Totally called Red Skull. No one believed me when I said that.
That is amazing!! How did you know?
Well, I think about this stuff too much, and I rewatch First Avenger almost as much as I rewatch Winter Soldier. And I'm using some of the visual information about the Skull holding the teseract at the end in my Cap RBB fic, so I've been paying a lot of attention to that.
But the sky that opens up behind Schmidt when he's holding the cosmic cube looks an awful lot like the galaxy sky above Asgard that we see in the first Thor movie, and I've been speculating that he'd show up again at some point--he dissolves, kind of burns up in the movie from holding the stone (not quite the superior man he thinks he is), and even though it's a different stone, I figured it was sending him somewhere, most likely in some sort of position where he was locked to a stone or to some sort of space where he couldn't escape unless he had another cube or stone. In the comics there are other cosmic cubes, but I figured that, if any movie was going to show us where Schmidt disappeared to, it would be the one where Thanos is accumulating the stones. I wasn't sure in what capacity, but him being tied to the soul stone was a great way to lock him into that space that he couldn't escape from.
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That is amazing!! How did you know?
Well, I think about this stuff too much, and I rewatch First Avenger almost as much as I rewatch Winter Soldier. And I'm using some of the visual information about the Skull holding the teseract at the end in my Cap RBB fic, so I've been paying a lot of attention to that.
But the sky that opens up behind Schmidt when he's holding the cosmic cube looks an awful lot like the galaxy sky above Asgard that we see in the first Thor movie, and I've been speculating that he'd show up again at some point--he dissolves, kind of burns up in the movie from holding the stone (not quite the superior man he thinks he is), and even though it's a different stone, I figured it was sending him somewhere, most likely in some sort of position where he was locked to a stone or to some sort of space where he couldn't escape unless he had another cube or stone. In the comics there are other cosmic cubes, but I figured that, if any movie was going to show us where Schmidt disappeared to, it would be the one where Thanos is accumulating the stones. I wasn't sure in what capacity, but him being tied to the soul stone was a great way to lock him into that space that he couldn't escape from.