If the flerken ate the tesseract then why did it not get powers?
In Captain Marvel, they manage to get the Tesseract, which is the Space Stone, and Fury refused to take it.
Goose the flerken swallowed it, but did not get powers from it.
Why?
Best Answer
Touching (or even swallowing) the Tesseract does not grant powers to the person holding the construct as seen in multiple instances in multiple MCU movies.
Notably, Captain Marvel did not get her powers from the Tesseract.
The powers are obtained when she absorbed the energy from the exploding light-speed drive installed in her jet fighter after it crashed.
The drive engine was based on Tesseract energy but not dependant on it.
The drive and Tesseract are not the same. The drive was destroyed when Carol shot it (and gained powers from the explosion)...the Tesseract was still in orbit in Mar-Vell's laboratory.
Part of the confusion may lie in that when Yon-Rogg asks about the location of the "core" at the crash site, Carol asks "You mean that core?" and shoots the engine.
Carol, at this point, doesn't know the difference between the engine and the core/Tesseract so it's a natural mistake to make.
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What happened to the Tesseract after Goose ate it?
At the end of the movie, in the post-credits stinger, Goose the Flerken puked up the Tesseract onto Nick Fury's desk and Project Pegasus continued on until the events of \u201cThe Avengers.\u201dHow did the Tesseract get from the Flerken to Asgard?
It remained in their possession until 2012, when it was stolen by Loki who used the Tesseract to open a wormhole and allow the Chitauri to invade New York City. Following the Battle of New York, the Tesseract was acquired by Thor, who brought it back with him to Asgard.What did the Flerken do with the Tesseract?
It turns out that Goose is not a cat, but just an alien species that looks like a cat called a Flerken. He kills some bad guys, saves the Tesseract and \u2014 yes \u2014 scratches out Nick Fury's eye. Here's everything you need to know about Goose.What happens if you get scratched by a Flerken?
Toxicity: In the Earth-199999 reality, a scratch from a Flerken causes severe tissue damage to humanoids, as Nick Fury found out when a claw swipe from Goose to his left eye resulted in scarring and permanent loss of function.Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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