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** In the new trailer for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Star Lord looks to be stealing something pretty important...
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** In the new trailer for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', Star Lord looks to be stealing something pretty important...
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* Jossed. Despite the shield playing a prominent thematically role in ''The Falcon and the Winter Soldier'' and Disney now owning the X-Men properties, nothing has been suggested that the shield is partially made out of Adamantium.
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* Would anybody really ''want'' to be associated with LMD's after how horribly they were abused in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''?
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* Would anybody really ''want'' to be associated with LMD's after how horribly Confirmed! As of Spider-Man Far From Home. Although Nick Fury & Maria Hill are actually using Skrull S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents as their L.M.D.s rather than a relaunch of the old robotic kind that they were abused in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''?
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*** And maybe it's the Eye of Agamotto. The MCU has already merged the Space Stone with the Cosmic Cube and Vision's Sun Stone with the Mind Stone, why not combine another well known Marvel relic with an Infinity Stone? The nature of the Soul Stone makes it a perfect fit for being introduced in Doctor Strange and it would also mean Thanos would have to go through Strange to get the fifth stone which is a confrontation I want to see just as much as Thanos vs the Vision.
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*** And maybe it's the Eye of Agamotto. The MCU has already merged the Space Stone with the Cosmic Cube and Vision's Sun Stone with the Mind Stone, why Why not combine another well known Marvel relic with an Infinity Stone? Gem? The nature of the Soul Stone makes it a perfect fit for being introduced in Doctor Strange and it would also mean Thanos would have to go through Strange to get the fifth stone which is a confrontation I want to see just as much as Thanos vs the Vision.
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Just as the Space Gem and Cosmic Cube were merged into the Tesseract, the Time Gem will be merged with an artifact used by the Kree known as the Forever Crystal. This artifact was used by the Supreme Intelligence to help "evolve" the genetically stagnated Kree race. I don't think it's a coincidence that the two films coming out between the two Infinity War films are Captain Marvel and the Inhumans: both stories require the Kree to be major players. I fully expect the Kree to be important in Infinity War as well. What if the Time Stone was an artifact used by the Celestials to tamper with the natural selection of various races by speeding up, slowing down, or even reversing and restarting their evolution? What if they'd used it on many planets, deliberately guiding various lifeforms to become the humanoids we see on so many worlds? And what if The Time Stone (or Forever Crystal, or whatever they end up calling it) ended up with the Kree, who figured out how it works (mostly) and experimented with it, leading to the creation of the Terrigen Mists and, ultimately, the Inhumans? I'm toying with the idea that it's actually the Time Stone that led to the creation of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, too... Their powers even seem kind of time-based to me, if SW can see the future and maybe QS moves quickly by speeding up time around himself.
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** Jossed. Loki's scepter had the Mind Gem inside it, and at the end of the movie, it was bonded to the Vision.
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[[WMG: The Arc reactor was an attempt to reproduce the Cosmic Cube's energy-generating capability with Earth technology]]
Taken more or less straight from ''Fridge/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': the 'Tesseract' could produce a lot of energy, enough to solve a lot of problems but it does have two major drawbacks: there is only one, so whoever controls it would be in a position where they might even fall into authoritarianism inadvertently, to say nothing of deliberately, and the thing is based on unknown principles - what if it just stops working one day? But if some measure of that energy-generation could be reproduced, not only would humanity be a bit closer to understanding the principles behind it, but the monopoly problem would also be averted. Thus, studying the Cube leading to Arc reactors that, while impractical with then-modern technology, could be made a bit closer to the ideal with the technology of the MCU's 21th century...
Taken more or less straight from ''Fridge/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': the 'Tesseract' could produce a lot of energy, enough to solve a lot of problems but it does have two major drawbacks: there is only one, so whoever controls it would be in a position where they might even fall into authoritarianism inadvertently, to say nothing of deliberately, and the thing is based on unknown principles - what if it just stops working one day? But if some measure of that energy-generation could be reproduced, not only would humanity be a bit closer to understanding the principles behind it, but the monopoly problem would also be averted. Thus, studying the Cube leading to Arc reactors that, while impractical with then-modern technology, could be made a bit closer to the ideal with the technology of the MCU's 21th century...
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[[WMG: The Arc reactor was an attempt to reproduce the Cosmic Cube's Tesseract energy-generating capability with Earth technology]]
Taken more or less straight from ''Fridge/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': the'Tesseract' Tesseract could produce a lot of energy, enough to solve a lot of problems but it does have two major drawbacks: there drawbacks. There is only one, so whoever controls it would be in become a position where major target and they might even fall into authoritarianism inadvertently, villainy themselves, to say nothing of deliberately, and villains deliberately taking control of it in the first place. The thing is based on basically an unknown principles source of energy - what if it just stops working one day? But if some measure of that energy-generation energy-creation could be reproduced, not only would humanity be a bit closer to understanding the principles energies behind it, but the monopoly problem of power it provided would also be averted. Thus, studying the Cube it, leading to ideas that Tony later developed, refining it into Arc reactors Reactors that, while they seemed impractical with then-modern technology, could be made a bit closer to the ideal with the technology extra work and even more advanced technological work of the MCU's 21th century...
Tony's eventual Iron Man concept...
Taken more or less straight from ''Fridge/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': the
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* Much more likely, it's vibranium, the same element used to make Cap's shield. It doesn't need to be a power source. It just needs to be a better and more durable catalyst than palladium. Which seeing as it absorbs energy. . .
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* The novelization states that the element is in fact Vibranium. Also, the Tesseract has no implications made that it has the same capabilities as the Casket of Ancient Winters. The Tesseract is a power source of likely unlimited potential, yes, but the Casket's freezing potential is completely different.
* More WMG: Vibranium also acts as low-level RealityWarper; means, they do everything what people wield them wants to do. That will explain everything from Cap's shield NighInvulnerability to why Stark's Arc Reactor is jumpstarted again when Hulk is shouting. This also means that [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve when you believed hard enough, you can do]] ''[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve anything]]''. Including, if somehow Hulk brings [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk his forces]] to fight Thanos at ''Avengers 3'', Captain [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority can assert his authorities]] by having them punching his shield and [[NoSell making all of them writhing in pain over broken knuckle]] while Cap only got dislocated shoulder... after having 5 of them hitting him in succession. Which he sets by himself.
* More WMG: Vibranium also acts as low-level RealityWarper; means, they do everything what people wield them wants to do. That will explain everything from Cap's shield NighInvulnerability to why Stark's Arc Reactor is jumpstarted again when Hulk is shouting. This also means that [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve when you believed hard enough, you can do]] ''[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve anything]]''. Including, if somehow Hulk brings [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk his forces]] to fight Thanos at ''Avengers 3'', Captain [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority can assert his authorities]] by having them punching his shield and [[NoSell making all of them writhing in pain over broken knuckle]] while Cap only got dislocated shoulder... after having 5 of them hitting him in succession. Which he sets by himself.
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* More WMG: Vibranium also acts as low-level RealityWarper; means, they do everything what people wield them wants to do. That will explain everything from Cap's shield NighInvulnerability to why Stark's Arc Reactor is jumpstarted again when Hulk is shouting. This also means that [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve when you believed hard enough, you can do]] ''[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve anything]]''. Including, if somehow Hulk brings [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk his forces]] to fight Thanos at ''Avengers 3'', Captain [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority can assert his authorities]] by having them punching his shield and [[NoSell making all of them writhing in pain over broken knuckle]] while Cap only got dislocated shoulder... after having 5 of them hitting him in succession. Which he sets by himself.
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* Jossed. Despite the shield playing a prominent thematically role in ''The Falcon and the Winter Soldier'' and Disney now owning the X-Men properties, nothing has been suggested that the shield is partially made out of Adamantium.
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[[WMG: The new element in ''Film/IronMan2'' ]]
Was the same as the Tesseract in ''Captain America'' and the casket in ''Thor''
* Much more likely, it's vibranium, the same element used to make Cap's shield. It doesn't need to be a power source. It just needs to be a better and more durable catalyst than palladium. Which seeing as it absorbs energy. . .
* According to the prequel comics at least, Tony wants to name the new element Badassium.
* The novelization states that the element is in fact Vibranium. Also, the Tesseract has no implications made that it has the same capabilities as the Casket of Ancient Winters. The Tesseract is a power source of likely unlimited potential, yes, but the Casket's freezing potential is completely different.
* More WMG: Vibranium also acts as low-level RealityWarper; means, they do everything what people wield them wants to do. That will explain everything from Cap's shield NighInvulnerability to why Stark's Arc Reactor is jumpstarted again when Hulk is shouting. This also means that [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve when you believed hard enough, you can do]] ''[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve anything]]''. Including, if somehow Hulk brings [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk his forces]] to fight Thanos at ''Avengers 3'', Captain [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority can assert his authorities]] by having them punching his shield and [[NoSell making all of them writhing in pain over broken knuckle]] while Cap only got dislocated shoulder... after having 5 of them hitting him in succession. Which he sets by himself.
[[WMG: The Satan's Claw will appear]]
As HYDRA survived into the modern day, it's leader Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Who was around back in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII)'s left arm is replaced with a nasty red, demonic-looking thing that can suck the age out of someone and replenish the user's called the Satan's Claw. Seeing how in the trailer, those goons around Loki looked like new-age HYDRA soldiers, either the Red Skull did die and his former Lieutenant took over, and found the Claw somewhere and has kept himself alive with it, or the ComicBook/RedSkull did live, found the Claw somewhere in Asgard, and got back control of HYDRA.
* Jossed. Strucker is not supernaturally long-lived in the MCU, nor does he have a prosthetic hand.
[[WMG: The Arc reactor was an attempt to reproduce the Cosmic Cube's energy-generating capability with Earth technology]]
Taken more or less straight from ''Fridge/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': the 'Tesseract' could produce a lot of energy, enough to solve a lot of problems but it does have two major drawbacks: there is only one, so whoever controls it would be in a position where they might even fall into authoritarianism inadvertently, to say nothing of deliberately, and the thing is based on unknown principles - what if it just stops working one day? But if some measure of that energy-generation could be reproduced, not only would humanity be a bit closer to understanding the principles behind it, but the monopoly problem would also be averted. Thus, studying the Cube leading to Arc reactors that, while impractical with then-modern technology, could be made a bit closer to the ideal with the technology of the MCU's 21th century...
[[WMG: The Infinity Stones]]
Obviously, they're different in this continuation. So...
* The Tesseract is either the Mind stone or the Space Stone, since it can do both (bets on the Mind stone, since that was blue as well).
** No, it just opened portals. Loki's spear controlled minds. My guess, Fury only ''thought'' the spear was powered by the cube because they both give off the same cosmic energy.
* Confirmed. It's the Space Stone.
* The Aether is the Reality stone, as Malekith tried to use it to change reality.
** It could also be the Power stone, since it gave him far greater power and glowed red.
*** Well, Kevin has confirmed that the Tesseract is the Space Stone according to Crave Online (though personally, I expected it to be the Power Stone, with how people keep using it as a battery. Oh well.) and the Aether is the Reality Stone. That leaves four. One will factor into [=GotG=] as a McGuffin. Normally, I'd call Space, but since that is taken it's probably Mind, Power, or (less likely, though potentially interesting) Time. (I read somewhere that, whatever it is, it'll factor into [=AoU=] too.) The Eye of Agmotto seems like a likely candidate, almost certainly Soul. Then, if [=GotG=] doesn't use it, I guess the Mists in Inhumans will be the Power Stone. (Although, didn't Odin say the other "stones" were solid? Maybe the Mists work like a sauna, the coals are the Stone? Y'know, like that episode of Smallville where a coach gains pyrokinesis from a kryptonite sauna.) That leaves Time, assuming it isn't used in [=GotG=]. The simplest way to introduce it would be through Kang, but I don't see him turning up before ''Avengers 3''. Maybe it would be the subject being heisted in Any-Man. Probabely not, I suppose it could be one which Thanos gains at the beginning of ''Avengers 3'' or whatever the Infinity Gauntlet movie is. Hoo, well that's my theory!
*** My guesses on what the Infinity Stones are: 1. Tesseract is the Space Gem. Initially I thought it was the Power Gem until you realize that it's really an inefficient, roundabout source of power. It was also used to bridge space in the ''Avengers'' movie. Hawkeye's comment about the Tesseract pulling energy from deep space also lends itself to that fact. When the Red Skull picked it up, it seemed to just transport him rather than empower him in any way. The Bifrost might have been based on study of the Tesseract, and it also bends space. 2. The Aether is the Power Gem simply based on Thor's taunt about "For all that power, I expected you to hit harder." If it was the reality gem, I would be expecting more chaotic changes to reality when it was used. It seemed to express itself simply as waves of force instead. That, and it's red. 3. The Mind Gem was already seem as the gem on Loki's staff. It took control of people's minds, and could shoot telekinetic beams. 4. The Time Gem will be featured in ''Age of Ultron'' and will be used to transport the Avengers to the Dark Future. The rest may already be on the Infinity Gauntlet in the Asguard.
*** The Soul gem could be one of Dr. Strange's artifacts.
*** And maybe it's the Eye of Agamotto. The MCU has already merged the Space Stone with the Cosmic Cube and Vision's Sun Stone with the Mind Stone, why not combine another well known Marvel relic with an Infinity Stone? The nature of the Soul Stone makes it a perfect fit for being introduced in Doctor Strange and it would also mean Thanos would have to go through Strange to get the fifth stone which is a confrontation I want to see just as much as Thanos vs the Vision.
*** Let's not let the color of the artifacts be too big of a deciding factor here, since [[http://images.wikia.com/marvelmovies/images/6/60/Infinity_Gauntlet_Thor_prop.jpg this picture]] of the Gauntlet shows ''2'' blue gems and a white gem, so it looks like they won't all be the same color as the comics.
** If they ever get around to making that ''Runaways'' film they've been talking about, the Pride could have control of the Soul Gem or the Power Gem. Their evil scheme involves stealing souls, and their backstory involves receiving a massive power boost from an outside source. I'm not sure there's a corresponding artifact that could fit, but they could just make one up like the Aether.
** More like Wishful Thinking than Wild Mass Guessing, but... the ''Days of Future Past'' movie shares a character with the ''Age of Ultron'' movie (yeah yeah, I know, a different actor, just hear me out). Days of Future Past obviously involves time travel. The previous X-Men movies were pretty solidly NOT in the current MCU, so if, theoretically, they wanted to insert it ''into'' the current MCU, they would have to retroactively change the X-Men continuity. So, in the events of Days of Future Past, the effects of the time travel change the X-Men movie history in such a way that it places it in the new MCU. And how do they achieve the time travel in the first place? With the help of a mysterious cosmic object that allows them to control time, ie, the Time Gem. Scarlet Witch is in Age of Ultron, but not Days of Future Past, so maybe she doesn't exist in the current X-Men continuity, because in the current X-Men continuity, Magneto begets Quicksilver with ''a different mother''. The time travel means that for whatever reason, he doesn't meet ''that'' woman, but another one, who ends up giving birth to twins instead of a single baby boy, hence the change in actor. Quicksilver looks different between the two movies because, technically, due to time travel, ''he is a different person''.
*** If this happened my life would be made. Yep.
** ''Film/AntMan1'' is supposed to be a heist film, so the thing they're stealing could be one of the gems.
*** Seems a bit unlikely, since that would put two Gems on Earth and Ant-Man seems to be pretty Earth-centric.
*** Jossed.
** In the new trailer for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Star Lord looks to be stealing something pretty important...
** [[Film/AllHailTheKing Now that the Mandarin is confirmed to exist in the MCU]], what are the possibilities that his rings are one of the stones? We've already established that the stones aren't strictly solid/whole, or they could be forged from one of the stones.
* As of ''Doctor Strange'', the Infinity Gems so far:
** The Space Gem: The Tesseract -- can open portals and teleport beings to other realms.
** The Reality Gem: The Aether -- under the right circumstances can unravel all of reality.
** The Power Gem: The Orb -- vastly enhances the strength and powers of beings that aren't destroyed by it possessing them.
** The Mind Gem: The Scepter -- can exert mental control over others and grant sentience to artificial beings.
** The Time Gem: The Eye of Agamotto -- can reverse time and create closed loops of time.
** The Soul Gem: Unrevealed.
*** Something to note thus far is that all of the infinity gems seem to be capable of generating large amounts of energy and granting power to their wielders, thus "enhancing strength" is something not unique to the Power Gem (though it probably does it better and/or grants more power than the others).
*** Well, there's probably a good explanation. Where the Tesseract is concerned, someone (can't remember who) explicitly mentions "energy from space" (quantum physics -- how do they work?), which needed to be mechanically harnessed for any practical purpose, so that's keeping with a theme. Meanwhile the Aether seems to just rewrite the rules of what matter is, while the Orb just gives off a whole bunch of destructive energy. (Or the writers didn't expect a big epic with all the Gems, so didn't consider giving each unique characteristics. Nah, definitely the other thing).
* As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTPyFnJB3KI this video]] points out: The Space Stone is the '''T'''essaract, the Reality Stone is the '''A'''ether, the Time Stone is the Eye of Agamatto which Strange wore as a '''N'''ecklace, the Power Stone was in the '''O'''rb, and the Mind Stone was in Loki's '''S'''cepter. This suggests that the Soul Stone's heretofore unseen container would be in something with an "H"[[note]]So as to spell out THANOS, of course[[/note]]. Funny, '''H'''eimdall can see souls across the Nine Worlds, and his eyes are the same color as the Soul Stone.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' shows that the Soul Stone did ''not'' have a container, essentially jossing the T.H.A.N.O.S. theory at first. It did have a ''guardian'', however, who turns out to be [[spoiler:Red Skull in the present, who was the leader of '''H'''YDRA; thus ultimately confirming this theory to an extent.]]
[[WMG: The Time Stone was/will be used to create the Inhumans.]]
Just as the Space Gem and Cosmic Cube were merged into the Tesseract, the Time Gem will be merged with an artifact used by the Kree known as the Forever Crystal. This artifact was used by the Supreme Intelligence to help "evolve" the genetically stagnated Kree race. I don't think it's a coincidence that the two films coming out between the two Infinity War films are Captain Marvel and the Inhumans: both stories require the Kree to be major players. I fully expect the Kree to be important in Infinity War as well. What if the Time Stone was an artifact used by the Celestials to tamper with the natural selection of various races by speeding up, slowing down, or even reversing and restarting their evolution? What if they'd used it on many planets, deliberately guiding various lifeforms to become the humanoids we see on so many worlds? And what if The Time Stone (or Forever Crystal, or whatever they end up calling it) ended up with the Kree, who figured out how it works (mostly) and experimented with it, leading to the creation of the Terrigen Mists and, ultimately, the Inhumans? I'm toying with the idea that it's actually the Time Stone that led to the creation of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, too... Their powers even seem kind of time-based to me, if SW can see the future and maybe QS moves quickly by speeding up time around himself.
A prediction, then: The Time Stone is currently on Attilan, the Inhuman headquarters on the Moon. During ''Infinity War: Part One'', Thanos joins forces with (or just conquers) the Kree Empire and leads a huge army of Chitauri, Kree, and others across the galaxy, seizing the stones from Asgard, Xandar, and elsewhere even as the Guardians and Avengers try to stop him. Ultimately, this culminates in Thanos and his army's arrival in Earth's orbit, either at the end of that film or in Captain Marvel or Inhumans. He's already the most powerful being in the universe, and now he's going to get the last stone, destroying Attilan in the process and leading to a final showdown, on and around Earth, with a fully Gauntleted Thanos in ''Infinity War: Part Two''.
* Jossed. Inhumans got changed to a TV series (since Feige only had the movie on the line-up to get Perlmutter to agree to Black Panther and Captain Marvel movies; after the Marvel Creative Committee was jettisoned, Feige dropped the idea, and Perlmutter rushed it out the door), and no Infinity Stone showed up.
[[WMG: The real Mandarin has the Mind Gem.]]
The Mind Gem gives the user psionic powers. In the comics, the Mandarin's left ring finger has a ring that allows him to use mind control. The diamond-shaped gem in the ring is blue, just like the Mind Gem in the comics.
* Jossed, possibly. Loki's staff may contain the Mind Gem, but that doesn't mean the Mandarin can't get his hands on it at some point.
** Jossed. Loki's scepter had the Mind Gem inside it, and at the end of the movie, it was bonded to the Vision.
[[WMG: Asgard's lack of communications technology]]
Though Asgardians are SufficientlyAdvanced Aliens, they don't seem to have long-distance communications tech similar to Earth (Cell phones, Internet, etc). For example, when Heimdall summons Sif and the Warriors Three in ''{{Film/Thor}}'', he sends messengers rather than calling them on a phone-like device. This method of communication is less efficient but also less vulnerable to hackers or wire-tapping. It's possible that Asgard may have invented long-distance communication in the past but Odin or a previous ruler banned it.
[[WMG: After the events of ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier'', Fury will start using LMD's for both him and some of his highest operatives.]]
LMD's are 'Life Model Decoy's, essentially robotic [[Film/{{Avatar}} Avatars]].
* Would anybody really ''want'' to be associated with LMD's after how horribly they were abused in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''?
* Jossed.
[[WMG: Should Disney manage to finalize acquisition of FOX's Marvel film rights, Captain America's shield will be discovered afterwards to not be pure Vibranium as everyone thought.]]
Someone--likely Wakandan--will examine the shield and realize it's actually an alloy of Vibranium and another metal. One that Marvel Studios had just gained the film rights to.
Was the same as the Tesseract in ''Captain America'' and the casket in ''Thor''
* Much more likely, it's vibranium, the same element used to make Cap's shield. It doesn't need to be a power source. It just needs to be a better and more durable catalyst than palladium. Which seeing as it absorbs energy. . .
* According to the prequel comics at least, Tony wants to name the new element Badassium.
* The novelization states that the element is in fact Vibranium. Also, the Tesseract has no implications made that it has the same capabilities as the Casket of Ancient Winters. The Tesseract is a power source of likely unlimited potential, yes, but the Casket's freezing potential is completely different.
* More WMG: Vibranium also acts as low-level RealityWarper; means, they do everything what people wield them wants to do. That will explain everything from Cap's shield NighInvulnerability to why Stark's Arc Reactor is jumpstarted again when Hulk is shouting. This also means that [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve when you believed hard enough, you can do]] ''[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve anything]]''. Including, if somehow Hulk brings [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk his forces]] to fight Thanos at ''Avengers 3'', Captain [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority can assert his authorities]] by having them punching his shield and [[NoSell making all of them writhing in pain over broken knuckle]] while Cap only got dislocated shoulder... after having 5 of them hitting him in succession. Which he sets by himself.
[[WMG: The Satan's Claw will appear]]
As HYDRA survived into the modern day, it's leader Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Who was around back in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII)'s left arm is replaced with a nasty red, demonic-looking thing that can suck the age out of someone and replenish the user's called the Satan's Claw. Seeing how in the trailer, those goons around Loki looked like new-age HYDRA soldiers, either the Red Skull did die and his former Lieutenant took over, and found the Claw somewhere and has kept himself alive with it, or the ComicBook/RedSkull did live, found the Claw somewhere in Asgard, and got back control of HYDRA.
* Jossed. Strucker is not supernaturally long-lived in the MCU, nor does he have a prosthetic hand.
[[WMG: The Arc reactor was an attempt to reproduce the Cosmic Cube's energy-generating capability with Earth technology]]
Taken more or less straight from ''Fridge/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': the 'Tesseract' could produce a lot of energy, enough to solve a lot of problems but it does have two major drawbacks: there is only one, so whoever controls it would be in a position where they might even fall into authoritarianism inadvertently, to say nothing of deliberately, and the thing is based on unknown principles - what if it just stops working one day? But if some measure of that energy-generation could be reproduced, not only would humanity be a bit closer to understanding the principles behind it, but the monopoly problem would also be averted. Thus, studying the Cube leading to Arc reactors that, while impractical with then-modern technology, could be made a bit closer to the ideal with the technology of the MCU's 21th century...
[[WMG: The Infinity Stones]]
Obviously, they're different in this continuation. So...
* The Tesseract is either the Mind stone or the Space Stone, since it can do both (bets on the Mind stone, since that was blue as well).
** No, it just opened portals. Loki's spear controlled minds. My guess, Fury only ''thought'' the spear was powered by the cube because they both give off the same cosmic energy.
* Confirmed. It's the Space Stone.
* The Aether is the Reality stone, as Malekith tried to use it to change reality.
** It could also be the Power stone, since it gave him far greater power and glowed red.
*** Well, Kevin has confirmed that the Tesseract is the Space Stone according to Crave Online (though personally, I expected it to be the Power Stone, with how people keep using it as a battery. Oh well.) and the Aether is the Reality Stone. That leaves four. One will factor into [=GotG=] as a McGuffin. Normally, I'd call Space, but since that is taken it's probably Mind, Power, or (less likely, though potentially interesting) Time. (I read somewhere that, whatever it is, it'll factor into [=AoU=] too.) The Eye of Agmotto seems like a likely candidate, almost certainly Soul. Then, if [=GotG=] doesn't use it, I guess the Mists in Inhumans will be the Power Stone. (Although, didn't Odin say the other "stones" were solid? Maybe the Mists work like a sauna, the coals are the Stone? Y'know, like that episode of Smallville where a coach gains pyrokinesis from a kryptonite sauna.) That leaves Time, assuming it isn't used in [=GotG=]. The simplest way to introduce it would be through Kang, but I don't see him turning up before ''Avengers 3''. Maybe it would be the subject being heisted in Any-Man. Probabely not, I suppose it could be one which Thanos gains at the beginning of ''Avengers 3'' or whatever the Infinity Gauntlet movie is. Hoo, well that's my theory!
*** My guesses on what the Infinity Stones are: 1. Tesseract is the Space Gem. Initially I thought it was the Power Gem until you realize that it's really an inefficient, roundabout source of power. It was also used to bridge space in the ''Avengers'' movie. Hawkeye's comment about the Tesseract pulling energy from deep space also lends itself to that fact. When the Red Skull picked it up, it seemed to just transport him rather than empower him in any way. The Bifrost might have been based on study of the Tesseract, and it also bends space. 2. The Aether is the Power Gem simply based on Thor's taunt about "For all that power, I expected you to hit harder." If it was the reality gem, I would be expecting more chaotic changes to reality when it was used. It seemed to express itself simply as waves of force instead. That, and it's red. 3. The Mind Gem was already seem as the gem on Loki's staff. It took control of people's minds, and could shoot telekinetic beams. 4. The Time Gem will be featured in ''Age of Ultron'' and will be used to transport the Avengers to the Dark Future. The rest may already be on the Infinity Gauntlet in the Asguard.
*** The Soul gem could be one of Dr. Strange's artifacts.
*** And maybe it's the Eye of Agamotto. The MCU has already merged the Space Stone with the Cosmic Cube and Vision's Sun Stone with the Mind Stone, why not combine another well known Marvel relic with an Infinity Stone? The nature of the Soul Stone makes it a perfect fit for being introduced in Doctor Strange and it would also mean Thanos would have to go through Strange to get the fifth stone which is a confrontation I want to see just as much as Thanos vs the Vision.
*** Let's not let the color of the artifacts be too big of a deciding factor here, since [[http://images.wikia.com/marvelmovies/images/6/60/Infinity_Gauntlet_Thor_prop.jpg this picture]] of the Gauntlet shows ''2'' blue gems and a white gem, so it looks like they won't all be the same color as the comics.
** If they ever get around to making that ''Runaways'' film they've been talking about, the Pride could have control of the Soul Gem or the Power Gem. Their evil scheme involves stealing souls, and their backstory involves receiving a massive power boost from an outside source. I'm not sure there's a corresponding artifact that could fit, but they could just make one up like the Aether.
** More like Wishful Thinking than Wild Mass Guessing, but... the ''Days of Future Past'' movie shares a character with the ''Age of Ultron'' movie (yeah yeah, I know, a different actor, just hear me out). Days of Future Past obviously involves time travel. The previous X-Men movies were pretty solidly NOT in the current MCU, so if, theoretically, they wanted to insert it ''into'' the current MCU, they would have to retroactively change the X-Men continuity. So, in the events of Days of Future Past, the effects of the time travel change the X-Men movie history in such a way that it places it in the new MCU. And how do they achieve the time travel in the first place? With the help of a mysterious cosmic object that allows them to control time, ie, the Time Gem. Scarlet Witch is in Age of Ultron, but not Days of Future Past, so maybe she doesn't exist in the current X-Men continuity, because in the current X-Men continuity, Magneto begets Quicksilver with ''a different mother''. The time travel means that for whatever reason, he doesn't meet ''that'' woman, but another one, who ends up giving birth to twins instead of a single baby boy, hence the change in actor. Quicksilver looks different between the two movies because, technically, due to time travel, ''he is a different person''.
*** If this happened my life would be made. Yep.
** ''Film/AntMan1'' is supposed to be a heist film, so the thing they're stealing could be one of the gems.
*** Seems a bit unlikely, since that would put two Gems on Earth and Ant-Man seems to be pretty Earth-centric.
*** Jossed.
** In the new trailer for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Star Lord looks to be stealing something pretty important...
** [[Film/AllHailTheKing Now that the Mandarin is confirmed to exist in the MCU]], what are the possibilities that his rings are one of the stones? We've already established that the stones aren't strictly solid/whole, or they could be forged from one of the stones.
* As of ''Doctor Strange'', the Infinity Gems so far:
** The Space Gem: The Tesseract -- can open portals and teleport beings to other realms.
** The Reality Gem: The Aether -- under the right circumstances can unravel all of reality.
** The Power Gem: The Orb -- vastly enhances the strength and powers of beings that aren't destroyed by it possessing them.
** The Mind Gem: The Scepter -- can exert mental control over others and grant sentience to artificial beings.
** The Time Gem: The Eye of Agamotto -- can reverse time and create closed loops of time.
** The Soul Gem: Unrevealed.
*** Something to note thus far is that all of the infinity gems seem to be capable of generating large amounts of energy and granting power to their wielders, thus "enhancing strength" is something not unique to the Power Gem (though it probably does it better and/or grants more power than the others).
*** Well, there's probably a good explanation. Where the Tesseract is concerned, someone (can't remember who) explicitly mentions "energy from space" (quantum physics -- how do they work?), which needed to be mechanically harnessed for any practical purpose, so that's keeping with a theme. Meanwhile the Aether seems to just rewrite the rules of what matter is, while the Orb just gives off a whole bunch of destructive energy. (Or the writers didn't expect a big epic with all the Gems, so didn't consider giving each unique characteristics. Nah, definitely the other thing).
* As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTPyFnJB3KI this video]] points out: The Space Stone is the '''T'''essaract, the Reality Stone is the '''A'''ether, the Time Stone is the Eye of Agamatto which Strange wore as a '''N'''ecklace, the Power Stone was in the '''O'''rb, and the Mind Stone was in Loki's '''S'''cepter. This suggests that the Soul Stone's heretofore unseen container would be in something with an "H"[[note]]So as to spell out THANOS, of course[[/note]]. Funny, '''H'''eimdall can see souls across the Nine Worlds, and his eyes are the same color as the Soul Stone.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' shows that the Soul Stone did ''not'' have a container, essentially jossing the T.H.A.N.O.S. theory at first. It did have a ''guardian'', however, who turns out to be [[spoiler:Red Skull in the present, who was the leader of '''H'''YDRA; thus ultimately confirming this theory to an extent.]]
[[WMG: The Time Stone was/will be used to create the Inhumans.]]
Just as the Space Gem and Cosmic Cube were merged into the Tesseract, the Time Gem will be merged with an artifact used by the Kree known as the Forever Crystal. This artifact was used by the Supreme Intelligence to help "evolve" the genetically stagnated Kree race. I don't think it's a coincidence that the two films coming out between the two Infinity War films are Captain Marvel and the Inhumans: both stories require the Kree to be major players. I fully expect the Kree to be important in Infinity War as well. What if the Time Stone was an artifact used by the Celestials to tamper with the natural selection of various races by speeding up, slowing down, or even reversing and restarting their evolution? What if they'd used it on many planets, deliberately guiding various lifeforms to become the humanoids we see on so many worlds? And what if The Time Stone (or Forever Crystal, or whatever they end up calling it) ended up with the Kree, who figured out how it works (mostly) and experimented with it, leading to the creation of the Terrigen Mists and, ultimately, the Inhumans? I'm toying with the idea that it's actually the Time Stone that led to the creation of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, too... Their powers even seem kind of time-based to me, if SW can see the future and maybe QS moves quickly by speeding up time around himself.
A prediction, then: The Time Stone is currently on Attilan, the Inhuman headquarters on the Moon. During ''Infinity War: Part One'', Thanos joins forces with (or just conquers) the Kree Empire and leads a huge army of Chitauri, Kree, and others across the galaxy, seizing the stones from Asgard, Xandar, and elsewhere even as the Guardians and Avengers try to stop him. Ultimately, this culminates in Thanos and his army's arrival in Earth's orbit, either at the end of that film or in Captain Marvel or Inhumans. He's already the most powerful being in the universe, and now he's going to get the last stone, destroying Attilan in the process and leading to a final showdown, on and around Earth, with a fully Gauntleted Thanos in ''Infinity War: Part Two''.
* Jossed. Inhumans got changed to a TV series (since Feige only had the movie on the line-up to get Perlmutter to agree to Black Panther and Captain Marvel movies; after the Marvel Creative Committee was jettisoned, Feige dropped the idea, and Perlmutter rushed it out the door), and no Infinity Stone showed up.
[[WMG: The real Mandarin has the Mind Gem.]]
The Mind Gem gives the user psionic powers. In the comics, the Mandarin's left ring finger has a ring that allows him to use mind control. The diamond-shaped gem in the ring is blue, just like the Mind Gem in the comics.
* Jossed, possibly. Loki's staff may contain the Mind Gem, but that doesn't mean the Mandarin can't get his hands on it at some point.
** Jossed. Loki's scepter had the Mind Gem inside it, and at the end of the movie, it was bonded to the Vision.
[[WMG: Asgard's lack of communications technology]]
Though Asgardians are SufficientlyAdvanced Aliens, they don't seem to have long-distance communications tech similar to Earth (Cell phones, Internet, etc). For example, when Heimdall summons Sif and the Warriors Three in ''{{Film/Thor}}'', he sends messengers rather than calling them on a phone-like device. This method of communication is less efficient but also less vulnerable to hackers or wire-tapping. It's possible that Asgard may have invented long-distance communication in the past but Odin or a previous ruler banned it.
[[WMG: After the events of ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier'', Fury will start using LMD's for both him and some of his highest operatives.]]
LMD's are 'Life Model Decoy's, essentially robotic [[Film/{{Avatar}} Avatars]].
* Would anybody really ''want'' to be associated with LMD's after how horribly they were abused in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''?
* Jossed.
[[WMG: Should Disney manage to finalize acquisition of FOX's Marvel film rights, Captain America's shield will be discovered afterwards to not be pure Vibranium as everyone thought.]]
Someone--likely Wakandan--will examine the shield and realize it's actually an alloy of Vibranium and another metal. One that Marvel Studios had just gained the film rights to.
