Fury told the group that they needed to expose Project Insight and save S.H.I.E.L.D., but Rogers insisted that he intended to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. : 1.14: T.A.H.I.T.I. You just don't want to cross him". Impressed by the work he had seen and the discoveries that had been made, Fury had summoned Erik Selvig, who had been associated with all the recent incidents and the sightings of Thor, to the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, greeting him in a hallway. During Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Fury is involved in Project Insight. In the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it is revealed that Nick Fury was saved by the Winter Soldier after being shot by Alexander Pierce. May then suggested that Hill ask Fury herself, but Hill quickly said that Fury was still dead. [3][4] In 2002, Marvel Comics designed their "Ultimate" version of the character Nick Fury after the likeness of Samuel L. [39] Fury later arrived at the Avengers Compound in upstate New York and told Natasha Romanoff the last known location of the Avengers Quinjet, which Hulk had taken at the end of the battle. ""Nick Fury has been off-planet for the last year.Peter Parker and P. Cleary, After spending some time re-establishing contact with the Skrulls, Fury asked Talos and Soren to impersonate him and Maria Hill on Earth for a while as he took a vacation on the Skrull flagship in space. Take his brother's place in Project 808- (aka, the Avatar program). Rather than hide in the shadows, Fury seemed to have completely disregarded all of the careful steps he took to eliminate his past and hide from Hydra. A few decades later, Director Nick Fury discovered something wrong within the S.H.I.E.L.D. However, believing that they had gained the upper hand over him, Thor had then questioned what possible risk Loki could be to the Earth now that he was his prisoner onboard the Helicarrier, Fury instead then raised his concerns about Loki's seeming overconfidence and noted that he seemed glad to be on the ship unlike everybody else who was there with him. We need to find more.Nick Fury to Phil Coulson, Fury's experience with Carol Danvers made him realize that the world's arsenal, let alone S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, while Fury worked on the new Project Insight, as a means of accurately predicting threats; something which conflicted with Rogers' ideals. Jackson. "[24] Jackson added, "You see Nick Fury the office guy, him going about the day-to-day work of S.H.I.E.L.D. office, attempting to locate and hunt down future enemies. After the two American allies defeated the HYDRA goons, Bucky and Captain America . ""Break what? Fury found Secretary Alexander Pierce speaking to the World Security Council about the Hijacking and Retaking of the Lemurian Star, defending Fury's actions involving the mission and discussing Batroc. Koenig instructed Coulson to keep it secret from his team for the time being. founder whom Fury knew personally. Fury brings Romanoff, Rogers, Stark, Bruce Banner, Thor, and Barton together to form the Avengers. In 2024, Fury is informed by Talos via phone call that Peter Parker received Tony Stark's glasses. In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Fury greets Steve Rogers: "You've been asleep, Cap, for almost seventy years. While Selvig joked that the S.H.I.E.L.D. Later, May realized what Fury meant by his riddle and went out to recover the video hidden inside of Coulson's grave. Coulson recommended the project be shut down; however, Fury had secretly decided to continue with the project. Upcoming Marvel Studios projects include Black Widow on May 1, 2020, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier in Fall 2020, The Eternals on November 6, 2020, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on . In 2023, Fury is restored to life and attends Stark's funeral, reuniting with Danvers. As it turns out, Talos was acting on the orders of the real Nick Fury the whole time. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. However, when Fury began to suspect that something was wrong with Project Insight, he then found himself becoming a target of the Winter Soldier, forcing Fury to fake his own death and go into hiding. - Behind-the-Scenes With the Cast & Crew, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Except maybe for how the Oscars played out", Captain America and Nick Fury: Blood Truce, Captain America and Nick Fury: The Otherworld War, Sgt. In "0-8-4", Fury appears at the end to scold Coulson over damage caused to a S.H.I.E.L.D. The Marvel Cinematic Universe began, for many fans, with Iron Man in 2008, but the universe wasn't truly born until its post-credits scene when Nick Fury introduced the Avengers Initiative. They don't always agree on how S.H.I.E.L.D. organization, but before he could act on his suspicions and escape to safety, his car was blown up. After assembling the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos (Josh Brolin) wiped out half of everyone in the universe with the snap of his fingers. With Loki now out of sight, Fury got on his radio and confirmed that both Coulson and Hill were still alive following the facility implosion, ordering them to get every S.H.I.E.L.D. Perfect opportunity. To confirm her suspicions, with the intent to corner her into S.H.I.E.L.D. Do you think Fury has been a Skrull since The Winter Soldier? With Loki having been successfully captured within Germany, he was brought onboard the Helicarrier under armed guard and locked up inside the cage designed to keep Hulk. Once they were temporarily safe, Fury handed over his Transmitter Pager to Vers so that he wouldnt use it again. So much so that according to CBR, some fans believe he was originally supposed to stay dead. Credit: www.pinterest.com. This isn't Fury, it's Talos. During the aftermath of the battle, Thor and Hulk had been thrown off the Helicarrier, while Hawkeye had been captured in the aftermath of a fight with the Black Widow, during which Loki had also escaped onboard a Quinjet in all of the still ongoing chaos. Fury called Tony Stark to warn him of the impending nuke, Stark was able to intercept the missile and fly it towards the Wormhole. Fast-forward to the post-credit scenes of Infinity War, and youll find Nick Fury dying again. As Rogers then questioned who took the Tesseract from them, Fury explained how Loki had taken it and was from another world, as they made a bet over whether or not anything could still surprise Rogers now he was in this new world. He could always see five steps ahead, which, for a one-eyed man, is impressive. Many fans have been speculating just how long Talos had taken over for Fury, using clues from the previous films. So, Bucky was about 28 back in 1945 when he was turned into the Winter Soldier, and he also kept aging during all of the time he was out of cryo for missions. Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. agents. Fury and his organization, S.H.I.E.L.D., share a cynical outlook. As they were going down in the elevator, Fury told Rogers the story of how his grandfather was often threatened and carried a gun at work to protect himself; Fury explained that while his grandfather liked people, he did not trust them and they now had guns somewhat bigger than what his grandfather had. [10], Nothing lasts forever. [citation needed], Fury is introduced in the post-credits scene of Iron Man (2008), meeting Tony Stark at his Malibu home to discuss the Avengers Initiative.[16]. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Montevallo, and is the author of the psychological thriller and time travel novel, "A Man Against the World." The team traveled to the Barton Homestead where Fury was waiting. This is completely understandable, because they are trying to create something unique and surprising for the fans. As it turned out, Mar-Vell's lab was doubling as a refuge for the Skrulls. [10], In the wake of dissolution of the Avengers which had been due to the actions of Helmut Zemo, Fury began operating under a private crew of his own, with hand-selected operatives. In the short post-credits scene, the real Nick Fury is laid back, slow-walking, and surrounded by Skrulls on whatever spacecraft he's on, if it's not S.W.O.R.D. Fury had been hiding in a safe house with Maria Hill, and when the Winter Soldier came to kill them both, Fury pushed Hill out of the way and took the . As Fury then attempted to defend his actions to Rogers by claiming that they had simply gathered everything they could on the Tesseract, he was interrupted by Stark who pulled up files proving that S.H.I.E.L.D. Probably deleted my retinal scan. Romanoff asked Fury if he had known she and Banner would get feelings for each other; Fury answered that he had simply hoped for the best and had gotten a great team for them to use. Afterwards, he oversees the Avengers transition into the new Avengers Compound. in Summer 2021, Hawkeye in Fall 2021, and Thor: Love and Thunder on November 5, 2021, and Black Panther 2 on May 6, 2022. When Coulson suggested that he meant he would disappear, Fury laughed and lifted up his sunglasses to reveal his scarred eye, telling Coulson with a smile that he should know him better than that as he would be everywhere, he then turned around he walked away, leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. was indeed planning on building up their arsenal of weapons with all the Tesseract's technology, similar to what HYDRA had previously done, but noted that he had another plan which was an even greater risk. ""I know, Nick. There, he commanded the rebuilt Helicarrier, which Coulson's new S.H.I.E.L.D. [2], You know you're glowing, right? The Skrull have the technology to heal him, and they owed him one. One thing that all of these films had in common was the appearance of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury or was he? They only revealed themselves after Talos called for them. He faked his death using a serum from Bruce Banner that made it appear as if he had no heartbeat. Perhaps we will learn more about what hes doing out there in the next MCU movie. Credit: Ranker. and the politics as opposed to that other stuff. Now feeling more confident, Banner suggested that they begin scanning for Gamma Radiation to locate the Tesseract while Fury had ordered Romanoff show him to his laboratory where he began focusing all his efforts on searching the Earth, getting help from laboratories around the world to find Loki and Erik Selvig as quickly as possible. The last two, if not the first, apply to Mackie and Stan's double act The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. ""I am.Maria Hill and Nick Fury. He was about to kick off an energy race that was gonna dwarf the arms race. Fury headed to the Cybertek Manufacturing Facility where Coulson was involved with a fight against HYDRA. With great regret, Fury told Rogers and Stark their communications and idea of where the Tesseract currently was were all gone, along with both Thor and Bruce Banner who had also been recently thrown off their Helicarrier during all of the chaos, while noting that due to Coulson's death he had lost his one good eye, questioning if he had that coming to him. Fury then ordered Coulson to get back to base as their mission was the level seven and they were now at war. Fury had used Coulson's death to motivate the Avengers, hoping that Coulson's death would be a trigger that would finally unite the team. On his way to Europe, Fury received a weak distress call which led him to Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz, who were stranded in the ocean. As Fury returned to his office and prepared to look into the files that Romanoff had gathered from the Lemurian Star, he found that he did not have clearance for the files. He can be reached by email at cnrmail@bellsouth.net and on Twitter at @cnraymond91. The Skrull have the technology to heal him, and they owed him one. [6], Just stay awake. In 1998, David Hasselhoff portrayed Fury in the Fox television movie Nick Fury . Nicholas Joseph Fury,[1] more commonly known as Nick Fury, is a fictional character portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Once he arrived at Pancho's Bar, Fury confronted Vers and proved that he was not a Skrull by answering questions about his past, including his small quirks, the name of his first pet, and details about his military career; memories that a Skrull couldn't fabricate. Despite the ethically questionable nature of the plan, it proved to be effective, as the Avengers were inspired to stop Loki and had set off onboard a Quinjet in pursuit of Loki shortly thereafter. : 4.04: Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury and Tony Stark returned to Stark's home, where they discussed the history of the Arc Reactor, as Fury then claimed it was based on unfinished technology while Stark argued that it was finished but only really worked when he and Ho Yinsen had miniaturized it and put it in his chest. When a character dies, fans generally assume the character will return at some point in the future, which is why movies in the MCU must avoid going in this direction. Iron Man 2: Black Widow: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. ""My people want nothing but peace with your planet. We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick, we're taking down S.H.I.E.L.D.Nick Fury and Captain America. Once he had told him that how S.H.I.E.L.D. was compromised, as he knew the apartment was bugged. ""Thank you, sir. However, Skye managed to communicate with Deathlok who betrayed Garrett and killed him by crushing his head while Fury and Coulson looked on without sympathy. Afterward, Fury drove across Washington, D.C. and called Maria Hill, telling her to come to Washington to discuss his theories about Project Insight and gave her three hours to arrive, which she did not question. This time we werent overly concerned that Furys death would be permanent, as most of us assumed The Avengers would find a way to reverse the snap. They fly to Louisiana to meet former pilot Maria Rambeau, the last person to see Vers and Lawson alive.