It’s no secret that Thanos is going to cut a path across the galaxy in search of all six Infinity Stones.
It is even less of a secret that it will be bad news for anyone who stands in his way.
The recent main trailer gave some tantalising and potentially devastating hints about who might be killed by the Mad Titan on his quest to bring balance the galaxy as he sees it.
The scene of Vision pinned down and sceaming in agony as one of the Black Order starts to wrench it from his head did not bode well for the Avenger.
However…
The new advert for the Marvel 10th Anniversary celebrations actually showed the Infinity Gauntlet with four stones already in place.
The yellow Mind Stone (which usually sits alone in the centre of the glove) was not one of them. Perhaps Vision fights back and escapes? Perhaps he is killed at the very end of Infinity War, after the previous four stones have been collected?
Fans already saw Thanos drop the blue Space Stone into his Gauntlet, implying that he takes it from the Tesseract early in the movie – either with or without Loki’s co-operation.
The purple Power Stone was already in its setting, meaning Nova Corps will either be destroyed or badly incapacitated even earlier in Avengers 3.
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Poor old plucky Nova Corps with its pretty golden net around the planet couldn’t hold off Ronan, so Thanos shoud have no problem smashing through their armaments.
Loki may willingly hand over the Tesseract containing the Space Stone or he may surprise everyone and put up a fight.
The new shot shows the red and orange stones are also in place.
The red Reality Stone was handed over to the Collector on Knowhere and the Soul Stone is rumoured to be somewhere in a certain fictional African kingdom.
The similar colours are hard to distinguish but it looks like red next to blue which means Thanos will attack the Collector first before launching his assault on Wakanda.
Most fans are agreed that the Soul Stone is likely to be hidden in Black Panther’s kingdom and may even be the source of the incredible properties of vibranium. Perhaps it even fell to Earth inside the huge mereorite which became Wakanda’s mysterious source of power?
This makes it likely that the huge battle in Wakanda shown in the trailer will be the climax of Infinity War.
AVENGERS INFINITY WAR IS OUT ON APRIL 27