History Characters / MCUNickFury

* LastNameBasis: He's almost always referred to as Fury. His mother, his friends, '''everybody''' calls him Fury. He even tells Carol that if he ever decides to have kids, they'll call him Fury.

* PapaWolf: He cares for Natasha Romanoff like a daughter, and shoot Alexander Pierce down when the latter tries to kill her.
* ParentalSubstitute: Samuel L. Jackson mentioned this was the type of relationship Fury and Black Widow have. It's most obvious in ''The Winter Soldier'' when Fury seemingly dies and she is really stricken as a result.

* DemotedToExtra: He's a central character in the first ''Avengers''-movie, but has significant less screentime in ''Age Of Ultron''. Also, after playing a big role in the MCU's first two phases, Fury is absent for most of Phase 3. The few appearances he does make are extremely short, such as sending a signal to Captain Marvel and getting dusted by Thanos in ''Infinity War'', attending the funeral of Tony Stark in ''Endgame'' and taking a vacation somewhere in space in ''Far From Home''.

** After only appearing in supporting roles for the entire franchise, Fury finally gets to be the main protagonist of an MCU project in ''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]''.

** [[spoiler:His reputation precedes him once again in ''Series/SecretInvasion'' when he returns to Earth after a several-year-long hiatus. While the Skrull rebels, especially Gravik, are not too worried about him because he's been out of the game for a long time, he quickly proves to be a huge SpannerInTheWorks, cementing why he's got this reputation. As the series goes on and he gets back in the groove, the Skrulls begin to visibly worry about his presence and it's shown even ''Gravik'' is starting to fear him once again, being the only one who could actually put a stop to their plans.]]

* CastingGag: The MCU is not Samuel L. Jackson's first [[Franchise/StarWars outer space adventure]].

* DemotedToExtra: After playing a big role in the MCU's first two phases, Fury is absent for most of Phase 3. The few appearances he does make are extremely short, such as sending a signal to Captain Marvel and getting dusted by Thanos in ''Infinity War'', attending the funeral of Tony Stark in ''Endgame'' and taking a vacation somewhere in space in ''Far From Home''.

** After being absent for the majority of Phase Three, he appears in TheStinger of ''Infinity War'' to be [[DeathByCameo erased from existence by Thanos]], and his only appearance in ''Endgame'' is a non-speaking role at Tony's funeral. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''Film/CaptainMarvel''.

* RetroactiveIdiotBall: ''Film/CaptainMarvel'' introduces the titular hero, who is more or less a {{Physical God}}dess, and establishes that Nick Fury knew how to contact her ever since 1995. This really begs the question as to why he didn't try to contact her [[Film/TheAvengers2012 when an alien invasion threatened Earth]], or [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron when a genocidal A.I. threatened Earth]], and why he waited until [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar half of the entirety of humanity started turning to dust, himself included]], to ''finally'' call for her help.

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/GerardoVasquez [from ''Film/IronMan1'' to ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'']; Creator/BlasGarcia [''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' onwards] (Latin-American Spanish dub); Miguel Ángel Jenner (European Spanish dub); Hideaki Tezuka [from ''Film/IronMan1'' to ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''], Naoto Takenaka [from ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' onwards] (Japanese dub), Paul Borne [''Film/IronMan1''], Creator/ThierryDesroses, [''Film/IronMan2'' onwards] (European French dub), Éric Gaudry [''Film/IronMan2'', ''Film/{{Thor}}'', and ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''], Benoît Rousseau [''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''], Patrick Chouinard [Phase 2 onwards] (Canadian French dub), Creator/MarcioSimoes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

* NervesOfSteel: Norse God with an alien army? Doesn't scare him. He takes action like he would for any other part of his job. It's not the world; just another problem that he will solve. In his own words, "Until the world stops spinning, we will act as though it will continue to do so."

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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/GerardoVasquez [from ''Film/IronMan1'' to ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'']; Creator/BlasGarcia [''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' onwards] (Latin-American Spanish dub); Miguel Ángel Jenner (European Spanish dub); Hideaki Tezuka [from ''Film/IronMan1'' to ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''], Naoto Takenaka [from ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' onwards] (Japanese dub), Paul Borne [''Film/IronMan1''], Creator/ThierryDesroses, [''Film/IronMan2'' onwards] (European French dub), Éric Gaudry [''Film/IronMan2'', ''Film/{{Thor}}'', and ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''], Benoît Rousseau [''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''], Patrick Chouinard [Phase 2 onwards] (Canadian French dub), Creator/MarcioSimoes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

The Director of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, a 'Level 10' agent, and campaigner for the Avengers Initiative. He comes to each of the heroes one by one, urging them to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in assembling a team to protect the world from its approaching threats. Despite being personally involved in recruiting them, though, he's a busy man and has many urgent responsibilities to juggle, ''including'' dealing with his superiors, the World Security Council. Consequently, he can't always be trusted, though he can be counted on to do what he feels is right.

* AntiHero: He's a practical, levelheaded man who's ultimately fighting for the good side, but he's also a [[TheChessmaster pragmatic manipulator]] and [[GuileHero isn't above deceiving]] [[ManipulativeBastard or lying to The Avengers]] to achieve his goals, such as when the team discovers that he was keeping secrets about using the Tesseract to develop weapons of mass destruction. Even Captain America became appalled with him. This drives a lot of the conflict with him - he keeps secrets and lies to the heroes' faces and feels no shame about it whatsoever.

* BadassNormal: Gods, aliens, a man with "breathtaking anger management issues"... all nothing he can't handle. [[spoiler:Taken up a notch in ''Secret Invasion''; not only does he reaffirm his skills in espionage and combat, but he's all but stated to be ''the'' biggest threat to the Skrull rebel alliance's plans, not because he's got crazy superpowers, but because he's ''Nick Fury.'' And no one invades Earth while he's still on it.]]

** [[spoiler: Fury himself would be on the receiving end of this trope in ''Secret Invasion''. He was revered by the Skrull refugees for saving them from the Kree and granting them refuge on Earth. However, over the years this has turned to resentment as he seems to have abandoned his promise to find the Skrulls a new planet to settle on and finally be able to stop hiding.]]

** He also makes one in the second episode of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''.

* TheChessmaster: As with Phil Coulson, this seems to be a mandatory skill for upper-level S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
* ConsistentClothingStyle: He primarily wears black clothing. He seems to have taken to wearing them in his later years, as he wore more varied clothing in ''Captain Marvel''.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Guy in a black leather jacket with a black eyepatch that drives a black car and is played by the always [[ScaryBlackMan scary]] Creator/SamuelLJackson, but runs the BigGood organization that is S.H.I.E.L.D..
* ADayInTheLimelight:

* DoNotCallMePaul: It's established in ''Captain Marvel'' ever since he was a child he has near exclusively gone by "Fury" instead of his given name Nick. Only his absolute closest associates are given the privilege to call him anything else, and anyone failing to refer to him as such when they ''should'' know better is a way for him to sniff out imposters.

** In ''The Winter Soldier'', he's '''furious''' that his old friend Alexander Pierce has been part of HYDRA for decades. The real kicker is Pierce is the one who made Fury in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D..

* GodzillaThreshold: He saw calling for Captain Marvel's help as an absolute last resort, because she could be anywhere in the universe doing heroics elsewhere and she told him not to page her unless it was a true emergency. Also, she's ridiculously powerful.

* HellBentForLeather: Fury's usual appearance has him wearing an expensive-looking black trench coat that flows down to his legs. He sometimes wears matching gloves with them.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: In Phase 1 and 2, he is the ultimate [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] and ManipulativeBastard. He's the super spy leading SHIELD and founding the Avengers. However, after the Blip and realizing he couldn't do anything against Thanos, he clearly has a crisis. When he comes back to Earth to fight in ''Secret Invasion'', nearly everyone of his former allies and enemies point out he isn't the same badass mastermind he was, having also no access to his old ressources anymore. He also has a far more rampaged look than in his previous appearances. He still is willing to do anything he can to protect Earth though.
* HumansAreWarriors: This was ThePlan behind the Avengers; to tell the universe not to mess with humans.

* MilitaryMaverick: Goes on his gut instinct instead of going along with [[ObstructiveBureaucrat the World Security Council]], which is why he trusted [[DysfunctionJunction the Avengers]] to defeat [[PhysicalGod Loki]]. This has been his approach since early in his career, as he was initially promoted to the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Alexander Pierce after he defied orders and rescued numerous hostages from Bogotá. However, it has the unintended effect of leading Pierce to believe that diplomacy is useless and that the best decisions are done by force.

* TheOathBreaker: The reason for the Skrulls aggression toward him throughout ''Secret Invasion''. After the events of ''Captain Marvel'' he promised the Skrull refugees a new home at the first possible opportunity. Decades later, he and Carol had not only not found a planet for them, but Fury's choice to actively leave Earth and focus on the S.A.B.E.R. station was the last straw in their hope for him to keep his word and lead to their increased militarization under Gravik.
* OhCrap: Gets a silent one when he sees Maria Hill disintegrate into ash right in front of him, followed by him immediately running to get his pager for Captain Marvel, recognizing it as a catastrophe big enough to finally call upon her power.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Subverted. While dealing with the situation with the elementals in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', Fury is oddly quite trusting of Quentin Beck in spite of his suspiciously flakey past, only realizing he's been had after Beck gives him an [[BlatantLies outrageously bad explanation]] for why the Elemental monsters have all fused into one. Then the [[TheStinger post-credits scene]] comes along, and it's revealed that Fury is actually Talos from ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', who isn't used to dealing with Earth-based situations and significantly more gullible than the real Fury. This trope was actually invoked by director Jon Watts, as he realized that in order for the plot of ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' to work, Fury would have to be uncharacteristically trusting of Quentin Beck's claims.
* OutOfFocus: Despite being a central figure in the early MCU, he was absent from almost all of Phase 3 until he had a cameo in TheStinger of ''Avengers: Infinity War''. 2019, the last year of Phase 3, is when the game '''really''' changed, as Nick Fury has prominent roles in ''Captain Marvel'', as well as a cameo in ''Avengers: Endgame'' and ''Spider-Man: Far From Home''.
* PapaWolf: He cares for Natasha Romanoff like a daughter, and shot Alexander Pierce down when the latter tried to kill her.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: Coulson and others at S.H.I.E.L.D. speculated about how Nick Fury lost the use of his left eye? He [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 "will neither confirm nor deny" that it was burned out by Kree torturers who invaded Earth.]] After all, nothing destroys the mystique of this intimidating injury quite like the humiliating truth of "having it scratched blind by an angry alien cat-monster that I accidentally annoyed by playing with her chin too much."

** On a more serious note, his actions in Bogotá left Pierce with the idea that diplomacy is sometimes useless and that force is the best way to resolve a situation.

* ArtificialIntelligence: An artificial intelligence is installed into the car, although unlike [[Film/IronMan J.A.R.V.I.S.]] or [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron F.R.I.D.A.Y.]], it's apparently non-sentient.

* CarFu: Since its flying capability has been damaged and it can't help Nick Fury to escape by flying, so it has to rely on ground fighting and deadly dodging to fight back HYDRA assassins.
* CoolCar: It is heavily-armored and equipped with A.I., a Gatling gun, and med-kit. Flight capability is also mentioned.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: An entire team of HYDRA assassins riddle it with assault rifle fire. Given how heavily armored the thing is, anything less wouldn't have even been a bother. When they get tired of their bullets bouncing off the glass, they go to Plan B: the assassins deploys a pneumatic battering ram to break the window. Fury responds with a minigun that takes out most of the assassins, and blows up their van and a squad car. This means they resort to Plan C: try to shoot at him during the resulting police chase. When Fury manages to trick the police cars into getting T-boned by a box rental truck, they resort to Plan D: have the Winter Soldier fire a sticky bomb that attaches itself to the underside of Fury's car and flips the car on its roof. Fury still escaped.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last time we see it is after the Winter Soldier heavily damaged it with his magnetic disk grenade. It's implied the police seized it as evidence.