.

I think so. I mean, he's painted Thor as a misogynist. Almost like he is inciting people to hate Odinson, so they will love Mary Sue.

Sorry, I meant Jane Foster.

[Alan2099]

Sorry, I meant Jane Foster.

No. You were right the first time.

[Havok83]

Generations: The Unworthy Thor & The Mighty Thor #1 (2017) is really making me wonder if Jason Aaron disliked Thor Odinson.

Has Thor ever hooked up with Thor? (not Jane)

[Icefanatic]

Most of the Marvel Generations books seems to focus on how great the new characters were and how much better they were than the old ones. Hawkeye seemed to be an exception to this.

Thor and Wolverine were the two worst.

They even had dialogue to that effect. "I'm good, but 'insert new character' is better". I remember that from the Wolverine issue. I wonder what comics historians will eventually call the era of replacing the favorite characters and perpetually crapping on them?

Not just a weakness, but I think Blake added humanity to Thor. It gave him a strong link to the modern world that helped to ground the character. Having a grounded more down to earth look at Thor also worked to make the Godly aspects of the title so much stronger and impressive in comparison.

I also really liked Thor's brief time as Jake Olson. I thought that was a nice twist on the Donal Blake persona.

I liked Jake Olson, too. Hard to believe Dan Jurgens' run was the last time I was really, really happy reading Thor each month. That seems forever ago. J. Michael Straczynski's run had things I liked and things I didn't, and Jason Aaron's run annoyed me so much I kept dropping it and finally gave up entirely.

[CaptainMar-Vell92 of the Kree]

I found these videos interesting.
Thor vs. Gladiator Epic Fight Explained : The Defeat & the Revenge

I hate how Bannerincrediblehulk keeps lowballing Thor in his videos.

[CaptainMar-Vell92 of the Kree]

Thor & Wonder Man vs. Gladiator Epic Fight Explained

Only reason Eric struggled is because he was inexperienced compared to OG Thor. The idea that Thor can't defeat a Superman pastiche without the aid of sidekicks is rather silly. But what do you expect from a Hulk fanboy?

[CaptainMar-Vell92 of the Kree]

It seems like ever since Marvel got rid of Donald Blake they have had to come up with different ways to maim Thor. Without Donald Blake Thor is overpowered so writers have to try to find ways to make him less strong and they have been destroying his personality ever since.

Thor not having a human host like an Ultraman bothers me less than modern writers depicting him as a condescending parody of a viking warrior.

[Midnight_v]

I hate how Bannerincrediblehulk keeps lowballing Thor in his videos.

Funny thing. I'm not sure where it came from but I have this idea, or recollection that ... Stan Lee or kirby or someone early on created thor to fight the hulk almost implicitly.

Like "Who could stand up to the strongest man in the world and I decided we'd need a god to do it" but I could easily be misremembering.

Yeah there were a few scenes that kinda show thor to be an ass directly in favor of jane, not just his usual boisterous arrogant self.

I also saw a cartoon avengers in which Thor was defeated by Black Panther.

Which I think it was written by Thorne, and if so well of course. . . but it made me go:

"Damn, what even IS it to be a God..." its like nothing sometimes less than nothing asgardians boy oh boy, they're weaker/less technologically advanced than who... wakandans', americans, atlanteans, vampires?
but gods though... If Ares was ripped in half by the sentry, the implication being that thor could've got the same?

So I can't say if they're hated or if Thor is HATED, but they're definitely professional "L" collectors at this point.

I mean... as a point of notice I kinda feel like volstagg should be able to toe to with juggernaut but maybe off on they're powers

An average Asgardian male can lift 30 tons / Volstagg: While he is still stronger than most Asgardian males, he is no longer in his physical prime.

Which doesn't make sense at all, and really I think the greatest error in recent times was the "defeat" of those who sit above in shadow. That was really really off and wrong and needs to be retconned completely. It needs to work the way darkseid works. You can no more defeat the "true thor" or the "Conceptual thor" than you could wipe out the Concept of "fire". If anything it becomes that our thor gets more of the power from the multiverseal thor above in shadow.

This doesn't asnwer the question in the op but there's a lot of things going wrong with thor that isn't JUST the "commitment to diversity" that pushed thor behind his female counterpart for a while. That too but... yesterday I saw him get bodied by moonknight. In this years rip-off of the "midnight massacre" but I feel like carol just did the same thing. . .

They may not hate them but they have certainly made the core avengers Thor,Tony,Steve whipping boys here for a bit... and if they could take all they're popularity and foist it onto the character they're working on at any given moment I'm sure they would... I feel they tried. They just happened to fail.

[Anthony W]

They even had dialogue to that effect. "I'm good, but 'insert new character' is better". I remember that from the Wolverine issue. I wonder what comics historians will eventually call the era of replacing the favorite characters and perpetually crapping on them.

"The money to burn era" An era that officially ended for Marvel Comics this month.