Nick Fury

**Nick Fury** is an allied character in *Marvel's Avengers*. The former director of SHIELD, he had been a long-standing ally to the Avengers for generations.

## Biography

As Director of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division, Nick Fury was tasked into finding assets and dismantling the terrorist organization Hydra. At some point, he began searching for individuals with incredible powers to use to face threats, forming the Avengers. Though skeptical of them at first, Fury eventually learned to trust the team. This was also placed in operatives Maria Hill and Dum Dum Dugan.

### Road to A-Day

#### Events of *MA: Black Widow*

When Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow joined SHIELD, Fury observed her to find out whether she was imbedded to betray them. After watching her take on ten of his best agents, he called an end to the session, scorning officers for using unnecessary measures and treating her as their enemy. Under the pretenses of bonding with the other agents, Fury decided to pair her with training officer Tony Masters. In reality, he was hoping to discover her true allegiances before he cleared her for duty.

Weeks later, Fury oversaw the arrival of Hydra agents, hoping to interrogate them on the organization's plans. During briefing with Romanoff, he told her of his plans for them, which involved "more sophisticated" measures than torture. The next night, Fury learned that a breakout had been started and ordered agents to respond. Upon arrival on the brig however, he discovered that Romanoff had stopped the riot by herself.

As Fury ordered the agents to stand down, Masters refused and pinned the blame on the jailbreak on Romanoff. He allowed the agent to give proof and listened as he gave proof, based on using ballet to slip past the security lasers. When she attacked Masters, Fury authorized her arrest. However, Romanoff revealed that it was actually the agent and revealed an injury he received from the defenses. As Fury called for Masters' arrest, the agent fled and was able to escape.

As they watched Masters flee on a Hydra jet, Fury revealed to Romanoff that he was aware she had stolen security codes for the brig, having placed a camera at their storage area. Confronting her about her plans, he learned how she had only accepted the same contract as Masters to free only her old ballet teacher Iosif Stepanov. Learning of her past and true alignment to only SHIELD ideas, Fury decided that Romanoff was not a threat and helped her release Stepanov and falsify reports that he had been killed in the riot. In return, he promised her only his trust.

Five years later, Fury informed Black Widow that Masters had resurfaced as the mercenary "Taskmaster".

#### Events of *MA: Iron Man*

When Tony Stark began operating as Iron Man, Fury arranged for surveillance software to be placed into his armor as a continency. This was eventually hacked by the Spymaster, who used it to bypass Stark Industries systems and steal technology from its laboratories. After discovering it and apprehending the criminal, Stark confronted Fury on the matter, forcing him to reveal his motivations behind the software. Learning that the billionaire had removed Stark secrets from SHIELD's databases as a response, he suggested he left the operations. Stark refused and flew off, damaging Fury's flying car with the repulsor blast.

### Events of *Marvel's Avengers*

#### A-Day

Fury was present during the Avengers Day celebrations onboard the Chimera, representing SHIELD for the event. During it, he was interviewed by Phil Sheldon about the Terrigen reactor and whether it was safe aboard the helicarrier. Fury simply denied the allegations, commenting that SHIELD would have not gone through with the project without assuring it was safe. He proceeded to leave the event, accompanied by his agents.

#### After A-Day

Predicting that SHIELD would be forced underground due to the events of A-Day, Fury secretly authorized the creation of various vaults around Earth. In each, he hid copies of resources and protocols to enable the organization to rebuild itself. Within one of them, Fury placed a recording about the vaults asking the Avengers to find the others and hand them to either Hill or Dugan. After this, Fury disappeared, seemingly without a trace.

In reality, Fury had been captured by AIM, which had acquired many of SHIELD's assets and merged them into their organization. Having begun investigations into the company's Project Omega, he learned that Earth was going to be invaded by the Kree Empire. As part of an agreement with Monica Rappaccini, Fury went forwards in time to help her future self protect Earth.

Fury's disappearance was investigated by Avengers member Hawkeye and his protégé Kate Bishop. The former was eventually captured, where he learned about the Director's fate. After learning of Barton's capture, Fury convinced both versions of Monica to send Barton to the Kree timeline to help them. In reality, he simply knew they were fighting a lost cause and planned to prepare the Avengers for the attack.

#### Taking AIM

When Barton followed him to the timeline, Fury met with him and gave him details of the Kree's invasion. Despite limited time, he was able to give him details of who the Kree were, but not when or how they were going to invade. Afterwards, he sent Barton back to warn the Avengers and begin planning for the invasion.

#### Future Imperfect

Fury remained within the Kree Timeline to help fend of the invasion and help its Monica finish her weapon. Eventually, this led to a final battle between SHIELD and the Kree Empire at Substation Ninety-Nine. During the battle, Rappaccini used the Cosmic Cube to seal the battle within a time field, including Fury. He was noticed by Hawkeye when he returned with the timeline's counterpart to rescue him. With no way to penetrate the field, they decided it would be better to prepare the Avengers in the present rather than attempt to retrieve him.

While the Cosmic Cube was eventually taken from Monica in the present, the nature of time travel in the Marvel Universe leaves Fury's fate uncertain. It is possible that with the Cosmic Cube no longer available to Monica, the events leading to the temporal suspension that trapped the AIM-SHIELD alliance have no longer occurred. However, it is equally possible that the apocalyptic future Fury was trapped in has been established permanently as an alternate timeline, leaving him trapped in Project Omega's failure.

#### Return to S.H.I.E.L.D.

After Hawkeye’s return to the Avengers, which successfully secure the Cosmic Cube from Monica’s hand and prevent Future Imperfect from happening in the main timeline, followed by the reconciled alliance with Wakanda, then joined by Spider-Man (the latter is currently on PlayStation version only), Nick Fury finally resurface from the shadows and return to S.H.I.E.L.D. for Avengers’ future operations.

## Relationships

### Allies

* SHIELD
	+ Maria Hill - Trusted Subordinate, Co-Leader
	+ Dum Dum Dugan - Trusted Subordinate
	+ Alisande Morales
	+ Chastity McBryde
	+ Sidney Levine
	+ James Woo
* Avengers - Trusted Allies
	+ Steve Rogers / Captain America
	+ Tony Stark / Iron Man
	+ Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow - Former Employee
	+ Thor Odinson / Thor
	+ Bruce Banner / Hulk
	+ Clint Barton / Hawkeye - Trusted Ally
	+ Ms. Marvel / Kamala Khan
	+ Kate Bishop
	+ Black Panther / T'Challa
	+ Spider -Man / Peter Parker
	+ Mighty Thor / Jane Foster
* Monica Rappaccini (Kree Timeline) - Fellow Earth Defender
* Hank Pym - Trusted Ally
* Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel - Trusted Ally

### Enemies

* Hydra
* Tony Masters / Taskmaster - Former Employee turned Traitor
* Loki Laufeyson / Loki
* Lethal Legion
	+ Abner Jenkins / Beetle
	+ Carl Creel / Absorbing Man
	+ Mary MacPherran / Titania
	+ David Cannon / Whirlwind
* Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) - Former Captors and Temporary Ally
	+ Monica Rappaccini
* Kree Empire

## Notes

* In Marvel Comics, Nicholas Joseph Fury was introduced in *Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos* #1 (May, 1963). He is regularly depicted as the director of Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.) and often has strategic alliances with various superheroes, including Captain America, Iron Man and the Avengers. Though originally depicted as Caucasian, African-American versions of Fury have been regularly used following the introduction of the *Ultimate Marvel* version.

## Also See

* SHIELD
* Allies
* Nick Fury on the Marvel Database