10 Things Everybody Gets Wrong About The Marvel Cinematic Universe

2. Loki's Sceptre Is Powered By The Tesseract

It was generally considered that the sceptre Loki was wielding in The Avengers - and which will seemingly appear again in Avengers: Age Of Ultron - was powered by the Tesseract. There's nothing wrong with this assumption - after all, the Tesseract is the Space Stone which, by definition, allows it to function over large distances. It was used from across the universe to open a portal to Earth and it was used to power all of HYDRA's weapons in Captain America: The First Avenger, so it's not as if you need to have it in your possession to wield its power indirectly. In fact, Loki's staff was even described in The Avengers as being powered by the Tesseract, but it actually turns out that's not the case at all. The staff contains a completely different Infinity Stone - as confirmed by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige - that can safely be assumed to be the Mind Stone, given its powers to brainwash people. Baron Wolfgang von Strucker has also claimed that everyone had misinterpreted what the sceptre was, saying this in the mid-credits scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier: "What we have is worth more than any of them ever knew. We've only scratched the surface..."