History[]
Nick Fury is a bad-ass mother-lovin' secret agent (occasionally played on screen by bad-ass mother-lover Samuel L. Jackson) who works for the American organisation S.H.I.E.L.D. Captain America is under his command, and the pair sometimes aid Captain Britain in combating supervillains such as the Red Skull. Fury has an annoying habit of parking his helicarrier in the air over central London and scaring everybody on the ground below, but he means well.
Fury was racked with guilt when Captains America and Britain appeared to have been slain by the Red Skull's agent, Tod Radcliffe. The fact that Fury had killed Radcliffe immediately afterwards (by asking for a last smoke and firing a poison dart into him from his cigar) was scant consolation. When Lance Hunter approached him as he was having a quiet moment of remembrance in St Paul's cathedral, Fury forced him to "show some respect" by knocking his bowler hat off. Shortly afterwards, he admitted that killing Radcliffe before he could be interrogated had been a mistake, and promised the British prime minister that he would do all he could to make amends.
Hunter nevertheless judged Fury to be dangerously overwrought, so he knocked him out with a heavy-duty tranquilliser which caused the hapless American to have horrible nightmares about everybody in London dying. With allies like these, who needs enemies?
Such is Fury's iron constitution that when he awoke he led an aerial attack on the Red Skull's base, survived being shot in the chest, escaped from the base just before it blew up, retrieved Hunter from the top of Big Ben (where he'd been trying to disarm a bomb) and flew back to the USA in his helicarrier, having been congratulated by President Jimmy Carter via video-link.
He later murdered the Watcher for his eye. He had to become the Unseen and was permanently placed on the moon, watching. Later, the Watcher returned and released Fury, who headed off to explore the multiverse.
Powers and abilities[]
Powers
Fury was born in the early 1900s but has aged extremely slowly since World War II thanks to repeated infusions of something called "the Infinity Formula". After decades of use, his body began to produce the formula for itself, so Fury still appears to be physically only in his fifties.
Abilities
Armed combat; leadership skills.
Strength level
Peak human male.
Weaknesses
Cigars.
Paraphernalia[]
Equipment
Life-saver vest.
Transportation
S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier; S.T.R.I.K.E. jet pack.
Weapons
Gun; cigar that fires poison darts.
Notes[]
Fury also starred in the British-originated Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D series in Hulk Comic.
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