What makes Thanos so bad, and where do the Infinity Stones come from, anyway?
Like Disney sibling Star Wars: The Last Jedi before it, the beginning of production for Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War earned its own announcement video, teasing fans with hints of what's to come in what's being hyped as the biggest Marvel movie to date.
Following in the footsteps of the movies themselves, the three-minute Infinity War announcement contained a fair share of easter eggs about what the movie will (and won't) have in common with its comic book source material. Here's what you might have missed on first viewing.
"Before creation itself, there were six singularities — forged into infinity stones."
That brief synopsis is a break from the origins of the Infinity Stones — or "Soul Gems," or "Infinity Gems," as they're called in the comic book mythology. The comic book history of the stones has less to do with six singularities, instead preferring just… well, a singular one. "They were once a single unit, a lone entity," Thanos explained in 1990's The Thanos Quest No. 2. "They were a sentient being of limitless power. At the time, this being was the only living thing that existed within any and all realities." That being eventually committed suicide as a result of his loneliness, as the villain told it, and "from its ashes rose all that is currently reality, in all its many forms," he continued. "The core of this being's might was reincarnated in the form of the six infinity gems. They are the ultimate in power, the darkest secret in all the universe."
