Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3134600-20140811224344/@comment-1742432-20141114104101

Malekith needed to set the Universe back to its original state, or former state. It's debatable as to what he actually meant by that. I'm trying to imagine an organism/consciousness surviving the transition from one Universe to its next state (by the Big Bounce if I have to go by his literal word), which would mean that the Dark Elves took 13.8 bil years to adjust/evolve with the present Universe (with a couple of setbacks along the way in the form of Asgard or even Celestials), and come up to a decent level of technology. An alternatives could be that the race was born with the Dark Ages of the Universe. Either way Jane Foster's statement that "it would alter all of reality" had me thinking it was the Reality gem, but those are good points there.