A day after Thor became the Goddess of Thunder, Marvel is changing another one of their superheroes.

On Wednesday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Marvel announced that Steve Rogers would be stepping down as Captain America and his friend Sam Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie in this summer's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, would be taking over.

Wilson, created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan, first appeared in 1969's Captain America #117 and was the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics (The Black Panther, who had debuted in Fantastic Four years earlier, was African, coming from the fictional country of Wakanda).

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By 1971, he was upgraded to co-star status when the series was retitled "Captain America and the Falcon," a change that lasted until 1978 when Steve Rogers went solo once more.

Wilson will take on the role of Captain America in October's Captain America #25, written by Rick Remender with art by Carlos Pacheco. He will become the seventh character to use the name in Marvel continuity, as well as the second of Captain America's former sidekicks to take the identity on in the last decade.

Instead of attacking the decision, many fans on Twitter reacted more towards writer Rick Remender taking over the story more than anything. This probably stems from past controversy surrounding the writer.

Last year, he killed off long-running character Sharon Carter. And even back when Jet was canonically a young teenager, one of her superpowers relied on her wearing skimpy outfits: the ability to read the future through her bare skin.

It is not confirmed yet if/when Wilson will next pop up in the Marvel movies.

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