In an interview released earlier this week, longtime Marvel Cinematic Universe actor Samuel L. Jackson divulged numerous plot details and apparent spoilers regarding Captain Marvel and how the film ties into Avengers: Endgame. Among the bombshell revelations dropped by Jackson -- including a tease that Carol Danvers is capable of time travel and the upcoming MCU film will reveal how Nick Fury loses his eye -- the actor noted that the Tesseract will make an appearance in Captain Marvel and play a role in the film's story.

The Tesseract is the MCU's version of Marvel Comics' all-powerful Cosmic Cube. In the films, the Tesseract houses the Space Stone, the first Infinity Stone to appear in the MCU. First seen in 2010's Iron Man 2 as sketches in Howard Stark's notebook, the Tesseract was revealed to be in Fury's possession in the post-credits scene for Thor.

Making its full debut in Captain America: The First Avenger, the omnipotent artifact was used by the Red Skull to fuel Hydra's military operations with groundbreaking new weapons and vehicles before being recovered by Howard Stark from the bottom of the ocean. Decades later, Howard would use the artifact to help develop the prototype arc reactor for Stark Industries based on the Red Skull's own technology before largely abandoning it, with his son, Tony, later using a miniaturized version to power the Iron Man armor.

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Taken to Asgard by Thor at the end of The Avengers after Loki's failed bid to steal it for Thanos, the Tesseract was confirmed to be an Infinity Stone in the mid-credits scene of Thor: The Dark World, with Loki secretly saving it from Asgard's destruction at the end of Thor: Ragnarok.

This would ultimately prove to be the God of Mischief's undoing, as Thanos was able to track down the stone at the beginning of Avengers: Infinity War and kill Loki in service of his quest to gather all six stones to power, acquire the Infinity Gauntlet and wipe out half of all life in the universe. Since then, the last Stone is presumably still in Thanos' possession after retiring to a quiet, faraway planet following the successful completion of the Mad Titan's mission.

Jackson's comments regarding the Tesseract's appearance in Captain Marvel imply that the stone powers an extraterrestrial ship on Earth in the '90s, which has connections to a doctor from Carol's past (presumably Annette Bening's still unknown character). Given Bening's character's comments to Carol in the trailer, as well as the mysterious blue energy emanating from her at the crash site, the Tesseract may be a source of Captain Marvel's incredible abilities, figuring prominently in her heroic origin.

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The concept of MCU heroes receiving their powers from Infinity Stones is not a new one. The post-credits scene for Captain America: The Winter Solder revealed that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver gained their respective superhuman abilities from experiments conducted by Hydra using the Mind Stone housed in Loki's scepter. This was confirmed and expanded on in Avengers: Age of Ultron, with the Mind Stone being implanted in Vision to bring the synthetic Avenger to life.

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In addition to potentially playing a role in Captain Marvel's own origin, the Tesseract's appearance in Captain Marvel may foreshadow the role it inevitably plays in Avengers: Endgame while adding new details to its history. The Space Stone had presumably stayed in Howard Stark's possession until his death at the hands of the Winter Soldier, with S.H.I.E.L.D. later recovering it.

Perhaps the Skrulls and Kree come to Earth searching for the Space Stone in hopes of using it to gain an advantage over the other alien faction in their ongoing war, potentially acquiring it temporarily and empowering Carol, thus elevating her status in Starforce. Perhaps Carol and Fury's makeshift alliance in Captain Marvel centers around their recovering the stone from Skrulls who have infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.

Given Jackson's earlier comments about Captain Marvel being capable of time travel, maybe Carol returns to this time period to change history, either recovering the stone or destroying it entirely to prevent it from falling into Thanos' hands decades later during the events of Infinity War.

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The Tesseract is the first Infinity Stone to appear in the MCU and the most prominent, driving the story of Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers, while also appearing prominently in Avengers: Infinity War. It is poised to make its return in Captain Marvel and will likely reappear in Avengers: Endgame, potentially becoming the Infinity Stone to undo Thanos' final victory. Given its extensive history in the MCU, it would certainly be the logical choice.

Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a script they wrote with Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch, Meg LeFauve, Nicole Perlman and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Captain Marvel stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Jude Law as the commander of Starforce, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser, Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer, Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva, Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau, Algenis Perez Soto as Att-Lass, McKenna Grace as a young Carol Danvers and Annette Bening in an undisclosed role. The film arrives on March 8.