The Infinity Stones are by far some of the most powerful objects that we’ve seen appear
on the big screen to date.
Their powers range far and wide, and thanks to Avengers Infinity War, we have seen what
kinds of devastating effects they can have on the entire universe.
Now that we’re moving into Avengers End Game knowing what Thanos is capable of with
all 6 stones in his gauntlet, we figured we’d dive deeper into what exactly those stones
can do – specifically, all of the things they can do that our heroes may not expect.
So today, we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 hidden infinity stones abilities!
We’re going to primarily be looking at the stones in their MCU incarnation rather than
the comics.
So with that
in mind, let’s jump in!
10 Reality Stone – Infection Let’s start off our list by talking about
one of the lesser liked films in the MCU – Thor the Dark World.
Remember when Natalie Portman was in the MCU?
I miss Natalie.
Girl, the Thor franchise is way better now after Ragnarok, come back!
Anywho, despite your feels concerning the film, it did give us a really solid glimpse
at the Reality Stone, and some of the things it’s capable of.
That includes infecting humans.
Jane Foster, aka Natalie Portman, ends up finding herself in a dimension where the Reality
Stone was hanging out in secret for thousands of years.
When she gets closer to it, it infects her with energy.
Back when she’s on Earth, and a police officer attempts to touch her, her body explodes with
energy, and it becomes clear that she has developed some sort of illness – one that
mortal humans can’t heal, so Thor takes her to Asgard and there’s some cute little
scenes with Thor and his fam talking about Natalie, and Lady Sif being all broody and
whatnot.
Even the Asgardian healers can’t figure out what’s wrong with her, but lucky for
her, Malekith, the film’s evil Dark Elf antagonist, takes the energy from her, ultimately
curing her.
What exactly this kind of infection could mean later on down the line is still a big
question mark – or whether we’ll ever see something like that return to the MCU,
considering it occurred in Thor the Dark World, but it’s still neat nonetheless.
9 Reality Stone – Protection While we’re on the topic of the reality
stone infecting people, let’s look at the flip side of being struck with this stone
inspired illness – it protects it’s host.
When Odin realizes that Jane Foster has been bonded to the stone, he gives Jane and Thor
the low down on how the reality stone can differ from the other infinity stones, or
relics, as he calls them.
According to him, I quote, “it seeks out host bodies, drawing strength from their life
force.”
Despite making one ill, the stone doesn’t want that host of it’s to be killed off,
so it’ll protect that host from external threats.
This is why that energy exploded out of Jane when that police officer tried to touch her.
It’s also how those Asgardian guards got their butts whooped when they tried to bring
Jane back to Earth using force.
8 The Mirror Dimension Back in Doctor Strange’s debut feature film,
we got to see the mirror dimension up close and personal.
Then, during the battle on Titan in Avengers Infinity War, Doctor Strange attempted to
trap Thanos in the mirror dimension as a means of protecting the universe from him causing
any real damage.
But that tactic didn’t work – this is thanks to the power and space stones.
Thanos used those two to shatter the entrance to the mirror dimension, countering Strange’s
attack before they even got inside of that dimension.
Meaning that some forms of magic just can’t compete with the awesome power of the stones.
And surely, if he had managed to trap the mid titan there, having the space stone would’ve
gotten Thanos out of there in a jiffy.
7 Reality Stone – Copy cat Coming back to the reality stone for this
number, and Thor the Dark World.
Now, this number could possibly be chopped up to a plot hole or simply just bad writing
(there’s a reason why so many people don’t like Thor’s sequel film).
In it, after Malekith gets the reality stone, many of the things that he pulls off, especially
in battle with Thor, look jarringly similar to the kinds of things that the Power Stone
can do.
Sure, the reality stone has the ability to alter reality, contradict scientific laws
and fulfill desires that normally would be deemed impossible, but in Thor the Dark World,
it really acts as a copy cat stone of sorts.
6 Reality Stone – Wake up Yet another fun little thing the reality stone
can do!
In Thor the Dark World – sensing a pattern here guys – the stone wakes up Malekith
and his Dark Elves from their thousands of years of hibernation.
How come?
Well, that’s a very good question.
The reality stone at times has a bit of a mind of it’s own, doing things like selecting
hosts, or being loyal to previous users – Malekith back in the day wanted to destroy the nine
realms using the stone in it’s Aether form, and got close to doing it too before Asgard
intervened and defeated them.
So he and a group of his dark elves fought back, killed off their own and eventually
slunk away into hibernation.
The reality stone being active again seemed to jump start them, waking them up.
5 Mind Stone – Enter Dreams Moving onto a different stone at this number!
The mind stone.
The mind stone is able to access an individuals’ subconscious, and by extension, their dreams.
It can also put characters into a dream state, and manipulate those dreams.
This occurred in the Ultimate Marvel universe, in which Modi, the son of Thor and Hela, attempted
to usher in another American Civil War by taking control of various characters, including
his father.
When using it on Captain America, he used the stone to send him to a utopian dream world
as means of distracting the hero, but Cap broke free by breaking the spectre that the
stone was hosted in.
4 Time Stone – Resurrection In most cases in works of fiction, regardless
of whether or not it’s in the Marvel universe, meddling with life and death, specifically
with resurrecting the dead, often comes with major consequences.
But one thing we learned in the MCU in Avengers Infinity War was that the Time Stone is capable
of resurrecting the dead, seemingly without major consequences.
Or at least, if it does have consequences, we haven’t learned of them yet.
This was the case at the end of the film – spoiler alert – when Thanos uses the Time Stone
to reverse time right before Scarlett Witch killed Vision in an attempt to prevent Thanos
getting his big purple mitts on the Mind Stone and completing his set of Infinity Stones.
He manages to go back in time just before Wanda is successful and takes the Mind Stone
out of Vision’s body, killing him once again, but also claiming the last stone he needed
in the process.
3 Reality Stone- Teleportation You may think it’s just the Space Stone
that is capable of teleportation.
But often, because of the wide scope of abilities that each of the stones have, their abilities
can overlap slightly.
For example, we’ve seen in the MCU that the Reality Stone can be used for teleportation.
This occurred in Thor The Dark World when Malekith, who was also awakened by the reality
stone, uses it to teleport to dodge Thor’s attacks when the two duke it out in the film.
While it may not allow him to jump around to different dimensions or travel great distances,
it’s teleportation abilities gave him an upper hand when fighting the Asgardian god.
2 Mind Stone – All Access The Mind Stone has the ability to tap into
the universal subconscious of all living things; that’s because it’s literally the manifestation
of the universal subconscious.
Give that a think for a moment – that’s a pretty darn scary thing.
So with power as massive of that, it makes sense that in the comics, it would be trusted
to Professor Charles Xavier – someone who has experienced what it’s like to communicate
with multiple minds at once thanks to his powers and Cerebus.
The Mind Stone can access every single mind in the universe all at once.
Not only can it act as a giant speakerphone to spread a message to everyone in the universe
all at once, but in combination with the other stones, the mind stone could theoretically
be used to manipulate and brain wash minds on a mass scale.
1 Pocket Dimensions Perhaps one of the coolest aspects of the
stones, and one that hasn’t really been explored a whole lot in the MCU, is that each
of them have a pocket dimension the stone has access to.
We saw a bit of it at the end of Infinity War when Thanos speaks to a young Gamora after
snapping in the Soul World – the pocket dimension found within the soul stone.
This led to major speculation that somehow Gamora is still technically alive, with her
soul living inside of the soul stone.
Would make sense, considering she was sacrificed by Thanos in order to get that particular
stone.
But the Soul Stone isn’t the only one with a pocket dimension, as we mentioned.
In the comics, in 2018’s Infinity Wars comic event, we were introduced to the full scope
of pocket universes tied to the infinity gems.
The Time stone has ellipsis – a place that manipulates the flow of time for anyone within
it.
The space stone has The Vast – an endless expanse of empty existence that stretches
into forever.
Talk about an existential crisis in physical form!
Then there’s the mind stone – it has the mindscape, which allows the user to bring
anything they imagine or dream of to life.
It’s also home to a race of individuals called the Sleepwalkers.
Then there’s the power stone, which has the pocket dimension of the arena, which is
essentially a colosseum of sorts where characters fight one another, ruled by Dynamus who is
the living embodiment of the Power Cosmic.
And last but not least, we have the reality stone, home of the world pool, which can be
used to access alternate realities, overseen by Archivus, the chronicler of the multiverse.
What’s super cool about the world pool is all of the alternate realities are portrayed
as an endless comic book collection.
How very meta.
Whether or not these other pocket universes will make their way into the MCU is yet to
be known, but the potential is there friends!
There we have it friends!
If you could have one of the infinity stones, which one would you choose, and why?
Let us know in those comments below!
Personally, I’d go for the reality stone; it’s a bit of a jack of all trades now,
isn’t it?
Also, if you’d like us to do a part two of this list where we focus more so on the
stones in the comics – or infinity gems, as they used to be called - give us a shout
about that as well.
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