Nick fury who is he

Wolverine's brainwashing was reversed just in time to help fend off the dozens of brainwashed mutants attacked the Helicarrier and S. The Helicarrier was destroyed, S. Fury eventually uncovered that many tech-themed criminals were being supplied high technology through the Latverian prime minister Lucia von Bardas. He presented the evidence to the President, who decided to do nothing about it. Apparently, because the U. He then somehow managed to cover all of this up and brainwashed everyone but Widow and Johnson into forgetting what happened.

A year later, von Bardas was found to be alive and sent tech-theme villains against the participants of the Secret War. She then linked all of the tech together to create and antimatter bomb capable of destroying the States. However, only Daisy's timely intervention halted her insane plan. In fact, a Life-Model Decoy was in his place, which he used to explain that he's going underground and hoped that they would one day understand why he did this.

In the aftermath, Fury is no longer in charge of S. Fury's old supporters such as Dum Dum Dugan were marginalized as much as possible in an attempt to put a gap between S.

With the outbreak of the superhero Civil War , Nick remained in hiding, using old decommissioned S. Fury allowed Cap and his Secret Avengers to use one of these as their base, and helped their cause, most notably the efforts of the reformed Winter Soldier. Fury was long aware of the Skrull plans before the Skrulls even revealed themselves, after an impostor posing as Contessa de la Fontaine attempted to seduce him and extract S.

He became suspicious and killed her. He subsequently went into hiding and began assembling a new team of Howling Commandos , composed of unregistered superpowered young people, personally trained by Fury himself, to combat this threat. However, the Hydra doctors who attempted to restore her powers were actually Skrull agents, who used her DNA so that their queen Veranke could take her place.

Fury brought his Commandos directly into the fray in New York City, killing Skrulls while helping evacuate civilians and downed heroes when the invasion began. After a brief discussion with Norman Osborn , Iron Man , and then a direct encounter with the Skrulls , the battle between the entire Skrull army and the gathered heroes and villains ensued.

After the battle was over, Iron Man and other Avengers took down the fleet and Iron Man brought down a ship carrying the original heroes who were replaced with Skrulls including Dum Dum Dugan and a number of S.

Once they recognized Fury, he teleported his entire team away. With Fury as, on a technicality, a government fugitive for his Secret War, it was presumed that his team was also aiding and abetting a fugitive and may also be warranted for arrest. Their existence had been made public and the team's objective of defeating the Skrulls had been achieved, their current purpose was unknown.

Fury investigated a covert S. Analyzing its contents, Fury discovered that S. Realizing that all his work had been a big lie, he gathered his Commandos to prepare to counter the renewed HYDRA threat and to overthrow the corrupt H.

But to defeat two opponents controlling massive armies, Fury needed an army of his own. Fury reactivated the services of John Garrett , needing his help in determining the allegiance of a former S. Garrett returned from a successful mission, determining that Waters was working for an unknown group who was highly connected in the government.

Therefore, Fury broke into Avengers Tower, where he was coerced by Osborn himself into interrogating Waters. He then escaped with the data, learning that there was a group called Leviathan, much like Hydra, which was founded by the Soviet government. A month later, Fury had his army assembled. He introduced Daisy to other team leaders, Alexander Pierce and Mikel Fury and told them that their teams would work together for the coming storm.

While Fury remained underground, allowing Steve Rogers to take official command of the super-spy side of things, he remained in contact with Earth's heroes and monitored their activities. He provided the New Avengers with a special serum, created as a combination of the Super-Soldier Serum and the Infinity Formula, to help Mockingbird when she was shot during a raid on a H.

He remains immortal due to trace amounts of the formula in his body. When the Watcher 's armory was stolen and one of his eyes was taken from him by the Orb , Doctor Midas and the Exterminatrix , Nick Fury arrived at the Watcher's Citadel in order to investigate who was the culprit. Uatu refused to tell him, as it was his duty not to act but only watch. After realizing that the Watcher's eyes were where the things he had witnessed were saved, and that the only way for him to stop the criminals before they could do anything was to have one of the eyes, to have their identities revealed to him, Fury killed the Watcher and took the remaining eye.

While an LMD of him and the Avengers led an investigation to find out who attacked the Watcher, Fury determined that his life was coming to a close, and that he needed to find a replacement for his position as the Man on the Wall. He secretly contacted them for an investigation which had the apparent objective to find the killer of Uatu. By other means, all the heroes selected by Fury were brought together to a secret satellite, where they found the aged Nick Fury.

When Fury got an alert that the body of the LMD left with the Avengers had self-destructed because someone was trying to investigate it, he took one of the Watcher's eyes from Bucky and enclosed himself in a secure room, as he tried to activate the second eye he had all this time.

When the Avengers arrived at the satellite, as Iron Man tracked down the signal from the LMD, Fury confronted the heroes, equipped with an armor while holding the two eyes of the Watcher, claiming that his eyes had been opened. Fury managed to repel the heroes and get back to the Watcher's citadel, [70] where Doctor Midas was trying to acquire more power than he had when he attacked the citadel.

Fury fought Midas' Mindless Ones, during which one of the Watcher's eyes was taken from him by the Orb, and was almost defeated, until the heroes chosen by Fury got to him, and also managed to get the confession from him that he was the one who had killed Uatu. Fury then confronted Midas, who was becoming more powerful by absorbing the powers from Uatu's corpse. By forcing Midas to absorb the power of the Watcher's eye he had left, Fury overloaded him and killed the villain in an explosion, which also seemingly killed Fury.

After the explosion, the other Watchers punished Fury for his many sins by turning him into a chained silent observer of Earth, forcing him to watch but never interfere, as the Unseen. Due to the powers of the Watcher, the Unseen caught notice of the emergence of a creature called the Time-Eater that devoured entire timelines faster than new ones could be created.

In order to investigate the Time-Eater, the Unseen used the Tallus to lure Blink to the Blue Area of the Moon, so she could use her experience of Multiversal exploration to assemble a new incarnation of the Exiles.

A group of Watchers appeared to punish him for breaking the vow of non-interference, and in the subsequent altercation the Tallus was shattered, sending the Exiles flying into the timestream. Following the attempt of the plant-like alien race named the Cotati to take over the universe, their advanced and mysterious weapons were confiscated by the Avengers and the Fantastic Four and analysed during a rendezvous on the Moon.

With the Elder of the Universe the Profiteer failing to recognize their origin despite her ample knowledge, the weapons were left behind. When the Unseen collected the weapons to study them himself, a reaction caused Uatu to fully manifest himself and emerge from Fury's eye. Still holding Nick accountable for his murder, the Watcher enlisted Fury to act as his operative. When Stark insisted that there was no cure and that he had looked for every single known element to replace his Palladium Arc Reactor and found nothing, Fury informed Stark there was indeed a way to cure his infection and he just had not found it yet.

Fury promised S. Fury and Tony Stark discuss the Arc Reactor. Fury and Tony Stark returned to Stark's home , where they discussed the history of the Arc Reactor , as Fury then claimed it was based on unfinished technology while Stark argued that it was finished but only really worked when he and Ho Yinsen had miniaturized it and put it in his chest. Fury, however, explained that Howard Stark believed the Arc Reactor was merely a stepping stone to something greater, as it would begin an incredible energy race across the world.

Fury tells Stark about all of his father 's work. Fury then began providing information on the background of Anton Vanko , the father of Ivan Vanko , who had recently attempted to kill Stark, before he revealed that Howard Stark was, in fact, one of the founding members of S. Fury and Natasha Romanoff provided Stark with information and materials from his father, which proved instrumental in finding a replacement power source for his personal Arc Reactor.

Fury leaves Tony Stark to continue his work. Fury left Phil Coulson at Stark's mansion with orders not to allow him to leave until he had found a cure for his infection. Fury told Stark that he would be keeping his eye on him before leaving. Fury brings Tony Stark for a meeting. Fury met with Tony Stark once again after Stark had successfully managed to fix his Arc Reactor and had gone on to defeat Whiplash during the attack on the Stark Expo.

Once Fury arrived, he had found Stark looking over a brief for the Avengers Initiative which he then claimed he did not want Stark to read, instead of handing him Natasha Romanoff 's assessment of Stark himself during her undercover mission with Stark. Fury and Tony Stark discuss his review. Reading the assessment in which Romanoff claimed he contained compulsive behavior and self-destructive tendencies, with textbook narcissism.

However, while Iron Man had been approved by Romanoff to join the Avengers , since Stark had proven himself unsuitable for the Avengers due to all of his recent actions, he was rejected, with Fury instead considering recruiting James Rhodes to the position, as Fury instead offered to recruit Stark's services only as a consultant. Fury's offer being turned down by Tony Stark. Standing up and shaking his hand, Stark told Fury that he could not afford his services before going to walk out.

However, before he left, Stark then agreed to be the consultant as long as Fury helped him convince Senator Stern to present him and Rhodes with the medals for all their bravery in defeating Whiplash, which Fury agreed to. Fury agreeing to Tony Stark 's one request.

Fury ordered Romanoff to meet Samuel Sterns to take any papers on Banner, as Romanoff took Sterns into custody, having shot him through the leg having also witnessed Sterns' incomplete transformation.

Fury first introduces himself to Erik Selvig. Fury's recruitment drive turned to people who had been involved in a destructive incident in Puente Antiguo , New Mexico. Impressed by the work he had seen and the discoveries that had been made, Fury had summoned Culver University astrophysics professor Erik Selvig , who had been associated with all the recent incidents, to the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility , greeting him in a hallway. Fury discusses Selvig and Jane Foster 's work. While Selvig joked that the S.

Fury then drew the scientist's attention to a secure, portable storage case he had kept within the facility. Fury decides to show Erik Selvig the Tesseract. Fury revealed a glowing cube within the case and suggested that it was a source of immense power, although nobody had been able to determine how to tap all the power. Selvig accepted the challenge to investigate the object further. Finally satisfied with his work, the Council decided to increase the funding for the agency while expanding jurisdictions for S.

Fury introduces himself to Steve Rogers. A year following the big week, Fury's Avengers Initiative was slowly losing traction by the time another potential recruit was found. Steve Rogers , the world's first supersoldier, who had been frozen in the Arctic ever since his battle against the Red Skull all the way back during World War II , and he had someone managed to miraculously survive his frozen entombment for almost seventy years.

Fury explains the situation to Steve Rogers. Fury oversaw Rogers's recovery and rehabilitation as he was placed in the S. Headquarters within Times Square until he awoke. Fury then personally intercepted Rogers when the man awoke and escaped into the heart of New York City since he had become utterly confused about his surroundings as he had no knowledge of what had transpired in the world since the s and was shocked to see the world around him and the advancements in technology.

Fury asks whether Steve Rogers will be alright. Once Fury had explained the situation, he then saw that Rogers was having a hard to taking in the new information, as he looked around at the new world while Fury's S. Seeing how distressed he was, Fury questioned if Rogers would be alright, as Rogers noted he had a date with Peggy Carter which he had subsequently missed due to being trapped in the ice for so many decades, unsure if Carter was actually still alive or not.

Fury standing with Phil Coulson and Maria Hill. With little to show for his efforts with bringing the Avengers together, Fury shelved his plan and had begun focusing on weaponry instead.

Fury's Phase 2 , as the offshoot idea came to be called, involved re-engineering weapons technology that had emerged in the hands of HYDRA years earlier during World War II , as well as another cutting edge, or alien technology. The Tesseract , which he had assigned Erik Selvig to investigate, formed a significant part of this puzzle which Fury kept a close eye on throughout Selvig's experiments. Fury giving Maria Hill her evacuation orders. When the Tesseract had begun suddenly emitting unexpectedly high levels of Gamma Radiation , Fury was quick to personally take charge of the operation.

Fury ordered the evacuation of the base and Phase 2 prototypes to be moved to a safe distance while questioning how bad the situation was, to which Coulson then explained he did not know. Fury also found Hill questioning his plan for evacuation and his current priorities, believing that they should be focused on trying to control the Tesseract however they could.

Fury studies the Tesseract 's unusual activity. Fury then ordered his updates from Selvig and was informed that the Tesseract's activities were unexplainable at this point, as Selvig had explained that due to the Tesseract being its own energy source they could not shut down the power.

Fury listened while Selvig explained that despite them preparing for the situation as best they could, this was difficult to control, noting that it was emitting some low levels of Gamma Radiation, which Fury recalled had turned Bruce Banner into Hulk , as he noted that Gamma could be harmful.

Fury requested to speak to Clint Barton , as Selvig noted that he was watching them. Fury and Hawkeye witnessing Loki 's arrival. Barton then joined Fury to give him his report on the situation as it continued unfolding, Barton was convinced that Selvig was not to blame and instead explained his theory that the Tesseract was a door to the other end of space, noting that it was possible that this door was being opened from the other side.

Barton's theory was soon proved correct as the Tesseract opened a portal that allowed Loki to arrival to Earth. Seeing Loki was armed with his Scepter , Fury initially tried to reason with him, but Loki responded by killing much staff in the laboratory, before using the Mind Stone inside the Scepter to turn Selvig, Barton and other agents into his own personal slaves.

Fury desperately attempts to reason with Loki. Defenseless against Loki's power, Fury made a desperate attempt to escape with the Tesseract, pulling it out of its container and trying to leave without being seen. However, Loki ordered him to stop before introducing himself as Loki of Asgard , while Selvig then realized that Loki was the brother of Thor. Knowing that the energy levels above them were causing serious damage to the facility, Fury stalled Loki by questioning Loki on his true scheme for the Earth, however, when they discovered that Fury was stalling while he waited for the building to implode, Loki ordered Barton to shoot Fury in the chest and take the Tesseract.

Fury survived being shot due to wearing a Bulletproof Vest and had managed to get back onto his feet, before getting onto the radio to inform Maria Hill of Barton's betrayal and ordering her to do what she could to attempt to stop Barton from escaping with Loki and the Tesseract. With the energy from the Tesseract going critical over his head, Fury ran through the facility to get back upstairs and make his escape, avoiding pieces of debris as the facility fell apart around him until Fury made it to a helicopter.

Once in the air, Fury witnessed the entire facility implode, killing everybody who was still inside. Determined not to lose sight of the Tesseract due to the fear that it's incredible power in Loki's hands could cause mass destruction, Fury had managed to get ahead of Barton's Jeep just as it came out of a secret entrance to the now destroyed facility, as they had left behind Hill whose own jeep had become trapped underneath much of the collapsed rubble but survived.

Although Hawkeye attempted to drive out of sight of the helicopter, Fury had then opened up his door and began shooting down at them, willing to kill Hawkeye if it meant they could stop Loki from making his escape with the Tesseract. Fury furiously shooting at the escaping Loki. However, before Fury could land a successful gunshot and stop the jeep's escape in time, he was then quickly shot down with a single powerful blast fired from Loki's Scepter which had destroyed the tail rotor, as the Helicopter began violently spinning out of control and finally crash-landed onto the ground, with Fury managing to leap to safety moments before the impact.

Fury had survived the crash and continued to shoot at Loki until he ran out of bullets and watched in dismay while Hawkeye drove Loki into the distance along with Selvig and the Tesseract, with Fury unable to do anything to stop them, with Fury now standing alone in the ruins of the destroyed facility. With Loki now out of sight, Fury got on his radio and confirmed that both Coulson and Hill were still alive following the facility implosion, ordering them to get every S.

Fury then ordered Coulson to get back to base as their mission was the level seven and they were now at war. With that, Fury reactivated the Avengers Initiative , sending out his team to recruit Iron Man and Hulk with the intention of fighting the forces Loki would send against them with the Tesseract's power. Fury argues with Gideon Malick about his plan. Desperate for a solution to the problem of Loki 's possession of the Tesseract , Fury informed the World Security Council that he was activating the Avengers Initiative.

While they discussed what happened, Hawley had suggested called Thor but Fury made it clear that was unlikely as Gideon Malick argued that the Avengers were too unstable to make a team to be relied on, but Fury insisted that this war would be won with his soldiers. Fury finds Steve Rogers training in the gym. Ignoring Malick's concerns, Fury met with Steve Rogers in his gym, where he was still trying to cope with having been asleep for nearly seventy years, with Fury suggesting that he should be out celebrating his survival and enjoying the new world he was in.

Rogers, however, noted that when he disappeared, World War II was still being fought and he had only recently learned that it was won soon afterwards, although Rogers was still unsure of what America had lost. Fury then noted that they made some mistakes along the way, and confessed that some of these mistakes had been made very recently. Fury recruits Steve Rogers into the Avengers.

Fury then informed Rogers that he had come there with a mission for him, noting that he was trying to save the entire world before handing Rogers the file about the Tesseract , which he noted had been found in the ocean by Howard Stark while he had still been searching for Rogers in the s. Fury then explained what S. Fury convinces Steve Rogers to join the fight.

As Rogers then questioned who took the Tesseract from them, Fury explained how Loki had taken it and was from another world , as they made a bet over whether or not anything could still surprise Rogers now he was in this new world. As Rogers left, Fury had asked for any more information, with Rogers telling him the best thing that could be done with it would be losing it in the ocean.

Although Rogers was unhappy when he learned that S. Fury takes over command of the Helicarrier. With time running out to stop Loki from completing his goals of world domination, Fury had all their key candidates for the Avengers found and brought onto the Helicarrier , with the assistance of both Natasha Romanoff and Phil Coulson , who gave each of them all a full briefing about Loki and the plan to find and stop him before it was too late.

Fury had the Helicarrier flown into the air and put on clocking so that their mission could continue without being interrupted as Maria Hill relayed his orders. Fury is given ten dollars from Steve Rogers. With the Helicarrier now in the air and almost completely invisible to the human eye, Fury had then turned his attention oval to their now assembled Avengers Initiative.

Having seen the incredible sight of the advanced technology that the Helicarrier was now displaying and the scale of S. Fury personally greets Doctor Bruce Banner. Fury welcomed them all onto the ship, shaking Bruce Banner 's hand and personally thanking him for agreeing to help them. Banner asked Fury how long he would be required to stay with S.

Now feeling more confident, Banner suggested that they begin scanning for Gamma Radiation to locate the Tesseract while Fury had ordered Romanoff show him to his laboratory where he began focusing all his efforts on searching the Earth , getting help from laboratories around the world to find Loki and Erik Selvig as quickly as possible.

Fury sends Captain America to capture Loki. Not long after the team came together, Loki had made his first public appearance in Germany which had been seen by Jasper Sitwell , so Fury had then sent Rogers to capture him with the Quinjet and bring him back to the Helicarrier. Loki was apprehended by the combined strength of Captain America and Iron Man , heralding an unexpected further addition to the collection of extraordinary people when Loki's adopted brother Thor arrived, making demands of his own for Loki's extradition.

Fury interrogating the captured Loki in his cell. With Loki having been successfully captured within Germany , he was brought onboard the Helicarrier under armed guard and locked up inside the cage designed to keep Hulk.

Fury then spoke to Loki personally, threatening that if he made any attempt to escape than his cell would be dropped off the ship and fall thirty thousand feet to the ground, as Loki noted how the cell had not been designed for him, to which Fury then confirmed that it had in fact originally been designed for someone who was considerably stronger than Loki. Fury personally giving Loki his final warnings. Despite the threat, however, Loki appeared to remain confident and mocked the Avengers throughout the interrogation, questioning how desperate Fury must be to bring together such a poor team together in order to stop him.

Fury answered this by listing all of Loki's crimes, including threatening the Earth with war while killing innocent lives. Loki had mocked Fury by claiming that he had lost his chance to use the Tesseract to gain unlimited power and, although Fury had merely scoffed at the statement, making it clear that Loki no longer had any power, mocking him by offering a magazine as he walked away.

Having left Loki alone in his cell, Fury then rejoined the Avengers who were still discussing what Loki's true plans could be, finding Bruce Banner and Tony Stark discussing how Loki could use the Tesseract and harness its power for his own means.

As they agreed to begin studying Loki's Scepter and how that worked, Fury then expressed his desire to understand how Loki had just recently used the Scepter to change both Hawkeye and Erik Selvig to his own personal slaves, while also making a comparison with the Flying Monkeys , which was a reference which Captain America was delighted to understand. Fury speaks with Thor about Loki 's schemes. Having discussed what Loki had said with the Avengers, Fury later spoke to Thor , who had been discussing Asgard 's wars on Earth with agent Phil Coulson and commenting on how Loki's fury at him had resulted in him sending the Destroyer to Puente Antiguo and nearly killing several innocent lives.

Fury asked Thor if he felt he could learn what Loki's plans were with the Tesseract, but Thor simply remained uncertain, as he told Fury that Loki's mind has snapped and he now not only wanted power but vengeance on him and his family for the slights against him since learning of the truth about his past. When Thor questioned what it was that Fury was asking him to do, fearing that he may soon be called upon to end his own brother's life, Fury, in turn, questioned what Thor was now prepared to do in order to keep the Earth safe from Loki's wrath.

However, believing that they had gained the upper hand over him, Thor had then questioned what possible risk Loki could be to the Earth now that he was his prisoner onboard the Helicarrier , Fury instead then raised his concerns about Loki's seeming overconfidence and noted that he seemed glad to be on the ship unlike everybody else who was there with him. Fury sees Tony Stark has hacked S. As Fury sent Natasha Romanoff to interrogate Loki and trick him into giving away his schemes as she seemingly tried to bargain for Clint Barton 's life, Fury was unaware of tensions between the Avengers as they searched for the Tesseract.

Eventually, Fury learned of this as he saw a warning that the Helicarrier was now being hacked, allowing someone to access all of S. Fury questions what Tony Stark is really doing. Angered by this, Fury then went to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner as he questioned what they were doing and why they were not trying to locate the Tesseract , only for Banner to explain how they had been doing that and figured out a system as they waited for the alert.

Stark then completed his hack into S. As Fury then attempted to defend his actions to Rogers by claiming that they had simply gathered everything they could on the Tesseract, he was interrupted by Stark who pulled up files proving that S.

As they were joined by Romanoff and Thor Banner was asked to leave the room since they now believed that he could be getting manipulated by Loki, only for Banner to then demand to know what S.

Fury explains why S. Finally, Fury confessed that the weapons were being built due to the recent arrival of all the Asgardians , pointing to the Battle of Puente Antiguo in which Loki had sent down the Destroyer which had been proven to have considerably more strength than S. While Thor insisted that the Asgardians only wanted peace with the Earth , Fury noted that they were not the only beings out there who they could not match or control. Thor, however, claimed that Fury's use of the Tesseract had brought Loki there, claiming that it was a signal that the Earth was ready for a higher form of war.

Fury argues with all the Avengers over secrets. When Stark insulted Fury's attempt to use a nuclear deterrent to end the crisis, Fury remained him of how Stark Industries had made their billions from selling their weapons.

This led to an intense argument with Rogers and Stark then debating the standards of being heroes, as Thor questioned Fury over whether or not Humans were more advanced than this, to which Fury had simply noted how they had never gone to Asgard and caused destruction, unlike Loki. While Banner claimed that the Avengers were a time bomb, Fury became concerned and recommended Banner step out of this situation.

Fury sees Bruce Banner almost losing control. Fury then watched as Rogers and Stark had continued their argument, until telling Romanoff to remove Banner from the room, leading to Banner becoming angry over the creation of a cell made to kill him, explaining that it was not possible to kill him, which he knew to attempt suicide previously. To their horror, the agitated Banner then picked up the Scepter as he had promised to explain his secret to remaining calm, as Rogers made him realize what was happening just as they got the signal on the Tesseract's location, as Banner then calmed down and went to check the result.

Fury being attacked by Hawkeye 's soldiers. However, just before Bruce Banner could inform Fury and the others of the Tesseract 's location, Loki played his hand, as Fury was caught off guard when the Helicarrier came under attack and their engine was destroyed in a daring commando raid by Loki's mind-controlled soldiers led by Hawkeye.

With one of their propellers completely destroyed , Fury ordered the Avengers to assemble as they all desperately attempted to regain control of the sudden deadly situation. Once he returned to his post on the bridge to take command of the situation, Fury ordered that the Helicarrier be positioned over water to ensure that if they fell out of the sky, they would not kill thousands of innocent lives below them, becoming annoyed as he had to give directions to the navigator about how to figure out where to turn to get over water.

Fury remained instrumental in controlling the current situation, ensuring that Captain America and Iron Man focused onto repairing the damaged propeller to ensure their safety while giving his orders to the other team members to finally regain control. Fury defending the Helicarrier 's control room. However, just as they were taking back control, Maria Hill noticed a grenade being thrown into the control room, causing an explosion which knocked Hill backwards.

Reacting swiftly, Fury then hid and allowed Loki's soldiers to ensure the room before he ambushed them, as Fury grabbed one from behind and took a hold of his gun before he gunned him and two other soldiers down.

When another soldier then almost took Fury unprepared, Hill managed to shoot him dead, before Fury and Hill joined forces and held Loki's forces at bay to keep them from managing to take over their control room. Fury shooting at Hawkeye and all his soldiers. With the attack still continuing, Fury had then engaged in a fierce gunfight alongside Hill, keeping all Loki's soldiers at bay, until Hawkeye joined the fight and had fired several explosive arrows at Fury and Hill, causing explosions which killed multiple S.

Just as Fury saw Hawkeye and shot at him to keep him back, Hawkeye managed to shoot his hacking arrow at the control box, causing the entire Helicarrier to lose control, as Fury and Jasper Sitwell looked on in horror as they began falling from the sky, until Iron Man eventually succeeded at restarting the engines with Captain America's help. Knowing that Hawkeye was running the attack, Fury then sent Black Widow to go out and personally engage him while also ordering one of his fighter jets to fire at Hulk in order to force him to escape the Helicarrier before he could tear it all apart, which resulted in Hulk furiously destroying the jet before disappearing having been thrown overboard.

During the aftermath of the battle, Thor and Hulk had been thrown off the Helicarrier , while Hawkeye had been captured in the aftermath of a fight with the Black Widow, during which Loki had also escaped onboard a Quinjet in all of the still ongoing chaos. Fury witnesses agent Phil Coulson 's demise. Fury had eventually found Phil Coulson severely wounded by Loki's hands, having been stabbed through the chest while he was attempting to stop Loki from getting away using the Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun , while Coulson apologized for failing to stop Loki from getting away.

Despite all Fury's efforts to keep him awake, Coulson's wounds were fatal, and Coulson died just as a medical team arrived, with his own final words telling Fury that the Avengers Initiative would never work unless they had someone to avenge.

Fury informed all of the other agents and the Avengers of Coulson's sudden death. Fury informs the Avengers of Coulson's death. Fury called a meeting with the last of the Avengers left on board the Helicarrier, Steve Rogers and Tony Stark , and showed Rogers all of Phil Coulson 's beloved collection of trading cards , which were now stained with Coulson's blood as Fury claimed that he had gotten them from Coulson's jacket when in reality he had taken them from Coulson's locker in the room that seeing them would inspire the team, reminding Rogers of how Coulson had never had a chance to get his hero to sign them as he had asked just before his death.

Fury discusses the Avengers Initiative. With great regret, Fury told Rogers and Stark their communications and idea of where the Tesseract currently was were all gone, along with both Thor and Bruce Banner who had also been recently thrown off their Helicarrier during all of the chaos, while noting that due to Coulson's death he had lost his one good eye, questioning if he had that coming to him.

Fury confessed to the pair that S. Fury attempts to inspire Tony Stark into action. Fury then explained to Rogers and Stark that Coulson had wanted to believe in heroes as he had designed the Avengers Initiative to bring together remarkable people to see if they could become something more, and become the team which could fight all of the battles that S.

As Fury had noted how Coulson had died while still believing in this Initiative and the concept of heroes, Stark got up and left the room out of grief and frustration over Coulson's death, as Fury regretfully confessed that it was an old fashioned notion. As he overlooked the skyline while looking at Coulson's trading cards himself, Maria Hill questioned Fury as Coulson kept his trading cards in his locker, not his jacket as Fury had claimed; Fury explained that he had used the cards to give the team the push they needed.

Fury had used Coulson's death to motivate the Avengers , hoping that Coulson's death would be a trigger that would finally unite the team. Despite the ethically questionable nature of the plan, it proved to be effective, as the Avengers were inspired to stop Loki and had set off onboard a Quinjet in pursuit of Loki shortly thereafter. Fury watches the Avengers battle Loki 's army.

With the team inspired by agent Phil Coulson 's death and wanting to avenge him, the Avengers Initiative had finally come to fruition, as the team traveled to New York City where they found Loki had activated the Tesseract , opening a portal above Stark Tower which had allowed his army of Chitauri to pour into New York, causing mass destruction and claiming hundreds of lives.

As the Avengers battled Loki's army, Fury watched the action from the Helicarrier , however, he soon discovered that his role in the Avengers' battle was not yet done. Fury argues with the World Security Council.

With their battle still raging, Maria Hill had approached Fury and then informed him that the World Security Council were demanding to speak with him. To his horror, Fury spoke to the Council who issued orders for Fury to send his nuclear missile directly into the vicinity of Manhattan in order to destroy Loki and his army, which Fury furiously refused to do, still stating that he would not just order the deaths of millions of innocent lives despite Gideon Malick 's insistence that they would lose everything in this war if they did not fire upon the invading force, before Fury had simply hung up his call with the Council.

Furious that Fury was disobeying a direct order from them to fire the nuclear missile, the Council had instead chosen to take away Fury's command of S. Hill was able to warn Fury of the launch and he ran onto the launchpad in his desperate attempt to stop the jet. Fury was able to shoot the jet with a rocket launcher causing it to crash but not kill the pilot, however, a second jet had been sent as well which Fury was unable to stop as it flew towards New York City while Fury looked on helplessly.

Fury watching Iron Man 's ultimate sacrifice. Fury called Tony Stark to warn him of the impending nuke, Stark was able to intercept the missile and fly it towards the Wormhole.

At the same time, Romanoff and Erik Selvig has figured out a way to close the Wormhole using the Scepter , giving Stark only seconds to lose the missile and escape.

Stark then flew through the Wormhole and destroyed the Chitauri Command Center , killing all of the invading aliens of the mothership. Stark barely survived the fall back onto Earth but was caught and saved by Hulk.

They looked across the city and determined they had won the war as they captured a bruised and beaten Loki yet again. Fury debriefs with the World Security Council. Now that the Avengers Initiative had ultimately succeeded, Fury's defiance of the World Security Council may not have been forgotten, but his methods and actions had saved the world. Fury then updated the Council members on the whereabouts of the Tesseract , which had been taken back to Asgard by Thor , despite Gideon Malick insisting that this was not Fury's decision to make, to which Fury simply claimed that he just had not argued with Thor.

Fury and Maria Hill discussing the Avengers. When the council asked the whereabouts of the Avengers , he told them that they were no longer being tracked as he believed that they had deserved the chance to go off the grid following their victory. When Hawley noted that Fury was putting them at risk by bringing the Avengers together, Fury informed her that they had successfully made it clear to every world that they were dangerous and there to protect Earth.

When Malick asked if making a statement of strength had been the point of this entire endeavor, Fury instead claimed that he had made a promise indirectly mentioning Carol Danvers , before he hung up the call to the Council.

Fury reassures Maria Hill about the Avengers. As Fury walked across the Helicarrier 's control room and overlooking the skyline, he was questioned by Maria Hill about what they would do if the world came under threat again, as now the team had gone their separate ways, with some now traveling to the other end of the universe.

Fury, however, resolved to call upon the Avengers should they be needed again, and made further assurances that they would come, why Hill asked him why he was so sure of this, he told her this would be that they would need them. With Hill now satisfied with the answer she walked away, leaving Fury overlooking the skyline. Fury watches Phil Coulson 's slow recovery. Unknown to the Avengers , Phil Coulson was brought back to life with S.

Fury and Phil Coulson discussing the Bus. Following the Battle of New York , with the planet now learning of the existence of extraterrestrials and demigods, criminals and terrorist organizations wanted to obtain new technologies and weapons left by the Chitauri. Fury knew that he has to do something about that, instructing Coulson to build an operative team to prevent this. Fury also had May keep him updated on Coulson for signs of mental deterioration.

He also warned him that Skye was a risk as she had previously been a member of the Rising Tide. Coulson wanted to consult with Thor , but Fury informed him that Thor had taken himself "off the grid". He took it. Nick Fury : Whoa, whoa, whoa. He took it? You're Iron Man and he just took it? The little brother walked in there, kicked your ass and took your suit? Is that possible? Natasha Romanoff : Well, according to Mr.

Stark's database security guidelines, there are redundancies to prevent unauthorized usage. Tony Stark : What do you want from me? Nick Fury : What do we want from you? What do you want from me? You have become a problem, a problem I have to deal with. Contrary to your belief, you are not the center of my universe.

I have bigger problems in the southwest region to deal with. Hit him! Tony Stark : [groans] Oh God, are you gonna steal my kidney and sell it? Could you please not do anything awful for five seconds?

What did she just do to me? That's lithium dioxide. It's gonna take the edge off. We're trying to get you back to work. Tony Stark : Give me a couple boxes of that. I'll be right as rain. Natasha Romanoff : It's not a cure, it just abates the symptoms.