40 Fun Facts About Infinity Stones

The Space Stone is housed in which object, first glimpsed after the credits of Thor?

The Tesseract is only a shell: Thanos crushes it in his fist to pull out the Space Stone at the start of Avengers: Infinity War.

Thanos sacrifices which adopted daughter to earn the Soul Stone in Avengers: Infinity War?

Gamora had found a map to the stone years earlier and destroyed it, hoping Thanos would never learn where the gem was hidden.

Which Avenger takes the Infinity Stones from Thanos and snaps his own fingers in Avengers: Endgame?

Iron Man pulls the stones magnetically into a makeshift gauntlet formed in his armor, erasing Thanos and his army at the cost of his own life.

Which Avenger sacrifices herself in Avengers: Endgame so that Hawkeye can bring the Soul Stone home?

Black Widow and Clint Barton each try to make the sacrifice so that the other can return with the stone, and she is the one who succeeds.

Which Avenger wears a newly built gauntlet and snaps to bring back everyone Thanos erased?

Hulk was picked because he best withstands the gamma radiation the six stones give off, yet the snap still leaves his right arm badly injured.

Aboard the Asgardian refugee ship, who gives up the Space Stone so Thanos will spare Thor's life?

Loki had taken the stone from the royal vault as Asgard was destroyed, which is why Thanos intercepted the survivors' ship to get it.

Who destroys the Mind Stone in Vision's forehead, only for Thanos to rewind time and take it anyway?

Wanda Maximoff had to kill the android she loved to do it, and Thanos then used the Time Stone to restore them both and collect the gem.

The Mind Stone set in Vision's forehead glows which color in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films?

Yellow is the stone's color on screen, although the Mind Gem of the original comics was blue until Marvel recolored it to match the films.

The Soul Stone can only be claimed on which remote planet, by sacrificing someone the seeker loves?

Vormir hides the stone in a shrine, and so little was recorded about it that Thanos had to send a daughter to hunt for its location.

In a Disney+ series, which agency holds so many Infinity Stones that staff use them as paperweights?

The TVA, or Time Variance Authority, has seized numerous stones from other timelines, and none of them has any power inside its offices.

Which Guardian of the Galaxy steals the orb holding the Power Stone from a temple on Morag?

Star-Lord could briefly withstand the bare stone alone thanks to his half-Celestial body, before the other Guardians shared its energy with him.

At the end of Avengers: Endgame, which hero travels back in time to return all six Infinity Stones?

Captain America put each stone back at the exact moment it had been taken, then stayed in the past and came home an old man.

The Avengers take Vision to which hidden nation to remove the Mind Stone without killing him?

Wakanda's princess Shuri was still separating the stone from Vision when Thanos's army broke through, so the operation was never finished.

Which robot villain removes the Mind Stone from its staff to power a new vibranium body for himself?

Ultron never got to wear the body: the Avengers stole it and uploaded a different AI into it, and the result was Vision.

In Avengers: Endgame, which Avenger first suggests a time heist to collect the Infinity Stones?

Ant-Man had just been freed from the Quantum Realm, where the five years since the snap had felt to him like only five hours.

The Time Stone is kept inside which relic of Kamar-Taj, made by Earth's first Sorcerer Supreme?

The Eye of Agamotto was built to harness the stone's dangerous power, and its wearer later used it to trap a demon in an endless time loop.

In Thor: The Dark World, the Reality Stone appears as a flowing liquid weapon known by what name?

The Aether was sealed in a lantern-like container and sent far away, because keeping two Infinity Stones close together was judged unwise.

Which villain of World War II reappears decades later as the keeper who guards the Soul Stone?

Red Skull was carried off across space when he grabbed the Space Stone during the war, and he greets Thanos decades later as the Soul Stone's guide.

Which hero owes her flight and energy blasts to an engine test powered by the Space Stone?

Captain Marvel got her powers in 1989, when Dr. Wendy Lawson's attempt to unlock light-speed travel for the Skrulls went wrong.

Thanos wins the Time Stone after a battle on which ruined planet, his own former home world?

Titan's fate drives the whole plan: Thanos wants to cut the universe's population to avoid a repeat of what he lived through on his home world.

In Thor: The Dark World, the Reality Stone infects which astrophysicist who finds its hiding place?

Jane Foster carried it until the Dark Elf leader, woken by its release, drew it back out of her to use against the Nine Realms.

Asgard's warriors entrust the Reality Stone to which character played by Benicio del Toro?

The Collector held it until Thanos came for it and turned the liquid back into a solid Reality Stone.

Which Kree warlord, sent to fetch the Power Stone for Thanos, decides to keep it for himself?

Ronan the Accuser betrayed Thanos once he learned what the orb held, and died when the Guardians shared the stone's energy to use it on him.

The Time Stone traps which demon of the Dark Dimension in a loop until he agrees to spare Earth?

Dormammu found himself reliving the same moment again and again, and finally bargained his way out by leaving Earth alone for good.

Which actor plays Thanos through motion capture in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame?

Josh Brolin took the role in 2014; the Thanos glimpsed at the end of The Avengers was Damion Poitier, credited only as Man #1.

Which English actor plays Vision, the android whose forehead holds the Mind Stone?

Paul Bettany had only voiced the AI J.A.R.V.I.S. until then, and needed two hours of face paint and prosthetics to become Vision.

During World War II, which secret organization uses the Space Stone to power its advanced weapons?

Hydra took the stone from a church in a Norwegian village, where it had been hidden among people who worshipped the Asgardians.

Which dwarf king of Nidavellir did Thanos force to make the Infinity Gauntlet?

Eitri built the gauntlet to save his people, but Thanos killed them anyway and took the smith's hands so he could make nothing else.

A fake Infinity Gauntlet, exposed by Hela in Thor: Ragnarok, had been kept in whose treasure vault?

Odin's vault held a right-handed copy, while the real gauntlet that Thanos wears is made for the left hand.

Thanos begins his hunt by devastating which planet, home of the Nova Corps, for the Power Stone?

Xandar had been trusted with the stone by the Guardians of the Galaxy, and it has already fallen when Avengers: Infinity War opens.

The Reality Stone was kept on which mining colony, built inside the severed head of a Celestial?

Knowhere is where Thanos, having just taken the stone, turned Drax to rocks, Mantis into ribbons and a gun's blasts into bubbles.

In the Doctor Strange film, the Time Stone is kept at Kamar-Taj, a hidden compound in which country?

Nepal replaced Tibet, where the comics place Kamar-Taj, and the crew shot on location in and around Kathmandu.

In Avengers: Infinity War, two children of Thanos ambush Vision for the Mind Stone in which Scottish city?

Edinburgh is where Vision was wounded in the ambush, until three Avengers arrived to help drive his attackers off.

Which child of Thanos, unable to take the Time Stone from its keeper, abducts him from New York?

Ebony Maw never delivered his prisoner: two heroes who had sneaked aboard his ship blew a hole in the hull, and he was sucked out into space.

In the 1991 Infinity Gauntlet comics, who steals the glove from Thanos and undoes his mass killings?

Nebula, who claims in the comics to be his granddaughter, used the gauntlet to undo the previous 24 hours before the heroes defeated her in turn.

In Marvel comics, Thanos gathers the Infinity Gems to win the affection of which cosmic being?

Mistress Death is the living embodiment of death, and Thanos erases half of all life in the universe to impress her; the films give him a different motive.

Which comics writer created Thanos in 1973 and later wrote the 1991 series The Infinity Gauntlet?

Jim Starlin also developed the concept of the Infinity Gems themselves, in a series he both wrote and illustrated from 1975.

In Marvel comics, which hero divides the Infinity Gems among a team he names the Infinity Watch?

Adam Warlock was ordered to split up the set after recovering the gauntlet, and one of the six guardians he picked was Thanos himself.

Which alien army pours through a portal that the Space Stone opens above New York in The Avengers?

The Chitauri were beaten back by the Avengers, and Thor then took the stone to Asgard, where it was used to repair the Bifrost.

In Avengers: Endgame, which sorcerer lends the Time Stone on a promise that it will be returned?

The Ancient One gave way only when told the stone would come back, since its return would ensure that her own timeline survived.