Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D: 4 Reasons Why Sif's Appearance Is A Great Decision

4. It's Jaimie Alexander

I'll be honest, I think I speak for everyone when I say that if it weren't for Thor and its sequel, most of us probably wouldn't know who Jaimie Alexander was. She's had just less than a dozen roles in the last ten years, and the only one you might have heard of, besides an uncredited role in Love And Other Drugs, is a crappy wannabee Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie called Rest Stop, which was released in 2006. To be fair, she's done well enough to appear quite close to the top of the cast list in the majority of these roles, and she has recently starred in Arnold-Schwarzenegger's-return-to-film movie (The Last Stand), in which she did pretty well in the action scenes (the only parts of the movie that were any good anyway). She's had a few television roles too, but has somehow managed to stay below the radar until recently. Evidently, what not enough people have realised is that no matter the role, Jaimie Alexander kicks ass. This is the woman who won a lead part in 2006's The Other Side simply by helping out and reading against the male actors. This is the woman that makes you want to see the Godawful movie Rest Stop. This is the woman who, while filming Thor: The Dark World, slipped down some metal staircases while it was raining and fractured a disk in her spine, dislocated her left shoulder, tore her right Rhomboid, chipped ELEVEN vertabrae, then managed to wait until the next morning to sit in a car and drive to the hospital (which led to a compression in her spine causing temporary paralysis down her right side), and got up after a month of rehab and went straight back up those metal staircases to finish her fight sequences. God damn, this woman is awesome.