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[MCU] why didn't the Avengers, especially Thor, take the scepter after the Chitauri invasion?

Why would they let SHIELD have it?
gpt
Thor's mission was to aquire the teseract from Loki, he didn't need to take the mindstone with him. Plus the other avengers would have trusted SHIELD to keep the scepter safe as SHIELD is after all a massive government agency with massive amounts of resourses. Also take into acount that back then the Avengers program was still under SHIELD so they were technically part of shield.