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    President ZodJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 2:49pm

    Dude. Seriously? Because this movie has a black cast, it’s gotta be the “Soul Stone?”

    Yikes. You better brace yourself, Hasse.

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      JeezOhManPresident Zod
      2/22/18 2:53pm

      This right here is good satire.

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      aldalinPresident Zod
      2/22/18 2:56pm

      I think it’s the only one not accounted for?
      Mind Stone - The Vision
      Power Stone - with the Nova Corps
      Space Stone - Was on Asgard, likely Loki picked it up according to Infinity War trailers
      Time Stone - With Doctor Strange
      Reality Stone - Was with the Collector after the events of Thor 2? Possibly already taken by Thanos along with the Power Stone by the beginning of Infinity War.

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    dirtsideJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 3:04pm

    Yeah, this is an idea that’s been kicked around for a while. I wasn’t assuming that all six Infinity Stones would make an explicit appearance before Infinity War (with IW and Avengers 4 being a two-parter, there’s no reason the plot couldn’t be structured so that the Soul Stone doesn’t show up until late in IW or early in A4), but the Wakanda scenes in the IW trailer strongly imply that Thanos (and his army of weird alien monsters) are there to try to get the Soul Stone, presumably after he’s already acquired Space, Power, and Mind. (It’s still unknown if he’ll get Time or Reality in this movie.)

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      Vajayjay Lenodirtside
      2/22/18 3:18pm

      I think the Soul Stone is probably with Carol Danvers and going to be referenced in IW, but we’ll have to wait until Captain Marvel to see it.

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      CommonVicesdirtside
      2/22/18 3:37pm

      I don’t think the Soul Stone is in Wakanda. I think it will be missing until the third act of Avengers 4, after Thanos has collected all of the other Infinity Stones, and the Avengers are scrambling to find the last one before he can. At some point, Tony Stark will freak out, screaming, “If it’s not in Wakanda, where is it?!?”

      To which Cap will reply, “Oh, Tony... Don’t you see? It was inside us the whole time.”

      Thanos will give the heroes a knowing smile and then, satisfied that they’ve all learned something very important about themselves, he’ll climb into his helicopter, give everyone a cheerful wave and fly away.

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    Jonathan AltmanJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 9:24pm

    “But the concept of a metal alone being solely responsible for such technological marvels is hard to swallow: Vibranium may be from outer space, but it’s still just a metal. But what if there’s something else in that meteor that makes vibranium powerful in the first place? If there’s an Infinity Stone residing within the meteor, imbuing the vibranium metal with Infinity Stone powers, the Wakandans’ technology starts to make a lot more sense.”

    Let me list the objective errors:

    -”It’s still just a metal”
    (Someone who legitimately fails to understand where the terms “Stone Age,” “Bronze Age,” and “Holy fuck, steel Age we’re still quite inside” come from.

    -”Makes vibranium powerful in the first place”
    (The properties of its element, as dictated by the responsible application of narrative tools by humans.)

    -”The Wakandans’ technology start to make a lot more sense.”
    (A completely irresponsible application of human narrative tools.)



    You are talking about a fictional property as though it were religion. That is the basis of the “sense” you are trying to make. It is a religious sense of satisfaction you are after, and you are actively ignoring vast swaths of the text to do it (the problem with religiously motivated “sense.”)

    1. Vibranium is a fantastical element created with the *sole* purpose of possessing magical properties.

    2. Wolverine is not unbreakable because of a soul stone, he’s unbreakable because the origins of that element are human narration.

    3. You don’t even understand why actual metals in the real world have properties that are useful. You genuinely don’t understand how those properties dictate the technology (A good example is the same one you used, where the overwhelming power source Hyrdra acquired allowed all manner of irresponsibly wasteful designs. Same as when Tony built *his* special energy source.)

    4. Radioactive metals affect plants. Very easily. The fuck kind of extra explanation do you need when the fictional element already has magical properties?

    5. Whether or not there’s a Soul Stone in Wakanda is beside the point. This is an irresponsible, ignorant, religious interpretation of human storytelling, and it’s a disservice to yourself and your readers.

    “Make sense.”

    It’s a quantum universe we’re living in holmes. Like Ant-Man or basic earth science. “Making sense” is an unregulated impulse of humans who don’t understand that environment. You are literally/figuratively “making” sense. From the ether. (Like Thor:The Dark World)

    Bad job, person in 2018. Fuckin’ shit look.

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      Zur En ArrhJonathan Altman
      2/23/18 12:08am

      The pure wrath in this post is like heroin to me

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      Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again.Jonathan Altman
      2/23/18 9:51am

      This is a good take, unlike the original spicy article.

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    TheLadyEveHJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 3:19pm

    I thought it was fairly obvious that the stone was under the plants that grant the Black Panther powers. They’re not the right color, but besides that it seemed to be pretty clear.

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      cassidy paulTheLadyEveH
      2/22/18 3:21pm

      same — i definitely thought it was just under that temple and had a connection to the sand in there (which was orange, the color of the stone)

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      WorfWWorfingtonTheLadyEveH
      2/22/18 3:25pm

      And the stone is revealed when Shuri tells T’Challa that the heart-shaped herbs have regrown unexpectedly.

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    alakaboemJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 3:13pm

    God, please no. Keep it all a bit more separate so the MCU can rip off the dumb infinity stone bandaid in Infinity War and finally get to move on to another plotline without losing Vibranium.

    Also, the whole spectral plane link has been a thing waaay longer than infinity gauntlet, right? Didn’t that show up in Jungle Action at one point?

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      WorfWWorfingtonalakaboem
      2/22/18 3:26pm

      It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I don’t think Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra went to the spectral plane...

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    returning the screwJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 3:02pm

    So in the movies the Tesseract was the Cosmic Cube, right? But in the comics who do the Cosmic Cube and Infinity Stones or at least the reality stone differ?

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      goakesreturning the screw
      2/22/18 3:07pm

      Well I think the Tesseract was intended to be the Cosmic Cube but then retconned to be the thing holding the Space Stone. In the comics they’re totally separate McGuffins, in no way related to each other, and the Infinity Stones/ Gems are rarely contained within other objects.

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      returning the screwgoakes
      2/22/18 3:17pm

      Oh, I know they’re different. But which one is more powerful. Has there been a story that featured both?

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    capeoJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 6:57pm

    I’ve been pretty much taking it for granted that the Soul Stone is in Wakanda since the Infinity War trailer. The tesseract is with Loki and we know Thanos intercepts their ship. An ass-kicked Thor is drifting through space where he runs into the GotG who I expect are following Thanos after he already wrecked Xandar and the collector to collect those stones. Then Thanos goes to earth and we see him attack NY, where Dr Strange has access to a stone, and Vision who has a stone. The only other place we see him attack is Wakanda. I assume he’s not all that interested in vibranium so I have to think there’s a stone there.

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      The-Bcapeo
      2/23/18 2:34pm

      The working theory, if the stone ISN’T in Wakanda, is that they’re the best point of defense and resistance (being clearly the most advanced) so he goes to take out a potential threat once and for all.

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    WorfWWorfingtonJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 3:23pm

    No reason it has to be called the Soul Stone in the films.

    Jive Turkey Stone will do just fine. There, problem solved.

    What? Fine.

    Chump don’t want no help. Chump don’t get no help...

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      sigma7WorfWWorfington
      2/22/18 3:31pm

      I don’t even know why we kept making movies after 1980. The medium can’t get any better.

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      WorfWWorfingtonsigma7
      2/23/18 11:04am

      My momma didn’t raise no dummy. I dug her rap!

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    coolmanguyJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 4:06pm

    I have a feeling that they don’t know the soul stone is hiding in the meteor which means Thanks is gonna come knocking during Infinity War

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      coolmanguycoolmanguy
      2/23/18 2:46am

      Ahh fuck, I meant Thanos. Fuck you kinja!

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    Brock TuneJimmy Hasse
    2/22/18 6:41pm

    At one point Freeman’s character notes notes he’s never seen mag-lev trains operation for six efficently. It would if course make sense if those were actually....SOUL TRAINS!

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