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The Time Stone

also known as The Eye of Agamotto

The relic Strange stole from a library and gave away to save the universe.

7 entries 6 films 1 episodes 14h 45m

The Time Stone is unique in that its container has a longer career than the stone itself: Doctor Strange keeps wearing the Eye of Agamotto for years after the stone inside it is gone. On the sacred timeline the stone only really acts in three films, but tracking the Eye explains why Strange cannot simply undo the disasters in No Way Home and Multiverse of Madness. What If...? then shows exactly what happens when a Strange refuses to stop using it.

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  1. Doctor Strange

    Film · 2016115m

    The Eye of Agamotto sits chained in the Kamar-Taj library until Strange takes it down and teaches himself to reverse time with it against Wong's explicit warning. He uses it to trap Dormammu in a loop, and Wong tells him to put it back where it belongs.

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  2. Thor: Ragnarok

    Film · 2017130mcameo

    Strange is wearing the Eye when he intercepts Thor and Loki in the New York Sanctum and relocates Odin — the stone is on screen but does nothing, and Strange never mentions what it is.

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  3. Avengers: Infinity War

    Film · 2018149m

    Ebony Maw cannot remove the Eye because of Agamotto's enchantment, so Thanos has to make Strange give it up. Strange looks at fourteen million futures, finds one win, and hands the Time Stone over to keep Thanos from killing Tony Stark.

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  4. Avengers: Endgame

    Film · 2019181m

    Bruce Banner goes back to 2012 for it and gets it from the Ancient One rather than from Strange, after she explains what removing a stone from its timeline does. Steve returns it to her hand at the end of the film.

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  5. Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Film · 2021148mcameo

    Strange wears the Eye again but the Time Stone was destroyed by Thanos in 2018 — which is the whole reason he reaches for a memory spell instead of just rewinding the leak of Peter's identity.

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  6. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    Film · 2022126mcameo

    The Eye is still around Strange's neck and the stone is still gone; the loss is referenced directly and it is why the Darkhold, not time magic, is the tool everyone in the film reaches for.

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  7. What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

    What If...? · S1 E4 · 202136m

    Alternate timeline, and the best Time Stone story Marvel has told. A grieving Strange uses the Eye over and over to try to save Christine Palmer, absorbs monsters to increase his power, and collapses his own universe into nothing by refusing to accept an absolute point.

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