Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7657843-20150504102237/@comment-14267015-20150615171013

Actually, I don't think the Terreract has ever killed anyone just for touching it. Remember, Fury removed it from the machine at the beginning of the Avengers movie to put it in a case. The only time it ever looked like it killed someone was at the end of Captain America when Red Skull picked it up. In that situation however, the Cube had obviously been activated after getting hit by Cap's SHIELD and was going to do something anyway. Plus for all we know it didn't kill Skull, just teleported him somewhere.