"I have known countless soldiers, enough to man a dozen armies. Yet two I always wander back to – both conundrums, both such sublime expressions of the very soul of war as to stagger God in Heaven...They are Americans who should come as no surpise."
Le Tron Giap
Get Fury is a Marvel Comics MAX imprint mini-series written by Garth Ennis and with art by Jacen Burrows. Set in the same world as Ennis' Punisher Max series and his various Nick Fury Max series.
It's February 1971, there is a war raging in Vietnam, and Nick Fury has been captured by the NVA after his helicopter went down at the Cambodian border. At this moment, they don't quite understand that they have in their possession a man who knows enough secrets to damage the United States beyond comprehension. The C.I.A., however, DOES realize this and they can't risk their enemy getting those secrets, so they dispatch the most deadly man in the U.S. military — Captain Frank Castle.
This series contains examples of:
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: One of the North Vietnamese soldiers kills a prisoner with a machete sharp enough to cleave away part of his skull without popping his eyeball.
- Author Tract: The MP sergeant's rant against the Elites Are More Glamorous mindset echoes that made by an old and bitter Fury in Fury: My War Gone By.
- Badass in Distress: The premise of the series. Nick Fury, noted to be the most accomplished soldier in the U.S. military and one of the most dangerous men in the world, is introduced as a captive of the North Vietnamese.
- Buried Alive: When Williams, one of the soldiers taken prisoner alongside Fury, collapses from de-hydration, their North Vietnamese captors opt to bury him alive in a shallow ditch rather than risk him slowing them down.
- Call-Back:
- Giap's introduction in the first issue includes scenes taken from the Indochina War segment of Fury: My War Gone By and the final battle from Born.
- Castle's previous mission with Nick from Fury: My War Gone By is referred back to when he's given the debriefing on his current mission, and their history with each other is why he's picked in the first place.
- Foregone Conclusion: Given Fury's presence in the modern age (he outlives Castle), it's obvious Castle won't kill him.
- Framing Device: The series begins with a narration by Le Trong Giap, a retired Vietnamese General from Fury: My War Gone By providing an introduction on the history of these versions of Nick Fury and Frank Castle.
- He Knows Too Much: Why the C.I.A. agents who recruit Frank want him to kill Fury rather than rescue him. Fury's knowledge of U.S. intelligence operations and the U.S.'s actions in Southeast Asia would seriously damage/discredit the U.S. should any of them get out (especially since he was once involved in an operation to cover up a drug-smuggling ring run by American government employees).
- Jerkass Has a Point: The MP sergeant sent to round up dogs (due to fears of rabies) gets refused point-blank by a soldier, with his captain (Frank) doing nothing. The MP is more than justified in yelling at both, and then starts ranting about Special Forces always needing the regular grunts to rescue them, leading to more deaths. Castle counters with Special Forces being the only reason the US knows anything about the movements of the NVA and VC, the sergeant asks in turn if it isn't Special Forces stirring up the hornets' nest, and the confrontation ends before things get too heated thanks to another soldier arriving to take Castle to Saigon.
- Mercy Kill: While the C.I.A. clearly want Fury killed because he could possibly reveal U.S. classified info, General Mackie (Frank's superior) takes the time to add that Fury also deserves a better death than to be paraded around by the North Vietnamese as a trophy before being submitted to unspeakable torture to get him to reveal everything that he knows. Considering the fate that befalls the two soldiers captured alongside Fury in the same issue, the General has a point.
- Mildly Military: In his third tour of duty, Castle cares far less about discipline and showing the proper respect to other soldiers than back in Punisher: The Platoon, letting a soldier mouth off to an MP and keeping a human skull from a napalm victim on display at his base (he says it's good for morale).
- Troll: Giap starts the story by saying that food, drink and sex no longer have any appeal for him at his age, and the only thing left is mischief. Though it also shows that, like Fury, he too has been utterly burned out by all the wars he has fought and the people that he has lost, in addition to the disillusionment that he feels on account of the cause he had fought for so long ending up being a full-circle revolution.
- The Vietnam War: Set in 1971, during Frank's final tour in Vietnam and not long before the events of The Punisher: Born.
