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Thor - Marvel

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Character: Thor.  Yes, Lady Thor, not Thor Girl << which is a real thing.

I wanted to make this because of how popular The Avengers movies have become. Those Marvel super hero movies have been coming out consistently every year. It's nuts! I didn't bother to see any of them until I saw The Avengers [2012], and then I had to back-track and see all the individual movies [Iron Man 1 & 2, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America].
 Anyway,  Marvel Comics.
The character Thor is based on the Norse mythological deity , and is the Asgardian god of thunder and possesses the enchanted hammer Mjolnir, which grants him the ability of flight and weather manipulation amongst his other superhuman attributes.


Obviously, adapting any costume to cross genders has its draw backs, but I did find some comic art from an alternate reality where Jane Foster picks up the Hammer [Earth-788 (What If #10)] renaming herself Thordis. So, this costume isn't a hard stretch.
This is one of the more prop-based costumes I've done in a while.  I fashioned all the props after the movie costume, not the comic. All the armor pieces are made out of thick craft foam, that I carved/etched with a hot-knife, shaped, glued, and painted. The clothing is just a corset, cape, leggings, and the Hammer itself was a Target halloween prop.  The gauntlets and cape are my favorite part [the finishing touches really do make the costume complete]. The belt was a bit of a problem, the little bottom pieces kept getting bent.

Lady Thor has been a very popular character ever since the Avengers movies. You can pretty much buy a whole armor costume set, pre-made, year around.
I had a blast wearing this.
Pictures were taken at Central Park, Santa Clara, CA. January 2013. Photographer Oscar Cwajbaum.
Also worn to FanimeCon 2013. Photos by Paul Stout
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I also made it onto a random webpage.
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