Surprise, Surprise: People Are Pissed That Thor Is a Lady

Updated on July 15, 2014 at 3:12 PM

Thor is now a woman, and people just have to deal with it. As soon as Marvel made the announcement Tuesday morning, the Internet went into a frenzy. Many Tweets were negative, but some came to the rescue and put the haters in their place — check out the most memorable ones, for better or for worse.

Both men and women immediately reacted negatively to the news.

YOU CANT JUST TURN THOR INTO A GIRL WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU MARVEL?? I GIVE UP. IM DONE

— orka (@erika__galindo) July 15, 2014

I am so mad. Like wtf are you thinking? Why was it important to permanently change Thor from a man to a woman?

— baeymar (@truly_lame) July 15, 2014

NOOOOOOOOO!!! He is the one true god and he is all manliness. RT @JMRooker: WTF, Thor is a woman now? What?

— Shay (@cherokee_autumn) July 15, 2014

Oh HELL no RT @Missinfo Pass The Hammer! Marvel Says #Thor Is Now A Woman - http://t.co/9ciCqtcrHP

— Stephen Dacres (@SRDtv) July 15, 2014

Was just called a gay slur and told to get cancer because of the Thor news. Go Internet!

— Ryan Penagos (@AgentM) July 15, 2014

Others were confused as to how this would change the story line.

This new Thor.. where did she come from? What happens to male Thor? Thor is Thor Odinson.. does she become Thor Odinsdaughter? Like wtf.

— Susan | Veiled (@HowToPriest) July 15, 2014

Im not sure about female Thor, yay for girl power! Which is amazing but what if they try replace Chris Hemsworth in the movies! Devastation!

— Adriane King (@Miss_Dede_Lou) July 15, 2014

more female heroes is yay, but isn't Thor a dude? Isn't this like making Barbara Gordon the new Batman and still calling her Batman?

— Zac Shipley (@zacshipley) July 15, 2014

.@Marvel's change in Thor is awesome, but it does say a lot about comics history that he was a man, then a frog, then a horse, THEN a woman.

— Matt SantoriGriffith (@FotoCub) July 15, 2014

Some were frustrated at the lack of original female comic characters, while others called out the lack of racial diversity.

Ok, so Thor is being reinvented as a woman. Mixed feelings. Yay for strong female character, but wish we could have more original one.

— Amber (@buriedbybooks) July 15, 2014

Thor is a woman now. Yay for gender diversity. Shrug for racial diversity:

— Bilal S (@unfrndlyBLKhoti) July 15, 2014

Some had funny responses.

So weird how right after they announced a female Thor my salary immediately rose to that of my male counterparts.

— Twitnter is Coming (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 15, 2014

Others came to Thor's defense . . .

"This is not She-Thor. This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is THOR." - @jasonaaron

— Ryan Penagos (@AgentM) July 15, 2014

Thank you to @Marvel for making this father of a 3 year old girl proud to know her comic book reading days are in safe hands. #Thor @AgentM

— Derek Montilla (@Cap_Kaveman) July 15, 2014

.@Marvel executive editor @AgentM responds perfectly to nerd rage over news that Thor will be a woman: pic.twitter.com/IBiPiqAiEJ

— Neetzan Zimmerman (@neetzan) July 15, 2014

If nerds got as upset about mass shootings as they do about Lady Thor or Black-Latino Spiderman, we'd be like fricking Switzerland by Sept.

— James Rocchi (@jamesrocchi) July 15, 2014

And realized the good tweets outweighed the bad.

@POPSUGARTech Such is life! I know there are more good eggs than bad.

— Ryan Penagos (@AgentM) July 15, 2014

Quick, someone make a picture of new female #Thor doing the "haters gonna hate" walk!

— Adri Cowan (@AdriCowan) July 15, 2014