Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27464043-20151230192612/@comment-34734493-20180411153010

Actually, she was referring to Surtur's skull when she said that. All she said about the Tesseract was, "that's not bad." And how am I "confusing her motivations with theories?" When she was arrived in Asgard, she said "it's our destiny to rule them all," referring to the Nine Realms- meaning Asgard is just a stepping stone.

The reason I said "pretty sure" is because the timeline of the MCU is all sorts of messed up right now, so it's hard to BE sure. The reason I'm sure though is because Thor appeared to know about the Tesseract, so it appears to be as though it got lost in his lifetime.

I know the Eternal Flame was a plot-advancing macguffin, I've seen the movie like you. But that's the entire point. All of the Infinify Stones have been introduced in that manner, and with the exception of the Time Stone, none have really shown their true capabilities. The Eternal Flame seems to just be another poorly explained artifact to me. All we know about it is that it controls the dead and it was taken from Surtur to prevent Ragnarok. But it's never explained where it originally came from. I seriously doubt it was an extract of Surtur's power because he's never had the power to control the dead, and the MCU doesn't alter characters' abilities that significantly.

By the way, the Eternal Flame shows the Soul Stone's abilities better than the Aether shows the Reality Stone's powers. And of course this is smoke, it's still just a theory!!! The reason I support it so much is because it's still a possibility, and better than some of the current theories. Sure, it has its flaws, but so did the Wakanda theory (how would the Soul Stone end up in the core of a METEOR????). The most likely theory is that it's somewhere we haven't seen yet, but I just like the Eternal Flame theory more personally.