The Infinity Stones are the main driving force behind the progression of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and there is still limited knowledge on the exact nature of the Stones' creation and who created them in the first place. The six stones that are revealed to audiences throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe's various films are as follows: Space, Reality, Power, Soul, Mind, and Time. When the six stones are used all together at once, it can lead to extremely catastrophic events, as seen in Avengers: Infinity War when the villainous Thanos turned half of all living creatures in the universe into atomic dust in an event now coined by fans as “The Infinity War Snap.”

Such a powerful and important part of the MCU needs explaining, and the most information that audiences have gotten from Marvel films are a couple of sentences and some imagery portraying the creators of the Infinity Stones at the time of the Big Bang. The Big Bang is a scientific theory about how the universe started before there were any stars and galaxies and before there was any kind of form or structure in space. According to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's explanation of things, four cosmic entities exist that predate the universe and thus were involved in creating the Infinity Stones at the time of the Big Bang.

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These four cosmic entities are revealed to be Death, Entropy, Infinity, and Eternity. This history was hinted at in Guardians of the Galaxy when Benicio Del Toro's Collector explains the six Infinity Stones to the Guardians and uses holograms to show art portraying the four cosmic entities surrounding the six stones in an image reminiscent of ancient drawings and stone-carvings of astronomical phenomena. With all this being said, it is understandable why Marvel has opted not to portray the creation of the Infinity Stones just yet. The concepts of Death, Entropy, Infinity, and Eternity are far too complex and difficult to show in character in a manner that will be respectable and equally informative without seeming inauthentic. The use of the rock carving in the temple vault by The Collector was just enough so that audiences could allow their minds to wander and put together their own versions of events during the MCU's Big Bang.

Furthermore, The MCU movies changed the Infinity Stones from how they were portrayed in the comics. In the films, it is not revealed how or why these six concepts related to humanity are chosen by the four entities to be transformed into stones.  Therefore, if the films were to try and portray Death, Entropy, Infinity, and Eternity creating the Space, Reality, Power, Soul, Mind, and Time stones, it is a task that might be as difficult as trying to portray God creating the Universe on-screen. Nevertheless, the MCU has not shied away from portraying their characters as Gods. Thor is known as the "God of Thunder," after all.

However, if the Marvel movies humanize cosmic entities which haven't been humanized in the comic books, it's a sure way to garner a confused reception from their dedicated audiences. The Grim Reaper will not work for the character of Death, and neither will the Infinity symbol for Infinity in this case. Just as human beings have very little to no knowledge about how humankind was created, it is wise for Marvel to assume that there is no justifiable way to portray Death, Entropy, Infinity, and Eternity and the creation of the six Infinity Stones on screen.

Even though the upcoming Marvel films Eternals and Fantastic Four are likely to shed some light on the creation of the universe and will bring forth the opportunity to have The Celestials explain the Infinity Stones and cosmic entities in detail, the fact of the matter is this: Death, Entropy, Infinity and Eternity are challenging to personify on screen without losing a sense of grounded reality. But has the Marvel Cinematic Universe ever really been grounded in reality? Once the X-Men appear, consider reality lost.

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