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The Time Stone was one of the half dozen Infinity Stones, the remnant of a singularity that predated the universe, representing the element of time. It was independent within the Eye of Agamotto and placed nether the protection of the Masters of the Mystic Arts. In 2017, Doctor Strange took possession of the Rock and used it to defeat Dormammu.

The following year, during the Infinity War, Doctor Strange relinquished the Stone to Thanos in exchange for sparing Iron Human'due south life. Thanos then used the Time Stone during the Battle of Wakanda to resurrect Vision after he was killed by Wanda Maximoff, in order to acquire the Mind Rock. Following the Snap, Thanos destroyed the Time Stone, forth with the other Infinity Stones to prevent his work being undone.

In 2023, the Avengers initiated a Time Heist in club to resurrect the lives Thanos had claimed. Captain America, Fe Human, Hulk and Pismire-Man were sent back in time to Boxing of New York to an alternating 2012 where Blob successfully convinced the Ancient I to relinquish the stone. Following the Boxing of Earth, where Fe Human being used the Stones to kill Thanos and his regular army at the cost of his ain life, Captain America fourth dimension-traveled to the alternate 2012 to return the Time Rock.

History

Origins

"From the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then... blast. The Big Bang sent six elemental crystals, hurtling across the virgin universe. These Infinity Stones each command an essential aspect of existence."

―Wong^[src]

The Fourth dimension Stone is a remnant of one of the vi singularities which existed before the universe. Later on the universe came to exist, the Big Bang forged the remnants of half-dozen singularities into elemental crystals, dubbed the Infinity Stones, and hurtled them across the universe. As indicated by its name, the Time Stone holds dominion over the forces of time.^[2]

Masters of the Mystic Arts

The Ancient One protecting the Time Stone

The principal sorcerer Agamotto fashioned a containment device to meliorate wield its dangerous power. When Agamotto founded the Masters of the Mystic Arts, usage of the Eye became forbidden, though Cagliostro was permitted to report the artifact and eventually wrote how to control the relic in his volume.^[1] The Masters would subsequently swear an oath to protect the Fourth dimension Rock with their lives because the Time Rock ultimately became their primary weapon against mystical forces that seek to invade and destroy earth.^[ii] ^[3]

Battle of New York

In 2012, the Ancient One brought the Fourth dimension Stone with her to New York City as she defended the New York Sanctum from the invading Chitauri.^[three]

Used by Dr. Strange

During his training at Kamar-Taj, Md Foreign began to read the Book of Cagliostro and learned of the Eye's full ability. Seeking to push himself, Strange donned the Centre and opened it, revealing the Time Stone, first testing its power on his apple tree before using it to recreate the lost pages from the Volume. He was halted past Wong and Karl Mordo who warned that the Middle'south powers were contrary to the natural order of things and the slightest misuse could effect in an endless temporal loop.^[1]

Dark Dimension

Doc Strange undoes Kaecilius' deportment

When the Hong Kong Sanctum was destroyed and the Dark Dimension began assimilating Earth, Doctor Strange used the Time Stone to rewind the subversive events and save Wong only to be stopped by Kaecilius before the Sanctum could be fully restored. At wit'south cease, Foreign flew directly into the Dark Dimension to face up Dormammu, trapping the dimensional being in a time loop that Strange would only break if Dormammu acquiesced to the homo's bargain. Dormammu eventually withdrew from Globe with Strange returning the Eye to its resting place in Kamar-Taj before long after where Wong causally revealed its true nature.^[1]

Infinity War

Attack on Greenwich Village

"Our adjuration to protect the Time Stone cannot change. And this stone may exist the all-time chance we accept confronting Thanos."
"Aye, so conversely, it may also be his best gamble against us."

―Physician Strange and Tony Stark^[src]

In 2018, Bruce Banner returned to Earth to warn the planet of Thanos' imminent arrival. Later on coming together Md Strange and Wong, the three sought out Tony Stark for his aid who simply proposed destroying the Time Stone to derail Thanos' plans, to which Wong told him of the oath to protect it while Strange postulated it might be their greatest weapon against Thanos. As the four debated which action to take, Ebony Maw and Choose Obsidian arrived demanding the Fourth dimension Stone. While they managed to defeat Obsidian, Maw managed to housebreak Strange who revealed he had placed a spell around the Fourth dimension Stone so that information technology could only exist taken from him if he wished it and then.

Doctor Foreign tries to use the Fourth dimension Stone

Strange and so attempted to use the Stone confronting Maw only to be overpowered and brought aboard Maw's Q-Ship. Mid-flight, the torturer attempted to force Strange into surrendering the Rock merely for him to be slain by Stark and Peter Parker. Though Strange wanted to head dorsum to Earth, Stark convinced him Thanos would follow the Time Stone wherever they took it and that fighting him on Titan, away from any innocents, was the all-time form of activeness. Foreign reluctantly agreed only warned he would sacrifice them all for the Time Stone if need be.^[2]

Boxing of Titan

Upon arriving at their destination, the three were met past half of the Guardians of the Galaxy. As introductions were fabricated, Doctor Strange used the Time Rock to examine 14 million half-dozen hundred and five possible outcomes of their inevitable battle with Thanos. In all but one, they would lose. In preparation for Thanos' arrival, Strange removed the Stone from the Eye of Agamotto and sent information technology to hibernate among the stars.

Thanos takes possession of the Time Stone

In the subsequent boxing, Thanos, while impressed by Strange's mastery of the arcane, presently deduced that he had parted with the Time Rock given that he failed to use its power confronting the Titan. When Thanos was on the verge of killing Tony Stark, Foreign bartered the Time Stone for Stark's life. Inserting it into the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos promptly took his go out to collect the Mind Stone.^[2]

Battle of Wakanda

Thanos reverses time to bring Vision back

Upon arriving in Wakanda, Thanos effortlessly fabricated his style through the resistance just was too tardily to stop Wanda Maximoff from destroying the Mind Stone. Unfazed, he merely used the Time Stone to resurrect Vision and recreate the Mind Stone, allowing him to complete the Gauntlet whereupon he was stabbed by a vengeful Thor. In spite of his wound, Thanos managed to use all six Stones to wipe out half of all life in the universe.^[2]

Devastation

Three weeks afterwards, Thanos destroyed all the Infinity Stones, including the Fourth dimension Stone past using the Stones' powers on itself, in order to eliminate whatsoever possibility of reversing what he had done.^[3]

Alternate Universe Versions

Theft of the Time Stone

The Ancient One reveals the Fourth dimension Stone

In 2023, the Avengers initiated a Time Heist, where they used the Quantum Realm to time travel to acquire all six Infinity Stones from alternating timelines in gild to resurrect the victims of the Snap. Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Imprint, and Scott Lang were sent to May 4, 2012 during the Battle of New York, arriving in an alternating timeline.

As the stone was inside the Eye of Agamotto at this time, Banner arrived at the New York Sanctum to think the Time Stone from |Doctor Strange. However, he encountered the Ancient Ane, who revealed that she was the current Sorcerer Supreme and that Foreign hadn't become a sorcerer yet. Realizing that she was wearing the Eye of Agamotto which independent the Time Stone, Banner attempted to have it by force, just for him to be ejected out his body and into the Astral Dimension.

Engaging in a civil discussion, Banner insisted that the Fourth dimension Stone would exist returned before its absence caused any damage to the timeline, the Ancient I refused, citing that if he died and did not return the Time Rock, then the new timeline would be left caught confronting forces they would otherwise need the Time Rock to defeat earlier Banner revealed Strange had given up the Stone willingly. Convinced, the Aboriginal One surrendered the Stone to Banner.

The Time Stone is put in the Nano Gauntlet

Afterward successfully transporting the alternate versions of the Stones to their timeline, the Time Stone was placed in the Nano Gauntlet. Using the Gauntlet, Banner harnessed the ability of the half dozen Stones to restore the victims enacting the Blip, albeit losing the ability to use his right arm.

The six Stones were and so used past Stark to impale an alternate Thanos and his regular army. Afterwards, Rogers used the Quantum Realm to return the Fourth dimension Stone to its timeline.^[iii]

Seized by the TVA

While capturing Variants and pruning timelines, the Time Variance Authority seized Infinity Stones from alternate timelines, including numerous Fourth dimension Stones.^[4]

Saving Christine Palmer

To be added ^[five]

In Thanos'due south Possession

To exist added ^[six]

Historic period of Ultron

To be added ^[seven] To be added ^[8]

Capabilities

"Temporal manipulations can create branches in fourth dimension. Unstable dimensional openings. Spatial paradoxes, time loops! Y'all want to get stuck reliving the same moment over, and over, forever, or never having existed at all?"

―Karl Mordo to Doctor Strange^[src]

As the Infinity Stone with absolute control over time, the Fourth dimension Stone is among the most powerful artifacts in all existence. Due to its power, information technology tin just be held by beings of infrequent superhuman ability. The sorcerer Agamotto was only able to safely harness the stone's power after encasing information technology in a special containment device known as the Eye of Agamotto.

When contained in a vessel such equally the Eye or the Infinity Gauntlet, the Rock'due south ability manifests as greenish runes of energy surrounding the user's arm and wrist. Manipulation of time then occurs primarily through the conjuration of a green, circular mandala of energy in the user'southward mitt. The mandala acts as a rudimentary "dial", and the manual turning of the mandala with the user'southward hand enables them to "gyre" both backwards and forrard through time.

Through manipulation of the mandala, the user is able to physically control and redirect the catamenia of time, and can specifically select the exact area to manipulate without affecting those outside its selected range. The rock tin can alter targets as pocket-sized as an apple or as wide in scope as the timeline of the universe, to the point where Doctor Strange used the Stone to opposite the destruction of the Hong Kong Sanctum before it was consumed by the Nighttime Dimension, while specifically subtracting himself, Mordo and Wong from its effects.

Due to the selective nature of the Fourth dimension Stone's power, it could be used to individually modify the timeline of private objects or events, reversing them to a previous land or sending the object forrard into a future state. This occurs regardless of any potential breaches in causality - when Md Strange practiced the use of the Stone on a one-half-eaten apple, sending information technology forwards in time, the apple tree converted to a fully-eaten, moldy land, despite Strange never physically eating the entire apple afterwards. This implies that the Stone could send objects forward to a potential futurity state that does not necessarily have to occur in the current timeline.

Notably, this disregard for causality too allows for the spontaneous formation or erasure of matter in order to conform with the established timeline. As shown when Strange reconstructed the torn pages of the Volume of Cagliostro, duplicates of the pages reconstituted from thin air, without the actual pages, or the one who currently possessed them beingness physically nowadays, although it apace vanished after Strange stopped using it as it was not real and only a copy. When reversing the period of time effectually the half-eaten apple tree, the Stone reconstituted the eaten parts of the apple tree with no ill effects to Strange himself.^[ane]

When added to the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos displays a strong level of mastery and familiarity with the Stone'due south capabilities, as he was able to harness its unique free energy interface to contrary the destruction of the Mind Stone and expiry of Vision at the hands of Wanda Maximoff without affecting Maximoff herself. He was likewise able to perfectly recreate the Mind Rock rather than merely making a copy of it, as the Mind Rock retained all its powers, showing that a sufficiently proficient and knowledgeable wielder can truly recreate even extremely powerful objects that were completely destroyed. This can be attributed to Thanos' skill being considerably more than advanced than Strange due to having extensively researched the Infinity Stones for centuries and thus understanding the Time Stone's powers and workings more than than Strange ever did.

Even so, the Fourth dimension Stone's control over causality and probability can hands show too much for anyone who does not take the required knowledge and power to use it, potentially resulting in the user'southward decease and a danger to the natural order. Misuse of the Stone's abilities could potentially result in unstable openings and breaks in the space-fourth dimension continuum, spatial paradoxes, fourth dimension loops, or even risk completely erasing the user from existence.

However, this can be used to the wielder's advantage - the Stone can be used to deliberately loop segments of fourth dimension through the formation of a literal energy loop over the wielder's wrist. Upon the wielder's expiry, the timeline will revert back to the initial germination of the energy loop, allowing the wielder to begin a new iteration with the retentivity of all previous timelines. This was used past Dr. Strange during the Skirmish in the Nighttime Dimension^[ane] and earlier the Boxing of Titan.^[two] ^[9]

Notably, beings from, or that draw power from, the Dark Dimension, a universe without time, are to an extent, allowed to the effects of the Fourth dimension Stone. The Zealots were able to use their powers to subtract themselves from the reversal of the Hong Kong Sanctum's devastation in order to duel Strange and Mordo, and Dormammu himself retained his retentivity and awareness between iterations of Strange'southward time loop.

After the Infinity Gauntlet was completed, the ability of the Time Stone combined with the other Stones immune Thanos to wipe out half of all life in the universe with a single snap of his fingers.^[2]

Trivia

In the comics, the orange Time Gem manipulates time, can amplify or reverse aging, and allows the user to come across, travel into, and/or change the by or the future. After the multiverse was recreated from its devastation in the 2015 Hugger-mugger Wars, the recreated Fourth dimension Stone was green as it is depicted in the films.
The Time Rock is the merely one of the six Infinity Stones to project a Tao Mandala-shaped light when used, regardless of the user being a Master of the Mystic Arts or not.
Loki is the only graphic symbol that has physically touched the Time Stone, as it was normally guarded by a force field when being held.^[4]

Appearances

Avengers: Endgame (alternate 2012 timeline)
Guardians of the Galaxy (hologram)
Doc Strange
Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Endgame
WandaVision
- Flavor One
  - Breaking the Fourth Wall (mentioned)
  - The Series Finale (memory)
Spider-Man: No Manner Home (mentioned)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (mentioned)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.ii ^1.3 ^one.4 ^1.five Doctor Strange
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.iii ^ii.4 ^two.5 ^2.half-dozen ^two.7 Avengers: Infinity State of war
↑ ^3.0 ^three.1 ^3.two ^iii.3 Avengers: Endgame
↑ ^four.0 ^iv.1 Loki: 1.01: Glorious Purpose
↑ What If...?: ane.04: What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Easily?
↑ What If...?: ane.05: What If... Zombies!?
↑ What If...?: 1.08: What If... Ultron Won?
↑ What If...?: 1.09: What If... The Watcher Bankrupt His Oath?
↑ The Russo Brothers Answer Avengers: Endgame Questions From Twitter | Tech Back up | WIRED

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