It’s not much better the other way around. You save this cute, loyal little pupper’s life, call him to your aid in battle, and you just look at them the whole time with your hollowed out eyes from your hollowed out soul like “you have no idea what I’m going to do to you.”

Is Sif’s gender an established thing, though? Like, I’ve almost always heard the wolf referred to as male, but always precieved it as feminine, since Sif’s namesake is female (and Thor’s wife,in the old myths incidentally. Natalie Portman is a man-stealer!)