While I’m currently living without my weekly dose of floppies, I keep up on Marvel (not much of a DC fan...yet?) through the shows and movies. Upon starting Season 2 of Daredevil last weekend, I was reminded about a very interesting company that continues to be name-dropped.
Roxxon.
Why do I care about these hints at Roxxon? Well, it’s because it could set us up for one of the most controversial portions of the Marvel Universe. And that of course is, New Thor.
New Thor was controversial for a
number of reasons, most of which are related to gender, something incorporated into the series
, and the alteration of the name of Thor from name to title. This is not an unheard of practice and technically the inscription on the hammer always states that the wielder of Mjolnir held the
power of Thor, not necessarily that the person who held it was named Thor. The hammer had been
wielded by others in the past but in contrast the Marvel-Now Thor has separate Thor and Odinson who, while at first upset that
someone else could wield his hammer, has quietly fallen into a nice supporting character while he deals with the issues of what has made him
unworthy. And so far (although I’m not fully caught up) it looks like this is a pretty permanent switch.
So Thor and Roxxon, how are they related? Well the first major villain that Thor battles is a Roxxon affiliate. For those of us trying to figure out the identity of Thor this seemed to point to
Agent Roz Solomon, the Odinson’s new love interest. Regardless of who Thor now is, if you haven’t read the comics yet, the mention of Roxxon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by name has important meaning for what Marvel Studios could be planning for the future.
With the success of comics like Ms. Marvel and other lady-led titles, Thor included, fans are hungering for a female-led Marvel movie but sadly, the first one isn’t slated until 2018. While this is still a few years off, it is likely that Marvel is planning on making more woman-led movies and in my opinion Thor would be a damned fine choice. She has an established world, would require minimal “origin” story, and it would be easy for Thor: Ragnarok to contain events that somehow makes the Odinson unworthy. Because of this, every time I hear the name Roxxon or catch it attached to some object, I wonder if that’s a breadcrumb towards a Thor movie with a different Thor. Specifically, Agent Carter and Daredevil have both begun digging into the nature of the company and based on what we’ve seen so far it wouldn’t be improbable for them to expand their range to working with materials from another world.
While it’s far-fetched and Thor isn’t the most well-known of Marvel’s woman Super Heroes, I think they are setting themselves up for a very long hunt that could end with an amazing and new person picking up Mjolnir.
