As Talos was standing over him, he was stunned by Vers' photon blast, who had decided to come back and rescue Fury. Fury told Stark that he would be keeping his eye on him before leaving. [6], There was an idea, Stark knows this, called the Avengers Initiative. [23], I went to great pains to make sure you didn't die the first time. He was saved in part due to Professor Sternberg's Infinity Formula. Mysterio appears, and remarks that "Fury always had to die". intends to use him only as a consultant. This way, the MCU can keep things fresh while simultaneously ensuring that the MCU still looks familiar to longtime fans of the franchise. Otherwise, it carries no emotional weight. Fury joined Vers and Maria after Talos showed up at the house and wanted to make a deal with Vers in order to help him find the Light-Speed Engine's core. Fury realized that Vers was telling the truth, and deduced that the Coulson riding shotgun next to him was a Skrull impostor. 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. But with her energy being taken, she remains silent. ""You're going to disappear. As Fury instructed Hill to call control for a code red, she alerted him that she was disappearing herself, and he watched in horror with nothing he could do to save her. agents surrounded him. was compromised, as he knew the apartment was bugged. program. You know, had a space invasion, big car chase, got to watch an alien autopsy. Fury then went to go collect some of Vers' items with Monica, while Vers talked with Maria. So stand. September 10, 2022. The Helicarriers are capable of continuous suborbital flight, due to new Repulsor engines proposed by Stark, their guns can kill 1,000 targets per minute, and the satellites, launched from the Lemurian Star, a S.H.I.E.L.D. As Garrett continued to monologue about his plans, Fury was able to correct him when he misquoted one of Fury's speeches, making it clear that his mindset was all wrong. Despite some more considerable reluctance from World Security Council who had not believed in his theories, Fury had still continued his efforts and eventually managed to recruit both Iron Man and Captain America into their Initiative, ready for an incoming invasion. Shortly afterwards, an attempt is made on Fury's life by Hydra, which is revealed to have taken over S.H.I.E.L.D. 'You might want to come back - it's gone I won't be the actor who comes in and goes, in Cranford down quite well' I remember being in a house at 'I don't think I'd say that As his long week continued, Phil Coulson informed Fury about the Destroyer's attack on Puente Antiguo, while Fury had learned how Thaddeus Ross hacked S.H.I.E.L.D. 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. somehow be resurrected for the Disney+ series, Phase 4, the MCU will look considerably different, Marvel's Five New Avengers Characters Joining The MCU In 2020 Explained, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). Rather than hide in the shadows, Fury seemed to have completely disregarded all of the careful steps he took to eliminate his past and hide from Hydra. Fury reveals that although Pierce had deleted Fury's retinal scan from the system, Fury had a backup scan of his destroyed other eye. Nick Fury's downtown chase while nefarious forces and the Winter Soldier look to take him out is one of the most thrilling scenes not just in the movie, but the MCU at large. They all then went inside where Vers filled them in on the last six years of her life. 's systems as he had asked Fury what Phase 2 really was. Once he arrived at Pancho's Bar, Fury confronted Vers and proved that he was not a Skrull by answering questions about his past, including his small quirks, the name of his first pet, and details about his military career; memories that a Skrull couldn't fabricate. He did not. When Simmons awoke while being treated, however, she was able to provide him with the information he needed to find Phil Coulson. [4], At this juncture, we'd only like to use you as a consultant. From there, Fury, Vers, Talos, Maria, and Goose boarded the Quadjet, upgraded by Norex, and headed off to find the core. Shortly after the Battle of New York, Captain America remained with S.H.I.E.L.D. He spoke in coded language, claiming to have been thrown out of his house by his wife, who very few people knew about. I have bigger problems than you in the southwest region to deal with.Nick Fury to Iron Man. Nick Fury's death in the 'Winter Soldier' After the events at the end of The Avengers , Captain America becomes a S.H.I.E.L.D. Tell us in the comments! So he was taken to space to heal. But the answer as to why clarifies any questions fans may have. New Movie News, Movie Trailers & upcoming Movie Reviews, Why Nick Fury's Righteous MCU 'Death' Was Cut Absurdly Short, Morbius' First Film Appearance Nods To Pop Culture's Most Iconic Vampire, No Way Homes Obvious Spider-Man Leaks Are Hiding Something Much Bigger, Spider-Man: Doc Ocks Tentacles Most Underrated Ability Saved His Life Twice, REVIEW: Frank Miller Presents Ancient Enemies: The Djinni #1 Crafts a Compelling Origin Story, REVIEW: DC's Shazam! However, Skye managed to communicate with Deathlok who betrayed Garrett and killed him by crushing his head while Fury and Coulson looked on without sympathy. 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. When they sat in the cockpit, Fury asked Vers if she knew how to fly the aircraft, which she was fairly certain of. Hill was able to warn Fury of the launch and he ran onto the launchpad in his desperate attempt to stop the jet. While his decisions make him appear ruthless and the nature of his profession occasionally requires a moral grey, Fury genuinely cares about human life and didn't see his agents or Avengers as pawns. While Banner claimed that the Avengers were a time bomb, Fury became concerned and recommended Banner step out of this situation. Coulson recommended the project be shut down; however, Fury had secretly decided to continue with the project. As Fury returned to his office and prepared to look into the files that Romanoff had gathered from the Lemurian Star, he found that he did not have clearance for the files. Danvers departs to help the Skrulls find a new homeworld, leaving Fury a modified pager to contact her in an emergency. Coulson decided to help them by misdirecting the other S.H.I.E.L.D. ""Yes, sir. Upcoming Marvel Studios projects include Black Widow on May 1, 2020, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier in Fall 2020, The Eternals on November 6, 2020, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on February 12, 2021, WandaVision in Spring 2021, Loki in Spring 2021, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on May 7, 2021, Spider-Man 3 on July 16, 2021, What If? Fury originally appeared in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer/artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee, Fury first appeared in Sgt. James Buchanan Barnes, a.k.a. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In the first trailer for the Marvel Studios Disney+ series . "FFH says Fury was swapped out for Talos. However, Fury continued the search despite their demands. Stark then flew through the Wormhole and destroyed the Chitauri Command Center, killing all of the invading aliens of the mothership. In "0-8-4", Fury appears at the end to scold Coulson over damage caused to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury managed to locate Coulson in a fierce battle against John Garrett, who had gained super strength, as Coulson crawled for cover he found Fury waiting for him, joking about his current appearance since going underground. secretly worked on. Marvel pretending to kill of Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury has become bit of a trend in the MCU, but it's time for it to stop.'s Nick Fury has " died " and come back one time . would help Stark find what he needed. Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa may believe that death is not the end, but merely a . Fury and his Howling Commandos No. He basically died. In 2014, Fury then covertly hired Georges Batroc and his team of mercenaries to take over the Lemurian Star in order to provide cover for Romanoff's mission to get information on Project Insight. In August 2020, actor Jeff Ward revealed that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ""And for better or worse, he could think like them.Phil Coulson and Skye, Captain, he's the spy. It loses the element of surprise, and becomes really repetitive. The Winter Soldier was pulled in and out of cryostasis by Hydra. But one of the biggest mysteries that was shown in the films revolves around his death in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Ironically, Fury lost sight in his left eye over trusting Goose, and not an enemy. The Mandalorian Season 3, Disney+ (March 1) It feels like a lifetime since we watched Grogu caress the stubbled jaw of Din Djarin ( Pedro Pascal) in the heartbreaking Season 2 finale of The . Bucky survived because Hydra took him . 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. Does Nick Fury Come Back To Life? [41][42], Jackson reprised his voice-speaking role as Fury in the Disney+ animated series What If?. He attends Stark's funeral and reunites with Danvers.[38]. 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. [20] Executive producer Jeph Loeb said "There were obviously a number of places that we thought Nick Fury would have a big impact on the show, but the more we talked about it, [the more we wanted] to get him in very early, so that it would kind of christen the show, legitimize it in its own way". After discovering that HYDRA was involved in Project Insight, Fury attempted to meet with Maria Hill. ""Thank you, sir. [36], While Fury remained under the radar, Melinda May confronted Maria Hill to find out who led Project T.A.H.I.T.I., so Hill simply told her the cryptic answer that Fury had given her. proceeded from here was up to Coulson, Fury then got up and prepared to leave the Bus, telling Coulson that he intended to put his focus on having his feet on the ground rather than having a view of everything like he had as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. He was about to kick off an energy race that was gonna dwarf the arms race. and the politics as opposed to that other stuff. [36], We've been data mining HYDRA's files. and HYDRA's files onto the internet, exposing Pierce as a traitor, but Pierce remained confident as he had ensured that Fury's clearance had already been wiped from the system. The Winter Soldier gets away, prompting Cap and Anthony Mackie's Falcon to embark on a quest to find him at film . His favorite actors are Tyrone Power and Eleanor Parker. To confirm her suspicions, with the intent to corner her into S.H.I.E.L.D. With Coulson's[38] and Maria Hill's help, Fury gathered together a team of former S.H.I.E.L.D. Although Fury told Rogers that he had not known about the Winter Soldier, Rogers pointed out that Fury probably would not have told him even if he did. Once they were in the clear zone, Fury was shown a photo of Vers that she had found. After this, he, Phil Coulson, and Maria Hill decide to start the Initiative. However, Garrett found out that the Ten Rings were there too. . [6], Just stay awake. After listening to a black box recording of Vers and Mar-Vell, Vers remembered who she was, and both she and Fury agreed to help find the core at Mar-Vell's Laboratory to help Talos end the Kree-Skrull War. Samuel L. Jackson 's Nick Fury looks worn out. Fury is a man of great and indomitable will, but he can feel too, as he was shaken with the death of Coulson and was deeply disturbed at seeing Hill fade away due to the Snap. 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. Bucky became the Winter Soldier again, but he was no longer under anyone's control. Nick Fury himself says he fully expected that, and yet he gains access anyways, with a retinal scan from his blind eye instead of his usual one. As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. Eventually, Bruce Banner worked out that Ultron's next move would be to force Helen Cho to build him a new body out of Vibranium and the Scepter, one that if he was able to use, he would be too powerful to stop, so they got ready to investigate in Seoul. One day in 2018, Fury was driving through Atlanta with Maria Hill and with no clear idea of what was happening, asked for updates on Tony Stark's location after he had disappeared into a spaceship. Fury informed all of the other agents and the Avengers of Coulson's sudden death. [2], You know you're glowing, right? When a character dies, fans generally assume the character will return at some point in the future, which is why movies in the MCU must avoid going in this direction. [6], Last year Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town. Perfect opportunity. In 1995, Fury and a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. has to offer. Ward added, since it was unclear if Nick Fury was still alive in the alternate timeline, Deke would have worn it because it felt like "a power and cool thing", with Deke ultimately serving as a partial adaptation of the original version of the character. Bucky was Captain America's partner during World War II. Samuel L. Jackson says 'Maybe I won't be Nick Fury', "MCU: The Actors Who Almost Played Nick Fury Before Samuel L. Jackson", "Marvel to Make Movies Based on Comic Books", "Samuel L. Jackson Says His Marvel Contract is Almost Up", "120 Movies, $13 Billion in Box Office: How Samuel L. Jackson Became Hollywood's Most Bankable Star", "Samuel L. Jackson script for Avengers movie 'stolen, "Marvel Moolah: Robert Downey Jr. 'Avengers' Pay Set to Hit $50 Million", "Samuel L. Jackson Would Like to Guest on S.H.I.E.L.D. In Iron Man 2 (2010), Fury sends in Natasha Romanoff to pose as an assistant to and assess Stark to see if he is worth recruiting for the Initiative and helps Stark deal with his palladium illness and Ivan Vanko. ""You've been asleep, Cap. "[51], Jackson himself is fond of playing the character. [22], In Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014),[23] an attempt is made on Fury's life by Hydra, which is revealed to have taken over S.H.I.E.L.D. Except maybe for how the Oscars played out", Captain America and Nick Fury: Blood Truce, Captain America and Nick Fury: The Otherworld War, Sgt. Fury told Garret to clean up and arrive back for debrief.[21]. Countries were struggling to meet the needs of people who instantaneously came back into being without warning. You just don't know it yet.Nick Fury to Tony Stark, In 2009, Fury learned that Tony Stark had been kidnapped by the Ten Rings, so he sent Phil Coulson and Jasper Sitwell to deal with the situation. Steve Roger shot him on the head through the wall when he went to his apartment. [10], Nothing lasts forever. Among the casualties were Nick Fury and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders). The former director of SHIELD started the Avenger initiative and at this point we know he's out there in space somewhere, just waiting for the change to wind up back on earth. glasses to him. investigation, and contacted R. Keller, unaware that at this point Talos had impersonated him. Published Mar 22, 2020. On Avengers . A Caucasian man first portrayed the role of Nick Fury by the name David Hasselhoff. . As it turns out, Talos was acting on the orders of the real Nick Fury the whole time. cast reacts to their characters' finale fates", "Updated w/ Trailer: DISNEY INFINITY Introduces MARVEL SUPER HEROES, New Play Modes", "Spider-Man & Friends Swing into Disney Infinity", "Marvel just released an extremely intriguing cast list for Disney+'s animated What If? The Winter Soldier sees Steve and Nat head to Jersey after uncovering information on Nick Fury's USB drive. In New York City, he oversees the reintroduction of Steve Rogers into society. When they made their way to the stairwell, they were halted by Coulson, who held them at gunpoint. Fury finally managed to destroy it by stabbing it through the head with a piece of debris. He was met by Maria Hill at his safehouse to discuss recent events of that conflict, which included the falling out between Tony Stark and Steve Rogers and the imprisonment of Rogers's entire team at the Raft. Only in Mama Day, however, with the year 1999 as its temporal frame, does the larger eschatological drama come fully into focus. In 2023, Fury was resurrected by Hulk in the Blip and attended Tony Stark's funeral alongside the other Avengers after he sacrificed his life in the Battle of Earth. He's staying in contact with loyal agents of the original SHIELD so he can summon a skeleton cr. Fury requested to speak to Clint Barton, as Selvig noted that he was watching them. He has a very good idea of what's going on but his paranoia keeps him from believing some of it. Captain America | THE WINTER SOLDIER | Nick Fury's Survival [ Escape / Fury's Recover. 's influence over the world, allowed Rogers to go quietly hand Fury ten dollars to complete a bet they had made about whether or not Rogers could be surprised by any new things since fighting HYDRA and waking up in the modern era, as Fury smiled to himself and then went over to greet all of the other Avengers. Fury spoke to Stark in private and tried to get his mind back on track after Wanda Maximoff had used her powers to make Stark see visions of a terrible future in which the Avengers had been killed. [43], Fury will return in the live action series Secret Invasion and in the film The Marvels (both 2023).[44][45]. "[48] Chris E. Hayne of GameSpot ranked Fury 19th in their "38 Marvel Cinematic Universe Superheroes" list, writing, "There is no Avengers without Nick Fury. Meanwhile, Fury drafts an initiative to locate heroes like Danvers, naming it after her Air Force call sign, "Avenger". We learned that not only are we not alone, but we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned. Returning to his office, he was approached by Phil Coulson, who brought him a box of prosthetic eyeballs. The former C.I.A. [31] Feige explained that Danvers is the first superhero that Fury has come across,[32] which sets him on a path to his role working with heroes in later-set MCU films. was being infiltrated by the Skrulls, Fury deceived Talos and decided to go rogue with Vers. in the best hands. Later, Danvers, Talos, Fury, and Rambeau locate Lawson's cloaked laboratory orbiting Earth, where Lawson hid several Skrulls, including Talos's family, and the Tesseract, the power source of Lawson's engine. Pierce agreed with one condition, that Fury had Iron Man visit his niece's birthday party. 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 then drew the scientist's attention to a secure, portable storage case he had kept within the facility. May then suggested that Hill ask Fury herself, but Hill quickly said that Fury was still dead. Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. When Marvel kills a character in a movie, it's important for audiences to believe the death will have lasting consequences. 's goal was founded on the purest of ideas: protection. Left the ranks a full bird Colonel.Nick Fury to Vers, Once he finished high school, Fury joined the United States Army, working his way up the ranks as a soldier until being promoted to Colonel. Two years after The Avengers, Captain America has been performing black ops missions for S.H.I.E.L.D. Reading the assessment in which Romanoff claimed he contained compulsive behavior and self-destructive tendencies, with textbook narcissism. However . 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. The MCU version of Nick Fury jettisoned a number of details from the original comic book version. [27] A few weeks later, May used a secure phone line on the Bus to call Fury and tell him that Coulson knew the truth about his resurrection. ""Break what? In the Original Sin storyline, Bucky investigated the death of Uatu the Watcher, and he and other characters . He hires an Algerian mercenary, Georges Batroc, to hijack the Star as cover to allow Romanoff onto the ship with Rogers to retrieve data regarding Insight. Once he had told him that how S.H.I.E.L.D. 's advanced technology and experimental drugs. Marvel Studios. Fury answered this by listing all of Loki's crimes, including threatening the Earth with war while killing innocent lives. However, they were tailed by Minn-Erva, and while Rambeau managed to blow her out the sky, Yon-Rogg began shooting at them soon thereafter. Shortly after escaping, the two realized that Goose had stowed away in the Quadjet as well. With the Avengers assembled, Fury took charge of the hunt for Loki, leading the volatile team through the mission as they attempted to learn what Loki's plan for the Tesseract was and who he had been working for. 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.H.I.E.L.D. A few decades later, Director Nick Fury discovered something wrong within the S.H.I.E.L.D. : 1.20: Nothing Personal, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. En route, Vers explained to Fury the history of the ongoing Kree-Skrull War, and the Skrulls' interest in Wendy Lawson's Light-Speed Engine. takes the world as it is, not as we'd like it to be. agent, working closely with Fury. RELATED: 10 Easter Eggs Everyone Missed In The Falcon & The Winter Soldier When Stark claimed that he would be responsible for the deaths of his friends, Fury reminded him that he did not invent the concept of hate and war, but he could fight against them. Fury confessed to the pair that S.H.I.E.L.D. This all then came to a head following Loki killing Phil Coulson, before being tracked to New York City. Later, May realized what Fury meant by his riddle and went out to recover the video hidden inside of Coulson's grave. [22] Fearing the death of an Avenger, Fury had tasked Coulson to be the head of Project T.A.H.I.T.I., a project with the goal of reviving subjects from the dead. (2021) as different versions of the character, with Jackson reprising the role. Before Fury could then order Hill to notify Cameron Klein where they would meet, a car spiraled out of control right in front of them and crashed, blocking their route. We got a really complicated situation. 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.H.I.E.L.D. Fury agreed and the pair shook hands and departed. 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 1940s. ""No, it was finished, it's never been particularly effective until I had miniaturized it and put it in my-""No, Howard said the Arc Reactor was a stepping stone for something greater. Typical nine-to-five.Vers and Nick Fury. Fury was swapped out with Talos when he almost died in Winter Soldier. In 2018, Fury and Hill are travelling in Atlanta discussing the Avengers' whereabouts when Hill suddenly disintegrates due to the Blip, prompting Fury to use his pager to summon Danvers, before he too disintegrates. Fury revealed to Rogers that S.H.I.E.L.D. ", In The Avengers (2012), Fury is present with Clint Barton when Loki arrives on Earth to take the Tesseract to lead the Chitauri invasion. First guy I slept with. You're talking about the same guy who messed around with Tesseract technology and sparked an alien invasion.John Garrett to Grant Ward, What is it? Afterwards at S.H.I.E.L.D, he officially declared Hulk to be Ross's problem for the time being. Fury had secretly been working with Phil Coulson on a project known as the Theta Protocol, a hidden Helicarrier kept completely off records for emergency use only. who creates and enacts the Avengers Initiative after discovering other threats to the Earth. Marvel's repeated attempts to trick audiences into thinking that Nick Fury's time in the MCU is up raises an important question: should Nick Fury die? Despite suffering a fractured arm, Fury was able to utilize his SUV's defense mechanisms to fight back against the assassins, firing a machine gun at them before driving away. You might not be glad that you did.Nick Fury to Loki. They then deduced that she was the pilot that went down with "Lawson" and somehow arrived on Hala. Nick Fury shoots and kills Redford's character, which seems kind of fascist. first season finale, "Beginning of the End", which deals with the aftermath of the events of Winter Soldier. Jackson compared the character to Ordell Robbie in Jackie Brown, calling him "a nice guy to hang out with. Fury gives Stark some of his father's old material, enabling Stark to synthesize a new element for his arc reactor that ends his palladium dependency. After Loki's defeat, Fury authorizes the use of alien technology to resurrect Coulson from death and, in response to the invasion, convinces the Council that the world needs "a quantum surge in threat analysis". [6], I recognize the Council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it. Perfect opportunity. ""I know you erased my password. After it is revealed that Pierce is working for Hydra, Fury reappears to override Hydra's control of S.H.I.E.L.D. Emerging from the rubble, Fury was shot to near-death by the mysterious Hydra assassin, the Winter Soldier.. After being framed for Nick Fury's "murder," Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, and Natasha . 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 1945 and was shocked to see the world around him and the advancements in technology. agents in the aftermath of those events, rescuing agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons from drowning in the ocean and providing Agent Coulson with the Destroyer gun to take out enemy soldiers, before they confront John Garrett and Deathlok. : 2.07: The Writing on the Wall, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nicholas Raymond is a staff movies & TV features writer for Screen Rant. After taking out three soldiers, Fury, Rambeau, Talos, and the Skrull refugees boarded the Quadjet to escape. [18], You think you're the only superhero in the world? Just ask him and he can explain everything. 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. In the season finale, "Beginning of the End," Furyleft Coulson with the promise that he would still be active but remain much closer to the ground instead of acting as a director. "[47] Reviewing The Winter Soldier, Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter said that "from a dramatic point of view, the greatest interest lies with Jackson and Redford, two great veterans whose presence lends weight to the fantastical proceedings and whose characters take some interesting twists and turns before it's all over. He also assigned Romanoff to keep track of the fugitive Bruce Banner, who was at Culver University. operative got his start in the United States Army. Fury then personally confronted the hungover and still suited Tony Stark at Randy's Donuts for becoming a problem that he had to solve. Later, Fury is pronounced dead, and a sad scene follows with Black Widow (Scarlet Johansson) being deeply affected upon seeing his body. This led to an assassination attempt on Fury that started on the streets of Washington D.C. and ended in the living room of Steve Rogers' apartment. 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.