User blog comment:ADour/First official image of and synopsis for Guardians of the Galaxy!/@comment-1895174-20140101043450/@comment-1895174-20140101212932

The Tesseract is just the Tesseract; the Aether is just the Aether. The MCU's version of the Infinity gems/stones don't seem to go by what they are in the comics. That's what it is as of now, at least.