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It all started in 2008, when Nick Fury told Tony Stark about the Avengers Initiative,
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and ten years after Iron Man hit theaters, Earth's mightiest heroes are set to face their
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toughest challenge: Thanos the Mad Titan.
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Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, Avengers: Infinity War will feature at least 76 characters,
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be Marvel's longest movie to date, and revolve around six mysterious stones.
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Well, seven if you count Deadpool's continuity gem.
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Which they won't.
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It's a lot to keep track of.
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So if you need a primer to prepare for history's biggest superhero movie, here's everything
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you need to know before seeing Avengers: Infinity War.
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Who is Thanos?
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The Mad Titan first appeared in the mid-credits scene for The Avengers.
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Since then, he's popped up a few other times, but we haven't really gotten to know the guy.
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What does he want with Earth's mightiest heroes?
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"And who is the man in the purple chair?
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He's purple, he has a magic glove, doesn't like standing up."
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In the comics, Thanos is a member of the Eternals, a race of genetically-engineered superhumans
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who colonized Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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Incredibly intelligent, uber-powerful, and born deformed thanks to a mutant gene, Thanos
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is absolutely obsessed with Death…the actual personification of Death.
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Hoping to win her love, Thanos destroys half the universe with the help of the Infinity
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Gems.
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We don't know how much of that backstory will play into the film, but it's clear Thanos
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means business, and when he comes to complete his rock collection, the Mad Titan might teach
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the Avengers what it's like to lose.
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Alien sidekicks
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When Thanos arrives, he'll have plenty of backup.
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The big baddie has a massive extraterrestrial army, but he's also bringing his very own
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evil supergroup: the Black Order.
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In the comics, these are Thanos' top generals, and while there are usually five, it looks
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like we're only getting four in the movie.
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The Infinity Stones
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We know Thanos wants to get his big purple hands on the Infinity Stones, but what are
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they, exactly?
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We know a bit about their history, thanks to The Collector.
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"Then the universe exploded into existence, and the remnants of these systems were forged
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into concentrated ingots."
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As a result, these six stones come equipped with devastating powers.
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Let's break them down.
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Officially debuting in Captain America: The First Avenger, the Space Stone is a blue gem
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inside a glowing cube, and it can open portals across the universe.
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And if the Space Stone lives up to its comic book potential, then Thanos might gain the
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ability of omnipresence, or being everywhere at once.
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Then there's the Mind Stone, which powered Loki's staff in The Avengers.
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Although it looks blue there, the Mind Stone is actually yellow and can hypnotize and manipulate
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its victims.
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The Power Stone is the purple orb that appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy.
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It enhances its user's strength and can waste entire planets.
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In the comics, it also supercharges the rest of the stones, making them all more powerful.
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Green and stored inside a magical locket, the Time Stone showed up in Doctor Strange
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and grants its user the ability to reverse time and create time loops.
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"Dormammu, I've come to bargain!"
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"You cannot do this forever."
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"Actually I can."
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The most perplexing gem is the Reality Stone.
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It debuted in Thor: The Dark World as a sentient red goo, and while we haven't seen its full
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powers yet, in the comics it can be used to alter the nature of reality itself.
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There's one final rock that we haven't seen yet, an orange gem known as the Soul Stone.
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In the comics, this allowed Thanos to control all living souls and even resurrect deceased
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ones.
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Where are they?
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According to the Infinity War trailers, Thanos will definitely get the Space Stone and the
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Power Stone.
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So where are the rest of the Stones?
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Doctor Strange placed the Time Stone inside the magical compound of Kamar-Taj, and following
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the events of Thor: The Dark World, the Reality Stone was given to the Collector.
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Though after the explosive events of Guardians of the Galaxy, who knows if he still has it.
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And then there's the Mind Stone, which has been everywhere.
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In Age of Ultron, the Mind Stone ended up in Vision's forehead, granting him the ability
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to fly, shoot lasers, and walk through walls.
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As for the Soul Stone, nobody knows where it's hiding.
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There are plenty of theories being kicked around — maybe Heimdall has it, maybe it
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won't show up until Avengers 4… or maybe Thanos has had it all along.
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Torn Avengers
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By the end of Captain America: Civil War, the Avengers were still split.
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Captain America has given up the shield and his star-spangled identity and gone on the
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run.
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Tony Stark, on the other hand, is still working with Vision and War Machine, and the Russo
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brothers promise Infinity War will grapple with the results of the last Captain America
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movie.
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If the Avengers hope to defeat the Earth's extraterrestrial threat, they'll have to put
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personal differences aside.
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Guardian grudges
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Star-Lord and his band of misfits will finally meet the Avengers in Infinity War, and really,
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this battle against Thanos is far more personal for the Guardians than it is for the rest
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of the heroes.
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Nebula and Gamora were "adopted" by Thanos as kids and turned into super assassins.
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Nebula has grown up hating Thanos, and getting revenge against her stepdad is Nebula's number
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one priority.
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"I will hunt my father like a dog and I will tear him apart slowly.
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Piece by piece."
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Drax the Destroyer is also on the hunt for Thanos because he had Drax's family slain.
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And with her own dark past involving Thanos, Gamora isn't a big fan of her adoptive father
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either.
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"When Thanos took my homeworld, he killed my parents in front of me.
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He tortured me, turned me into a weapon."
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Seeing Scarlet
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Chances are pretty good the Vision won't make it out of Infinity War alive, considering
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Thanos wants the Mind Stone, and it's lodged squarely in Vision's forehead.
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The Scarlet Witch also got her psychic powers from that particular gem, so maybe that's
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why she and Vision get along so well.
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There was definitely romantic tension between the two in Captain America: Civil War, and
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that might develop into a full-blown romance for Infinity War.
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Elizabeth Olsen told Nerdist that her Infinity War performance is her "most emotional arc"
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in an Avengers movie.
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It's a love affair that lines up with the comics, and it will be interesting to see
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how the two pull off this star-crossed affair, considering they were on different sides in
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Civil War.
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Of course, their romance will make it way more painful if the Black Order rips that
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rock out of Vision's head.
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First meeting
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Thor: Ragnarok saw the Hulk and Thor on a different path from the rest of the Avengers…and
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in a different part of the universe.
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And as the film came to an end, things took a very dark turn.
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"Meek, where are you from?"
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"Oh, Meek's dead.
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Yeah, no, I accidentally stomped on him on the bridge."
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Nope, not that.
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In Ragnarok's mid-credits sequence, the Asgardians were dwarfed by an ominous warship.
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MCU producer Kevin Feige confirmed that the craft is the Sanctuary II, Thanos' flagship.
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Chances are good that Thanos will capture the Asgardian ship — probably to steal the
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Space Stone that Loki most likely snatched from Odin's throne room.
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Home front
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Wakanda was once thought of as a third-world country, until it turned out to be super high-tech
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thanks to a particular resource.
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"I don't follow, what comes out of Wakanda?"
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"The strongest metal on Earth."
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But why is Wakanda going to play such a pivotal part in the film?
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Well, get ready for minor spoilers.
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According to Anthony Russo, the Mind Stone is going to end up in T'Challa's homeland,
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so it makes sense that Thanos and his army will battle the Avengers and Black Panther's
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warriors on the Wakandan plains.
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Black Panther has also been protecting Steve Rogers' best friend, Bucky Barnes, since Captain
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America: Civil War.
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Until recently, Bucky has been sleeping in a hibernation chamber, but in a post-credits
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scene in Black Panther, the newly armed super soldier was out and about again.
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So when the Wakandans face off against Thanos, Bucky will be right there with them.
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Missing Avengers
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Avengers: Infinity War is definitely going to be crowded, and several of the main heroes
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have already been lost in the marketing shuffle.
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Spider-Man and Doctor Strange have both shown up in the film's trailers, but where exactly
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are Hawkeye and Ant-Man?
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Clint Barton and Scott Lang are pretty big players in the MCU, but neither have appeared
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in the trailers or on the official poster.
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So have these two Avengers gone AWOL, or will they help take on the Mad Titan?
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According to the Russo brothers, Hawkeye is still around, but he's living a different
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life than his superhero buddies.
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As they explained:
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"Hawkeye's on his own journey in this movie.
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[…] He has a unique reaction to the civil war situation that puts him in a special spot
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in this film."
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As for Ant-Man, Slashfilm reports that he'll show up in the film, and Paul Rudd is listed
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on the cast list.
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So maybe the tiniest Avenger is lurking in the trailers somewhere, but we just can't
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spot him.
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He could even be inside someone's suit.
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"Who's speaking?"
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"It's your conscience!
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We don't talk a lot these days."
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