Avengers: Endgame's directors have revealed the Infinity Stones weren't destroyed. 1 / 8
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos used them to snap half the galaxy away. 2 / 8
At the beginning of Endgame, he used the Gauntlet to destroy the Stones. 3 / 8
But according to the Russo brothers, their essence still lives on. 4 / 8
They said Thanos could only destroy them at the subatomic level. 5 / 8
'The stones are still present in this universe,' they admitted in a Q&A. 6 / 8
This allows the MCU to possibly work in the Stones' Infinity Wars retcon someday. 7 / 8
In that story, it was revealed the stones had souls, which all traveled across the galaxy seeking physical hosts. 8 / 8