Where are The Infinity Stones in The Marvel Cinematic Universe?

So, after Marvel’s not-so recent event where they revealed their phase 3 lineup, we now know that Thanos will be the main villain for Avengers 3/3 and a half. And in the short teaser for those movies, we saw Thanos wielding the Infinity Gauntlet with all the Infinity Gems aka Stones. So today I wanted to explore where these gems are and how close they are to being in the possession of this guy. Also, just to clear this up, unless I explicitly say so, these have not been confirmed by Marvel and are just my speculation. But rest assured I’m pretty sure these are probably correct. To start off, there are six Infinity Stones (I know they’re called gems in the comics, but in the movies they’re called Stones, so I’m sticking with that). The Space stone, mind stone, reality stone, time stone, soul stone, and power stone. All of these possess remarkable powers related to the word in their name that comes before stone. First off, the Tesseract. It is the Space Stone, as Red Skull found out the hard way, when it teleported him somewhere around here-ish. It has the power to open up portals to other areas in space, probably in other galaxies, so yeah. Space Stone confirmed. It was put back into Asgardian safety vaults and is in the possession of Odin. Except, *spoiler alert for Thor: The Dark World* Loki is Odin and therefore Loki is in possession of the Tesseract and Loki has worked with the Other and the Other has worked with Thanos. *gasp for air* Whew! The Other, before getting what I like to call the Man of Steel treatment, warned Loki that Thanos would not be happy if he failed. And guess what. Loki failed. So what I think is going to happen is that Thanos will eventually come for Loki, and Loki will work out a trade: in exchange for Thanos not killing him, Loki will give the Space stone. Then Thanos is going to kill Loki anyway. I’m calling that now! Next up is the Mind Stone, which I think is this thing in Loki’s scepter. Some people think that his scepter is simply powered by the Tesseract, but to those people, just watch the teaser for Infinity War. It shows all the other Infinity Stones and has the scepter separate from the Tesseract. So it’s definitely an Infinity Stone. Now, as far as which one, it is seen manipulating people’s minds, like Hawkeye, Dr. Erik Selvig, and more recently Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. Currently, this guy, Baron von Strucker has the scepter, don’t ask me how. In the comics, he works with HYDRA, who are bad, and Thanos is bad, so maybe they’ll join forces? I don’t know. Hopefully this one gets resolved in Age of Ultron. Next up, the Reality Stone is the Aether, as it is seen manipulating reality, creating portals to different realms and such. Nothing else to say except that it was given to the Collector at the end of Thor: The Dark World, and based on what happened in Guardians of the Galaxy, it could be anywhere right now. Hell, maybe Howard the Duck took it. We don’t know. So yeah, that one could literally be ten thousand light years away, or sitting right next to you. And the final one that we actually know is the Power Stone as seen in Guardians of the Galaxy as this thing. And this time Marvel actually confirmed this. It is seen to be so powerful, that you can’t hold or you’ll get completely wasted. Unless you’re this Iron Giant looking thing, or a powerful alien guy, or a group of misfits. It’s confusing, don’t think about it. That stone was originally just floating around doing whatever but eventually ends up where it is now, which is in the possession of the Nova Corps, which I guess is pretty safe unless another psycho alien comes and wants to get it. Then they might be in trouble. As far as the time stone and the soul stone, we haven’t seen them yet as far as I know, but we we will sometime in phase 3 before Infinity War, probably in Dr. Strange, Ragnarok, or Guardians 2. They’ll definitely be there by Infinity War on Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet. Oh right, the Infinity Gauntlet. Almost forgot about that. The Infinity Gauntlet is as far as I know the only way to wield all the Infinity Stones, thus becoming one of the most powerful beings in the universe. The Gauntlet is in Odin’s vault, but we all know how trustworthy Odin is with magical items. So yeah Thanos is totally going to get his hands on it in an end credits scene before Infinity War. So those are what the Infinity Stones are and how close they are to Thanos. Have I somehow missed the Time and Soul stones? If I have, feel free to leave an aggressive comment below. 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