What if.... the cube, lets call it the cube, is connected to Loki, what if it allows Skull to go into a kind of mortal mans Odin Sleep, what if it preserves him, and after the Germans are defeated...in Cap...we see Loki convincing the Red Skull to use the cube, to hybernate until the time is right..... that hybernating will not only preserve the skull but given time make him more then just an amplified mortal... more like a god....
What if Skull demands that it benefit not only him, but a small army his best Hydra. Loki says it's possible but it means no god like powers.
Skull says.... I already am a God.... and quotes Friedrich Nietzsche
Then in the Avengers we get SKull & Loki, with the Hulk as thier muscle and Hydra as the Army.
NOW THATS BIG ENOUGH FOR THE AVENGERS TO ASSEMBLE.
Saw the trailer for Thor.... Pretty awsome