The Accords cause a schism in the Avengers, leading to multiple conflicts and the eventual disbandment of the team. This dissension escalates with the creation of the Sokovia Accords, a set of documents meant to regulate the Avengers' activities. The Avengers manage to stop him, but the destruction wrought by the conflict causes friction between them and the public. However, Ultron becomes megalomaniacal and attempts to wipe out the human race. Experiments with the stone lead to the empowerment of twins Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff and the creation of two powerful androids, Ultron and the Vision. In their last battle against the terrorists, the Avengers come across the Mind Stone, which had been recovered earlier by Thanos but lost on Earth after Loki's defeat. is later destroyed when HYDRA's infiltration is brought to light, and the Avengers are left to work against HYDRA independently. A small cadre of alien outcasts, the Guardians of the Galaxy, manage to keep Thanos and his allies from obtaining the stone by fighting and killing his conspirators on Xandar, the capital world of the Nova Empire. Also during this time, various intergalactic parties working both for and against Thanos conflict over the Power Stone. Thor manages to single-handedly defeat the Dark Elves, and the Reality Stone is placed in the care of the Collector.
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A year later, the Reality Stone reemerges when astrophysicist Jane Foster unwittingly stumbles upon it while studying the cosmic phenomenon known as the Convergence, leading to a series of altercations between Asgard and the Dark Elves, who seek to use the Reality Stone to wipe out the Nine Realms. The Avengers defeat Loki and the Chitauri in a grande battle in New York City, and the Space Stone is returned to Asgard. Together, the six of them form the original Avengers and have their first battle with Thanos' forces when he sends an army of Chitauri under the command of Thor's errant brother Loki to steal the Space Stone. billionaire inventor Tony Stark scientist Bruce Banner the Asgardian prince Thor and prominent agents Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton.
In the present day, the Avengers comes to comprise of six members: Steve Rogers himself, who is rescued and revived by S.H.I.E.L.D. into creating the Avengers Initiative, a global defense program designed to recruit superpowered individuals. The experience with Danvers and the extraterrestrials prompts S.H.I.E.L.D. The battle between the two races results in United States Air Force pilot Carol Danvers being given superpowers by the Tesseract, and she wards the Kree away and leaves Earth to help the Skrulls relocate. The agency continues to experiment with the Space Stone, and in the 1990s, rogue members of the Kree Empire come to Earth and try to use it to help save the Skrulls from the Kree's genocidal war against them. The SSR is later reformed as the peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D., unknowingly infiltrated by HYDRA. However, Rogers himself is lost and frozen in the Arctic for nearly seventy years. Their efforts to use the Space Stone to further their own goals of conquering the world lead to Steve Rogers' transformation into the super-soldier Captain America, and together with operatives of the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) manages to defeat HYDRA's leader and re-obtain the Space Stone. They later hide the two stones away, with the Space Stone sent to Earth where it is eventually acquired during World War II by the Nazi science organization, HYDRA. While the Time Stone fell into the possession of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, the latter two were procured by the Asgardians. The earliest points of history explored in the MCU show that three of the stones, the Time, Reality and Space Stones, found their way to the Nine Realms. His primary opposition is the team of superheroes known as the Avengers. The primary antagonist of the saga, the extraterrestrial warlord Thanos, who made it his goal to collect all the stones and use them to exterminate half of the universe's inhabitants, believing that it will spare the universe from being destroyed by overpopulation. The Infinity Saga is the name given to the overarching storyline comprising of the original twenty-three films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the primary focus being around the Infinity Stones, a collection of six powerful objects, with each individually controlling a different aspect of the universe.