Natalie Portman gets ready for some hammertime with "Thor"

Jane Foster was Thor's girlfriend in the early 1960s. Since about 1965 this role has been taken by the goddess Sif, a fellow warrior. In recent appearances Jane Foster has indeed become a doctor.

Whenever kickass female superheroes are mentioned here I'm always surprised no one brings up Big Barda. A seven-feet tall, armour-clad warrior, she was created by comics legend Jack Kirby in 1971 and when we first see her in MISTER MIRACLE #4 she's wading into a fight and laying into all about her with her mace. The former leader of the frankly psychotic Female Furies, she's fled the world of Apokolips and its despotic ruler Darkseid in order to link up with Scot Free aka Mister Miracle, who she later marries - and how many couples are there in comics where the woman towers over the man? He's the only person she ever displays anything remotely resembling a softer side to.

There's one exchange in later years when they're unsuccessfully trying to live the surburban life that always makes me chuckle. It begins with Scot getting a call from the police to tell him that two men have attempted to mug Barda.

"Oh my God!" he says, appalled, "Are they alright?"

The little girl in Adventures in Babysitting always wore a thor hat.  I LOVED that movie.

But who knows, maybe she will have some kick-ass role.

And Kenneth Branagh? That actually does give me a little more hope. 

Natalie is Thordis !!! haha if only That would be cool.

Here I was, clasically-and-norse-paganistically-inclined, thinking it would be based on the ACTUAL NORSE GOD.There go my geek-points, or do I earn more for actually knowing the ancient gods?

He has a wife called Sif, who's the most beautiful of all women with hair like weaving wheat fields and is therefore one of the goddesses associated with the harvest. She also once got her hair shorn off by Loki, the prankster-god, and got a headdress made of finely spun gold from the dwarves as compensation for the loss of her hair.

So, still a bit of arm-candy, but pretty cool, goddess-y arm candy and not 'the superhero's girlfriend who keeps needing to get rescued'. 

Also, if it must be a girlfriend, you can always include the giantess Jàrnsaxa, one of Heimdall's nine mothers. Much more interesting to our folk, I should say ;-D

I like my women like I like my poetry: strong, beautiful and rhythmic