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Kevin Feige Reveals More About the Infinity Gauntlets in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Yes, there are two Infinity Gauntlets.

If there's one thing fans have learned from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's that it likes to leaves clues everywhere for what's coming down the line. Take one of the earlier films, Thor, where a shot of the Infinity Gauntlet can be seen.

Right-handed gauntlet
Right-handed gauntlet

Jump forward ahead a few years to 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron post-credits sequence, we got to see the mad titan Thanos, sitting in his throne and raising a different gauntlet himself.

Left-handed gauntlet
Left-handed gauntlet

It's been confirmed before, but during in an interview with The Robot's Voice, Kevin Feige said what many fans were all hoping to hear, when asked if the two gauntlets were the same.

“It’s a good, good question. I might as well answer it, because you asked it, which I like. It is not the same one.”

That means there are two and does that mean part of the main story will be two different people wielding two different gauntlets? Feige went a bit more in depth about the gauntlet and its stones.

"You will see the other two [Infinity Stones] sometime in Phase 3, for sure – there’s a gauntlet that needs to be filled. It really was Iron Man 2 and building the architecture of the entirety of Phase 1 that that started to come about, and the Tesseract not only being the thing that ties all of Phase 1 together, but that could be a part of all of the other things that ties Phase 2 together. So I won’t say it was all perfectly planned and laid out in 2009, but that was the genesis of it."

Each phase is really building towards Phase 3, but how did they keep track of the stones and where they were going to go? Feige continued and discussed where they were at.

We always knew in this film, Age of Ultron, that there was one in Loki’s scepter and that was going to end up in Vision’s head. And some of the other ones, like the Orb, come out of structural plot needs sometimes for a MacGuffin, and a filmmaker will say, “Well, there’s this orb…” and we’ll say okay, let’s put something inside that orb and have it tie in to the larger environment.

Feige went on to say that they know where everything is headed towards, after Infinity War. Not everything is meticulously planned out, but there are many broad and super-specific moments planned towards the end. Jeremy Latcham, senior VP of production said that the Avengers are evolving, as we saw at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron. He mentions the comic book roster is always changing but standing for the same ideals. He makes no mention of the cinematic team changing though, which seems inevitable.

The next Marvel film is Captain America: Civil War, which will hit theaters on May 6, 2016.