Nick Fury

Nicholas "Nick" Joseph Fury is a world-renowned spy, former Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and founder of the Avengers. Fury began his career within the United States Army in the late-1960's, rising to the rank of Colonel before his honorable discharge. He later became a CIA operative during the Cold War, focusing his missions to locations beginning with "B". Continuing to serve the world, Fury joined S.H.I.E.L.D. to fight against Earth's most dangerous enemies. The great scope of enemies widened in the 1990s as Fury met Vers, helping her uncover her human heritage as Carol Danvers, as the two fought off the Starforce, which was led by Yon-Rogg, as they were targeting Skrull refugees. Fury took a liking to Goose who scratched him for violating her space and permanently blinded Fury's left eye. Fury kept the reason for this injury secret, telling others it was classified but happened in the line of duty, while Danvers had then left the Earth in order to find a new home for the Skrulls and protect the rest of the universe.
Later promoted to Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Alexander Pierce, Fury refocused his efforts over the next 15 years to organize the Avengers Initiative, with Fury's true intentions were to bring together any other powerful individuals to assist S.H.I.E.L.D. with protecting the Earth from extraterrestrial threats, which he had only learned of following his encounters with the Kree and Skrulls. Despite some more considerable reluctance from World Security Council who had not believed in his theories, Fury had still continued his efforts and eventually managed to recruit both Iron Man and Captain America into their Initiative, ready for an incoming invasion.
With the Avengers ready, Fury was forced to call them all into action when the Earth was invaded by Loki, who managed to brainwash an army and steal the Tesseract. With the Avengers assembled, Fury took charge of the hunt for Loki, leading the volatile team through the mission as they attempted to learn what Loki's plan for the Tesseract was and who he had been working for. This all then came to a head following Loki killing Phil Coulson, before being tracked to New York City. There, all the Avengers engaged Loki and his entire incoming army of Chitauri in a final battle, with Fury keeping the World Security Council from nuking the entire city before Loki was defeated and the Avengers were disassembled.
Following the Avengers's victory, Fury recruited Captain America as a 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. 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. With limited people he could trust, Fury then turned to Captain America along with Black Widow, the Falcon and Maria Hill to lead the fight, as he soon discovered that HYDRA had secretly managed to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. and Alexander Pierce was the leader, as Captain America had also learned that the Winter Soldier was actually his friend Bucky Barnes who had been brainwashed by HYDRA for decades, following Barnes's apparent death in 1945.
Once Fury and his allies had stopped Project Insight and also killed Pierce, Fury chose to go into hiding to continue hunting down the remaining HYDRA cells. Fury then assisted the now resurrected Phil Coulson in defeating John Garrett while also stopping his plans for Project Deathlok. Following this, Fury chose to promote Coulson to Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., telling him to rebuild it from the ground up. Fury had then also aided the Avengers during the Ultron Offensive, serving as support during the Battle of Sokovia. There, he commanded the rebuilt Helicarrier, which Coulson's new S.H.I.E.L.D. secretly worked on.
In 2018, now operating underground with a hand-picked crew, Fury was one of the trillions of victims in the Snap but had managed to send a distress signal to Captain Marvel before his death. In 2023, Fury was resurrected by the Hulk in the Blip and would attend Tony Stark's funeral alongside the other Avengers after he sacrificed his life in the Battle of Earth. Taking a vacation in space post-Blip, Fury tasked Talos and Soren to impersonate himself and Maria Hill on Earth respectively. While Fury was commanding Talos' flagship and keeping in touch with Talos on Earth, they were fighting Mysterio and the Elementals in Europe alongside Spider-Man.
== History ==
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Abilities ===
Nick Fury is a natural leader, master strategist, manipulator, orator and has immense charisma. These skills of his are among the best and make him the greatest spy in the world. He has used these talents to great effect in his leadership of S.H.I.E.L.D. for years until he resigned. Phil Coulson has even stated that Nick was always five steps ahead of anyone else. Despite lacking superpowers, these attributes led to Quentin Beck consider him the most dangerous man in the world.
* Master Tactician: Fury can instantly create strategies and plans several steps ahead of his enemies and allies alike, with Phil Coulson stating that he could see five steps ahead. He is able to elaborate complex strategies and apply them in not just battle, but any other activity as well. Fury has showed foresight by instigating many operations like the Avengers Initiative, Theta Protocol, Phase 2, Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., Project T.A.H.I.T.I., and Project Insight to counter threats to global security. He was also able to out-think Alexander Pierce when the latter had forgotten to delete the retina scan of Fury's blind eye from the S.H.I.E.L.D. database.
* Master Spy: Fury is highly skilled in espionage, stealth, disguise, and infiltration, capable of breaching high-security facilities without being detected. When he needed intelligence on Bruce Banner, he sat practically unnoticed among restaurant patrons to observe him. Fury also managed to make the majority of those who knew him to think he was dead, including HYDRA and the rest of the world. During his first meeting with Tony Stark, Fury was able to sneak into his mansion without being detected and managed to shut down J.A.R.V.I.S.'s systems.
* Expert Combatant: Due to his CIA and army training, Fury is highly trained in the field of martial arts. While fighting against Talos, Fury was able to hold his own momentarily before being defeated due to his opponent's enhanced strength as a Skrull. He was also able to take down two brainwashed S.H.I.E.L.D. agents with ease while on the helicarrier.
* Expert Marksman: Fury is also trained to use U.S. military firearms. He is accomplished in artillery such as a Rocket Launcher to accurately disable an F-35 Lightning from taking off to bombed Manhattan. During the HYDRA assassination attempt on his life, Nick used the built-in Turret of his personal SUV with expert precision, killing multiple HYDRA assassins in quick succession.
* Master Pilot: Fury was able to pilot a helicopter onto the helipad at the Triskelion and maneuver it through rubble in order to save Sam Wilson during the Triskelion's destruction.
== Equipment ==
=== Weapons ===
Fury has access to an array of S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons, conventional and otherwise. In addition, due to him being the leader of a secret but a covert/military organization, he has access to the most cutting-edge technology S.H.I.E.L.D. has to offer.
* SIG-Sauer P226: Fury used a pistol as his sidearm along with his fellow agents as a standard issue for many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents during the 1990s.
* Glock 17: The Glock 17 was the standard sidearm used by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, before being replaced by the Smith & Wesson M&P. Fury carried one while he accompanied Tony Stark to his mansion in order to help him overcome his Palladium poisoning finishing Howard Stark's work.
* Smith & Wesson M&P: The Smith & Wesson M&P pistol is the standard sidearm carried by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and Fury also carried one as his sidearm, using it to fire at Loki while he escaped after having obtained the Tesseract for the first time, when the Helicarrier is attacked, during the Battle at the Triskelion, and to try to kill John Garrett during the Battle at Cybertek. He also carried it while commanding the bridge of the Helicarrier during the Battle of Sokovia, but he did not use it against any of the Ultron Sentries that attacked it.
* Airtronic RPG-7: A heavy rocket launcher that Fury used to disable a F-35 Lightning II that had received orders to drop a nuclear bomb on Manhattan. Though he successfully shot the rocket launcher and prevented the plane from taking off, another F-35 had been ordered to do the same, and Fury was unable to prevent it.
* Arnimhilation 99L Assault Weapon: To be added
* Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun: To be added
=== Other Equipment ===
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Uniform: A uniform made up of Kevlar and a fire-resistant material whose kindling temperature is 1,700 °F (930 °C). The uniform includes numerous S.H.I.E.L.D. paraphernalia such a radio-link tie.
* Bulletproof Vest: A personal bulletproof vest worn by Fury for protection against projectiles and shrapnel from explosions. His vest protected him getting shot by Clint Barton when he under Loki's control.
* Tesseract: To be added
* Captain America Card Collection: A vintage card collection of Captain America owned by Phil Coulson. Fury took the cards out of Coulson's locker and smeared them in his blood in order to motivate the Avengers into action against Loki.
* Toolbox: A compact digital storage device that holds a collected database of classified S.H.I.E.L.D. files, and additional information. Fury later gave this to Phil Coulson with the purpose of helping him rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D. after an infiltration by HYDRA left the organization fractured.
* Mouse Hole: Fury had used a Mouse Hole in order to make his escape from his destroyed vehicle during an assassination attempt by the Winter Soldier, cutting through the overturned roof and disappearing into the sewers before the Winter Soldier could catch up with him.
* Tetrodotoxin B: After nearly being assassinated by the Winter Soldier who had shot him through the chest, Fury used this heart-slowing serum created by Bruce Banner to fake his death, allowing his heart rate to be slowed so far that it appeared he had no heartbeat at all.
* Peruvian 0-8-4: To be added
* Gravitonium: To be added
* Berserker Staff: To be added
* Atmospheric Moisture Freezing Device: To be added
* Transmitter Pager: Originally an ordinary Earth pager, Captain Marvel upgraded it with Kree technology and returned it to Fury for use strictly in emergencies. Witnessing half of the universe being executed by Thanos, Fury used the pager to sent a distress call to her before he was erased alongside others.
=== Vehicles ===
* 1990 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1: This vehicle was issued to standard S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the 1990s. In 1995, Fury utilized this vehicle with "Phil Coulson" to chase down Captain Marvel.
* Modernized SUV: Fury drove his computerized SUV with flight capabilities which were armed with machine guns and grenade launchers. When Fury was attacked by HYDRA agents in the streets of Washington, D.C., he was then forced to use whatever defense systems had not been initially damaged to escape, until the Winter Soldier managed to destroy the SUV, forcing Fury to use the Mouse Hole to cut through the roof and get away before he could be assassinated by the Winter Soldier.
* Infiniti QX50: Fury used this SUV as a mode of transportation since at least 2018. He drove this vehicle with Maria Hill in Atlanta at the time of the Snap.
* Talos' Command Ship: To be added
== Facilities ==
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Field Office: To be added
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters: To be added
* Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility: To be added
* Triskelion: To be added
* Guest House: To be added
* Providence: To be added
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Dam Facility: To be added
* Clint Barton's Homestead: To be added
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