After this weekend, which brought both the finale of Loki season 2 and the debut of The Marvels, fans have noticed something…interesting that they believe Marvel may be trying to do in the post-Thanos era.
While the Infinity Stones were supposedly destroyed during/after Endgame, at least in the main timeline, there’s a growing theory that they may be returning in the form of not literal stones, but specific characters within the Marvel universe.
It’s a largely uh, color-based theory, but honestly, examining it a bit closer, I do think it may have some weight to it. There are six Infinity Stones:
- The Space Stone – Blue
- The Reality Stone – Red
- The Time Stone – Green
- The Power Stone – Purple
- The Mind Stone – Yellow
- The Soul Stone – Orange
Combine them and you’re all powerful etc etc, but each are powerful in their own right as we saw in the plot of a bunch of MCU movies before Infinity War.
As of this weekend, the theory now is that these are being recreated in specific ways, and at this point, we may already have half the stones manifested in hero form. Well, depending how your definition of hero. Spoilers for Loki and The Marvels follow.
First, the belief is that Wanda Maximoff, Scarlet Witch, is the new Reality Stone. Yes, the color red overlaps, but her whole thing is literally the ability to change reality through her magic, which was the entire storyline of WandaVision, so that aligns somewhat nicely.
Then, we have the Time Stone, represented by, you guessed it, the newly all-powerful, time-traveling Loki who now sits at a throne at the center of the multiverse holding all timelines together with his very green magic. Again, the entire basis of Loki as a series was about time travel, especially season 2, and in the end, Loki gets Kang-level time control powers and is in charge of guarding every timeline. So…yeah, okay.
Finally, and this could be more of a stretch, but a third idea is that Spectrum, aka Monica Rambeau, is now the embodiment of the Space Stone, with her own innate power mixed with Captain Marvel and Miss Marvel’s in the finale of The Marvels, and what does she use it for in the movie? Closing a hole in space that has quite literally ripped open to another world. And you know, her energy is blue.
I…can see it, honestly. The one catch is that Loki is supposed to be benched forever now after the events of the show, so it’s unlikely he returns unless everyone, including Hiddleston, is lying to us. But yes, I can see the idea here.
As for the last three stones? The purple Power Stone is directly linked to Wakanda and likely its new Black Panther there, Shuri. The Mind Stone of course has connections to Vision, and we know Vision is returning for his own MCU series, VisionQuest, down the road. The orange Soul Stone? It grants you power over life and death in the universe and…I don’t have anything for this one. Looking over current MCU heroes and future projects, I can’t really form a connection here, color-wise or theme-wise. I guess The Thing will be orange in Fantastic Four? Yeah, probably not.
Anyway, it is a neat little theory and the first three here do make a good amount of sense. Perhaps the idea is that their powers combine to kill Kang without a literal gauntlet. Or maybe this is…nothing. We’ll find out in a few years, I suppose, but keep an eye out for those other colors and powers.
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