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Oh yeah I 100% still think Loki took the tesseract. Just maybe that’s not how he escaped Surtur’s big firestorm.

Also I won’t be surprised if the reason Thanos’s ship found them is BECAUSE Loki took the tesseract and Thanos was tracking it.

We know that Loki escaped in the orgy ship because we see it perched on the big ship toward the end. I only noticed that on the second viewing because I was looking for it, though.

I’m also 100% sure Loki took the Tesseract for two reasons, one story-internal and one external. The internal reason is that Loki knew Asgard was going to blow up and that when it did the Tesseract was just going to go flying off into space somewhere, which would be an incredible waste of an Infinity Stone as far as he was concerned. The external reason is Chekhov’s gun, basically: why did they make a point of showing Loki’s attention being attracted by the Tesseract if they weren’t going to do anything with that?

I also think that Thanos found them because of the Tesseract, because I think the Infinity Stones can find each other. I think Thanos found the Tesseract on Earth in the first place because he had the Mind Stone in the scepter. Now that he doesn’t have the Mind Stone anymore, I suspect that he was able to find the Space Stone because he has one of the others: either (A) he somehow got hold of the Aether (the Reality Stone) after the Collector’s stash was destroyed; (B) he has the Soul Stone (the only one we still haven’t seen); or © he has fucked up Xandar and gotten the Power Stone back from the Nova Corps, but we don’t know about it yet because, at least according to the MCU Wiki, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 took place in 2014, shortly after the first GOTG, so a lot of shit could have happened in the last 3 years.