The Space Stone

Blue. Moves anything anywhere, which is why every plan in the timeline eventually wants it.

Hands it passed through: 8
Seen in: 8 entries

What it is

Blue, and the one that moves things. For most of the timeline it sits inside the Tesseract, powering a Norwegian church, a HYDRA weapons programme, a S.H.I.E.L.D. energy project and a Kree lightspeed engine, while nobody involved knows what they actually have.

Where it turns up

Canonical timeline · 8 entries

Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.

World War II

1943

Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 · First appearance

As the Tesseract, in a church wall in Tønsberg.

Before the Age of Heroes

1995

Captain Marvel
2019 · Major role

Inside Mar-Vell's engine, then inside a cat.

The Age of Heroes

2011

Thor
2011 · Cameo

As the Tesseract, in Fury's hands in the post-credits scene.
The Avengers
2012 · Major role

As the Tesseract: opens the portal over New York, then goes home to Asgard.

The Sokovia Accords

2017

Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · Cameo

As the Tesseract, pocketed from Odin's vault on the way out.

The Snap

2018

Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Major role

Thanos crushes the cube and takes the stone.

The Endgame

2023

Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Major role

2012 — the Time Heist loses it, and then gets it back the long way.

Outside time

Loki
2021 · Supporting · 0/12 ep

The 2012 Tesseract, confiscated at the TVA — where it is a paperweight.

Chain of custody

Carried by Loki
2012, to open the portal; then again out of Odin's vault in 2017, right up until Thanos.
Kept by Odin
Left on Earth, in a church in Tønsberg, for a thousand years.
Carried by Thanos
Crushed the cube for it on the Statesman.
Kept by Howard Stark
Fished out of the Arctic in 1945, looking for someone else.
Kept by S.H.I.E.L.D.
Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and before that a lightspeed engine nobody was told about.
Held inside The Tesseract
The cube is a containment vessel; the stone is what's inside it.
Held inside The Infinity Gauntlet
Held inside The Nano Gauntlet

The six

The Space Stone stone
The Mind Stone stone
The Reality Stone stone
The Power Stone stone
The Time Stone stone
The Soul Stone stone
Loki's Sceptre held one
The Aether held one
The Eye of Agamotto held one
The Infinity Gauntlet held one
The Nano Gauntlet held one
The Orb held one
The Tesseract held one

Elsewhere

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