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For the Marvel Comics counterpart, see Infinity Gems.
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Thanos wielding the Infinity Gauntlet with the six Infinity Stones

The Infinity Stones are significant in the first three phases (also called the "Infinity Saga") of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), playing important roles in several films and the MacGuffin of the films Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. They also played a major role in the Blip. The Infinity Stones are based on the Infinity Gems from Marvel Comics.

Fictional timeline

Background

The existence of the Infinity Stones has been described as the "one driving force that unifies all the robot-alien-hero fighting".[1] In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), the Collector explains that the Infinity Stones are the remnants of six singularities that existed before the Big Bang, which were compressed into Stones by cosmic entities after the universe began and were dispersed throughout the cosmos. In Avengers: Infinity War (2018), it is further explained by Wong and Stephen Strange that each Infinity Stone embodies and controls an essential aspect of existence.

The Blip

Thanos seeks to collect them all and use them to erase half of all life in the universe from existence, believing that his plan will save it from extinction. In 2012, he enlists the help of Loki and in 2014, he enlists the help of Ronan the Accuser to collect the Space and Power Stones, respectively, but they both fail. In 2015, Thanos decides to collect them himself.

In 2018, after collecting all the Stones and initiating the Blip, Thanos lives in exile and destroys the Stones so that his actions cannot be undone.[a]

Endgame

Five years later, the surviving Avengers use the Quantum Realm[b] to travel to alternate timelines of 1970, 2012, 2013, and 2014 to retrieve alternate versions of the Stones, allowing them to undo Thanos' actions. However, an alternate version of Thanos from an alternate 2014 (having been alerted by their actions thanks to Nebula's cybernetic implants linking with her alternate self) is able to follow them to the present and, believing that his plan only failed because the survivors were unable to "move on" from the losses, he attempts to use the Stones to destroy the entire universe and create a new one out of revenge for the Blip being undone. During the resulting full-scale battle between the Avengers and the alternate version of Thanos, Tony Stark claims the Infinity Stones and uses them to defeat alternate Thanos and his forces at the cost of his life. Afterwards, Steve Rogers subsequently returns the Infinity Stones to their alternate timelines.

Post–Endgame

The Stones play downplayed roles:

  • In a flashback in the penultimate episode of WandaVision, the moment of Hydra's experimentation with the Mind Stone on Wanda Maximoff is shown; her exposure to it having tapped into her innate magic and made those abilities even more powerful, as well as giving her a prophetic vision of her Scarlet Witch persona.
  • In the first episode of Loki, as alternate Loki tries to retrieve the Tesseract, he discovers the Time Variance Authority owns variants of the Infinity Stones from deleted timelines, which are simply used as paperweights by some of their workers due to the Stones being ineffective as the entire facility exists outside of the Multiverse.
  • The Stones make numerous appearances in What If...?, such as the Space Stone being used as the power source for the Hydra Stomper, the Power Stone being found by T’Challa instead of Peter Quill, the Time Stone being used by Doctor Strange to try to revive Christine Palmer, the Mind Stone being used to cure the quantum virus outbreak that turns those infected into zombies, five of the Stones in the possession of a zombified Thanos, and all the Stones being taken from Thanos by Ultron and used to destroy his universe. After Ultron is killed by Arnim Zola’s analog consciousness, the Stones are taken by Erik Killmonger but is stopped by Zola, who tries to take them for himself. Strange then puts them, along with the Stones, in a pocket dimension.

List of Infinity Stones

Stone Ability Color Object
Space Grants the user the ability to travel between places instantaneously Blue Tesseract
Mind Grants the user the ability to control minds Yellow Loki's scepter, Vision's head
Reality Grants the user the ability to change reality Red Aether
Power Grants the user the ability to manipulate energy and unnaturally powerful strength Purple Orb
Time Grants the user the ability to control time Green Eye of Agamotto
Soul Grants the user the ability to control a person's soul Orange N/A

Space Stone

See also: Cosmic Cube

Originally housed in the Tesseract, the Space Stone (blue) first appears in the post-credits scene of Thor, with Nick Fury showing the object to Erik Selvig, not knowing that Loki was there also. In Captain America: The First Avenger, the Red Skull steals the Tesseract from a church and uses it to power Hydra's weaponry during World War II. Amidst Steve Rogers's final fight with the Red Skull, the Tesseract transported the latter to another location (later revealed to be the planet Vormir in Avengers: Infinity War) before falling into the Arctic Ocean where it was later recovered by Howard Stark and taken to a secret base.

In Captain Marvel, it was revealed that Dr. Wendy Lawson tried to use the Tesseract in 1989 to unlock light-speed travel in order to help the Skrulls find a new home, but was unsuccessful, although her experiments resulted in Carol Danvers being granted superhuman strength, flight, and the ability to generate energy blasts. Danvers eventually recovers the Tesseract and hands the object over to S.H.I.E.L.D., although it was temporarily swallowed by Goose (a Flerken disguised as a cat), who later vomits it out on Fury's desk.

In The Avengers, the Tesseract is shown to be capable of generating wormholes after Loki steals it from S.H.I.E.L.D. and uses it to transport the Chitauri army to New York City in an attempt to conquer Earth. After the Avengers repel the invasion, Thor returns it to Asgard for safekeeping in Odin's Vault and it is used to repair the Bifrost.[2]

In Thor: Ragnarok, Loki takes the Tesseract before Asgard's destruction.[3]

In Avengers: Infinity War, Loki gives Thanos the Tesseract in order to save Thor's life. Thanos then crushes the Tesseract to acquire the Space Stone. After Thanos initiates the Blip, the Space Stone is destroyed to prevent further use.

In Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark, Rogers, Scott Lang, and Bruce Banner travel via Quantum Realm to an alternate 2012 timeline, where Stark and Lang attempt to steal the alternate 2012 Tesseract, but the alternate 2012 Hulk accidentally knocks Stark down and the alternate Tesseract is taken by the alternate 2012 Loki, who uses it to open a wormhole and escape. Stark and Rogers then travel to an alternate 1970 timeline and take the alternate 1970 Tesseract from Camp Lehigh, New Jersey. The 1970 Space Stone (having been removed from the Tesseract) is brought back to the main timeline, used to undo the Blip, and defeat an alternate Thanos. Rogers later returns the alternate Space Stone to its alternate 1970 timeline.

In Loki, the alternate 2012 Tesseract is confiscated by the Time Variance Authority. The alternate 2012 Loki later tries to retrieve the Tesseract only to find that it is powerless in the Time Variance Authority’s dimension.

In the first episode of What If...?, the Space Stone, still housed in the Tesseract, appears in an alternate timeline that copies the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, with major differences including Peggy Carter recovering the Tesseract from Hydra over a year after Project Rebirth, Howard Stark using the Tesseract to power an armor called the Hydra Stomper for Rogers to use, Red Skull using the Tesseract to summon an alien creature that subsequently kills him, and the Tesseract opening a portal in modern day that Carter emerges from. In the fifth episode, another alternate version of the Space Stone appears in the possession of a zombified Thanos. In the eighth episode, a third alternate version of the Space Stone appears in another alternate timeline in Thanos’s possession before being taken by Ultron (who also briefly appears at the end of the seventh episode). Ultron proceeds to use the Stones to conquer the universe, and eventually the Multiverse, for peace. In the ninth episode, the Space Stone is taken from Ultron by Erik Killmonger after the former was killed by Arnim Zola’s analog consciousness. When Zola attempts to take the Stones from Killmonger, they both end up trapped in a pocket dimension along with the Stones.

A 2018 article in Extreme Mechanics Letters proposed that Thanos would have needed "a minimum grip strength of over 40,000 tons, which is approximately 750,000 times that of a typical man", to break the Tesseract depicted in the film, presuming that the object was an "all-carbon nano-tesseract or hypercube projected into 3D space".[4]

Mind Stone

Originally housed in Loki's scepter, the Mind Stone (yellow) was first seen in The Avengers when Loki is given a scepter by Thanos to help locate the Tesseract and conquer Earth with its ability to control people's minds and project energy blasts.[5] After Loki's defeat, the scepter falls into the hands of Hydra leader Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, who is shown in the mid-credits scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier to have been using it to experiment on humans.

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, it is revealed that the only surviving subjects of Strucker's experiments are the siblings Pietro Maximoff and Wanda Maximoff, in whom superhuman abilities were unlocked (in the latter's case, amplifying her innate magic) before Strucker's base is attacked by the Avengers, who take back the scepter. The scepter is later revealed to contain the Mind Stone, which itself contains an artificial intelligence that grants sentience to the computer program Ultron, who steals the scepter and removes the Mind Stone to create a newly upgraded body. The Avengers steal the Mind Stone–infused body from Ultron and upload the A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. into it, giving birth to the android Vision.[2][6] The Mind Stone can also enhance the user's intelligence,[5] grant them immense knowledge, and create new life.[7]

In Avengers: Infinity War, Vision is injured by the Children of Thanos in their attempts to get the Mind Stone and is taken to Wakanda to have it removed by Shuri, in the hope that Vision would be able to live without it. When the removal operation is interrupted, Wanda is forced to destroy Vision and the Mind Stone, only for Thanos to use the Time Stone to repair them both and collect the latter. After Thanos wipes out half of all life in the universe, the Mind Stone is destroyed to prevent further use.

In Avengers: Endgame, Rogers, having time-traveled to an alternate 2012 timeline, retrieves an alternate version of the scepter. Rogers then uses the scepter to render his alternate 2012 self unconscious after he mistook him for a disguised Loki. The alternate Mind Stone, after being removed from the scepter, is brought back to the main timeline and used to undo the Blip and defeat an alternate Thanos. Afterwards, Rogers returns the Mind Stone to its alternate timeline.

The Mind Stone appears in two series released on the Disney+ streaming service: In the live-action series WandaVision, Wanda Maximoff uses her connection with the Mind Stone to reanimate a fake Vision, while in the fifth episode of the animated What If...? series, set in an alternate universe, Peter Parker, T’Challa, and Scott Lang, who are the survivors of a zombie apocalypse, attempt to use the Mind Stone as a cure for the plague. Another alternate version of the Mind Stone appears at the end of the seventh episode in Ultron's possession. In the eighth episode (which explains the previous episode's ending), Ultron successfully uploads himself to the Mind Stone-infused body, and proceeds to use the Mind Stone to defeat the Avengers, sends Earth into a nuclear winter, kills Thanos by using his beam, and with the rest of the stones conquer the universe and the greater multiverse. In the ninth episode, the Mind Stone is sealed in a pocket dimension with the other Stones, Killmonger, and Arnim Zola following Ultron's defeat. A third alternate version of the Mind Stone appears at the end of the episode, still housed within Loki's specter, which Romanoff uses to defeat Loki.[8]

Reality Stone

Transformed into a fluid-like weapon called the Aether, the Reality Stone (red) first appears in Thor: The Dark World when Malekith the Accursed attempts to use the Aether to destroy the Nine Realms and return the universe to its pre-Big Bang state; only to be thwarted by Bor, who had it hidden. Jane Foster becomes infected by the Aether after coming across its resting place, though Malekith later draws it out of her. After Malekith is defeated by Thor, Sif and Volstagg seal the Aether in a lantern-like container and entrust it to the Collector to keep it separate from the Tesseract; as they consider it unwise to have multiple Infinity Stones close to each other.[2][9][10] The Aether, once bonded to a host, can turn anything into dark matter as well as suck the life force out of humans and other mortals. The Aether can also disrupt the laws of physics and repel threats if it senses any.[7]

In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos acquires the Aether from the Collector and turns it back into the Reality Stone off-screen; allowing him to repel the Guardians of the Galaxy's attacks by turning Drax the Destroyer to stone, Mantis into ribbon strips, and causing Star-Lord's gun to shoot bubbles. Thanos later uses the Stone to create a rock restraint around Natasha Romanoff. After Thanos wipes out half of all life in the universe, the Reality Stone is destroyed to prevent further use.

In Avengers: Endgame, Thor and Rocket time travel to Asgard in an alternate 2013 timeline to extract the alternate 2013 version of the Aether from the alternate 2013 Jane Foster. The 2013 Reality Stone (having been converted back into its solid form) is then brought back to 2023 in the main timeline and used to undo the Blip and to disintegrate an alternate Thanos. Rogers later returns the 2013 Reality Stone to the alternate 2013 Asgard.

In the fifth episode of What If...?, an alternate version of the Reality Stone appears in the possession of a zombified Thanos. In the eighth episode, another alternate version of the Reality Stone appears in the possession of Ultron (who also appears at the end of the seventh episode), taking the Reality Stone away from Thanos after killing him in order to conquer the universe and the multiverse. Ultron also uses the Stone to recreate his Ultron Sentries. In the ninth episode, the Reality Stone is taken from Ultron by Killmonger after the former was killed by Arnim Zola. When Zola attempts to take the Stones from Killmonger, they end up trapped in a pocket dimension along with the Stones.

Power Stone

Housed in the Orb hidden on the planet Morag, the Power Stone (purple) can increase the user's strength and destroy entire civilizations with a single blast. However, the stone is too much for most mortal beings to physically handle as its power will destroy them on contact.[11][12] In Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan the Accuser seeks the orb for Thanos, but Star-Lord finds and steals the orb from Morag's resting spot before Korath could. Ronan eventually steals it from Guardians of the Galaxy. After learning about the Power Stone; however, Ronan betrays Thanos and tries to use its destructive power to destroy the planet Xandar. During the battle to protect Xander, by sharing the burden of the Power Stone's energy, the Guardians are able to use it to kill Ronan. It's revealed that Peter Quill's half-Celestial physiology was what allowed him to withstand the Stone's power on his own for a brief time before the other Guardians joined with him. They seal the Power Stone in a new orb and entrust it to the Nova Corps for safekeeping.[2]

In Avengers: Infinity War, it is revealed that the Power Stone was the first to be obtained by Thanos, who "decimates" Xandar in the process. After Thanos wipes out half of all life in the universe, the Power Stone is destroyed to prevent further use.

In Avengers: Endgame, James Rhodes and Nebula time travel to Morag in an alternate 2014 timeline, subduing alternate 2014 Quill before taking the alternate 2014 Power Stone in its Orb. The 2014 Power Stone (having been removed from the orb) is then brought back to 2023 in the main timeline and used to undo the Blip. During the battle, an alternate 2014 Thanos briefly removes the 2014 Power Stone from the Nano Gauntlet in order to use it to overpower Carol Danvers. The Stone is then used along with the other Stones to erase Thanos and his forces. Rogers later returns the 2014 Power Stone to the alternate 2014 Morag.

In the second episode of What If...?, the Power Stone, still sealed within the orb, appears in an alternate timeline that copies the events of Guardians of the Galaxy, but is discovered by T'Challa rather than Quill, which the Ravagers later offer to the Collector. In the fifth episode, another alternate version of the Power Stone appears in the possession of a zombified Thanos. In the eighth episode, a third alternate version of the Power Stone appears in the possession of Ultron (who also briefly appears at the end of the seventh episode), who takes the Stone away from Thanos by executing him in order to conquer the universe and the greater multiverse. In the ninth episode, the Power Stone is taken from Ultron by Killmonger after the former was killed by Arnim Zola. When Zola attempts to take the Stones from Killmonger, they end up trapped in a pocket dimension along with the Stones.

Time Stone

See also: Eye of Agamotto

Housed in the Eye of Agamotto by Earth's first sorcerer Agamotto, a Master of the Mystic Arts can use the Time Stone (green) to alter and manipulate time. In Doctor Strange, Dr. Stephen Strange finds the Eye of Agamotto and learns how to use it to save the Earth from Dormammu by trapping him in a time loop until the demon abandons his plans for Earth. Strange returns the Eye of Agamotto to the Masters of the Mystic Arts' secret compound Kamar-Taj in Kathmandu, Nepal, though he is seen wearing it again in the mid-credits scene, which takes place during Thor: Ragnarok.[13][14]

In Avengers: Infinity War, Ebony Maw attempts to steal the Time Stone from Strange, but is foiled by Tony Stark, Peter Parker, and Wong. While on the planet Titan (Thanos' homeworld), Strange uses the Time Stone to look into future timelines; viewing millions of possible outcomes of their conflict and learning of only one future in which they win. To ensure that future comes to pass, Strange surrenders the Stone to Thanos to save Stark. Thanos then used the Stone in Wakanda to reverse Wanda Maximoff’s destruction of the Mind Stone. After Thanos uses the Stones to erase half the universe, he destroys the Stones.

In Avengers: Endgame, Banner quantum time-travels to an alternate 2012 timeline and speaks with the Ancient One to relinquish that timeline’s Time Stone, promising to return it after they are done using it. The alternate Stone is then brought back to the main timeline, used to undo the Blip, and to defeat an alternate Thanos. Rogers later returns the Stone to its alternate timeline.

In the What If...? episode "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?", the Time Stone is shown to have additional abilities beyond time manipulation; an alternate version of Doctor Stephen Strange uses the Eye of Agamotto to travel through time, and try to avert his lover Christine Palmer's death, only to fail again and again. During Strange's centuries-long ordeal of absorbing mystical creatures, he also uses the stone to keep himself from aging, and later offers to use it to de-age an elderly O'Bengh, who declines. In the fifth episode, another alternate version of the Time Stone appears in the possession of a zombified Thanos. In the eighth episode, a third alternate version of the Time Stone appears in the possession of Ultron (who also briefly appears at the end of the seventh episode), who takes it from Thanos in order to conquer the Multiverse. In the ninth episode, the Time Stone is used by Ultron to freeze time so he can reclaim the Soul Stone from Gamora. Strange then used his universe’s Time Stone to undo Ultron’s actions. After Ultron is killed by Arnim Zola, Erik Killmonger takes the Stones, but Zola tries to take them for himself, leading the two to fight over them. Strange traps them in a pocket dimension to keep the Stones separated.

Soul Stone

An object that has the ability to manipulate the soul and essence of a person,[15] control life and death, and contains a pocket dimension called the Soulworld.[16] The Soul Stone (orange) is first seen in Avengers: Infinity War. It is revealed that at some time in the past, Thanos tasked Gamora to find the Soul Stone, as there is little record of its existence compared to the other Infinity Stones. Gamora found a map leading to where it was hidden: in a shrine on the planet Vormir, but chose to destroy the map and not to tell Thanos; only telling Nebula of it and swearing her to secrecy (little realizing that Thanos wasn't fooled by their lies). After Thanos captures and tortures Nebula, Gamora agrees to take him to Vormir, where they encounter the Red Skull (having been transported to the planet by the Tesseract and cursed to serve as the Stonekeeper). Thanos reluctantly sacrificed Gamora in order to fulfill the requirements to obtain the Soul Stone once the Red Skull explains to them that the Stone requires the sacrifice of a loved one to earn it.[17][18] After completing the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos is briefly transported into the Soul World and encounters a vision of a young Gamora.[19] The Soul Stone is later destroyed to prevent further use.

In Avengers: Endgame, Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton quantum time-travel to Vormir in an alternate 2014 timeline, where each attempts to sacrifice themselves to allow the other to return with the Stone, with Romanoff sacrificing herself so that Barton can receive the Stone. The alternate Stone is then brought back to the main timeline and used to undo the Blip and to defeat an alternate Thanos. According to the film's directors, after completing the Nano Gauntlet to defeat 2014 Thanos and his army, Stark is briefly transported to the Soul World where he meets an older version of his daughter, Morgan. Rogers later returns the Soul Stone to its alternate timeline.

In the fifth episode of What If...?, an alternate version of the Soul Stone appears in the possession of a zombified Thanos. In the eighth episode, another alternate version of the Soul Stone appears in the possession of Ultron (who also briefly appears at the end of the seventh episode), who takes it from Thanos. Ultron proceeds to use the Stone along with the others in his conquest of the Multiverse. In the ninth episode, the Soul Stone is temporarily removed from Ultron by T’Challa. Shortly, Romanoff takes the Stone, but it gets knocked away. This leads the Guardians of the Multiverse to pursue it in a chase against Ultron. Eventually, Gamora is able to grab the Stone, but Ultron reclaims the Stone after freezing time with the Time Stone. However, after Arnim Zola kills Ultron, the Stone is taken by Killmonger, which Zola then tries to take from him. In order to keep the Stones separated, Zola, Killmonger, and the Stones are trapped by Strange in a pocket dimension.

Infinity Gauntlet

A model of the Infinity Gauntlet at the 2018 Atlanta Comic-Con

The Infinity Gauntlet also appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is used to house the 6 stones. A right-handed gauntlet appears in Thor, where it's stored in Odin's vault;[2] though this one was later revealed to be a fake by Hela in Thor: Ragnarok.[20] The mid-credits scene of Avengers: Age of Ultron revealed Thanos had acquired a left-handed Infinity Gauntlet (the real one).[21] Avengers: Infinity War reveals Thanos invaded Nidavellir where he forced Eitri to create the Infinity Gauntlet by threatening to kill his people, though he did so anyway once it was completed, as well as removing Eitri's hands to prevent his making anything else.

In Avengers: Endgame, after Thanos erases half of all life in the universe from existence with the Infinity Stones and destroys them to prevent his work from being undone, the gauntlet becomes permanently bound to his swollen arm, which is subsequently severed by Thor. However, the Avengers are able to travel through the Quantum Realm to retrieve versions of the Stones from alternate pasts, from a point before their destruction, and bring them into the present. Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and Rocket Raccoon subsequently use nanotechnology to create a third, right-handed Nano Gauntlet in order to use the time-displaced Infinity Stones. Banner in his "Smart Hulk" form, due to being the most immune to the gamma radiation the Infinity Stones' combined powers emit, uses the gauntlet to reverse the Blip, although the strain of channeling the combined powers causes him considerable pain and leaves him with a crippled right arm. An alternate Thanos later tries to use the Nano Gauntlet to recreate the universe, but although he succeeds in acquiring it, Stark removes the time-displaced Infinity Stones from it and, having formed a makeshift gauntlet in his armor, uses them to erase the alternate Thanos and his forces, taking the empty Nano Gauntlet with them.

The Infinity Gauntlet made brief appearances in the fifth and eighth episodes of What If...?.

Differences from comics

In the comics, Thanos is motivated to retrieve and use the Infinity Stones to impress Lady Death. In the films, there is no mention of Lady Death, and Thanos wishes to reduce the population to avoid a repeat of his experience on Titan.[22]

The colors of the stone were originally different in the comics. They were purple for Space, yellow for Reality, red for Power, blue for Mind, orange for Time, and green for Soul.[1][23] The stone colors were updated in the Marvel Legacy series to match the film versions.[24]

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Time Stone is housed in the Eye of Agamotto and the Space Stone is housed in the Tesseract (Cosmic Cube). However, the Marvel Comics versions of these two stones have no connections to these relics.[25][26]

Reception

The use of the Infinity Stones as a plot device led to fan speculation as to the location of as-yet undiscovered stones, and the possible appearance of additional stones. One theory popular with fans was that words describing the nature or location of the stones spelled out the name "THANOS", and that the as-yet undiscovered Soul Stone was somehow associated with the character Heimdall.[1] Another theory proposed prior to the release of Avengers: Endgame was that it would involve a seventh Infinity Stone corresponding to an additional Infinity Gem from the comics, the Ego Stone.[27]

Notes

  1. ^ Despite this, those who obtained powers from the Stones, such as Wanda Maximoff and Carol Danvers, still retained their abilities after the Stones' destruction.
  2. ^ After Scott Lang emerged from the Quantum Realm, which he went to during the events of Ant Man and the Wasp.

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