Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7657843-20150425081922/@comment-107.185.125.175-20150502203451

There is an obvious link between Loki and Thanos, but I have the understanding that their relationship soured after the God of Mischief failed at the end of Avengers 1. I could be wrong, but Thanos probably would not tolerate failure, but with Odin out of the way and Loki in his place the opportunity of open for Thanos to have free rein to the Vault including the Gauntlet and the Tesseract. The Teseract stone was not on the Gauntlet so that begs the question did Thanos really get access to the Vault? Would Loki have allowed that? If not Thanos would have retrieved it behind his back and this could be explained in Thor 3.

Also that leaves the Soul and Time Stones to be further elaborated on in GOTG 2 and another movie, but the end result should be the introduction of Adam Warlock as the GOTG's version of the Vision, an ultra-evolved version of mankind with enormous power and a intangible link to the archnemesis. Vision was created partially by Ultron and Warlock could have a connection to Thanos via the Soul Gem. Just an interesting idea, may or may not be the case.