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Jacob Fury (brother; deceased); Joseph Jones (father-in-law; deceased),
Katherine Nia Jones (wife; deceased), Nick Fury (son);
Shirley DeFabio (former lover; deceased), Dawn DeFabio (daughter; estranged), unnamed grandchildren (estranged);
Fury Extended Family (relatives):
unnamed nephews and nieces,
grandnephews and grandnieces
Captain America Vol 1 1
Ultimate War Vol 1 2
History
Well, it's been a real pleasure serving this damn country. I have already lived the most precious life that I never knew wanted, and the greatest son I ever have... Thank you, and God bless America...
- — General Nicholas Fury
- — General Nicholas Fury
Early Years
Fury, Captain America, and the rest of the Howling Commandos during
World War II
Born and raised in the area of New York City known as Hell's Kitchen around the winter of 1914, Nicholas Jackson "Nick" Fury, Sr. was already twenty eight years old when he served in the United States Army to fight the rising tyranny of Nazi Germany in World War II. As an honest and persistent army man with a heroic heart, Nick flourished in the ranks of the U.S. Army and became sergeant. During this time, the reputable Nick was tasked by Colonel Chester Phillips with the Strategic Scientific Reserve to lead a handpicked squad of highly trained soldiers. This skillful squad would soon become known as the famous Howling Commandos. Sergeant Fury and the Commandos fought through much of World War II, with missions in France, Greece, Belgium, Holland and Nazi Germany itself in the war's final years.
The team also encountered and fought alongside a few of America's earliest superheroes, such as Captain America. Nick even met and fought alongside Sergeant Logan, the person whom would later be known as the future X-Man Wolverine. Fury managed to get most of his team members back alive after each and every mission, only for Nick himself to get injured by a grenade at the end of the war. The grenade's explosion and shrapnel was the cause of the permanent injury which eventually cost Fury the vision in his left eye. Fury began covering his lost eye with a cosmetic black eyepatch, which became one of his greatest trademarks and battle scars after the Second World War.
At some point in his life after the war to continue his service for the country, Fury became more involved in the S.S.R. and met a fellow operative named Katherine Nia Jones, who in her career as an agent she met and worked with Nick Fury. The pair worked together on a mission against Hydra, destroying an advanced base in Czechoslovakia. The two later became lovers, but she fell pregnant and the two had a son named Nick Fury, Jr. Due to Katherine's unexpected death only four years due to a fatal mission in the Vietnam War with the CIA, Fury world had shattered into pieces, falling into depression after losing the woman that he had loved. However, he nevertheless would pledged to raise and protect their son on his own at any cost while letting his sister and Nick's aunt, Debbie Goodwin, the same thing Katherine wanted to do if she was still alive.
Age of Senility
It was also at this time that he and most other Howling Commandos began their annual injections of the Senility Formula, a chemical they develop as an alternative for the Super-Soldier Serum during the war. Unfortunately the last remaining samples of the serums were destroyed after it's ship carrier was sunken into the bottom of the sea, after being targeted by a USSR submarine. Somehow they manage to save last one and injected it on Fury who was volunteering to be injected to serve the war once again after his service in the Korean War, now during the Cold War. Injections with this chemical was assumed to have greatly slowed his aging process like the original formula, but later on it showed to have the exact opposite effects.
Though it gave Fury the super strength that is twice stronger the the original serum, the more he exerted himself using his strength, the faster he aged, which is due to his protein in his DNA being ravaged by oxidants and him suffering from oxidated stress. This side effect had progressed so far that, while Nick was chronologically in his forties, he looked as though he was in his mid-fifties with his powers, eventually turning into an older man in the span of a year. Because of this, the intoxicating serum had to be removed out of his system, days after he was serving in the middle of the Cold War.
Co-Founding S.H.I.E.L.D.
In honor of Steve's memory and the defeat of the Axis powers, the peace-keeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded from the remnants of the S.S.R. by Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, General Chester Phillips (formerly Colonel), and Fury, who was then promoted to a major in the United States Army. During the day of his son's birth and Katherine's unexpected death which led to Fury's depression, the newly-improved serum known as the Infinity Formula had been developed and has been used on several soldiers, including the rest of the Howling Commandos. Their newly-born son was injected by the non-threatening super serum, since it was his request with Katherine to save their dear son from illness. Fury himself, rejected getting injected by the new serum, since he's not sure what might be the side-effects if it gets injected into his system, which was already been previously affected by the Senility formula.
He accepted his fate not becoming another Super-Soldier and continued to serve in missions without any enhancements, but he was still proud that his son would get to be stronger than him once he grew up as his junior was healthily injected with nigh-immortality as an infant to save him from a threatening disease, eventually granting him the physique and performance of a peak human. While he never became a permanent Super-soldier, Senior Fury still got promoted into becoming S.H.I.E.L.D.'s directorate not long after he became a general in the army, working as its director for several years wherein he and a few subordinates had secretly worked on Life-Model Decoys (L.M.D.s) out of the thought that he could outlive his decrepit body and impose it as the solution to the doddering effects of aging, but Fury chose to decommission it, deeming that he might have gone too far with his power as director and the grim possibility that his project may end up getting into the wrong hands. Around the late 1980s, Fury decided to finally step down from his position due to his irreversible accelerated senile condition, which he came to accept the optimistic truth that the newer and better generations of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are capable of leading it, even in his passing.
Public Retirement
As a retired citizen who often used the identity of Rudolf Ollen, Fury had been living a pretty normal life living in his old mansion located in Washington, D.C., near the site of the Triskelion. During his retirement, he had seen many changes in his life such as seeing his own son take the place as the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D., which made him become very proud and honored as his father, since his son grew up to be a great man just like his old man, only a lot better. He also became very glad hearing the revival of his good old pal and fellow veteran, Steven Rogers after he was finally found on the icy waters of the Arctic. He visited him in the Triskelion a month later after his reawakening into the modern world and after several decades, they reunited once again.
He was also travelling around the world to fulfill the things that Katherine wished to have done when she could've grown old with him. Along the way, he had been encountering many events around the world involving about superhuman activities, such as the Chitauri Invasion in New York around the summer of 2010, the long-time mutant-related conflicts that had occurred several places located in America, the mysterious Inhuman sightings, the Second Dark Elf Conflict in 2012, and so much more. Seeing those events just made Fury remember the "good ol' days" when he was still during the war, fighting the fights to protect the innocent and battling the battles for peace, with his former fellow comrades.
However, this time in Fury's final years of retirement also grasped his attention towards a series of projects that were supposed to be worked on by S.H.I.E.L.D., yet he found out that an organization not transparent to the public, only known by the name of Zodiac, had been working on projects that were previously decommissioned under his own orders, a decade in the past when he was still S.H.I.E.L.D.'s director. This puzzling realization only drove Fury to embark on a mission to investigate and confront the activities of the so-called Zodiac organization on his own, not realizing it would be his final one. For a while, Fury had to.
Ultimate War
Fury's long-time vacation and secretive investigation on the missing L.M.D. projects which lasted for a few more years during his retirement, only to find little trace. That was, until the events of Hydra Uprising to another series of events caused by the terrorist organization, who swore great revenge against S.H.I.E.L.D. once more after it momentarily fell down with its enemy organization and its subsequent exposure to the public. During this new upcoming threat, the United States was threatened to be torn apart by the organization's subsidiary group, the remaining anti-government militia of Hydra, whose surviving operatives began various assassinating S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives while they were living their duties.
Although he was originally accused by the Avengers and most of S.H.I.E.L.D. of collaborating with the Hydra faction, the ensuing chaos helped Fury and the rest of his most trusted allies to trace the Hydra faction secretly operating in Texas by its then governor, Drew Daniels, which cleared his name from being involved with Hydra's schemes when they found out that Hydra had been covertly utilizing most technology and weaponry which he had previously worked on but officially shut down before stepping down from his directorship. Thanks to Fury's assistance with his data, Captain America was able to apprehend Daniels, but it had yet to answer Fury's infuriating questions to find where the rest of the Zodiac's activities could be hiding and operating on unused L.M.D.s as Hydra intends to weaponize them for a larger plot.
In the meantime, when America seemed to fall apart as a whole nation under the recent developments, Fury delayed his investigation and started fighting against militia armed with sentinels and his remaining limited yet highly-operational L.M.D.s — among other tech S.H.I.E.L.D. had confiscated from the Texas Hydra faction — to help S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and the rest of the heroic Ultimates. Responding to such urgent situation, old man Fury would later rush in to the Triskelion as he directly assisted his son and the heroes fight off the threat of the anti-government forces until 2014, an event that later spiraled into the global conflict known as Ultimate War.
Final Sacrifice
At the moment of sudden catastrophe that was the infiltration on the Triskelion wherein every L.M.D. which could help them fell to the hands and bullets of the enemy, Fury had no other choice but to do something that he vowed to never do ever again before. Out of self-sacrifice for his allies and his own son, Nick made the decision of injecting himself with the last known serum of the Senility Formula, something that was always been hidden in his pocket ever since he retired, in order to save his son from several Hydra super-soldiers who infiltrated the Triskelion to begin with. He managed to defeat and seemingly kill all of the super-soldiers as they try and make their way escaping the surrounded facility, but the efforts he exerted against the soldiers inevitably costed his own life after he used too much of his strength, degenerating all of the cells in his body that slowly killed him in the end, much to his own son and allies' devastation, who mourned his passing.
Honorable Legacy
The Manhattan neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen (the birthplace of General Fury), specifically the Clinton Church, was the very place Fury has held the funeral for his own father. Only the heroes that knew him personally were there along with almost a thousand members of retired and active operatives who once loyally serve alongside him since the days of World War II, including Steve Rogers, Dum Dum Dugan, Logan Howlett, Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, the original and current Howling Commandos rosters, his illegitimate daughter Dawn DeFabio along with her husband and children, as well as several more others who aspired and respected him and his service for the country and in the name of peace. To honor of his memory, Rogers and a few of his closest friends and associates, gave an eulogy at the funeral in the place of Fury (Jr.), who discovered a secret message from his father in case he dies or disappears without having to accomplish his final mission on the Zodiac faction of Hydra.
Fury's son disappeared from the funeral with Dugan and the Howling Commandos to avenge the General and fulfill his unfinished will of tracking down the Zodiac headquarters, in which they found out how a sentient yet deranged L.M.D. named Max had been operating his old projects under his name and appearance. Even after Max's defeat and the destruction of the Zodiac facility which wouldn't be possible if it weren't for Dugan's sacrifice, Fury's son would also commence on another mission to hunt down own other loose Hydra commanders (i.e. Baron von Strucker, Viper, Elisa Sinclair), saying that he inspired a lot of lives for almost several decades throughout his altruistic deeds as a soldier, a co-founder, and a former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and spoke more on what else could be the best qualities about him and the legacies that he left in this world before his untimely passing. Subsequently, Fury was buried at the Calverton National Cemetery, the same graveyard wherein his fallen comrades had also rested (mostly his World War II allies), including his late lover and the mother of his child, Katherine Jones.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Senility Formula: Even before his son by the Infinity Formula, he already volunteered to be injected by a recreated version of the Super-Soldier Serum, which granted him to gain superhuman abilities, same as the original serum. This made his extent at joining and winning several wars for more than a year, until Nick had been experiencing some side effects that he would age a little bit every time he exert his strength. The more he exerted himself, the faster he aged, which is due to his protein in his DNA being ravaged by oxidants and him suffering from oxidated stress. This side effect had progressed so far that, while Nick was chronologically 30, he looked as though he was in his mid 50's after a year with his powers, eventually turning into an old man.
Because of this, the intoxicating serum had to be removed out of his system, days during the middle of the Cold War. Out of self-sacrifice, he later injected himself with the last formula in order to save his son during the Nimrod Invasion. He manages to fight off the super-soldiers, but at the same time it costed 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.
- Limited Immortality
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Acrobatics
- Superhuman Endurance
- Superhuman Metabolism
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Abilities
- Master Martial Artist
- Master Tactician and Strategist
- Expert Marksman
- Weapons Proficiency
- Multilingual
- Expert Vehicular driver
Strength level
- Class 15+
Weaknesses
- One-Eye
- Accelerated Aging
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Uniform (formerly)
- Life-Model Decoys (formerly; destroyed)
Transportation:
- Various S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicles (formerly)
Weapons:
- Several Life-Model Decoys of himself (destroyed)
- Needle Pistol (formerly)
- 45 Caliber Automatic (formerly)
- German Luger in 9mm Parabellum (formerly)
- Walther PPK in 9 mm Parabellum (formerly)
- Ingram MAC-10 machine pistol in 45 caliber (formerly)
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: S.H.I.E.L.D. Vol 1 3
Trivia
- Before his eventual retirement, General Nicholas Fury has served a total of over ninety deployments and missions of espionage throughout his lifetime which included World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Dominican Civil War, and the first half of the Cold War.
- Even as his aging had rapidly accelerated due to the side-effects of the failed Senility Formula, the powerless Fury kept on partaking in domestic and international missions as a spy, sometimes even working alongside his son and guiding him in significant missions, until his eventual retirement in the late 1980s.
- Since the death of his wife Katherine Jones, Fury was known to have carelessly engaged in unattached flings with countless women, claiming he could never love again until he decided to stop his debauchery and got help to get in better shape and state of mind, realizing its not what Katherine would've wanted for their son. In his final years, Fury had met his illegitimate daughter named Dawn DeFabio from his old lover, Shirley DeFabio.
- While Dawn didn't forgive Fury, the latter nevertheless offered her services from S.H.I.E.L.D. if she needed help, something that came to fruition when she and her family were protected and evacuated by the agency during Ultimate War and would later attend Fury's funeral to thank him in his grave as she briefly met her half-brother.
See Also
- Appearances of Nicholas Fury, Sr. (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Nicholas Fury, Sr. (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Nicholas Fury, Sr. (Earth-61615)
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