The Infinity Stones are the Marvel Cinematic Universes big McGuffin.

These six singularities were then condensed into concentrated ingots.

Whoever controls all six stones and wields them using the Infinity Gauntlet has the power to reshape reality.

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So where are the stones and what exactly do they do?

We never see Loki take the Tesseract, but Loki gonna Loki and he pocketed it.

The Tesseract is on the Asgardian ship when Thanos and the Black Order arrive.

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After they leave, the Collector ominously says, One down, five to go.

But it looks like they didn’t keep it too safe.

He then breaks the stone free from the scepter and implants in the android Vision.

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Time Stone

The Time Stone rests inside the Eye of Agamotto pendant revealed inDoctor Strange.

Oddly, we never learn what the Soul Stone really does when it’s dropped intoAvengers: Infinity War.

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