• Spoiler Warning : this article admit plot detail and omissions from Thor : Ragnarok *

Early review article ofThor : Ragnarokdescribe the film as one   of thebest and most entertaining release from Marvel Studiosyet , but as we larn from seeing it too soon for the medium junket , there ’s one major , inexplicable issue : Lady Sif ( Jaimie Alexander ) is nowhere to be establish in the film . How can that be ?

We knew from visiting the Australian sets ofThor : Ragnaroklast year that despite Marvel , Chris Hemsworth , and director Taika Waititi ’s goals to outstrip themselves from what came before and do something fresh ,   the supporting Asgardian characters would of course pass to eat up their bow . And most do , except one key one in Sif .

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Heimdall , Odin , and the Warriors Three all make appearance - some of them all too brief - alongside the many novel characters and returning stars , but Sif is n’t even mentioned . When we mouth to producer and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige , we just had to ask what ’s up with that .

Screen Rant : Yeah , you could decidedly see his fingerbreadth print on the MCU and it ’s so awful . He took a superhero genre and made it beyond that . It ’s brain - blowing . The next question I have is where ’s Lady Sif ?

Kevin Feige : You ’re the 2d person to need me that question today and I will cite Maz Kanada from Star Wars : The Force Awakens , “ that is a good interrogative for another clip . ” Is that the quote ? It ’s pretty close to that .

Sidious, Tyranus, Maul, and Vader.

skillful contrivance , Mr. Feige .

Update : Jaimie Alexander hasrevealed why she did n’t reprise her role as Lady Sif inThor : Ragnarok , cite a scheduling conflict with her showBlindspot .

With   the untitledAvengers 4 in May 2019representing theend of not only form 3of the Marvel Cinematic Universe , but the full - on decision of the enfranchisement as we know it , what other time can we call this question ? Thor : Ragnarok deals with - as the title reveals - " Ragnarok " so the whereabouts and lack of Lady Sif currently does n’t make sense .

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In Marvel Studios ’ Thor : Ragnarok , Thor   is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty mallet and finds himself in a race against clock time to get back to Asgard to finish Ragnarok — the destruction of his homeworld and the ending of Asgardian civilization — at the hands of an all - powerful new scourge , the unpitying Hela . But first he must outlast a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger — the Incredible Hulk !

Thor : Ragnarok is directed byTaika Waititiand return Chris Hemsworth star as   Thor   and Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as Loki . They are joined by Cate Blanchett , Idris Elba , Jeff Goldblum , Tessa Thompson and Karl Urban , withMark Ruffaloand Anthony Hopkins .

Kevin Feige is producing with Louis D’Esposito , Victoria Alonso , Brad Winderbaum , Thomas M. Hammel and Stan Lee serve as executive producers . Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher L. Yost wrote the screenplay .

Lady Sif not in Thor Ragnarok