Reality Stone

Cinematic, Comics

The Infinity Stone of reality, kept as the liquid Aether by the Dark Elves until the Asgardians seized it and buried it. It entered Jane Foster in 2013, passed to Malekith, and was then given to the Collector on Knowhere. Thanos took and solidified it in 2018 and destroyed it after the Snap. In 2023 an alternate-2013 copy was extracted from Jane on Asgard and later returned.

Cinematic custody

1. -2988 Bor · Svartalfheim
   Bor's Asgardians snatched it away with the Bifrost to end the war.
2. -2988 Unclaimed
   Bor had it buried on a distant world, where it stayed hidden for five thousand years.
3. 1940 Malekith · Svartalfheim
   Malekith liquefied the Stone into the Aether and brought it to the final battle.
4. 2013 Jane Foster
   Jane touched the Aether through a Convergence portal and became its host.
5. 2013 Jane Foster · Earth
   She returned to Earth with the Aether inside her.
6. 2013 Jane Foster · Asgard
   Thor took her to Asgard, where Odin discovered what she carried.
7. 2013 Jane Foster · Svartalfheim
   Thor and Loki smuggled her to Svartalfheim to face Malekith.
8. 2013 Malekith · Svartalfheim
   Malekith drew the Aether out of Jane and left the planet.
9. 2013 Malekith · Earth
   He carried it to Earth for the Convergence battle with Thor.
10. 2013 Sif
    After Malekith's defeat the Asgardians contained the Aether, and Sif and Volstagg carried it onward.
11. 2013 Taneleer Tivan (Collector) · Knowhere
    They gave the Aether to the Collector to keep in his museum.
12. 2018 Thanos · Knowhere
    Thanos took the Aether from the Collector and solidified it into the Reality Stone.
13. 2018 Thanos · Vormir
    He used it on Vormir to stop Gamora from taking her own life.
14. 2018 Thanos · Titan
    He used it against Strange and Iron Man on Titan.
15. 2018 Thanos · Earth
    He used it in Wakanda and for the Snap.
16. 2018 Thanos
    After the Snap he withdrew to Planet 0259-S and destroyed the stones three weeks later.
17. 2018: destroyed
18. 2023 Rocket Raccoon · Asgard
    Rocket extracted the Aether from Jane in alternate 2013 Asgard while Thor distracted her.
19. 2023 Rocket Raccoon · Earth
    He and Thor brought the Aether back to the main timeline.
20. 2023 Hulk · Earth
    Solidified into the Reality Stone and set in the Nano Gauntlet that Banner wore.
21. 2023 Thanos · Earth
    An alternate Thanos seized the Nano Gauntlet at the wrecked Avengers Compound.
22. 2023 Iron Man · Earth
    Stark took the stones and used them to destroy Thanos and his army.
23. 2023 Steve Rogers · Earth
    Rogers carried the stones back to put them in their own timelines.
24. 2023 Unclaimed · Asgard
    Rogers returned it, already solidified, to Asgard in alternate 2013; it leaves the main timeline.
25. 2023: leaves this timeline

Source: wiki page

Comics custody

1. Bronze Thanos
   Fused with other gems by Thanos; the combined gem was destroyed and scattered.
2. Modern Taneleer Tivan (Collector)
   Given to the Collector when Chaos and Order redistributed the gems.
3. Modern Thanos
   Traded for the Runner, now a baby, and then set in the Gauntlet.
4. Modern Nebula
   Seized the Gauntlet when Thanos left his body behind.
5. Modern Adam Warlock
   Took the Gauntlet from Nebula.
6. Modern Thanos
   Secretly entrusted to Thanos by Warlock; kept in a display case in his hideaway.
7. Modern Rune
   Taken when Rune froze time and scattered into the Ultraverse.
8. Modern Night Man · Earth
   Found in a San Francisco curio shop; Loki tricked Night Man into taking it.
9. Modern Loki Laufeyson
   Loki took it back after the Night Man duplicates fought over it.
10. Modern Amber Hunt
    The gem merged with Amber Hunt to stop the Nemesis waves, then scattered.
11. Modern Darkseid
    Assembled into a Gauntlet by Darkseid on Apokolips and discarded.
12. Modern Galactus
    Gathered by Galactus; scattered when Thanos and Pip wrecked his ship.
13. Modern Iron Man
    Apparently entrusted to Iron Man when the Illuminati split the gems.
14. Modern Black Bolt · Earth
    Hidden by Black Bolt in the prison beneath old Attilan in the Himalayas.
15. Modern Hood · Earth
    Obtained at the Attilan ruins and used to collect the other gems.
16. Modern Iron Man · Earth
    Called out of the Hood's hand by Iron Man.
17. Modern Reed Richards · Earth
    Reed kept it when the Illuminati redistributed the gems.
18. Modern Unclaimed
    Shattered with the other gems when the Illuminati pushed away a colliding universe.
19. Modern: destroyed
20. Secret Wars Becca Rodriguez
    Appeared as the Wuxian Seed on Weirdworld; le Fay shattered it and its aether fled.
21. Fresh Start Lord Starkill
    Found as the Heart of Gaia in a mirror universe and claimed after attacking its finders.
22. Fresh Start Captain Marvel
    Escaped with it, then returned to the main universe via a space station.
23. Fresh Start Gamora
    Defeated Captain Marvel at the Infinity Watch meeting and took it.
24. Fresh Start Loki Laufeyson
    Taken from Gamora by the Cosmic Avengers and kept by Loki.
25. Fresh Start Ripley Ryan · The Raft
    Star merged with the stone and used it to escape the Raft.

Source: wiki page

Where several changes share a year, their order inside it is placed for readability; the years come from the source pages.

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