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Nicholas Fury (Earth-1610)

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Real Name
Nicholas "Nick" Joseph Fury
Current Alias

Identity

Alignment

Affiliation
S.H.I.E.L.D., Ultimates, United States Army

Universe

Base Of Operations

Characteristics
Gender

Eyes

Hair

Unusual Features
Fury is missing his left eye as a result of combat operations. Fury has also recently lost his right arm. It remains to be seen if the arm will be replaced.[1]

Status
Citizenship

Occupation
SHIELD director


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History

Nicholas Fury's was born in the early twentieth century and fought for the United States in World War Two. During the invasion of Sicily, he, along with Private Fisk and Canadian soldier James Howlett attempted to loot a house. American Military police arrived to arrest them, and all three were subdued. Fisk was grazed by a bullet, while Fury was imprisoned in an unknown location alongside several other black men and Howlett, who despite protests that he was Canadian, was also shipped to an unknown location[2]. Fury was selected to be the next test subject for Project Rebirth, as his blood work most closely matched that of subject 22, the most successful of the previous test subjects. He was injected with a serum that gave him super-strength, which he used to free himself and the other prisoners, who then escaped. The scientists who were working on him let him escape, deciding that they had all the information that they needed for now.

Weapon X

After attending college in India, Fury enlisted in the military, where he was deployed into various conflicts such as the Kosovo Wars. He was later assigned to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Weapon X program in the original Gulf War. While transporting Wolverine, an Iraqi guerrilla ambush freed Wolverine from his cage, whereupon Wolverine slaughtered all the Iraqi fighters. Only one member of the US forces survived the ambush: Nick Fury. It was in this ambush that Fury lost an eye and from then on would wear an eye patch. Carrying Fury through the desert back to allied forces, Wolverine was thanked for his work by being repeatedly shot, caged once more, and returned to the battlefront. Still, a bond was forged between the two men.

The relationship between Fury and Wolverine proved beneficial to the X-Men years later when they were imprisoned by the Weapon X program. Wolverine, the only X-Man not captured, contacted Fury for help. The X-Men and the other mutants "employed" by Weapon X broke out and as the Weapon X project leader, Colonel Wraith was about to shoot Nightcrawler, Fury appeared with a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and shot the Colonel. Wraith had previously attempted to kill General Ross in an explosion for canceling government support of the Weapon X program. Later, Ross encountered the Fantastic Four with the explanation that he woke in the mortuary and told the person attending to him, "Hands off my precious bodily fluids, soldier."

Ultimates

After Ross' so-called demise, Fury took over as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. His first plan was to resurrect the Super Soldier program, resulting in the formation of The Ultimates. Fury commanded the team - and even led them into action. Nick Fury additionally monitored the activities of Peter Parker [3] and the X-Men. Fury's future plans for these young post-humans, in part, were for them to join the Ultimates. However, after the invasion of the Liberators the Ultimates leaved S.H.I.E.L.D. in order to prevent incidents such as the Liberators from happening, dashing Fury's plans.[4]

Spider-Man

Fury had known Peter Parker as Spider-Man and personally meet him after Norman Osborn reappears. He states that S.H.I.E.L.D. was able to figure out who Peter was because of the security shots of the Oz Spider biting Peter, as well as Otto Octavius screaming that Peter Parker is Spider-Man while in jail. Nick Fury has been watching Peter as he will eventually be the property of S.H.I.E.L.D. due to his illegal genetically altered status. Although Fury wanted him to be part of the Ultimates (though this may have changed due to the Ultimates broke apart from S.H.I.E.L.D.). Peter and Fury's relationship became strained after the arrests of Harold Osborn as Hobgoblin. Peter punched Fury for ignoring his questions for why Harry became the Hobgoblin. At that point Fury told one of his scientists that he wanted to know everything about Oz and that it was time for Peter Parker to lose his powers. This led to the Tinkerer's Spider Slayers,which were developed to handle Peter if and when he ever went insane. However, Fury helped Peter in stopping Otto Octavius who was partly responsible for the Spider-Men clones by distracting CIA agent Henry Gyrich by asking him confusing questions and confronting him about the supposedly illegal Super-Soldier program that had been going on behind Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s back. After the arrests of Otto Octavius, Fury and members of the Ultimates traveled to the Baxter Building in supposedly arresting Peter but were confronted by the Fantastic Four and Mary Jane Watson. Mary Jane told Fury that Peter idolized Fury and would never threaten Fury and his various agendas for the world's superpowered beings. This convinced Fury to let Peter keep his powers and to leave Peter alone.

Ultimate Power

Main article: Ultimate Power

Fury was judged to be at least partially responsible for the devastation of much of Earth-31916 along with Emil Burbank. Burbank had sought a means to defeat the Hyperion of that universe. An alien organism, unleashed in an attempt to achieve this, spread throughout the United States causing widespread devastation. A probe sent by Reed Richards provided evidence that an "invasion from another universe" was responsible. The Squadron Supreme mistakenly believed that Richards was responsible for the devastation and was dispatched to Earth-1610 in order to arrest Richards his 'crimes'. A lengthy battle ensued between the Squadron on one side and the Ultimates, Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four on the other. Richards, believing himself to be responsible when the Squadron produced his probe as evidence, surrendered himself. Fury was unwilling to accept this and convinced Thor to create a bridge to Earth-31916 through which the Helicarrier was able to travel. Once there, another battle between the Squadron and the Earth-1610 heroes began. Spider-Man learned that Fury had an ulterior motive - the retrieval of the probes and their data, and had conspired with Doctor Doom to do so. In addition, Fury had brought insurance in the shape of the Hulk. It took the combined power of the Earth-1610 heroes, the Earth-31916 Squadron Supreme and their counterparts from Earth-712 to defeat the Hulk, but Doom was proven to be simply a Doombot. To stop the fighting, the Ultimates agreed to turn over Fury to the Earth-31916 Squadron and to allow Power Princess to return with them to their universe. Fury tried to convince them that they were making a mistake, but his pleas were ignored.[5]

Despite being held accountable for the damages of Earth-31916 Fury had apparently fulfilled the prophecy made by Hyperion: "Given the strength of our military industrial complex, Fury would have risen here to even greater heights than your homeworld."[6] This was proven when he worked for Earth-31916's American government and gathered a new Squadron Supreme after the original team went missing. He purposely hand-picked the members that closely resembled the heroes of his universe.

Ultimatum

Main article: Ultimatum

Fury was recruited by Doom and Reed Richards to return to his own universe to stop Magneto[7]. Upon returning to his reality and arriving to the Savage Land, Nick Fury implemented his contingency plan by having Jean Grey's telepathy transmit his memories to Magneto, showing Magneto that mutants were not a miracle of God and the next step in human evolution, but merely the result of a misguided genetic super soldier experiment. However, Magneto refused to believe it and was eventually killed by Cyclops.

Post-Ultimatum

Fury have return to his own universe and works with S.H.I.E.L.D. again. During a conversation with Hawkeye at the Triskelion, concerning Captain America has gone rogue after learning that the Red Skull was his own son. Fury confirm this to Hawkeye that Red Skull is indeed Steven Rogers' own illegitimate son that had been training under the American government to succeed his father but eventually rebelled. Fury ultimately activated "Project Avengers" and recruits a team of superhumans to find Captain America.[8]

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

Fury is an experienced soldier.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Fury operates with technology years ahead of traditional forces, including the latest experimental weaponry, and some form of projected invisibility and the ability to walk through solid matter. These powers have very limited windows due to massive expense for any moment of 'uptime;' costs for these literally burn millions per microsecond. Fury is constantly monitored and shadowed by dozens of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and all observation technology known - and a few that are not.

Trivia

  • Samuel L. Jackson gave his consent for Marvel Comics to design their "Ultimate" version of the character Nick Fury after his likeness. (Amusingly enough, when discussing who they thought would play them in an in-universe Ultimates movie, Nick Fury's first choice was Samuel L. Jackson). In the Movie Iron Man (film) Samuel L. Jackson is really playing Nick Fury.
  • A Marvel video feature entitled Ultimate Avengers and it's sequel Ultimate Avengers 2 feature Ultimate Nick Fury, voiced by Andre Ware who also did Fury's voice for the 2005 game Fantastic Four.
  • Dave Fennoy provided the voice of Ultimate Fury in the Ultimate Spider-Man video game.
  • In Mighty Avengers #13, Nick Fury (of the Earth-616 universe) uses a disguise that is similar in appearance to Ultimate Fury. This receives comment from Daisy Johnson as "his worst disguise ever."

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  1. ↑ Ultimates volume 2
  2. ↑ Ultimate Origins #1
  3. ↑ Ultimate Spider-Man, also shown in the video game, Ultimate Spider-Man
  4. ↑ Ultimates v.2 #13
  5. ↑ Squadron Supreme v2 #1
  6. ↑ Ultimate Power #9
  7. ↑ Ultimatum #4
  8. ↑ Ultimate Comics: Avengers #2
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