petros said: I'm fairly certain that Phase 4 Avengers will have a god on the roster, maybe Sif, maybe someone new introduced in Ragnarok. Heck, maybe they'll give us lady Thor for Phase 4, it will be 2020 by then. Click to expand...

If 'Lady Thor' in Phase 4 means the Odinson mostly retires from field duty to be king of Asgard and his GF Lady Sif largely gets to replace him as Mjolnir-wielding Asgardian adventuress and Avengers member keeping the peace in the Nine Realms, I shall be cheering in the front rows with a Jamie Alexander T-shirt. If it means a carbon copy of the horrible, horrible Foster!Thor character in current comics, Dear Universe spare us. Besides extreme story/team fragmentation and inability to follow any plot for more than a few months before stumbling into yet another story-breaking, confusing, useless crossover event with silly premises I care nothing about, Foster!Thor is a big reason why a long-term Marvel/Thor/Avengers fan like me has largely sworn off the current 'All-New, All-Different' status quo. Admittedly I am prejudiced against comics legacy characters in general (the Batman/Superman/Flash/GL families convoluted legacy drama and their endless angst about worthiness of the role bores me to tears, even if I found YJ appealing), and I've never found anything interesting in Marvel's attempts to revive the stale and worn Don Blake subplot by replacing the Odinson with empowered mortals, since Simonson retired Blake in the '80s. A female mortal replacement can make little difference, and Beta Ray Bill is the only decent character that ever came from such attempts.Admittedly, a few rather good legacy characters, often with a 'diverse' component, occurred in Marvel universe over time, such as Cap. Marvel (I'm a big fan of Carol Danvers, she made the character a pillar of the setting and better than the Kree version had ever been, who was basically a less powerful clone of Silver Surfer), Kamala Khan, and perhaps Miles Morales (I'm not a great fan of Spider-Man in general). However replacement of my beloved Odinson with a ridiculous 'whispered secrets make you unworthy' excuse to swap him with a whiny, preachy, and pretentious feminist/disabled people soapbox that twists the Asgard setting in an excuse to score PR points for identity politics with SJW readers got me enormously pissed off. Foster!Thor is a good example of a lot I find wrong and annoying with legacy and PC/identity politics characters in fiction, and I can't wait to get the character retired. Foster has nothing to make her a person especially worthy of the hammer, except base pandering to SJW stuff I hate. If Marvel really felt the need to load the Odinson with another temporary row of forced retirement and try the novelty of a female replacement, the proper thing to do was to hand Mjolnir to a well-established Asgardian lady badass such as Lady Sif, Valkyrie, or on a stretch (if they wanted to try the redemption angle) the Enchantress.