At least the sets were pretty.īoth Avengers: Infinity War and Thor: The Dark World can be purchased now on Blu-Ray. Not only does the movie have one of the worst villains in the MCU, which is saying a lot, but it was probably the most predictable film in the entire MCU. It's a shame that Thor: The Dark World is such a bland Marvel movie, taking no risks and relying heavily on the MCU formula that some people have grown tired off. As fans can see, Nidavellir was written in this chalkboard before Infinity War and Thor: Ragnarok, which is an amazing easter egg. This hammer ended up being stronger than Mjolnir and could have killed Thanos had Thor gone for the head. But one way or another, the Infinity Gauntlet movie is coming.Nidavellir is where Thor had his new Stormbreaker hammer made, with the help of a troll, Groot, and Rocket. Maybe they haven’t even decided what they’re doing with any of it yet.
And an Infinity Gauntlet prop already appeared as a background easter egg in the first Thor movie, so maybe that’ll tie in somehow, maybe it won’t. It could be a stand-alone movie, it could be a Guardians Of The Galaxy sequel. So if we had to speculate, maybe Avengers 3 is where it’ll all go down: a battle royale crossover bringing together the Avengers, the Guardians, and anyone else that Marvel Studios can scrape together, fighting Thanos for control of the Infinity Gauntlet. And smart money wouldn’t bet on Ant-Man or Captain America: The Winter Soldier having a huge amount to do with space, aliens and intergalactic war either.īut Robert Downey Jr. And Ultron is the main enemy in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, so there isn’t much space for an Infinity Gauntlet in that story. And you can bet money that we’ll see at least one more of the gems appear in Guardians Of The Galaxy.īut where is this going? Even though his disciples appear in the film, we know that Thanos isn’t the main villain of Guardians Of The Galaxy – that honour belongs to Ronan the Accuser. The Aether appears to be the Power Stone, which gives the holder access to unimaginable energy. The Tesseract clearly represents the Space Stone, which gives the holder power to travel great distances and warp space. While the comic versions of the Infinity Stones are literal gems, it seems that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is representing them in a slightly more practical manner. While the Avengers were eventually able to stop him, the gems and gauntlet have appeared in multiple storylines since, always an object of great desirability and power.
Once he had them, Thanos mounted the gems onto a glove that became known as the Infinity Gauntlet. In The Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos – one of the aforementioned power-mad alien warlords – was the first being to assemble all six gems, despite the best efforts of the Avengers and their allies. They reason that two objects of such great power should not be kept in close proximity, and the Collector, eager to expand his portfolio, naturally agrees. Sif and Volstagg tell the Collector that they want him to keep the Aether safe because Asgard’s armoury already houses the Tesseract (which you’ll remember as the cube-shaped MacGuffin from The Avengers and Captain America: The First Avenger). He might not be particularly trustworthy, but you can trust him to keep things where others can’t get to them.
To prevent himself becoming bored with life in a directionless universe, he has dedicated himself to amassing the universe’s rare and unique treasures, holding them in his private facilities where no-one else can reach them. Set shortly after the events of Thor: The Dark World, the mid-credits teaser shows Sif and Volstagg delivering the Aether to Taneleer Tevan – the alien known as the Collector – in the space-station museum/menagerie where he houses the artifacts he acquires.įirst introduced in Avengers #28 in 1966, the Collector (created by Stan Lee and Don Heck) is one of the elders of the universe – a group of virtually immortal beings who were members of the first races to achieve sentience after the Big Bang.