Talk:Infinity Stones/@comment-924163-20150125070756

Starting my hundredth rewatch of The Avengers really paid off. For those still stubbornly in denial over the Scepter being its own Stone rather than an extension of the Tesseract like I was for the longest time, look at the top right of this shot:

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Even as Bruce says one of the lines that is most used to reaffirm the two items being essentially the same thing, they show us right to our faces that they are NOT. The Scepter's GREEN Stone is ONLY the same glowing blue of the Tesseract at present because, like Hydra and the Chitauri's weapons, it was channeling the energy of ANOTHER Infinity Stone's vessel through itself. Hence, "it is powered by the Cube."

The energy of the Cube, not the Stone inside, connects them; however, the Stones inside the individual vessels which share a connection are quite independent and different from one another. Hence the Scepter mind-controlling those who came in contact with it, including Loki, with the Tesseract not having the same effect, but the same knowledge of the universe from the Tesseract being shared through the Scepter.

Also hence, "What we have is worth more than any of them ever knew." Sexy Strucker is the first homo sapien to catch onto the deeper nature of this alien technology.