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Mila Fury (paternal grandmother; deceased),
Joseph Jones (maternal grandfather; deceased),
Nick Fury, Sr. (father; deceased),
Katherine Jones (mother; deceased),
Debbie Fury-Goodwin (aunt and legal guardian; deceased),
Jacob Fury (uncle; deceased);
Dawn DeFabio (half-sister);
Major Pris-Cilia Fury (wife),
Jon-Cilia Fury (son),
Cee-Cilia Fury (daughter);
Amber D'Alexis (ex-lover),
Mikel Fury (son; deceased);
Monica Chang (ex-lover);
Michelle Chang (daughter);
Fury Extended Family (relatives)
Helicarrier (formerly)
History
Trouble, Ms. Romanoff. No matter who wins or loses, trouble still comes around.
- — Nick Fury
- — Nick Fury
Early Years
During the day Nicholas Joseph Fury, Jr. was born in the year of 1955, the infant's aging had been slowed greatly after getting injected by the Infinity Formula, an improved serum of of the Super-Soldier formula that was fully developed by Dr. Berthold Sternberg. Fury was first inoculated with the fully-developed serum in when he was born by the request of his father, General Nicholas Fury, due to how the infant Fury was threatened by a deadly disease. Due to the successful experimental serum's cumulative effect, the infant Fury quickly recovered from the disease he was infected with from birth and to an extent, and no longer needed additional doses to prolong his life span, with own father believing that his son deserves to live a lot longer and hopefully become a better person than he ever was rather than lose beloved child with Katherine when he had yet to enter the world.
However, when Nick was only four years old, his mother, Katherine Nia Jones, had unfortunately passed away due to a brutal mission in the Vietnam War, which led to a determined young Nick to honor and dedicate his all of his achievements to both his parents as he grew up, even if his mother had already passed away bringing him into the world and raising him with what she and Nicholas could. In spite of his father's years of depression, Nick still looked up to him, and hoped that he eventually returns to serving his peacekeeping agency, S.H.I.E.L.D., which he did remembering Katherine's fearless dedication to love and serve the country as she loved them.
For several years, Fury was raised by both his father and aunt Debbie Goodwin, whom he would often call "Mama Fury" due to her caring nurture, until he enlisted into the military and rose up through the ranks as an officer of the United States Army, obtaining the rank of Colonel before leaving the military. He had a lot of action in Soviet territory. He was responsible for deporting Vinorovsky when he tried to sell bad information during the final years of the Cold War. Later he became an espionage veteran of the C.I.A. during the final years of the Cold War around 1986 to 1989, following his father's legacy before the latter's retirement. At one point during one of his missions in the Gulf War, Fury lost sight in his left eye, being the cost he had to pay for trusting a colleague. The colleague, Viktor Uvarov, betraying and abandoning Fury had left him with paranoia and tremendous trust issues as he had to battle a troop of opposing militants on his own, torturing Fury in their base until the excruciating pain of his damaged eye combined with the discovery of hostages within the base gave Fury an adrenaline rush to kill off his torturers, rescue the hostages, and escape their base together until they were rescued and sent home to recover. Fury was eventually honorably discharged and awarded the Medal of Honor, but Fury didn't want to stop serving in the force in spite of his battle scars.
Surviving his times in his service with honor and valor yet seeking to serve and protect the country, Fury would finally join S.H.I.E.L.D., a covert and government-sanctioned international peacekeeping organization once founded by his own father which strongly operates as humanity's first line of defense against Earth's most dangerous enemies. One of Fury's first most significant missions as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the mid-1990s was tracking down and decimating the shady science and espionage agency called Leviathan, who had resurfaced since the aftermath of World War II to restored the power of the Soviet Union in secret after its collapse in 1991. Fury first learned of Leviathan from his old colleague, Uvarov, a double agent who tried to infiltrate the U.S. Army if it wasn't for Fury's intervention when he defeated Uvarov and Leviathan. However, Fury himself knew that Leviathan wasn't the only manifestation of trouble lurking in the shadows that seeks to threaten the peace of his home and people, let alone the world.
Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury, the first Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. during the days of the Modern Age
He quickly impressed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s higher-ups, and was promoted to the position of Director, becoming the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D., making him to gladly finally follow his father's footsteps. He led S.H.I.E.L.D. One of his greatest known actions included resurrecting the Super-Soldier Program, which began in the S.S.R.'s Project Rebirth in the Second World War, spearheading projects such as the Avengers Initiative, Project T.A.H.I.T.I., Project Insight, Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., and other significant but mostly classified operations that defined the role of superhumans of the 21st century. During his time as the new director, Nick Fury sent a team led by Hank Pym to find the crash site and wreckage of the former Hydra bomber plane Valkyrie on Greenland after tracking its location. Steve Rogers, the great war hero that was Captain America's body was found inside, perfectly preserved in ice. His body was later defrosted and then shipped to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters in New York City, where he later woke up into the modern world of the 21st century.
The Avengers and Chitauri Invasion
During the late 1990s to the early 2010s, Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. eventually started to deal with contact from the beyond, including their encounters and associations with allies such as the dynamic duo that was the human-Kree hybrid Ms. Marvel and the lost renegade Kree Captain Mar-Vell (with the former eventually taking the mantle of the latter) and later enemies such as the Asgardian God of Mischief that is Loki Laufeyson, but all the problems S.H.I.E.L.D. had encountered in the past to solve eventually led to the formation of the Avengers. It was the tragic death of Fury's own friend and right-hand man — special agent Phil Coulson — that this response team of recruited superheroes to finally band together on their own altruistic will to save the world from the alien invasion in the summer of 2010, known in historians by many as the Chitauri Invasion, which infamously ended during the climactic Battle of New York as the Avengers also had help in the form of the street-level Defenders against the Chitauri while also rescuing civilian lives.
Departure from S.H.I.E.L.D.
Preceding the Hydra Uprising in 2014, an assassination attempt was made on his life. Fury survived but elected to remain officially dead, telling only a select few that he was still alive, most notably Maria Hill, Captain America, Black Widow, and the Falcon. After the attack on the Triskelion, he went deep underground to begin rooting out the forces of Hydra. As a part of this mission, he once more joined Phil Coulson — whom Fury had resurrected through Project T.A.H.I.T.I. after his death — and helped him and his team defeat one of its field leaders and strategist turned turncoat John Garrett. Afterwards, he made Coulson the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and left to continue his mission. He helped the Avengers defeat Ultron in the Ultron Initiative and later assisted them in the newly-built Avengers facility known as the Avengers Tower, which is formerly the Stark Tower.
Infiltrating the Ultimate War
Fury later returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. in the following year, specifically the Triskelion in order to help his former comrades fight of the forces of Hydra's super-soldiers. Fury reunited with his father, who came out of retirement after dealing with accusations that he was collaborating with the Texan Hydra faction during the Nimrod Invasion, although they found out that the General was framed as the projects he had decommissioned — namely the Life-Model Decoy project — during the Senior's directorship were being secretly worked on and tweaked by Hydra for the past decades. During the assault on the Triskelion, father and son were outnumbered by the enemies, but out of sacrifice, the General injected himself with the last formula of the fatal Senility Formula in order to save his son and allies from several Hydra super-soldiers who infiltrated the Triskelion. He manages to defeat and seeming kill all of the super-soldiers, but at the same time it costs his own life after he uses too much of his strength, degenerating all of the cells in his body that slowly killed him in the end.
Nick mourned his father's death, although it didn't halt him from helping S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Ultimates one last time to avenge his own father, with Fury eventually siding with the unit Howling Commandos with his subordinate, Commander Dum Dum Dugan, as they investigated and infiltrated a military faction of Hydra located somewhere in Texas after decrypting archived files his late father had left him. Using the code name of Scorpio, Fury and his allies found out how the Hydra headquarters were experimenting on Life-Model Decoys, operated by mind-transferred operatives. Preventing the faction from launching their weapons against the Ultimates, Fury and the Commandos fought the Hydra faction, brawling its leader: the L.M.D. clone of his late father who named himself Max, and saved the experimented subjects from captivity until the headquarters was finally destroyed in an explosion at the self-sacrifice of Dugan, thus they were nevertheless victorious.
The Lone Wolf's Secret Hunt
Fury has not been seen or heard from by his known allies since after his father's death during Ultimate War, until it was later revealed that he left America alone months right after the event, started and set off on his own mission to travel across Europe, secretly collaborating with masters of espionage and peacekeepers such as Black Widow, a redeemed Winter Soldier, special agent Monica Chang, and agents of the European Defense Initiative to find the new secretive yet fragmented headquarters of Hydra and take down the new leaders of a united fragmented Hydra faction — which included Baron von Strucker, Viper, Commander Crimson, Otto Vermis, Sinthea Schmidt, and Elisa Sinclair — ever since the Red Skull's second banishment and disappearance during the surprising and phenomenal ending of Ultimate War, something that was thankfully won by the persistent joint efforts of heroes all over the world.
Fury's clandestine collaborative effort and hunt for Hydra had also gotten him covertly involved with political matters with the likes of leaders such as Latverian Prime Minister Lucia von Bardas, C.I.A. joint force commander Everett Ross, Madripoor ruler and crimelord Jessán Hoan, and Wakandan King T'Challa, some of whom Fury — sometimes dubbed the Agent of Nothing — reluctantly had to cooperate with to convince them into helping him and his affiliates while maintaining their war for the remaining factions of Hydra and related groups a secret to avoid causing international incidents between the States and its allied nations.
Secret Invasion and Beyond
From 2016 to 2017, Fury began to operate underground with a hand-picked crew since his hunt for various factions of Hydra, which he either ended up dismantling in collaboration with various trusted agencies such as the E.D.I. or somehow giving a second chance by letting them join his underground network under the condition that they would never return to live in society yet could still do some good with their missions for the rest of their now mostly anonymous lives. Preparing for the forewarned invasion thanks to the intel of mysterious newfound ally by the name of Abigail Brand, Fury joined his allies who knew of his true whereabouts, including Brand, Everett Ross who suspected the C.I.A. to have been overtaken by the Skrulls, Maria Hill who claimed to have been replaced by a Skrull who took over S.H.I.E.L.D., and the defected Skrull sergeant Talos, who has made a life for himself on Earth for a decade.
Together they race against time to thwart the imminent Skrull invasion and save humanity by helping out the heroes they could still trust from the shadows. For the remainder of their grave objective, Fury and his team kept track of powerful figures, government agents, and superpowered individuals who could be Skrull subversives, until Fury realized how half of his growing crew were also replaced by Skrulls, including his own right-hand woman Hill who once deceived Fury that the one leading S.H.I.E.L.D. was the imposter. While dealing, Fury had to keep on tabs with Talos and Brand as two of the last non-criminal allies he could trust while they plan to rescue several key allies from being overtaken by subversives through their infiltration ritual, most notably Reed Richards as they would help him create a device that could expose any devious Skrulls who were masquerading as their allies. Brand would then reveal her true origins and intentions to Fury as a survivor of her nigh-extinct race whose civilization was eradicated by Veranke's fanatic cult. While Fury himself tried to talk Brand out to wanting to kill Veranke, he didn't stop her as he understood that such anger and trauma was what drove her into stopping the invasion.
Such vital progress in their mission enabled Fury and the crew to track down the facilities that had been keeping the hundreds of millions of individuals whose identities were replaced and rescued them while assisting the heroes as their "eyes in the sky" confront the twisted Skrull Empire's fanatic queen in the form of Veranke who had taken on the form of Spider-Woman. As the real Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew, was rescued by Brand's team and her Avenger allies which helped expose Veranke's true schemes and contributed to her defeat without directly killing the dethroned Skrull queen thanks to the real Drew who convinced Brand to spare Veranke, Fury himself was separated and had to face off against the imposters of most his crew under the leadership of the Maria Hill subversive, revealing themselves as the final covert team for the invasion if ever the queen's planetary initiative, dubbed the Terran Protocol, fails.
After a series of bloody brawls which left Fury and Talos still standing without taking the life of a Skrull except Hill's imposter to save Talos' life, the surviving Skrull agents had no other choice but to comply to his demands to meet with the Skrull Empire, or at least its remnants since Veranke's demise. Helping out various Skrull worlds alongside his old friend Captain Marvel, the Silver Surfer, and assistance from Agent Brand through her new agency on Earth named S.W.O.R.D. from being vulnerable against extragalactic conquerors, Fury was honored by Talos as an ambassador of Earth for the Skrull Empire's provisional government as they either made diplomatic relations with civil colonies while engaging in espionage against aggressive empires to cool down hostilities which threaten the lives of Skrulls and their neighboring communities. Recruiting his remaining crew on Earth, Fury joined the Skrulls in getting them a new home as a promise to Talos and his people that they would find a better home and establish way of living beyond their fundamentalist and radical ways by establishing peaceful relations.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Infinity Formula: Nick Fury's aging had been slowed greatly by the Infinity Formula, a serum that is actually a recreated version of the Super-Soldier Serum created by Dr. Berthold Sternberg. Fury was first inoculated with the fully-developed serum in when he was born by the request of his father. Due to its cumulative effect, Fury no longer needs additional doses to prolong his life span.
- Limited Immortality
- Nigh-Superhuman Strength
- Nigh-Superhuman Speed
- Nigh-Superhuman Acrobatics
- Nigh-Superhuman Endurance
- Nigh-Superhuman Metabolism
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Abilities
- Gifted Intelligence
- Master Martial Artist
- Master Tactician
- Master Strategist
- Expert Marksman
- Weapons Proficiency
- Expert Vehicular Driver
- Expert Pilot
- Multilingual
Strength level
- Class 13+
Weaknesses
- One-Eye
- Limited Superhuman Conditioning
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Uniform (formerly)
- Modified S.H.I.E.L.D. Uniform
- Various advanced technology equipment
- Various conventional technology equipment
- S.H.I.E.L.D. issue communications equipment
Transportation:
- Various S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicles (formerly)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Bus (formerly)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarriers
- Project Insight (formerly)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Flight Packs
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Shuttles
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Cars
Weapons:
- Plasma pistols and rifles
- Various S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons
- Various conventional firearms
- US military firearms
- Needle pistols
- 45 Caliber Automatic
- German Luger in 9mm Parabellum
- Walther PPK in 9 mm Parabellum
- Ingram MAC-10 machine pistol in 45 caliber
Notes
- Fury didn't need to have the Junior in his legal name as his middle name is different from his father's, but he nevertheless decided to keep it as a way to honor with father's memory due to him seeing him as a role model growing up. Fury's middle name is Joseph, the name of his maternal grandfather.
- Before his official enlistment to S.H.I.E.L.D. as an agent, Fury was assigned the temporary title known as Man on the Wall wherein he had undergo a series of dangerous tests and missions involving stealth and negotiation with little to no detection. Ever since he went independent from S.H.I.E.L.D. which started with his hunt for Hydra's factions worldwide and persisted through the Secret Invasion, Fury took on the alias.
- Fury was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent level 10 and had an Alpha Level at the World Security Council. While Fury had formally left S.H.I.E.L.D. for almost a decade, his clearance level within the agency remained in the second highest ranking although it was kept discreet among his successors as it mostly useful whenever they contact him during cases of emergency.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Avengers Vol 1 10
Trivia
- Throughout his years as an ambassador for the Skrull Empire, Fury became married around 2025 to Pris-Cilia, a pink-skinned Kree Major whom he first met during one of his later espionage missions to stop a Kree insurgent group's plot to bomb a Skrull space station full of civilians.
- Their blossoming marriage had seeded two children, Jon-Cilia and Cee-Cilia, both who wanted to serve in law enforcement in some capacity once they grow up into adulthood while Fury himself sometimes encouraged the two to find a passion that is safer out of his concern for them which rooted from his past trauma with his first son, Mikel, who died with a disdain for his father by attacking his S.H.I.E.L.D. trainees.
- Fury was either called by his father as "Fury" or "Nicky" with the latter being a sign of endearment. Fury himself mostly preferred Fury, but Nicky had grown on him when his old man had retired.
- Fury despises to eat diagonally cut sandwiches.
See Also
- Appearances of Nicholas Fury, Jr. (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Nicholas Fury, Jr. (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Nicholas Fury, Jr. (Earth-61615)
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