The stone nobody could find, guarded by a man the Tesseract threw away.
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The Soul Stone is the only Infinity Stone with no origin film — it is name-checked for years, hunted by the Collector and Thanos alike, and never appears until Vormir in Infinity War. Its keeper turns out to be Red Skull, still alive after the Tesseract banished him in 1945, and its price is a person you love. It costs Gamora once and Natasha Romanoff a second time, and it is the only stone Endgame never shows being returned.
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Captain America: The First Avenger
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The stone is not in this film, but its guardian's story starts here. When Johann Schmidt grabs the bare Tesseract on the Valkyrie it opens a portal and hurls him across space — Infinity War reveals he landed on Vormir and has been the Stonekeeper ever since.
The Collector's hologram lecture on the six singularities includes the orange Soul Stone, which is the first look anyone in the MCU gets at it. It stays a picture on a wall for another four years.
Gamora had found the map to Vormir and burned it, so Thanos tortures Nebula to get it out of her. Red Skull explains the toll, and Thanos throws Gamora off the cliff — the stone appears in his hand at the bottom.
Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff go to Vormir in 2014 and fight each other for the right to die; Natasha wins and Clint wakes up holding the stone. Notably, the film never shows Steve returning this one, because the price is not refundable.
Alternate timeline. Ultron has the full set including the Soul Stone, which makes this the only entry where the stone is used offensively rather than paid for.
