The majority of the comics you linked showing female Loki has just one small problem.. in that series Loki and Thor goes to the 10'th realm ruled by angels, all of them female, Thor is quickly captured after making a fool of himself, as soon as the fighting started to turn against them Loki did what Loki does and disappeared. Only to appear again next issue as fem-Loki to taunt the captured Thor, and free him the moment it was right. There was no reincarnation, Loki is the god of tricksters he chose the perfect form for his deception.
That still ignores the series BEFORE that event - where Loki died and was reincarnated into a female form afterward. The events of Loki returning as fem-Loki came afterward. This was noted explictly before - which you skipped over. Again,one can read Loki's bio as it's what we have bios on comicvine for. Although he can shapeshift, it is also something where he has been trapped into certain forms without his consent - and it is not long-term. I read through the comics and I'm aware of his power...but that doesn't change where gender transformations are something that can occur against one's will.
As another
already noted:
Loki forged another uru hammer similar to Mjolnir that he could use himself. He started another plan to try and start Ragnarok and destroy Asgard. Thor could have stopped him-he always had in the past. But he realized that the greatest possible honor on Asgard was to die fighting as a warrior. Asgard was on a loop, Loki attacks, Thor saves, death, rebirth. Thor accepted the destiny that Loki would eventually destroy Asgard and start Ragnarok-and he could have everyone in Asgard die a warrior's death. But he had to get his own back first, because if he was letting a whole dimension die, he might as well get revenge on his greatest enemy, who had plagued him so much. With a swift stroke of Mjolnir, Thor hacked Loki's head off. Of course, Loki was an amazingly powerful sorcerer, and decapitation didn't kill him. His head still lived, so Thor carried it with him when he traveled to Asgard. Surtur was preparing to unleash an amazing assault on Asgard-that would destroy it unless Thor stopped it. He let Surtur launch the attack-and Asgard was destroyed. But before Thor died, he confronted Those Who Sit Above In Shadow. The powers responsible for Ragnaroks, and he destroyed them. Then Asgard died-carrying Thor with it.
As for Loki, what could he do? Thor had decapitated him. All he could do was sit and watch as his ultimate goal-Ragnarok-was carried-and then scream as he was vanquished in the attack. The last act of Loki-a sad and troubled life, to say the least. But even if his last act was to scream as his greatest plan destroyed him, Loki was still quite possibly the greatest threat to Thor and Asgard-and even in death, in the end-Loki won.
Like all the "dead" Asgardians, Loki was reborn as a human form and imprisoned by Balder to prevent Thor from restoring Asgard. H
owever the fates had a little surprise for him as he was reborn as a female, inhabiting the body of Sif, Thor's true love. Loki has seemingly devoted herself to aiding her brother and former enemy in his quest to restore Asgard but knowing Loki this is undoubtedly a plan she has set into motion to destroy her brother once again. Due to Loki's latest moves Lady Sif remains as the last Aesir that is trapped in human form and Balder discovered that he is a true son of Odin and not just adopted. Balder was then crowned Prince of Asgard. In contrast to Lo
ki's life as a male god the goddess seems to use hidden truths to spin her sinister webs rather then lies.
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Again, you can't go against basics in the comic -book storylines....
You argue a point I didn't make, indeed as I said elsewhere in this thread, Storm even wielded the hammer... which reminds me I need to hunt down that issue... Storm.. the "goddess" of weather herself wielding that hammer must have been impressive.
I remember it - and there was another instance where even Wonder-Woman did the same...as I owned the comic from Amalgam where Storm ended up picking up the hammer at one point when DC and Marvel had a cross-over.
And what happened with the recent version of Thor as a female isn't new. One of them, in an older story, was Jane Foster (from an alternate reality) - who was named “Thordis” in this reality and she experienced many of the same adventures that the mainstream Thor did. More has been discussed elsewhere in
"To Me My Hammer!" A History of Female "Thor's" in Marvel U
I also mentioned that the very wording of the original quote upon the hammer said that the sex of the wielder was irrelevant, however the writer of the current Thor #1 changed that.
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I saw where you mentioned the wording. Nonetheless, one must remember that you're dealing first and foremost with ....COMICS. The storylines have changed. Having the hammer change its name from male to female isn't really radical when understanding that the nature of the comic is based in one primary thing - and that's MAGIC. We've already seen where things have shifted rapidly within the world of Thor on several occasions - some things seeming to be limited at times and at others they changed on a dime.
We already have basic examples of that on many levels. In the
"Fear Itself"
storyline, Hulk actually ended up weilding one of the hammers from
an ancient foe of the Norse Gods (one who was actually the Forefather of them all/true King of Asgard and the one all Asgardians fear) and ended up becoming one of the
Worthy (Elite Vanguard and Agents of Destruction), defeating Thor again when transformed into
NUL Hulk, to which Thor admitted he could never beat Hulk [/LEFT]
If that could have happened, then there's no reason assuming that the same concept was not possible with the changing of Thor's Hammer from being able to be used by both MEN/WOMEN (based in the Old English of gender-neutral with "if he be worthy") to only being used by a woman (as goes the new change in language with saying "if she be worthy").
If people are complaining about consistency and the rules, then I would note that they should never been reading THOR SINCE it has never been fully accurate with the theology:
The female character who now wields Thor's Hammer has been said by the creator of the current series (Jason Aaron) to be someone from
Thor's universe who will carry it for a time. The series writiers discussed how the new character connects to the broader history of Marvel's Thor, with there being a developing mystery behind the lead character that has yet to be revealed - thus meaning I can't pass judgment on why it's bad to have a female version of Thor, as Thor will still remain himself while another has the title of Thor for serious reasons. I give the series grace in light of what has already happened, as the mid-'80s run on "Thor" is considered one of the highest points in the character's history. For During his time on "Thor," the character also experienced some notable changes -- including becomin
g a frog during one story arc.
Change is a natural part of Thor's universe. And again, if not even Odin can lift Thor's hammer (even though it was his enchantment that made it what it was), then you already know that perhaps other beings higher than him are involved. As it is, within the world of Thor, we've already seen it where there were other beings greater than the Asgardians who were able to change the rules of the game with regards to the power of weapons - and we know that there are newer dynamics introduced all the time within the world of Thor. At one point, the Asgardians were seen as the ones who made the universe and were eternal - and then it shifted in regards
to those known as those who live in Shadow - the gods who actually made the Norse Gods... the beings who sit above the gods of Asgard and who are the authors of the endless Ragnarok cycle being experienced by the Asgardians in the Marvel U, as those Who Sit Above In Shadow' absorb the energies produced by the 'Ragnarok Cycles - but prior to them, no one had any idea of an entire cycle that existed before the Asgardians or
of other gods who had the universe in a constant cycle of rebirth/death.
And of course, to introduce those called "Those who Sit Above in Shadow" was not a new concept. It exis
ted earlier in the 80s when a plot from the X-Men was involved:

However, for them to change it to being a matter of them manipulating the Norse gods was a BIG change.
The list goes on with changes in the Marvel Universe - and again on the subject, seeing that Norse Mythology isn't really represented fully in the Marvel Universe, it is not really a surprise that so many changes have happened.