Marvel Changes Thor’s Hammer Description To Make It Gender Neutral

Marvel Changes Thor’s Hammer Description To Make It Gender Neutral

Long story short, the recent “War of the Realms” comic book event recently concluded with Thor making a new hammer where it is revealed Marvel Comics changed the wording on Mjolnir to make it gender neutral.

The previous description on Thor’s original hammer stated: “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.”

Marvel Comics changed it to now say: “Whosoever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.”

Thor Hammer Description

Recently also saw a producer for Marvel Studios offer that the title “X-Men” is outdated because it uses the word “men” as “there is a lot of female superheroes in that X-Men group.” It is now questioned if there will be “X-Men” in the MCU or if Marvel Studios will describe them with a different gender-neutral name (X-Them?).

The wording on Thor’s hammer with he and X-Men are meant to incorporate both male and females, I believe, much like humanity and mankind, but apparently, Disney and Marvel disagree and continue with their “new” direction.

(h/t YouTube)

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