Red Skull Returns as the Soul Stone's Keeper
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Scene locator: Chapter sequence on the planet Vormir. Thanos and Gamora ascend the mountain shrine and are greeted by the cloaked Stonekeeper, revealed as the Red Skull.
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What's There
The hooded Stonekeeper on Vormir is Red Skull, last seen being pulled away by the Tesseract in Captain America: The First Avenger.
Why It Matters
The reveal pays off a seven-year dangling thread from the first Captain America film and uses an old villain to explain the rules of the Soul Stone. This placement serves as deliberate narrative texture and cinematic continuity, rewarding attentive viewers while documenting recurring visual motifs across the filmmakers' catalog.
Source: Russo brothers Q&A details reported by SlashFilm and Red Skull return/casting context from ComicBook.com's Ross Marquand report.
