The Infinity Gauntlet is a glove designed to hold the six Infinity Stones: Space (the Tesseract), Reality (the Aether from Thor: The Dark World), Power (the Orb from Guardians of the Galaxy), Mind (Loki's scepter and Vision's gem), Time, and Soul. As confirmed by Feige in a recent interview, Time and Soul are the two that that are not yet accounted for in the MCU. The reason Thanos is so cranky is that he currently has none of the Stones in his possession, despite numerous attempts to claim them over the last several films. Though they're presumably not the real Infinity Stones, since we'd know about it if the Asgardians had all six in their possession already. The Infinity Gauntlet at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron looks empty, whereas the one seen in Odin's vault had stones in it. On closer inspection, that shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. "That was not Odin's vault that you see at the end." How did it get out of Odin's treasure room and into Thanos' hands?įeige promised an explanation for that seeming discrepancy, and he's delivered. "There are two different gloves," he told CinemaBlend. "I'll do it myself." However, eagle-eyed fans pointed out that the last time we saw the Infinity Gauntlet, it was in Odin's possession.
Read all about the MCU Infinity Gauntlets - yes, that's Gauntlets, plural - after the jump.Īt the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thanos is seen grabbing an Infinity Gauntlet out of a vault. But now Kevin Feige has actually offered an answer to one of the questions raised.
As usual, the stinger left us full of questions about the implications for the future of the MCU. If this theory is correct, Avengers: Infinity Warmay provide the proof, as Thanos attempts to assemble the Infinity Gauntlet and "rebalance the universe.If you stuck around for the end credits of Avengers: Age of Ultron, you were treated to a bit of setup for Phase Three. It's one that matches with the facts, though, and that has precedent in the original comics. His awareness of their presence and their position will keep increasing. The Avengers can run - but there's no way they can hide. For every Infinity Stone Thanos collects, he will be increasingly drawn to the others. If this theory is correct, though, it raises an ominous possibility. RELATED: The Last Infinity Stone Could Be The Avengers’ “Biggest Threat” It's also likely why Thanos gave Loki the Mind Stone in the first place he knew that Loki would need it to find any Infinity Stone on Earth. It's why the Convergence triggered a rift that brought the Aether to Earth.
That's why the Tesseract, the Jewel of Odin's Treasure Vault, wound up left on Earth. It was inexorably drawing the other Infinity Stones to Earth. But, crucially, it's possible the Time Stone was still exerting a pull on the other Infinity Stones. It was, after all, a cosmic backwater the Time Stone was essentially trapped on a primitive planet, on a world overlooked by other races, with no way off-world. Back in those ancient times, Earth would be the perfect hiding place for the Time Stone. So the Infinity Stones had been scattered. Only one Stone truly remained in play: the Time Stone, which was used by Agamotto - the first Sorcerer Supreme - to stand in defense of our reality. They then attempted to secrete them away the Power Stone, for example, was hidden on the deserted world of Morag. It seems that, in ancient times, a group of beings used the Infinity Stones.