I Watched Every Marvel Movie In One Weekend And Now I’m Convinced The Soul Stone Is In Wakanda

We know Asgardians have been trying to lock up Infinity Stones for millennia. Also, Heimdall has glowing orange eyes, which is the color of the Soul Stone.

And glowing eyes do seem to be a symptom of Infinity Stone possession.

In Thor: The Dark World, Heimdall says he can see all the souls in the nine realms, explaining his omniscience.

Fans have taken this to mean that Thanos will remove the Soul Stone from him and he'll lose his vision.

In the comics, the Soul Stone has some very specific properties:

• It's sentient.

• It can attack someone's soul.

• It can use an ability called "Cold Light of Truth" to reveal information about someone's soul.

• It can trap souls inside of itself in an idyllic pocket dimension.

• Its wielder can access the memories and skills of those imprisoned within the pocket dimension.

• It can also revert beings to their natural state.

(Note: In the comics, the Infinity Stones are called Infinity Gems and they have different colors than they do in the movies.)

We first see the Space Stone in Captain America: The First Avenger. Hydra agents discover the stone in Norway and become obsessed with using its container, the Tesseract, as a really powerful battery. Captain America shows up, flings the Red Skull into space, and then leaves it on the bottom of the ocean.

Howard Stark finds the Tesseract, says probably the worst thing you can possibly say in the Marvel universe, "Seems harmless enough," and then starts trying to use it to power S.H.I.E.L.D. technology. Loki steals it from S.H.I.E.L.D. in the first Avengers movie and opens a portal to space above New York, a lot of people get hurt, and then finally it ends up back in Odin's vault on Asgard.

Except, before Asgard gets destroyed in Thor: Ragnarok, Loki steals it again and uses it to teleport himself on to the Asgardian refugee ship.

The Mind Stone is kept in a Chitauri scepter, which Thanos gives to Loki after Loki's kicked out of Asgard. After the Battle of New York, the scepter is scooped up by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, ends up with Hydra scientists in Sokovia, and is used to give superpowers to Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, as seen in Age of Ultron.

Then, finally, the scepter is destroyed and the Mind Stone inside of it gets put in the Vision, where it's been ever since.

The Aether is the super-weird one. It's the Reality Stone and it's typically presented as floaty red liquid. In fact, until Thor has his magic bath time in Age of Ultron, the Aether is never presented as a stone.

Jane Foster finds the Aether in London in Thor: The Dark World during the Second Dark Elf Conflict. She accidentally frees it from its container, the Aether Chamber. A bunch of south London gets destroyed, Thor briefly rides the tube, the Dark Elves are defeated, and then the Asgardians manage to contain the Reality Stone and get it to the Collector, who's had it ever since.

We first see the Orb when Star-Lord steals it at the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1. Then Ronan the Accuser, at first working for Thanos, gets ahold of it, frees the Power Stone from the Orb, puts it in his hammer, and plans to destroy Xandar with it. Star-Lord and the Guardians stop him, get the Stone back into the Orb, and give it back to the Nova Corps, who have it locked in a vault on Xandar.

The Time Stone was locked inside the Eye of Agamotto by the first Sorcerer Supreme, as seen in Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange returns the Eye to Kamar-Taj after his battle with Dormammu, believing he isn't ready to fully control it.

Although! Strange is wearing the Eye when he meets Thor in Thor: Ragnarok, which seems to imply he's figured out how to properly use it now.

Guys, seriously, Loki is so dead in this movie.

This shot also gets in the way of the "Heimdall as the Soul Stone" theory. Having two Infinity Stones pulled out of people in one movie would be a bit much.

Now, Black Panther does have some characters who have appeared in previous MCU movies, like Martin Freeman's CIA agent, Everett Ross, and Andy Serkis's Ulysses Klaue. Also, T'Challa was a huge part of Captain America: Civil War. But it may be following a pattern that has emerged in the second and third phases of the MCU.

If a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent or an Avenger doesn't show up in the movie, an Infinity Stone usually does.

The heart-shaped herb checks off a bunch of properties the Soul Stone has in the comics:

• It can trap souls inside of itself in an idyllic pocket dimension, like the Lion King dimension T'Challa goes to during the herb ceremony.

• Its wielder can access the memories and skills of those imprisoned within the pocket dimension, like T'Challa's conversation with his dead father.

• It can also revert beings to their natural state, like removing T'Challa's powers.