MCU Infinity Stones Complete Guide To Locations Powers & Future

MCU Infinity Stones: Complete Guide To Locations, Powers & Future

The MCU Infinity Stones have played a major role in the franchise so far. Here’s everything you need to know about their history, powers and future.

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The Infinity Stones have played a major role in the MCU from the beginning, so let’s explore their origins, powers, and potential future. Far from being mere plot McGuffins for villains to threaten Earth – or the universe – with, the Infinity Stones have only increased in importance as the MCU evolved. In Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Collector explains the origins of these all-powerful gems, revealing they’re remnants of six singularities that were compressed into stones following the Big Bang. In Avengers: Infinity War, Doctor Strange reveals to Tony Stark that each stone controls an aspect of existence itself.

An Infinity Stone on its own is a powerful weapon, but when they’re all combined, they grant the user almost infinite power. Each phase of the MCU has revealed more about the Infinity Stones, leading to Thanos’ quest to wipe out half of all life in the universe in Avengers: Infinity War and the Avengers’ mission to undo the snap in Avengers: Endgame. The Infinity Gauntlets allow both universe-wide changes to happen, putting each of the Stone’s abilities to work with each other to achieve it. However, they’re difficult to manufacture and are unable to prevent the life-threatening physical toll that using all six Infinity Stones entails.

With the MCU’s Infinity Stones still an important element in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after the end of the Infinity Saga, here’s everything you need to know about where they have appeared, what their powers are, and how they could factor into the future of the MCU’s Phase 4.

The Space Stone (The Tesseract)

Appearances: Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Loki, What If…?.

Abilities: Teleportation, creates wormholes, grants superpowers.

The Space Stone, the first major Infinity Stone to appear in the MCU in the form of the Tesseract, caused a lot of trouble throughout the Infinity Saga. In Captain America: The First Avenger, Red Skull retrieves it from Tønsberg, Norway, and uses it to build futuristic weapons for Hydra. After the Teseract teleports Red Skull to Vormir, SHIELD retrieves the weapon and studies it to create their own weapons through Howard Stark’s Project PEGASUS For a brief period, it shifts hands from Mar-Vell to Nick Fury and Carol Danvers — the latter of whom absorbs its energy and becomes Captain Marvel — to Goose and finally to Nick Fury and SHIELD once again.

In The Avengers, Loki is sent by Thanos to steal the Tesseract. Loki uses its powers to bring the Chitauri to New York in a failed bid to conquer Earth, and as Avengers: Endgame revealed, it almost ends up in SHIELD’s hands as soon as the Battle of New York concludes. However, the Avengers manage to keep it long enough for Thor to take it with him to Asgard, where it’s stored in Odin’s Vault. Years later, Loki steals it again during Thor: Ragnarok’s finale before handing it to Thanos in the opening of Avengers: Infinity War, where the titan crushes the Tesseract and retrieves the Space Stone, making it the second Infinity Stone in Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet.

The Avengers’ Time Heist in Avengers: Endgame opens a branch in the Sacred Timeline when the Tony Stark from 2023 loses possession of the Tesseract, which falls by Loki’s feet. Loki grabs it and attempts to use it to escape, but is promptly captured by the Time Variance Authority. At the TVA, the Tesseract (and the other Infinity Stones) become useless, but help 2012 Loki realize that his “glorious purpose” was always just an excuse to project his pain onto others. With their first chance to retrieve it gone, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers time-travel to 1970 and extract the Tesseract from a SHIELD base, meeting Peggy Carter and Howard Stark along the way. Finally, the Tesseract appears in What If…? episode 1, where Red Skull uses it to summon Shuma-Gorath through an interdimensional portal. Captain Carter pushes the creature back into the portal, and she ends up in the present day.

Although the Tesseract is connected to space, its infinite amount of energy can be exploited to create and power weapons, machinery, cities, and even humans. It also possesses other subtle features that haven’t been fully explained in the MCU, like its ability to communicate with other Infinity Stones, turn Captain Marvel into one of the most powerful MCU characters, and open portals to other realities.

The Reality Stone (The Aether)

Appearances: Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Loki.

Abilities: Changes reality, sucks out life force, open portals.

The Reality Stone debuted in Thor: The Dark World, where the Aether injects itself into Jane Foster’s body when she’s exploring physical anomalies that seem to be happening in various places at random. Malekith and his Dark Elves attempt to wield the Reality Stone’s power during The Convergence — an event where all the Nine Realms align once every five thousand years, allowing Malekith to use the Reality Stone in the form of the Aether to bring the whole universe into a state of complete darkness. After Thor defeats Malekith, Asgard hands the Reality Stone over to The Collector for safekeeping, but Thanos acquires the Reality Stone in Avengers: Infinity War and uses it to kidnap Gamora. Like all other Infinity Stones, the Reality Stones is destroyed by Thanos and plucked out of the past by the Avengers. In Avengers: Endgame, the Reality Stone is retrieved from Jane Foster’s body by Rocket Raccoon when he and Thor time-travel to Asgard. In Loki, the Reality Stone appears in a drawer at the TVA alongside other Infinity Stones from different branches of the Sacred Timeline.

Thanos’ handling of the Reality Stone in Infinity War makes Malekith’s plan to use the Aether during the Convergence look overly contrived, as the Mad Titan reveals just how powerful it can be when used by itself. The Reality Stone can create the illusion of life, render any weapon useless, modify any state of matter, and alter the appearance of any place, object, and organism. Although it was only used briefly throughout the Infinity Saga, the Reality Stone could be considered one of the most powerful Infinity Stones in the right hands.

The Time Stone (Eye Of Agamotto)

Appearances: Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Loki, What If…?

Abilities: Time travel, the ability to see into the past and future, creates time loops.

The Time Stone plays a major role in Doctor Strange. The stone is housed in the Eye Of Agamotto, which was created by Earth’s first Sorcerer Supreme. Even though the Eye of Agamotto was reserved for the Sorcerer Supremes, Stephen Strange studies the Stone and its powers while training. Strange’s ambition is chastised, but it helps him rewind time and trap Dormammu in a time loop after Kaecilius threatens to bring the Dark Dimension to Earth, forcing the creature to abandon his plans of conquest.

Strange uses the Time Stone’s power in Avengers: Infinity War to preview millions of possible outcomes to the Avengers battle with Thanos – finding only one reality where they succeed. Although Strange has to surrender it to Thanos to save Tony Stark’s life, it eventually becomes one of the most crucial steps in the defeat of the Mad Titan. Thanos uses the Time Stone to undo Vision’s death at the hands of Scarlet Witch in order to retrieve the Mind Stone, thus completing the Infinity Gauntlet. Of course, Doctor Strange’s prediction of the one timeline where the Avengers succeed comes true, and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are able to gather all six Infinity Stones during their Time Heist. The Time Stone, specifically, is retrieved by Smart Hulk after convincing the Ancient One of giving it to him during the Battle of New York.

The Time Stone’s powers are pretty straightforward, but as Wong, Mordo, The Ancient One, and Doctor Strange all know, using it carelessly could result in terrible scenarios where reality breaks. Since the Stone is expected to reappear in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it’s highly likely that it will play a role either in the opening of the MCU’s multiverse (which already started with Sylvie’s decision to kill He Who Remains in Loki) or in Doctor Strange’s quest to bring order after alternate realities already started colliding.

The Mind Stone (Loki’s Chitauri Scepter)

Appearances: The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision, What If…?.

Abilities: Telepathy, telekinesis, energy blasts, mind control, creates consciousness, grants and awakens dormant superpowers.

Thanos gifts Loki the Mind Stone – housed in a scepter – to help him conquer Earth on his behalf in The Avengers. This allows Loki to control the minds of Hawkeye and Dr. Selvig. In Avengers: Age Of Ultron, the Stone is revealed to have some kind of intelligence inside it that is used to create Ultron and give the Maximoff Twins their Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver superpowers. Ultron takes the scepter to create a body for himself, only for the Avengers to steal the body back and upload Stark’s A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S into it, creating Vision. Vision later finds himself a target of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, where Thanos ultimately kills him when he retrieves the Mind Stone from Vision’s forehead.

In Avengers: Endgame, the Mind Stone embedded in Loki’s scepter is retrieved by Steve Rogers after he fights with his past self, who believes the Steve from 2023 is Loki in disguise. Brock Rumlow and his fellow Hydra agents, who pose as SHIELD at that time, almost manage to get their hands on the scepter, but Steve’s knowledge of the future allows him to convince them that he’s working with them. The Mind Stone also appears in Vision’s forehead in Captain America: Civil War and WandaVision.

The Mind Stone could still play a major role in the MCU down the line, as WandaVision revealed that Wanda Maximoff’s powers existed since she was a child. This information suggests that some people are born with special abilities, and that the Mind Stone just amplified what Wanda and Pietro Maximoff already had inside them. Hence, the Mind Stone could be the key to the arrival of mutants in the MCU.

The Power Stone (The Orb)

Appearances: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Loki, What If…?

Abilities: Enhances strength, invulnerability, endurance. Powers weapons and destroys anything in its path.

Chronologically, the first character to be shown using the Power Stone is Eson the Searcher (a Celestial who may reappear in Eternals), who used it to destroy entire civilizations. Thousands of years later, it was found encased inside an Orb on the planet Morag, where Peter Quill retrieves it to make a quick buck. Meanwhile, Ronan the Accuser seeks it for Thanos. Ronan steals it for himself to destroy the planet Xandar but is eventually defeated by the Guardians. The Stone is given to the Nova Corps, but Thanos acquires it after decimating Xandar off-screen before the events of Avengers: Infinity War. In Avengers: Endgame, War Machine and Nebula retrieve it after time-traveling to 2014, right before the Guardians of the Galaxy are formed.

Like the Reality Stone, the Power Stone has been severely underutilized in the MCU. With the right tools and in the right hands, it could be used to confront characters as powerful as Thanos and Ego the Living Planet. It did make an appearance in What If…? episode 2, “What If… T’Challa Became a Star-Lord,” where T’Challa (as Star-Lord) retrieved the Orb, just as Peter Quill did in Guardians of the Galaxy, however, it doesn’t seem to be playing a major role in Phase 4 — at least for now.

The Soul Stone

Appearances: Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Loki.

Abilities: Steal, manipulate, and alter souls; grant access to the Soul World, and communicate with other Infinity Stones and with people’s deepest desires.

The Soul Stone was the most mysterious of the MCU Infinity Stones prior to its eventual reveal in Avengers: Infinity War, as there was no prior setup or hint at its introduction. Infinity War reveals that Thanos once sent Gamora to find the stone but she decided not to reveal that she found it on the planet Vormir. After Thanos captures her, she takes him there and they find out that Red Skull has become the Stonekeeper after being teleported by the Tesseract to Vormir. Red Skull then reveals to Thanos that he must sacrifice what he loves the most to possess it. After he kills Gamora, the stone appears to him. In Avengers: Endgame, Hawkeye and Black Widow go through the same process, with Natasha Romanoff sacrificing herself to gain the Soul Stone.

With the Infinity Saga already concluded, the Soul Stone no longer has a reason to appear as a key element in future MCU movies or TV shows. Yet, like the rest of the Infinity Stones, it could eventually return either as an easter egg or as a minor subplot, especially with all the mystery surrounding its origin, how it works, and what other uses it could have.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/mcu-infinity-stones-location-powers-future/

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