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The argument that The Scepter can't be powered by the Tesseract because Thanos gave it to Loki before Loki arrived on earth.

We don't know how old the Scepter is, or where Thanos got it. Way back in Captain America 1 we saw that Humans have learned to take and apply it's energy to other objects. Who's to say that a long time before the Tesseract was on earth, some other race discovered the same technique and created the Scepter using the Tesseract's power? Eventually it fell into Thano's hands, who has been hunting the Tesseracts down. it makes sense that he'd have come to possess the Scepter, but realizing it isn't an actual Infinity Gem, gives it to Loki to use in bringing him the actual gem.

It can't be the same because it's powered on earth, and the gem is in Azeroth.

Seeing as the Tesseract is believed to be the Space Gem, I tend to think distance is irrelivent.

It has to be the Scepter because S helps spell out THANOS and we want that for some stupid reason.

All the other Infinity Gems have names that apply directly to them. The Tesseract, the Orb, and the Aether. The Scepter is what you call the housing that holds the stone giving it power. It isn't the name of the stone itself. If you broke the stone out from it's housing, you wouldn't still call it a Scepter would you? I think this is a weak argument.