Why is the Space Stone wrapped in a cube and called Tesseract?
Did the tesseract storyline get introduced before the writers decided to introduce the Infinity War arc?
I'm just curious as to why the Space Stone was a cube, then crushed by Thanos to reveal the Space Stone in Infinity War.
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Initially I thought of something and it came VERY close to the actual answer(Marvel Wiki).
The space stone earlier existed as the stone itself (the pure form) The Tesseract was built by Asgardians to control the power held within it.
The Asgardians used the Tesseract as a means to teleport apart from the bi-frost. The space stone can not only teleport its beholder, but can alter space as well, create portals and even black holes.
The Asgardians at the time of Bor (father of Odin Borson and Thor's grandpa), sealed it in a cube shape, notice how Thor uses the device at the end of Avengers to use the Tesseract and is built exactly to hold a cube.
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Why is the Space Stone in a cube?
The Space Stone allows the person who holds it to control the fabric of space and teleport anywhere in the universe. A blue cube called the Tesseract was built to contain the stone. The Tesseract spent much of its life on Asgard before it was brought to Earth for safekeeping.How did the Space Stone become the Tesseract?
During the destruction of Asgard, Loki noticed the Tesseract and took it for himself before the vault, along with the planet, were destroyed. Thanos later acquired the Tesseract and crushed it to unveil the Space Stone within and then inserted the stone into his Infinity Gauntlet.What is the difference between the Tesseract and the cube?
In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Just as the surface of the cube consists of six square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of eight cubical cells. The tesseract is one of the six convex regular 4-polytopes.Was the Tesseract always supposed to be an Infinity Stone?
There's just one problem: when you look back at Phase One, it's pretty clear that the Tesseract was never really intended to be the Space Stone at all.Marvel's Tesseract Timeline Throughout The MCU
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Marvel had their comic books to draw from, in these the Terreract was already an established object as was the fact that it contained an Infinity Stone. but that was in the comics and not the MCU so i'll just stick to the MCU here.
The writers new the story arc they wanted to put into film, the Infinity War... but it was impossible, they would never be able to pull of such a huge story-line with so many characters that are important to the story arc from my understanding was very much the opinion of almost everyone at Marvel Studios. at least back when they made Captain America: the First Avenger which introduced the Tesseract.
However With the success of Iron Man, and with the grand an ideal goal a mere pipe dream, they laid out plans to see if they could bring all the main characters together for an Avengers Film. but even then they could see that maybe just maybe they might be able to dream. so why not use the Tesseract as the main plot point. if it goes no where then its not real matter, however if it works then they could continue that plan all the way forwards to Infinity War.
So yes they had it planned out, but only in a grand over arcing sort of plan, nothing set in stone.
A Little evidence be advised that finding contract information from way back in the beginning is troublesome to say the least...
This site among many, list the number of movies that certain actors have left in their contracts do not read if you don't want a few potential spoilers for avengers 4. but if offers a hint at how far back they planned the grand scheme, but Robert Downy Jr's contract has been extended a couple of times already, he originally only signed on for Iron Man... that's it... no cinematic universe deal. they renegotiated after the success of the first film.
Chris Evans (Captain America) on the other hand started out on a multi movie deal, so they at least hoped way back when they filmed the first Cap film that it would go as far as it has.
How the Stones Appear
Of the 6 infinity Stones, 3 of them appeared as something different at some point. its not just the Tesseract
- Space Stone - Inside the Tesseract
- Mind Stone - Inside the glowing center of Loki's Scepter
- Reality Stone - A Stone... that appears as a wavy floating red glowy thing
The other three have been introduced to us as having appearing in the "normal" gem appearance.
- Time Stone - Contained within the Eye of Agamoto, but still just the stone
- Power Stone - Contained with the Orb
- Soul Stone - Just as the stone... but somewhere hidden away somehow
So there is no fixed way they should appear if the writers wanted them to appear as something else for the sake of the plot then they did.
TLDR: They had hopes but no concrete plans, but they based a lot of it on the Comics in which the Space Stone was contained in the Tesseract.
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