Was the Tesseract in Thor? I thought I saw it when the Frost Giants tried to break into Asgard during Thor's "becoming king" ceremony. Was that something else? I don't think it makes sense, time-wise for the Tesseract to have been on Asgard.
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Tesseract didn't actually make it to Asgard until the end of "Avengers"
It only showed up in "Thor" after the credits, when Fury showed it to Selvig
And of course it was the central McGuffin for "Captain America: the [apparently not] First Avenger"
How it wound up on Mar-Vell's ship though, after Stark found it in the ocean, is another question entirely
But it's easy to imagine that Lawson/Mar-Vell, with all her superior science & tech, could've stolen it or gotten it allocated to her for her work
It probably would have been allocated to her for her work as if Stark was the one who found it it would have found its way to SHIELD and they would have had to release it.
I'm guessing though that after the crash and deaths of 'Lawson' and Danvers probably would have lead to the humans at the base thinking it was destroyed when the engine went up.
Captain America is still the first Avenger.
He lived way before Carol was born.
Carol never actually belonged or even heard of the Avengers.
Cap was the first American superhero, but if "the Avengers Initiative" was Fury's brainchild, named after Danvers's callsign, then he wasn't the first Avenger. There were no Avengers back then.
Although, now that I think about it, he actually was one of the first Avengers. Stark would've been the first, but they held off on it after "Iron Man 2" - he became an Avengers Consultant instead
I also read something online connecting Howard Stark to the PEGASUS project back in "Iron Man 2" - makes sense that Mar-Vell could work her way into that project and even take it over once Stark got more involved in the Super Soldier project.
Quite easy to explain how Mar-Vell got the Tesseract.
Shortly after SHIELD was setup by Howard Stark, Peggy Carter and Chester whatshisname, Stark also setup a few projects, one of them was Project PEGASUS, which was for studying the Tesseract.... the very same Project PEGASUS that Mar-Vell got involved with.
And if you think i'm pulling this out my ass, its referenced in Iron Man 2 when Stark asks JARVIS for all information on Projects PEGASUS and GOLIATH.