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Hugues de Payens wrote: Mister Explicit wrote: Hugues de Payens wrote: KillRoy231 wrote: It was said that a mortal will die if they touch an Infinity Stone, unless it's a group of people controlling it for a limited time. Red Skull held the tesseract in his hand. It killed him and transported his remains to Yggdrasil, though there could be something deeper we don't know about, but then, Cap already got his third film People can touch the Tesseract. That's why Fury could touch it. We don't know if he died or just teleported on accident.

Or, and this is just one of my theories, maybe Thanos tried to get the Space Stone to teleport to him and it teleported Red Skull who was holding it.

But he could return in Infinity War or Avengers 4 so it really doesn't matter that Cap got his third film. That, in my opinion was a plot hole in the Avengers. Exactly how could Fury hold it and not get teleported to space like Red Skull? Does it matter on how firm your hold is on the Tesseract or maybe it just varies upon individual to individual? So I think I figured out why a portal opened when Red Skull was holding it.

In The Avengers, when the heroes are meeting on the helicarrier, Stark and Banner talk about how Loki will be able to open a portal.

Banner says “He’d have to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier.”

So it seems that if the Tesseract is exposed to enough heat, a portal will open. In Captain America: The First Avenger, we see that it was hot enough to melt through the plane, likely due to its use to build Hydra weapons.

As for villains, I think Ayesha and Man-Ape will die.

I think they'll keep the Tinkerer, Vulture, and both Shockers around. I also think they'll keep Kilmonger.

And how long will the Cube take to cool, if that is the case? Because it wasn't for a few moments since the Tesseract was used to transport Loki to Earth that Fury grabbed it and placed it in a suitcase without vanishing to Yggdrasil.

Sorry, Science isn't my strongest suit.