With Thor: Love and Thunder now in theatres I’d be foolish
not to make a post or two tangentially related to a character or two from the
film. So today, let’s take a very brief look at Lady Sif in the MC2.
Lady Sif first appeared in the pages of Marvel
Comic’s Journey in Mystery #102 in 1964. As for the MC2,
Lady Sif makes her first and only appearance on-panel in Last Planet
Standing #2. It’s there that we see Sif assisting with the
evacuating of Asgard just prior to its destruction at the hands of Galactus.
As I’ve discussed
previously
Thena, the daughter of Thor
states she is the ‘daughter to the most honored Lord and Lady
of Asgard’ and that during the events of Last Hero Standing
she was on a quest with her mother and thus not present in Asgard
when Earth’s heroes ended up there (Avengers Next #2). Furthermore,
during the events of Last Planet Standing, Thena attempted to join
her father against Galactus but was commanded by her mother to
aid those fleeing the destruction of Asgard (Avengers Next #3).
Naturally, one of the major candidates for Thena's mother
was Thor's long-time off-and-on love interest Lady Sif. The
strongest evidence for this becomes clearer when the relevant pages and panels
from both Last Planet Standing #2 and the flashbacks in Avengers
Next #3 are viewed in sequence:
So, Sif was given the job of overseeing the
evacuation of Asgard's most vulnerable subjects, the same
task Thena was entrusted with by her mother. This strongly
suggests Sif is Thena's mother, but obviously
we don't have any definitive answers.
Anyway, sadly that’s all we have for Lady Sif in the MC2.
I’d love to see her return, especially paired with Thena on an epic
quest.
Until I stop thinking about the stories still yet untold in
the MC2, I remain
frogoat