Tesseract

Cinematic

A cube-shaped vessel that held the Space Stone. Odin left it in Norway; Hydra used it in the war; Howard Stark recovered it and later gave it to Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., where Mar-Vell studied it. S.H.I.E.L.D. held it until Loki stole it in 2012. It went to Asgard, was taken by Loki in 2017, and was crushed by Thanos in 2018. A 1970 copy was brought to 2023 in the Time Heist.

Cinematic custody

  1. 965 Unclaimed · Earth
    Odin left it with devout worshipers in Tønsberg, Norway.
  2. 1940 Odin · Asgard
    Kept in Odin's Vault among Asgardian treasures before Odin took it to Earth.
  3. 1942 Red Skull · Earth
    Hydra under Johann Schmidt seized it at Tønsberg to power advanced weapons.
  4. 1945 Howard Stark · Earth
    It fell into Arctic waters when Schmidt vanished; Stark recovered it at an unstated later date.
  5. 1945 Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. · Earth
    Stark relinquished custody to the joint project in the 1980s after storing it at Camp Lehigh.
  6. 1945 Mar-Vell · Earth
    Mar-Vell moved it to her orbital laboratory, where it sat untouched for six years.
  7. 1995 Captain Marvel · Earth
    Danvers and Fury took it out of the lab hidden in a lunchbox.
  8. 1995 Goose · Earth
    Goose swallowed it to keep it from the Starforce.
  9. 1995 S.H.I.E.L.D. · Earth
    Goose coughed it up on Fury's desk and S.H.I.E.L.D. kept it.
  10. 2012 Loki Laufeyson · Earth
    Loki seized it from the Mojave facility and used it to open the portal over New York.
  11. 2012 Thor · Asgard
    After the Battle of New York Thor returned it to Asgard.
  12. 2012 Heimdall · Asgard
    Thor gave it to Heimdall, who used it to repair the Bifrost.
  13. 2017 Unclaimed · Asgard
    Locked in Odin's Vault, where Hela noticed it.
  14. 2017 Loki Laufeyson · Asgard
    During Ragnarök Loki took it from the vault just before Asgard was destroyed.
  15. 2017 Loki Laufeyson
    Loki carried it aboard the Statesman.
  16. 2018 Thanos
    Thanos crushed the Tesseract to free the Space Stone; the fragments burned with the Statesman.
  17. 2018: destroyed
  18. 2023 Iron Man · Earth
    Stark and Rogers took a Tesseract from alternate 1970 Camp Lehigh and brought it to 2023.

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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Last checked 22 Oct 2026