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Keith Kincaid (Earth-616)

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Dr. Keith Kincaid was an American doctor who was once the employer of Jane Foster who later became his wife and the mother of their son, Jimmy.

History

Dr. Kincaid was working in a hospital on the West Coast when he first met Jane Foster who had just failed the tests of Odin to prove worthy of becoming a goddess, meaning that her love for Thor had to end. Odin brought this about by mystically transporting her to that hospital where he had arranged for her to be the new resident nurse. After arriving and suddenly remembering why she was there, Foster was escorted to meet Dr. Kincaid who made a point of welcoming the new nurses and explaining their duties to them. Jane was immediately impressed with how handsome Kincaid was and felt as though she'd known him before.[1]

Keith Kincaid and Jane Foster began an relationship and became engaged. Then, while Kincaid was out of town on business, Jane suddenly took ill and was hospitalized. By the time Kincaid returned to New York City, Jane had disappeared without a trace. Private investigators that Kincaid hired were only able to discover that she had last been seen with her former employer, Donald Blake, who had since moved to Chicago, Illinois. Desperate to know what had happened to Jane, Kincaid had the Chicago Police Department investigate her disappearance as a possible murder.[2] Thor later met with Kincaid in an attempt to convince him that Blake was a good person who would never have killed Jane in a jealous rage, but Kincaid was convinced that Blake knew what had happened to Jane and refused to stop looking for her. Hearing the anguish that Kincaid was suffering, Thor chose to reveal to him that Blake was his mortal alter-ego. When Thor then revealed the circumstances of Jane's disappearance and that he had learned where she might be, Kincaid begged to be allowed to accompany him. Thor agreed and so he, Kincaid and Sif traveled to the planet Rus to find the Runestaff of Kamo Tharnn. Despite encountering some difficulties and setbacks, Jane was safely recovered and reunited with Keith.[3] Soon after returning to Earth, Keith Kincaid and Jane Foster were married in a ceremony in New York City that was attended by both Don Blake and Sif.[4]

The married couple were living in a house in Highland Park when Jane became pregnant[5] and they continued to live there after their son Jimmy was born.[6]

Later, Keith became too busy and started neglecting Jane (or maybe she just started feeling neglected). Whatever the reason, when Keith moved back to New York City, the couple decided to separate and Jane stayed in Chicago with Jimmy.[7]

Kincaid later became the official staff doctor to the Avengers.[8] He also assisted Captain America when his Super Soldier Serum was deteriorating in his body.[9]

Some years later, Jane had also become a doctor[10] and so she and Keith worked together at Memorial Hospital in New York,[11] apparently having reconciled and living together in the same apartment.[12]. Unknown to them, paramedic Jake Olson was the mighty Thor working with them in human form.[11]

Keith Kincaid fell into a coma after an attack on Memorial Hospital by the Absorbing Man left him critically injured.[13] Hela used him as a vessel for one of her agents to spy on Jake Olson for a time.[14]

Although the real Keith Kincaid was last seen in his hospital room, he apparently recovered. Keith, Jane and Jimmy lived together as a family until Jane suddenly filed for divorce. Since she didn't provide a good reason for why she wanted the divorce, Jane suspected that Keith would end up with custody of Jimmy.[15]

The divorce was finalized[16] and Keith did get custody of Jimmy, with Jane getting to see her son every other weekend.[17] One night, as Keith was on the freeway driving Jimmy to Jane's home, he apparently fell asleep at the wheel and the car went through a guardrail.[16][17] Keith and Jimmy could have survived that, but their car hit a tree and burst into flames, killing them.[17]

Notes

  • Keith Kincaid was all but lost in a subplot by Dan Jurgens during his run on Thor (Vol. 2). After falling into a coma, Kincaid was possessed by a mysterious agent of Hela. This agent, in Kincaid's body, spied on Thor for several months while teasing the audience with hints of his true identity. His identity was supposedly revealed as the Executioner when he stepped through the Mirror of Mysolljh, an enchanted artifact the Enchantress used to reveal someone's true nature. However, it was THEN revealed that the "Executioner" was actually a nameless cipher entity of Hela's when Thor captured him and returned him to Hel in Thor (Vol. 2) #43.
  • In all the drama and body-swapping, however, Keith Kincaid was completely forgotten about! The entity possessed Kincaid's body, was transformed into the Executioner by the Mirror, then turned into the entity's true form by Thor and the Odinforce...and so Kincaid's body was lost in the shuffle. He made no further appearances in Jurgens' run on Thor, leaving his fate completely up in the air. It wouldn't be until six years later, in Thor (Vol. 3) #8, that another writer mentioned that Keith Kincaid was still alive, albeit off-panel somewhere.
  • Exactly what connection existed between Keith Kincaid and Donald Blake has varied over the years.
    • When Dr. Kincaid first appeared, he was just a blond doctor who worked at the West Coast hospital where Odin sent Jane Foster after she had failed the test to become a goddess.[1] The idea that Kincaid and Blake looked so much alike that they could have been twins was not mentioned until much later.[2]
    • Years later, Eric Masterson accessed the memories that he now shared with Thor and recalled that, when Keith Kincaid was a young medical student, Odin had used him a template to create a physical, mental and emotional duplicate. Odin had slightly altered this clone of Kincaid, making him lame, and then implanted Thor's essence within this physical form, creating the entity who thought himself to be Donald Blake.[18]
    • More years later, after Thor discovered Donald Blake in a cavern within Mount Wundagore, he confronted his father and Odin decided to finally reveal the full truth about Thor's mortal life. According to Odin, Donald Blake had been a real human being to whom the runes on his spear Gungir had led him as the perfect vessel within which Odin could hide his son's spiritual essence to save him from an otherwise-inevitable death. According to this story, Keith Kincaid was actually Gungir's second choice for Thor's mortal shell.[19]
  • Although Dr. Kincaid's first appearance in Thor #136 was very brief, it was clear that writer Stan Lee meant for him to be Jane's Foster's new love interest. However, that plotline wasn't developed since, in her next two appearances, Jane Foster wasn't with Kincaid. Instead, in her cameo appearance in Thor #146, Jane was in the audience at a circus sharing popcorn with a brown-haired man. Later, in Thor #172, Jane was working for and romantically involved with the brown-haired Dr. Jim North. When she was held hostage by Kronin Krask, Dr. North came to Don Blake, hoping that he could contact Thor for help. By the time Jane Foster was next seen, in Thor #231, Dr. Kincaid was neither seen nor mentioned, but a flashback story in Thor #279 that was set soon after Jane failed her test makes it clear that he and Jane were dating at that time.
  • No in-universe explanation for this romantic muddle has ever been provided and, with the exception of Thunderstrike #16, writers have managed to avoid even mentioning Dr. North and the story in which he appeared.
  • Although Dr. Kincaid's hair should always have been blond, he has sometimes been presented as having brown or reddish-brown hair.

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