STACK #166 Aug 2018

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline 2008 Iron Man 2010 Iron Man 2 2011 Thor 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger 2012 The Avengers 2013 Iron Man 3 2013 Thor: The DarkWorld 2014

2012 The Avengers At the beginning of The Avengers , Thor’s adopted

brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) shows up looking for the Tesseract – wielding a staff that, as it turns out, harbours the Mind Stone. Loki forces Dr. Selvig to open a portal to another world using the power of the Tesseract, and the Avengers are introduced to extra-terrestrial threats for the first time. We are not alone. 2013 Thor: The Dark World

The second Thor film introduces Thor’s earthly love, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), to the Aether – which winds up forming itself into the Reality Stone. The Asgardians decide it is safest with The Collector. Also,

Christopher Eccleston is the villain, but you could be forgiven for forgetting the rest of that movie. Everyone else has. 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) – aka Star-Lord – collected an orb in order to sell it for a bounty, but little did he know it housed one of the most powerful stones

in the universe. After heading to Knowhere, The Collector (Benicio del Toro) properly introduced the Guardians of the Galaxy – and the audience – to the Infinity Stones for the first time, and it was revealed that the Orb was actually a casing for the Power Stone. 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron Age of Ultron was the official reveal of the Mind Stone, with Ultron himself breaking open Loki’s sceptre and using the stone to create Vision. Vision was then entrusted to keep the Mind Stone safe. 2016 Doctor Strange When Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) lost major

Captain America: TheWinter Soldier 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 Ant-Man 2016 Captain America: Civil War 2016 Doctor Strange 2017 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017 Thor: Ragnarok 2018 Black Panther 2018 Avengers: InfinityWar 2018 Ant-Man and theWasp

movement in his hands, he turned to the Sorcerer Supreme (Tilda Swinton) and her powers to help. In turn, he discovered the Eye of Agamotto, which housed the Time Stone and the ability to alter time. This was the fifth stone to show itself, and the last major reveal before Infinity War .

2018 The Battle Begins

In Age of Ultron , Thor theorised that someone in the universe was ‘playing a very intricate game’ with the Avengers, and he wasn’t wrong. Teased in many a post-credits scene, Thanos finally revealed his true self in Avengers: Infinity War . Thanos (Josh Brolin) is in possession of the Infinity Gauntlet; a specialised housing for the Infinity Stones that, once all six have been collected, will allow him to wipe out half of the population of the universe with a simple snap of

his fingers. It was thought that the location of the Soul Stone was unknown, but it seems the Mad Titan’s daughters may know more than they have been letting on…

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