MCU: Your Thoughts About The Infinity Stones (SPOILERS INSIDE)

[Mike Murdock]

I just wish the Infinity Stones didn't seem to start behaving the same way. How exactly did the Ether and the (Power?) Stone differ in what they did in the past two movies?

 

[Marvelocity]

I just wish the Infinity Stones didn't seem to start behaving the same way. How exactly did the Ether and the (Power?) Stone differ in what they did in the past two movies?

That's what I've been afraid of. I feel like they're just generic and used to do whatever the director needs them to do. They should have thought the gems out way more thoroughly before starting to call them the Infinity Stones in the movies.

 

[Spiderine]

That's what I've been afraid of. I feel like they're just generic and used to do whatever the director needs them to do. They should have thought the gems out way more thoroughly before starting to call them the Infinity Stones in the movies.

I believe the Aether or Reality Gem has the power to recreate the universe in the user's likeness or alter reality in any shape fashion or form. That's probably the main difference. They all seem to have the power to destroy as a common device or plot point but still serve different functions.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I just wish the Infinity Stones didn't seem to start behaving the same way. How exactly did the Ether and the (Power?) Stone differ in what they did in the past two movies?

That's what I've been afraid of. I feel like they're just generic and used to do whatever the director needs them to do. They should have thought the gems out way more thoroughly before starting to call them the Infinity Stones in the movies.

I agree.

It's really a missed opportunity.

Showing how each gem gives the user a specific set of abilities could've been much more interesting visually and conceptually.

Hopefully they'll improve this for phase 3 leading up to Avengers 3.

 

[The_Manhunter]

I disagree, I think it's been clear that each stone is different:

Tesseract: Can create portals through space (Loki and his army)

Aether: Can alter reality to the user's liking (Malekith)

Orb: Powered through the Nova blockade in one or two hits (Ronan)

Oh and 1 more thing: let's all agree to call them Stones. It is the official MCU name, and I think it just sounds cooler lol. I'm kinda OCD about fhat type of thing though

 

[Marvelocity]

Sorry, dude, I was raised on Marvel since age 6 or 7. They'll always be gems to me, Mandarin will always be a Chinese martial arts master who discovered alien rings - not a guy who showed up in one comic and blew his brains out and Nick Fury, Kingpin and Johnny Storm aren't African American. I'm OCD like that.

 

[Mike Murdock]

I disagree, I think it's been clear that each stone is different:

Tesseract: Can create portals through space (Loki and his army)

Aether: Can alter reality to the user's liking (Malekith)

Orb: Powered through the Nova blockade in one or two hits (Ronan)

Oh and 1 more thing: let's all agree to call them Stones. It is the official MCU name, and I think it just sounds cooler lol. I'm kinda OCD about fhat type of thing though

The Aether also made Maleketh really strong and allowed him to project force that could knock down other people. When did we see it alter reality at all?

 

[seahammer]

The Aether also made Maleketh really strong and allowed him to project force that could knock down other people. When did we see it alter reality at all?

It also made Malekith grow in size. It was hard to see because it was in the middle of the red cloud, but when Thor was finishing him Malekith was huge. That's something the other Stones haven't done.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I disagree, I think it's been clear that each stone is different:

Tesseract: Can create portals through space (Loki and his army)

Aether: Can alter reality to the user's liking (Malekith)

Orb: Powered through the Nova blockade in one or two hits (Ronan)

Oh and 1 more thing: let's all agree to call them Stones. It is the official MCU name, and I think it just sounds cooler lol. I'm kinda OCD about fhat type of thing though

The differences should be obvious to everyone.

Plus the specialties of each gem should match up better with the gem's name.

It makes the infinity gem concept more enjoyable if people would imagine what they would do with each gem.

Instead their uses seem ambiguous so they seem like a plain macguffin thrown into the story as an uninspired plot device.

The clarity of each gem's power and purpose is gone.

 

[Kiltman]

I thought in GotG they said the 6 singularities became ores (stones) and basically what The Collector did was create the gem from said ore.

So they will all be gems in the end.

But maybe I'm wrong, need to see it again.

 

[Spiderine]

They all seem to possess the power of destruction and even enhance weapons or empower the person who embodies it. The power gem was going to be used to destroy entire worlds in a sudden blow. That's really all I got out of it. The aether was being used to recreate a new universe to whatever the user wanted. Obviously would have erased everything in the nine realms. Malekith would have destroyed the realms and created a new reality in the universe proclaiming himself God. The Space gem creates portals through space.

 

[Hyde]

James Gunn just confirmed on Twitter that the Orb was indeed the Power Stone.

 

[Marvelocity]

I'm thinking that staff has to contain the Mind Gem and that it will become clear in Age of Ultron. I think Hydra's using it to control the minds of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver (who are also going to be revealed to have been experimented on with the Reality Gem), and I think it's going to eventually lead to Ultron having a mind of his own. That will just leave Time and Soul. Soul will obviously be related to Dr. Strange while Time should be used in the next Captain America movie.

 

[Wolverine's Run]

I'm starting to wonder if they are going to name them in the movies at all as opposed to it being six stones. I wouldn't mind that, but I wouldn't mind them giving the stones their names from the comics either.

 

[ajpro]

If a gem in staff is really an Infinity Stone, do you think Thanos would that simply give it to Loki?

BTW, I'm pretty sure Dr Strange will have to deal with another stone. And Thanos himself must have a few aces in the hole.

 

[Spiderine]

The staff was an extension of the tesseract power. It was the other end of the portal used to bring Loki to earth. Thanos is not going to give someone like Loki a stone simply to go and retrieve another stone. All they wanted was the tesseract in return for Loki ruling the earth.

 

[KDM1986]

If a gem in staff is really an Infinity Stone, do you think Thanos would that simply give it to Loki?

BTW, I'm pretty sure Dr Strange will have to deal with another stone. And Thanos himself must have a few aces in the hole.

I also think Dr Strange will end up with one of the stones. If we make assumptions then it might play out like this.

Dr Strange=Mind Stone
GOTG 2=Adam Warlock Soul Stone

The one that stumps me the most is the Time Stone. Maybe Thanos already has it. Maybe the rumored Inhumans movie. Maybe we even get Kang.

 

[Mike Murdock]

If a gem in staff is really an Infinity Stone, do you think Thanos would that simply give it to Loki?

I don't think it's all that implausible. Taking a risk to get a reward is quite common. He wants two Infinity Stones. It would make sense to use his best weapon to get it.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

The staff was an extension of the tesseract power. It was the other end of the portal used to bring Loki to earth. Thanos is not going to give someone like Loki a stone simply to go and retrieve another stone. All they wanted was the tesseract in return for Loki ruling the earth.

thank you. I'm so sick of reading the same old theory about the scepter bein the mind stone again and again when everything - from quotes from the movies to statements from the Feige himself to just common sense - just points to the opposite direction. can we lay this theory to rest please and focus our speculative energy on more plausible stuff?

 

[Katsuro]

thank you. I'm so sick of reading the same old theory about the scepter bein the mind stone again and again when everything - from quotes from the movies to statements from the Feige himself to just common sense - just points to the opposite direction. can we lay this theory to rest please and focus our speculative energy on more plausible stuff?

At first I thought the Scepter was totally the mind stone, but after seeing Thor: The Dark World, and now Guardians of the Galaxy, it's fairly obvious that the scepter is way too underpowered to be an Infinity Stone. Sure, it could mess with people's minds a bit, but it's nothing on the level of the Orb, the Aether, or even the Tesseract.

 

[scifiwolf]

I think the fact that scepter is being given prominence moving forward into future movies lends some credence to its being an Infinity Stone. The fact that it worked in tandem with the Tesseract likely only has to do with the fact that the Stones can function together, anyway. The only knock is that it is of a blue color, along with the Tesseract. I'd say that the Space Gem might not necessarily be blue, and the Tesseract is just a vessel for it that happens to be blue.

Not saying I'm right, but just throwing out food for thought.

 

[Loki882]

The Aether also made Maleketh really strong and allowed him to project force that could knock down other people. When did we see it alter reality at all?

He was going to use it to drain all light out of the universe and plunge it back into eternal darkness (he just didn't get the chance to finish it). That sounds like "altering reality" to me. The stone alters reality in the way that the person wielding it at the time desires, and that was Malekith's goal. If someone like Loki or Thanos were to wield it, then things would almost certainly be quite different.

 

[Loki882]

Why would Thanos give Loki one of the infinity stones, knowing how conniving/untrustworthy he is, just to acquire another one (and risk losing BOTH of them)? That makes zero sense and it makes me doubt that the scepter has an infinity stone in it. Plus they flat-out say in the Avengers that the scepter is powered by part of the Tesseract's energy (and it was used to close the portal that the Tesseract opened).

 

[The Endless]

The Aether is the most vague Gem. But thinking about it more, turning light into dark is basically altering reality. It's like changing matter into anti-matter.

The Tesseract opens portals and allows for teleportation. That's the Space Gem. But it still works differently to the comics.

The Orb is the Power Gem, in that it basically grants the user unlimited offensive power. It amps them up to where they can destroy anything, whether that is a single being or an entire planet.

I do think they all could have been portrayed better though. But perhaps they are saving that for Thanos. Because even in the comics, Thanos was the only one who knew the Gems true potential after learning about them from the Infinity Well in Thanos Quest.

 

[scifiwolf]

Don't know why this popped into my head, but any chance Mjolnir houses the Soul Gem?