There are six Infinity Stones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. These ancient, all-powerful artifacts have been adapted rather faithfully from the pages of Marvel Comics where they were first introduced as “Soul Gems.” It wasn’t until the “Mad Titan” Thanos collected them that he renamed them with better suited individual descriptions of each.
In the MCU, something similar is about to occur next summer in Avengers: Infinity War, the first of two Avengers movies that will bring together nearly all of the main characters in the franchise to close it out. Don’t worry, the MCU isn’t ending. Just the current iteration of it is coming to an end. Sort of. And the conclusion begins with Thanos (Josh Brolin) collecting the Infinity Stones which have been slowly introduced over a decade of films.
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For the purposes of the movie franchise crafted by Marvel Studios, these gems are referred to as Infinity Stones and so far, five of the six have been introduced by the end of Thor: Ragnarok. What and where are they currently and where is the last one?
“Before creation itself, there were six singularities. Then the universe exploded into existence, and the remnants of these systems were forged into concentrated ingots… Infinity Stones.” ―The Collector