text: it's always hard to gauge this things, but Marvel has lost fans behind decisions like these (the less talked about one is Thor handing control of Asgard over to Valkyrie, a black woman). Look at the uproar over Ariel and The Little Mermaid, or recently with the announcement that 007 is now a black woman. We can make storyline, plot and canon arguments all day, but in the end these people are culturally repressed and just can't get over these types of changes