So Marvel just can’t get away from those darned Infinity Stones, can they? Is just the latest movie of many to feature one of the Stones - in this case, the Tesseract - even though it’s set about 20 years before the Great Decimation seen at the end of where Thanos used the stones to wipe out half of all life everywhere.
Fans learned about Carol Danvers (a.k.a. Captain Marvel) at the end of Avengers: Infinity War and, among the various questions and theories formed around the highly anticipated heroine, wondered where she fit into the MCU timeline. Captain Marvel is a total throwback movie, mainly taking place in 1995. However, we also see shots of a young. One thing Captain Marvel notably doesn’t have, however, is a mask. Just before Carol Danvers became Captain Marvel, the world found out her identity. Complete Marvel MCU Movies Timeline.
But before that universe-altering event, Carol Danvers had to contend with just one of the Stones - the Space Stone. At that point in its history (the film is set in the 1990s), that particular cosmic power source was still contained within the cube known as the Tesseract. And not surprisingly, the appearance of the Tesseract in Captain Marvel has some fans confused. Meanwhile, the Tesseract fell to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at the same time that Captain America was seemingly killed, though in fact he had gone into suspended animation. Eventually Howard Stark discovered the Tesseract while searching for Cap, and he began studying the object.
(These studies would help Stark discover a new element that would save his son Tony's life years later when his Iron Man suit's energy core was discovered to be poisoning him in.) Captain MarvelDecades after it was found by Howard Stark, the Tesseract was being used as part of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., a top-secret initiative by SHIELD and NASA. Wendy Lawson (Annette Bening), who was secretly the Kree scientist known as Mar-Vell, the objective of this project was to build a light-speed engine using the Tesseract as a power source. But Mar-Vell was killed by the Kree Starforce while testing the engine, and her test pilot, Carol Danvers, was seriously injured but not before gaining superhuman abilities after the Tesseract-powered engine exploded, bathing her in its energies. Loading As for the Tesseract, it was hidden on Mar-Vell’s ship in orbit around Earth in the years after her death. During the climax of Captain Marvel, Danvers and Nick Fury find the object, and the swallows it for safekeeping.
By the film’s, Goose vomits the Tesseract up onto Fury’s desk like the all-powerful cosmic cube hairball that it is. ThorIt seems that in the years after Goose upchucked the Tesseract, Fury’s team continued to study it at Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. And by the end credits of the first movie, he introduced Dr. Selvig to the device, asking for his help in unlocking its secrets. One supposes that those warrior gods showing up on Earth got Fury thinking. But bringing in the scientist turned out to be a bad movie since it turned out Selvig was already under the control of Loki at that point.
The AvengersBy now, Thanos was looking for all of the Infinity Stones, and he sent Loki to Earth to retrieve the Tesseract and the Space Stone inside it. And so the Avengers were assembled for the first time! Using the power of the Tesseract, Selvig opened a portal above New York City which would allow Loki’s army of Chitauri to attack Earth.
But avenged some s#!t, and were able to stop the Asgardian when Black Widow used another Infinity Stone - the Mind Stone hidden inside Loki’s scepter - to shut down the portal. Thor returned the Tesseract to Asgard shortly after the Battle of New York, but it wouldn’t stay there for too long. Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity WarThat brings us to.
While battling the fire demon Surtur, Loki visited Odin’s Treasure Room where he couldn’t help but pause before the Tesseract. Come on, Loki, not again!
It wasn’t clear what happened next until Avengers: Infinity War, as Thanos fought Loki and Thor. Loki, of course, had taken the Tesseract from Asgard, and while he tried his best to trick and then murder Thanos, in the end the god of mischief would die and Thanos would have his precious Space Stone. And soon after that, he snapped his fingers and well, you know.