Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24144012-20140708232925/@comment-24675861-20140710004835

The problem is that everyone thinks the gems are like their comic book counterparts. What if the gems in the MCU are totally different in how they act and interact? We should know that the gems are different because the Aether is a liquid, as opposed to a rock. What if Feige is wrong and the "gems" are six ancient objects of power that must have a machine or contraption to activate their powers, like the Tesseract did in TWO movies? Maybe in the picture, the Orb was used by a society that didn't know was they were doing (like humans with the Tesseract), and they were obliterated...