That's four out of six stones. The remaining two are the Soul Stone and Time Stone. I believe the Doctor Strange movie will introduce one of the two, while Thor: Ragnorak will probably introduce the other, maybe? I remember reading something that James Gunn said not too long ago that Guardians 2 wouldn't have anything Infinity Stone related.
At the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron we saw Thanos open up a vault and put on the Infinity Gauntlet, a glove that can hold all six Infinity Stones. So does that mean that the first Infinity War movie could be similar to the Thanos' Quest plotline in the comics. For those that aren't comic readers, here is a short breakdown of the story.
Thanos, in order to impress Death (whom he is in love with), attempts to kill half of the population of the entire universe. In order to do this, Thanos knew he needed the power of a god. Well not just a god, but THE GOD. Like the being above all else. To do this, Thanos went out into the cosmos to collect the Infinity Stones.
First he sought out the In-Betweener imprisoned within the Nexus of Reality (a plane of existence where chaos an order bond), where he is imprisoned. He frees the In-Betweener and out-smarts him by using the actual Nexus of Realities, to keep the In-Betweener's powers from being functional. Because within the Nexus, there are no dichotomies, and that's how the In-Betweener gets his powers. By defeating the In-Betweener, Thanos is able to claim his first stone; the Soul Stone.
Next on his list is the Power Stone, which is in the possession of CHAMPION of the Universe, an Elder* who lives for combat. Thanos travels to the planet Tamarata, "a strategic world in defense plans of five different warring federations. It is a planet constantly under siege, forever being conquered and reconquered." (Quoted directly from Thanos Quest Part 1). Champion, with the Power Stone, just fights all day long. He faces a different faction every day, always making one faction he's working for the other. For, Champion, this is paradise. Thanos tricks Champion into destroying Tamarata, leaving him stranded in space, and then convinces Champion to hand over his Power Stone in exchange for not floating through space for all eternity. Brilliant.
*An Elder, is a member of the Elders of the Universe a group of cosmic power level super villains. Other members include the Architect, the Astronomer, the Caregiver, the Collector, the Contemplator, Ego the living Planet, Explorer, Father Time, the Gardener, the Grandmaster, Judicator, Obliterator, Possessor, Runner, and Trader. All powerful beings with unique abilities giving them enough strength to possess an Infinity Stone.
Now with two stones, Thanos sought out The Gardener, another elder in possession of the Time Stone. He used the stone mainly to tend his garden, where he could manipulate the time around his plants to keep them frozen in peak bloom. Thanos then uses the Power Stone change The Gardener's stone's plant growing abilities to an absurd level that the Gardener had never even thought of, essentially turning Gardener's "greatest gift into the instrument of (his) destruction." Final panel shows a truly gruesome end to the Gardener, someone who Thanos admittedly never intended to harm.
Thanos is now halfway to accomplishing his goal. Next stop is to see The Collector. Another Elder, who keeps a collection of every being ever to exist, always seeking out the most rare species. Thanos offers the Collector a deal. An extremely rare addition to his collection for his Infinity Stone. While for the Collector to accept the deal, Thanos goes after his next target. Another Elder, named Runner, who is just doing exactly that. Running. He has the Space Stone, and just like The Gardener, he is subconciously tapping into it's power. Thanos admits that he has discovered the true power to each stone, and since he already knows how, he uses the Time Stone to age Runner dramatically so that he can take the Space Stone from him. Then he de-ages Runner back to infancy. With four out of six stones now in his possession, Thanos takes baby Runner to see the Collector.
Yep, Thanos uses the infant Runner as the gift for the Collector's collection. The Collector accepts the deal with one added condition, that Thanos will issue a "promise of non-interference in (his) existence". Thanos agrees and the deal is made. And now Thanos weilds FIVE Infinity Stones with the addition of the Reality Stone (probably the most powerful stone of them all).
The last stone is held by the Grand Master, the last Elder that we meet. The Grand Master creates a game that he challenges Thanos to. The winner gets all the stones, and the loser...well the loser dies. The Grand Master creates these kinds of games all of the time, and so creates something in which he knows all of the angles and all of the secrets. Cheating basically. He makes one big mistake. He doesn't keep the Mind Stone on his person like some of the others have. If he had, he would have realized that the Thanos facing him at the gaming table is a robot and that Thanos was cheating the whole time. Afterward, Thanos admits that because he held five of the stones already, that he could have taken the Grandmasters' in any of a thousand different ways, but this one was the most enjoyable. Wow.
Thanos is no joke. He's extremely powerful as it is, and now he has ALL SIX INFINITY STONES! The story of what he does with them continues in Infinity Gauntlet, a blog for another day.
So if Thanos had a quest in the comics to collect all of the Infinity Stones for himself. And now, the last Thanos teaser was him saying he was going to do exactly that. Let's take a quick look at where that quest would take him
Well the Power Stone is currently locked up on Xandar at the headquarters of the NOVA Corps. I really hope we get to see Thanos attack and destroy Xandar to get the Power Stone, that would be such an awesome scene!
We know the Space Stone aka the Tessaract, is in Odin's Vault on Asgard. That would be another incredibly awesome scene to see Thanos attack Asgard.
The Reality Stone is in the Collector's possession, being held at Odin's request. We found that out at the end of Thor: The Dark World when Sif and Volstagg ask the Collector to keep it for them because "keeping two Infinity Stones near each other is not a good idea". This would be a really cool scene, and could be very similar to what is done in the comics.
Finally, the Mind Stone. We know it's attached to Vision, but we don't know what it will mean if he's detached from it. Probably the end of Vision. We'll see. I'm almost certain that scene is coming.
So that's the four in the movies so far. The two remaining will most likely be introduced in Doctor Strange and Thor 3. And judging from recent casting news on Thor 3, it looks like the Grandmaster could also be the one that actually has the stone.
Thanos' Quest is one of the top reasons I am a Marvel Comics fan. It's so wonderfully written. I highly reccomend reading it. It comes as an accompanying story at the end of the Silver Surfer graphic novel THE REBIRTH OF THANOS. If anyone is interested, check it out and also the follow up story, THE INFINITY GAUNTLET.
That's all for this time, until next time, keep on reading!
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