For dozens of hours of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, the Infinity Stones were the ultimate MacGuffin.
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One alone could defeat alien demigods; all six of them united could alter the shape of the entire universe.
Yet in Loki, our title character finds a Tesseract — and an entire junk drawer full of discarded Infinity Stones — and discovers that they are now as worthless as the third printing of Spider-Man #1.