The Cosmic Cube is actually a containment device created by various civilizations throughout the Marvel Universe at various times, including the Skrulls (creators of the Cube that would eventually evolve into the Shaper of Worlds), and various other, unnamed civilizations (whose Cubes were gathered/stolen by unknown means by The Magus in the Infinity War story arc and The Goddess in the Infinity Crusade story arc). These matrices—which may or may not actually be shaped like a cube—are suffused with reality-warping energies of unknown composition that comes from the realm of the Beyonders.
Unknown to almost everyone in the Marvel Universe, including its creators, the nature of the mysterious energies are such that, after a sufficient but undefined period of time, the matrix will become self-aware and evolve into an independent, free-willed being still possessed of the original Cube's tremendous powers; the new being's overall personality is psychically imprinted with the beliefs, desires, and personalities of those who wielded it as a Cube (e.g., The Shaper of Worlds, wielded for a long time by an insane and warlike Skrull Emperor, immediately destroyed a large portion of the galaxy that it was located in once it became sentient).
Marvel introduced a plot device leading to the Captain America and Avengers movies. Revealing after the end credits of "Thor" Nick Fury (Samuel Jackson) shows Dr. Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) a Cosmic Cube. Dr. Selvig asking, what is it? Fury replies with one word - power.
Dr. Selvig's reflection in the glass shows Loki looking very interested in its possibilities. Another revelation to Loki's continuing villainy in the Avengers movie.
In the Marvel universe the cube is handled by various villains, Skrulls, A.I.M., MODOK and the Red Skull among them using its power for evil but in the end the cube incubates into Kubik, a benign being who helps find traces of other cosmic cubes.
have been a marvel fan since the early 70's,so a bit of a comic tradinalist,so went into thor exspecting the worst,and walked out pleasantly shocked,on how well the film came out,
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