Nicholas Fury

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Background Narrative

### Nicholas Fury: 1941 - 1945

I would tell you about my childhood, but the government has decided that is none of your damn business. The paper-pushers have decided that I don't exist prior to the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. To a degree, I have to agree. The young man I was that day died with my friend Red Hargrove. All that survived of me was anger and rage, so that became my new name. That is how I became Fury.

Following that, I became a U.S. Ranger which is where I was recruited by Captain Sam Sawyer to take part in the Sentinel Service Division's Super-Soldier Program. I was injected with the same cocktail that they put in Steve Rogers and few others of us, but the Vita-Ray contraption was blown up before I had the chance to let the serum metastasize, or whatever. That same explosion killed Dr. Erskine — the genius behind the Super-Soldier program, which meant the secrets of the machine's engineering was lost. Still, even without the Vita-Ray exposure, the serum did have an effect on me and so Captain Sawyer assigned me to command the Sentinels' 1st Attack Squad (aka: the "Howling Commandos") to act as Captain Rogers' security detail. We were a special band of soldiers who undertook some of the most dangerous missions of the war. Aside from Captain Rogers and myself, there was my right-hand man "Dum Dum" Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, "Bucky" Barnes, Izzy Cohen, Peggy Carter, "Lucky" Logan, Victor Creed, and — Oh, hell. There were a bunch of them.

Anyway, us Commandos fought against the likes of the Red Skull, Baron Heinrich Zemo, and other Axis villains. While the Cap did his thing, being all heroic and shit, I did my thing: Leading the Commandos as we struck blow after blow against the Nazis and their allies through missions that ranged from deep infiltration missions behind enemy lines to undercover work and plenty of firefights.

During the war, I met Lady Pamela Hawley, who would become my first love. She died. We don't need to say much about that...that wasn't the only death I'd see in the war. I delivered a lot of death myself, but I also saw good men die in truly awful ways. I'll never knew why I was spared when those better people than I paid the price. But I did not leave the way unscathed. Late into the war, in the same mission where Rogers would go full-on damn dumb hero, a grenade landed at my feet. Before I could react, one of my men jumped on it and saved my life. I was still frozen in shock when I heard an angry roar and felt something sharp rake across my face. Things went black and when I opened my eye, I was in a surgeon's tent.

### Nicholas Fury: 1945 -1980

When I was ready to get back into the fight, I got word that the war was over. For most of my men, it was time to go home and live a normal life again. This was not the case for me. I decided to accept a permanent gig with the SSD and oversaw some clean-up operations with the Commandos that wanted to stick around under my command. My skills were quickly put to use as the SSD saw my potential. I didn't know it then, but the Sentinels had begun forging me into one of their Weapons.

When I became a Weapon, I really stepped into the shadows. I engaged in all that cloak & dagger shit, working behind the scenes amid the Korean War, Vietnam War, and of course the Cold War. During that, the SSD got me a brevet promotion to Lieutenant and before I knew it, people were calling me Colonel Fury. At some point, I started spending less time in the field and more time in an office.

### Nicholas Fury: 1980 - 1995

Somehow, my life had flashed before my eye. The war that had defined me was just a blip on the long and lasting career that followed. The serum had kept me fairly young, but it also meant the Sentinels more or less owned me. I guess you don't read the fine print when you're young, dumb, and wanting to just kill Nazis and Japanese.

Some idiot decided to put me in charge of the SSD's Forge, overseeing the creation of new Weapons. I met a bunch of rich folk like the Starks and the Osborns, as well as eggheads like the Pyms, the Parkers, and Banner. I was put in position to recruit others for prospective Weapon consideration. That's how I met Romanova and Barton, but when the anti-aberrant Bolivar Trask was put in charge of the Sentinels' active Weapons, I kept Barton and Romanova to myself and stalled other Forge projects — even at the risk of driving Osborn crazy with my delay tactics.

When I saw a schism in the SSD, I chose to go to the U.N. with a proposal. I don't know how I dreamed the name "Shield," but I guess it was my nod to Rogers. Now that the Shield is up and running, I guess my next project is the Avenger Protocol.

## SHIELD Analysis

### Special Value: 3

* **One-Eyed:** Fury is immediately recognized by his scarred face and eyepatch. Though it has become part of his charm (?), it does come at a cost. Though he had trained to offset his missing eye, Fury does lack a certain level of depth perception and has a total lack of peripheral vision on his left side. This can be exploited by a skilled enemy.
* **Super-Soldier (Partial):** Fury is one of the few finalist candidates for the Erskine Super-Soldier Serum. He was injected with the serum but was not exposed to the Vita-Rays which would have acted as a catalyst to fully activate the serum to achieve its full potential. Despite not lacking the full transformation to super-soldier, Fury does enjoy some enhancements.
	+ **Longevity:** Fury is likely over seventy years old. His exact age is classified. Despite his considerable age, he is as spry as a highly athletic man in his forties.

### Heuristics Value: 5

* **Marksmanship:** Fury is an exceptional marksman of nearly all firearms in spite of his ocular handicap. Though Fury prefers to use his own custom revolver but he has mastered the use of handguns, rifles, sub-machineguns, and various prototype firearms.
* **Martial Arts:** Fury is a seasoned expert in unarmed and armed combat. Fury was a heavyweight boxer in the Army, and holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and brown belt in jiu-jitsu. Fury claims that his in his prime, he could hold his own against Steve Rogers. It is quite possible that he is stretching the truth, but few seem interested in calling him a liar. His name is "Fury" for a reason, right?
* **Weaponsmaster:** Fury is proficient in wielding blades, clubs, and other handheld weapons. He is similarly skilled in knife-throwing and other weaponry as well.

### Intellectual Value: 6

* **Strategy:** Fury is an accomplished strategist. He has been widely considered one of the greatest tacticians on the planet, both on and off the battlefield. He is able to formulate battle strategies and his brilliant tactical sense allows him to alter any strategy to fit the changing need of the situation.

### Expertise Value: 5

* **Espionage Training:** Fury has worked as a covert agent in the field for over thirty years. He is a master of the typical tradecraft used in these operations.
* **Military Training:** Fury has trained as a paratrooper, ranger, demolitions expert, and vehicle specialist. He has completed Green and Black beret Special Forces training.
* **Sentinel Training:** Fury was a Weapon in the Sentinel Service Division. This experience gave him insight into a number of highly classified and sensitive information, including the existence of several types of aberrants, and everything in-between. He has forgotten more about the mysteries of the world than most of us will ever know.

### Logistics Value: 4

* **Linguistics:** Fury is fluent in English, German, Russian, and Japanese. He also speaks a little French, Spanish, and Chinese.
* **Vehicle Operation:** Fury is proficient in driving cars, motorcycles, trucks, heavy militarized vehicles, and boats. He is also an amateur pilot of helicopters and planes. Though qualified to use personal jetpacks, he claims he will never use one of those "damn things" again.

### Director's Value: 10

* **Director of Shield:** "Yeah, that's right. I've given myself a perfect score here. What do you want me to say? I'm rather important to myself. Without me, where would the world be? Hmm?"

### Threat Assessment

* **Special Value:** 3
* **Heuristics Value:** 5
* **Intellectual Value:** 6
* **Expertise Value:** 5
* **Logistics Value:** 4
* **Director's Value:** 10
	+ **TOTAL:** 33

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* He's enemies with Wolfgang von Strucker.

### Notes

* Nicholas Fury resides in Subsidiary-Reality M, within Murum Locus.
* Nicholas Fury is a character originating from *Marvel Comics*.
* In the comics, the Infinite Formula was the source of his longevity.

## Fury Files

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Nicholas Fury

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