Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.225.117-20141228041147

The overwhelming consensus I see about the scepter is that it's the Mind Gem. If anything from the Avengers, it seems to be the Soul Gem. However, I see good evidence that it is actually the Reality Gem.



Look at this from general Marvel Cannon:

Mind Gem: which increases the user's psychic and mental abilities.

Soul Gem: which allows the user to control the free will of others.

Reality Gem: which gives the user total control of reality.



How is the scepter the Mind Gem? We have not seen those qualities demonstrated. The Soul Gem is the type of effect we witnessed in the Avengers?

But how about the Baron and the twins? In the MCU, they are experiments, not mutants. Scarlet Witch has the power to augment reality (probability and reality are arguably interchangeable). The few seconds we have of him in the MCU, his blurred motions could well be seen as temporal reality augmentation.

If this is the type pf power discovered by the Baron from the scepter, the Soul Gem makes no sense. Nor does the Mind Gem (at least not for Quicksilver).

So what about Loki in the Avengers? You know, the god that got punked by every mortal Avenger in the movie? If it is an infinity vessel, he didn't know that (why would Thanos tell him?). Which leaves Loki trying to do his regular bag of tricks with the Scepter. Mimicking a type of mind/soul control could unwittingly be done with the power to change reality, but limited to Loki’s expectations of what he could do with the Scepter.

Last note, on the Avengers and Mind Gem vs Soul Gem vs Reality Gem. Loki never used the scepter on himself to perhaps discover what it is. But Selvik says "it shows" truth, not that "he discovers" truth. That doesn't sound like the mental enhancement of the Mind Gem, whereas the Soul Gem should have no such effects. However, Truth with a capital "T”, generally refers to direct access to objective "reality" in academic philosophy. Similarly, Hawkeye “seeing his next target” could well be argued as a psychic ability of the Mind Gem, but on the other hand (and without the scientific mind of Selvik), the only “reality” for him is his next mission or his next objective.

That or the scepter isn't a gem. Eh, whatever.  