Where was Thor fan favourite Sif in Ragnarok?

THERE was a gaping hole in Thor: Ragnarok. Where was Sif hiding?

SPOILERS: Do not read on unless you’ve already seen Thor: Ragnarok (or you’re not going to watch it anyway). You’ve been warned.

BY NOW you’ve laughed your way through Thor: Ragnarok, expressing full appreciation for Chris Hemsworth’s muscles, or Mark Ruffalo’s soulful eyes, or director Taika Waititi’s wicked sense of humour.

You probably have some questions. This will answer one: Where the hell is Sif?

The female warrior played by Jaimie Alexander in the first two Thor films was conspicuously missing from the fray.

There was a whole lot of will-she-won’t-she conjecture and suggestive tweets from Alexander in the months leading up to Thor: Ragnarok’s release.

Executive producer and Marvel Studios vice-president of production and development told news.com.au that it was a scheduling issue that prevented Sif’s return.

“We wanted to bring Jaimie into the film,” he said. “But movies are chaos. Sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t.

“Sadly we couldn’t make the schedule work. She’s on a hit television show [Blindspot] and doing quite well and we were shooting in Australia, so it never came together.”

What a badarse.

In the film, Thor’s fighting buddies, the Warriors Three — Fandral (Zachary Levi), Volstagg (Ray Stevenson) and Hogun (Tadanobu Asano) — meet their grisly ends at the hands of Hela (Cate Blanchett) but not Sif, whose absence isn’t even mentioned.

She was last seen on screen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a season one episode of Agents of Shield, which took place in the timeline after Thor: The Dark World.

Her character was seen on her way back home so it’s unclear what kept her away from the Asgardian apocalypse. But it’s probably a good thing she wasn’t there.

“Luckily, if you see the fate of most Asgardians in this film, it’s at least the silver lining she’s around somewhere to fight another day,” Winderbaum added.

Here’s hoping.

Thor: Ragnarok is in cinemas now.

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