The following contains spoilers for Venomized #1, with by Cullen Bunn, Iban Coello and Matt Yackey, on sale now. 


Last month saw the death of Jane Foster, the Mighty Thor, after four years of wielding the thunderous hammer Mjolnir. It was a tragic moment to be sure, but one that was brought about by Jane's own choice to believe in herself and save Asgard from the murderous Mangog. Who else but her, after all, would think to strap a monster to their magical hammer (which was the only thing keeping her alive) and toss it into the sun?

Prior to her death, Jane's life wasn't exactly easy. Not only was she an Avenger and Goddess of Thunder, she had cancer, and her illness spread quicker with each transformation into Thor. And if recent events have shown anything, it's that Jane's unluckiness wasn't confined to her solo book.

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This week sees the beginning of Marvel's Venomized event, wherein evil symbiotes from another dimension, dubbed Poisons, have made their way to the Marvel universe. The Poisons have the power to harvest other symbiotes and consume their hosts, which is what Venom dealt with last year in the Venomverse event and later on with the time-displaced teenage X-Men. As Venomized opens, the Poisons have begun their process of granting forcing symbiotes onto the various Marvel heroes scattered around New York.

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While a group of them are already attacking various Avenger members and X-Men, Thor is at a bar with Hercules, listening to one of his many stories and trying to get him home after he's had a few too many. In the midst of their trek out of the establishment, a Poison Hawkeye infects them both with Symbiote arrows. For the moment, Jane is still in control of herself and the Symbiote has yet to take over, but the various Poisons -- which include not just Hawkeye and Crossbones, but big villains such as Dr. Doom and Thanos -- will soon be on the hunt for her and the other infected heroes. And the only one capable of really eliminating the Poisons without killing the hosts, Carnage, is without his Symbiote and currently having one forced onto him so as to render him harmless.

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Venomized continues Jane's unlucky streak before her death. Sometime before her fateful showdown with the Mangog, the Goddess of Thunder finds caught up in Doctor Strange's Damnation shenanigans, where she's turned into a Ghost Rider after Hell literally comes to live in Las Vegas. Along with the typical flaming skull, the Rider Thor comes with an... interesting ability; she can make it rain blood with the crack of her hammer. And while she's been able to enjoy her time as a demonic thunder god that summons blood rain, she also took Blade's sword in her eye as payback for dumping Mjolnir on him.

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It's also worth noting that Jane is also in the Avengers: No Surrender weekly event, which has seen the various Avengers teams -- USAvengers, Uncanny Avengers and the main team, of which Jane is a member -- trapped in a cosmic game between the Grandmaster and fellow Elder of the Universe, the Challenger. Her appearances during the event so far have largely been related to beating the various members of the Black Order and Lethal Legion into submission, but she's also had to deal with the return of the original Hulk Bruce Banner. So it can never be said that Jane's last days were boring or uneventful.

Superheroes are naturally unlucky, to the point where the most famous of them have misfortune built into their origin stories. Whether it's watching their parents die, being the last of an alien race, or just getting bitten by a spider, heroes are no strangers to the odds not being in their favor. As a god who traveled the cosmos and got caught up in an interstellar war, it's perhaps fitting that Jane's bad luck involves deceptive demons and parasite aliens from another universe. All things considered, the cancer was never going to actually kill her -- it would just be her attraction to danger and the constant madness of the Marvel Universe that would put her in a grave.