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* BookcasePassage: The Tower of Terror, in the grounds of Castle Ravenlock, has a secret passageway with a door concealed within an iron maiden. The combination ends badly for one of the bad guys, as Fury secretly jams the door and the 'hell hound' he calls to attack Fury accidentally slams the maiden shut on the villain.
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: Ken Astor's killed by the titular hound on the [[StartToCorpse second page]] of "Dark Moon Rise, Hell Hound Kill!", which brings Fury to Scotland to investigate his old friend's murder.
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* StartToCorpse: The second page of "Dark Moon Rise, Hell Hound Kill!" shows Fury's old friend Ken Astor being hunted and killed by the titular hound. And the first page is a scenery shot with a Scottish poem about the haunted moors.
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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:The ghost hunter Mycroft - actually Nazi renegade Miles von Croff - is killed when his U-Boat explodes and his underground base collapses. Fury had sabotaged and booby-trapped the submarine when he discovered the base. None of this is shown, but the collapse is heard in the nearby castle, and Fury then explains what's just happened]].
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* ScoobyDooHoax: [[spoiler:The Hell Hound of Ravenlock and the ghost of Black Hugh are staged by Lord Gavin and Mycroft, using special effects and guns loaded with blanks. They draw attention away from the U-Boat and crew of ex-Nazi pirates operating from an underground base beneath Ravenlock castle's tower]].
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* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: One day after completing a DeathCourse training exercise and joining S.H.I.E.L.D., Jimmy Woo is ejected from a crashing plane over the ocean, then retrieved from the water by some sort of genetically-modified creature. It's the work of the EvilutionaryBiologist Centurius, but Jimmy does initially wonder if it's just another instalment of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s extreme training regime.
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* GunsAkimbo: When Fury confronts Scorpio in Las Vegas, he makes his entrance by crashing a S.H.I.E.L.D. jet cycle [[ThereWasADoor through a wall]], a gun blazing in each hand. He drops them and switches to unarmed combat almost immediately, though.
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** The first issue uses a double-page splash to show Fury, riding a S.H.I.E.L.D. rocket bike, [[ThereWasADoor crashing through a wall]] with GunsAkimbo to confront Scorpio.
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** The first issue uses a double-page splash to show Fury, riding a S.H.I.E.L.D. rocket bike, jet cycle, [[ThereWasADoor crashing through a wall]] with GunsAkimbo to confront Scorpio.
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* ThereWasADoor: After Scorpio takes control of the Las Vegas S.H.I.E.L.D. base in the first issue, Fury rides a rocket-bike through a wall to confront him, GunsAkimbo, rather than using stealth.
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* ThereWasADoor: After Scorpio takes control of the Las Vegas S.H.I.E.L.D. base in the first issue, Fury rides a rocket-bike jet cycle through a wall to confront him, GunsAkimbo, rather than using stealth.
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* ContinuityNod: When Jimmy Woo joins S.H.I.E.L.D., Dum Dum reminds Fury that Jimmy once swore he'd get revenge after Fury let Jimmy's love interest Suwan (actually a robot imposter) die in a ''[[ComicBook/NickFuryAgentOfShieldStrangeTales Strange Tales]]'' story.
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* DeathCourse: The second issue starts with Jimmy Woo fighting his way through a fun house rigged with traps and enemies. As well as a mundane HallOfMirrors, there are [[DemBones animated skeletons]], a TrapDoor, DeadlyGas, a [[SharkPool Crocodile Pool]] and [[TheWallsAreClosingIn Moving Walls]]. All of which is followed by the reveal that it's a DeadlyTrainingArea, and the whole sequence has been a FakeActionPrologue showing Jimmy's final test before joining S.H.I.E.L.D. as an agent.
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* ApocalypseHow: Centurius plans to kill everyone on Earth by raining down radioactive fire for forty days and forty nights, then [[NoahsStoryArc resettling the planet from his orbital A.R.C.]] a century later. Fittingly, when he was a normal human scientist in the 1930s, his first name was Noah.
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* ApocalypseHow: Centurius plans to kill everyone on Earth by raining down radioactive fire for forty days and forty nights, then [[NoahsStoryArc resettling the planet from his orbital A.R.C.]] a century later. Fittingly, when he was a normal human scientist in the 1930s, [[MeaningfulName his first name was Noah.Noah]].
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-->'''Dum Dum Dugan:''' Once that barrier's formed, '''nothin'''' can get in... an' nothin' can '''get out''', either!
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-->'''Dum Dum Dugan:''' Once that barrier's formed, '''nothin'''' ''nothin''' can get in... an' nothin' can '''get out''', ''get out'', either!
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-->'''Scorpio:''' Scorpio is well-versed in the ways of '''acrobatics!''' ''acrobatics!'' You'll not find me as '''vulnerable''' ''vulnerable'' as your other adversaries!
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-->'''Scorpio:''' Scorpio is well-versed in the ways of '''acrobatics!''' You'll not fine me as '''vulnerable''' as your other adversaries!
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-->'''Scorpio:''' Scorpio is well-versed in the ways of '''acrobatics!''' You'll not fine find me as '''vulnerable''' as your other adversaries!
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* ThirdPersonPerson: The villainous Scorpio usually talks about himself in the third person, but it's downplayed - he doesn't entirely avoid 'I' phrasing.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: The villainous Scorpio usually often talks about himself in the third person, but it's downplayed - he doesn't entirely avoid 'I' phrasing. phrasing, and his thought bubbles don't use the third person phrasing at all.
-->'''Scorpio:''' Scorpio is well-versed in the ways of '''acrobatics!''' You'll not fine me as '''vulnerable''' as your other adversaries!
-->'''Scorpio:''' Scorpio is well-versed in the ways of '''acrobatics!''' You'll not fine me as '''vulnerable''' as your other adversaries!
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-->'''Dum Dum Dugan:''' Once that barrier's formed, '''nothin'''' can get in... an' nothin' can '''get out''', either!
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* InTheBack: At the start of the first issue, 'Fury' is focused on unlocking a door on the IslandBase he's infiltrating. He doesn't spot the silent EnemyRisingBehind him, via a trapdoor and moving platform - so he gets shot in the back several times. It's then revealed that it's a [[FakeActionPrologue training exercise]]; 'Fury' was a synthetic LMD, whereas the masked guard who killed him was the ''real'' Nick Fury.
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* InTheBack: At the start of the first issue, 'Fury' is focused on unlocking a door on the IslandBase he's infiltrating. He doesn't spot the silent EnemyRisingBehind him, via EnemyRisingBehind, silently emerging from a hidden trapdoor and moving platform via a rising platform - so he gets shot in the back several times. It's then revealed that it's a [[FakeActionPrologue training exercise]]; 'Fury' was a synthetic LMD, whereas the masked guard who killed him was the ''real'' Nick Fury.
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* InTheBack: At the start of the first issue, 'Fury' is focused on unlocking a door on the IslandBase he's infiltrating. He doesn't spot the silent EnemyRisingBehind him, via a trapdoor and moving platform - so he gets shot in the back several times. It's then revealed that it's a [[FakeActionPrologue training exercise]]; 'Fury' was a synthetic LMD, whereas the masked guard who killed him was the ''real'' Nick Fury.
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* ThrowingTheDistraction: At the start of the first issue, 'Fury' (actually a Life Model Decoy) is infiltrating an IslandBase and throws a small object across the corridor to distract the guard. Fury then blindsides him while he's focused on the distraction.
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* TheGamblingAddict: Flip Mason is a Las Vegas comedian who's spiralling into debt due to his gambling problems. He owes a lot of money to gangster Mitch Hackett, and he's terrified that they'll punish his family as well if he doesn't repay them. [[TrappedByGamblingDebts So he starts to plan a robbery...]]
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* KnockoutGas: Scorpio sabotages a S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons test in Nevada by using sleeping gas on the Las Vegas team that's running the exercise.
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* KnockoutGas: Scorpio sabotages a S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons test in Nevada by using sleeping gas on the Las Vegas team that's running the exercise. It seems that they all wake up unharmed once Scorpio's defeated.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Flip Mason is a [[TheGamblingAddict Gambling Addict]] who's heavily in debt to gangster Mitch Hackett. He's desperate enough to start planning a robbery, relying on a fake gun. When MistakenIdentity means he's offered a BriefcaseFullOfMoney meant for Hackett, he takes it as a way to buy himself out of his debts. Too bad it's actually a TimeBomb.
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* DeflectorShield: In the first issue, Fury tests the EPB G-System ("Entrope Phase Barrier Guard system") in the Nevada desert. The field it projects blocks a barrage of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s heaviest artillery, leaving Fury unharmed (although his ears are ringing a little). The final test will be to see if it can block an H-Bomb - but that's when villain Scorpio sabotages the experiment and switches it off...
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* DeflectorShield: In the first issue, Fury tests the EPB G-System ("Entrope Phase Barrier Guard system") in the Nevada desert. The field it projects invisible shield blocks a barrage of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s heaviest artillery, leaving Fury unharmed (although his ears are ringing a little). The final test will be to see if it can block an H-Bomb - but that's when villain Scorpio sabotages the experiment and switches it off...
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* DeflectorShield: In the first issue, Fury tests the EPB G-System ("Entrope Phase Barrier Guard system") in the Nevada desert. The field it projects blocks a barrage of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s heaviest artillery, leaving Fury unharmed (although his ears are ringing a little). The final test will be to see if it can block an H-Bomb - but that's when villain Scorpio sabotages the experiment and switches it off...
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Steranko presents some panels in black and white to emphasise them. In the first issue this includes a scene of Fury surviving a barrage of weapons during a test, a vision of Flip Mason's family and [[spoiler:a final panel of a payphone dangling off the hook after Mason's been killed by a bomb]].
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* MeaningfulName: Centurius has a villainous version of NoahsStoryArc - he plans to kill everyone on Earth with 40 days and 40 nights of radioactive fire, then resettle the planet from his A.R.C. spaceship. Before he abandoned his human life, his name was Noah Black.
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* DemBones: Animated skeletons are among the hazards at the start of the second issue, as Jimmy Woo fights his way through a DeathCourse. It's then revealed as a FakeActionPrologue - a final test before he joins S.H.I.E.L.D. - but the nature of the skeletons themselves is not directly revealed.
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* DemBones: Animated skeletons are among the hazards at the start of the second issue, as Jimmy Woo fights his way through a DeathCourse. It's then revealed as a FakeActionPrologue - a final test before he joins S.H.I.E.L.D. - but the nature of the skeletons themselves is not directly revealed.so they're presumably mechanical rather than undead.
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* VolcanoLair: Centurius has an IslandBase that seems to be under a very active volcano. It's subverted when he reveals that it's not active - that's just an astral projection to fool people.
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* VolcanoLair: Centurius has an IslandBase that seems to be under a very active volcano. It's subverted when he He swiftly reveals that it's not active - that's just an astral projection to fool people.
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** The second issue's villain, Centurius, is an EvilutionaryBiologist who seems to have a VolcanoLair on an isolated tropical island. It's swiftly revealed that the active volcano is just an 'astral projection' to conceal his location, though.
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** The second issue's villain, Centurius, is an EvilutionaryBiologist who seems to have has a VolcanoLair on an isolated tropical island. It's swiftly revealed that the active volcano is just an 'astral projection' to conceal his location, though.island.
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** The first issue uses a double-page splash to show Fury, riding a S.H.I.E.L.D. rocket bike, [[ThereWasADoor crashing through a wall]] with GunsAkimbo to confront Scorpio.
** The second issue uses a double-page splash when Fury jumps through a window to escape Centurius's headquarters, only to find himself falling from the sky above the crater housing the villain's elaborate VolcanoLair.
** The first issue uses a double-page splash to show Fury, riding a S.H.I.E.L.D. rocket bike, [[ThereWasADoor crashing through a wall]] with GunsAkimbo to confront Scorpio.
** The second issue uses a double-page splash when Fury jumps through a window to escape Centurius's headquarters, only to find himself falling from the sky above the crater housing the villain's elaborate VolcanoLair.
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* VolcanoLair: Centurius has an IslandBase that seems to be under an active volcano. It's subverted when he reveals that there ''is'' no volcano - it's just an astral projection to fool people.
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* VolcanoLair: Centurius has an IslandBase that seems to be under an a very active volcano. It's subverted when he reveals that there ''is'' no volcano - it's not active - that's just an astral projection to fool people.
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* ThereWasADoor: After Scorpio takes control of the Las Vegas S.H.I.E.L.D. base in the first issue, Fury rides a rocket-bike through a wall to confront him, GunsAkimbo, rather than using stealth.
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* TwoDunIt: The first issue opens with a variant of this. Fury breaks into a building but is shot dead by a masked man who catches him by surprise. It's then revealed that 'Fury' was actually a 'Life Model Decoy' android duplicate, and the masked man was the real Nick Fury - it was all a FakeActionPrologue, a training exercise to test the android's abilities. But it's then revealed that the LMD was shot ''four'' times, and Fury only fired three shots - the villain of the story, Scorpio, had staged a simultaneous AssassinationAttempt, assuming that he was shooting the real Fury.
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* TwoDunIt: The first issue opens with a variant of this. Fury breaks into a building an IslandBase but is shot dead by a masked man who catches him by surprise. It's then revealed that 'Fury' was actually a 'Life Model Decoy' android duplicate, and the masked man was the real Nick Fury - it was all a FakeActionPrologue, a training exercise to test the android's abilities. But it's then revealed that the LMD was shot ''four'' times, and Fury only fired three shots - the villain of the story, Scorpio, had staged a simultaneous AssassinationAttempt, assuming that he was shooting the real Fury.
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* DemBones: Animated skeletons are among the hazards at the start of the second issue, as Jimmy Woo fights his way through a DeathCourse. It's then revealed as a FakeActionPrologue, though - a final test before he joins S.H.I.E.L.D. - but the nature of the skeletons themselves is not directly revealed.
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* DemBones: Animated skeletons are among the hazards at the start of the second issue, as Jimmy Woo fights his way through a DeathCourse. It's then revealed as a FakeActionPrologue, though FakeActionPrologue - a final test before he joins S.H.I.E.L.D. - but the nature of the skeletons themselves is not directly revealed.
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* DemBones: Animated skeletons are among the hazards at the start of the second issue, as Jimmy Woo fights his way through a DeathCourse. It's then revealed as a FakeActionPrologue, though - a final test before he joins S.H.I.E.L.D. - but the nature of the skeletons themselves is not directly revealed.
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* FakeActionPrologue: At the beginning of the first issue, Fury breaks into an isolated tower on an IslandBase but is shot dead by a masked man who catches him by surprise. It's then revealed that 'Fury' was actually a 'Life Model Decoy' android duplicate, and the masked man was the real Nick Fury.
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* FakeActionPrologue: FakeActionPrologue:
** At the beginning of the first issue, Fury breaks into an isolated tower on an IslandBase but is shot dead by a masked man who catches him by surprise. It's then revealed that 'Fury' was actually a 'Life Model Decoy' android duplicate, and the masked man was the real Nick Fury.
** The second issue starts with Jimmy Woo fighting his way through a DeathCourse. It's not until he reaches the end that it's revealed to be a recruitment test for S.H.I.E.L.D.
** At the beginning of the first issue, Fury breaks into an isolated tower on an IslandBase but is shot dead by a masked man who catches him by surprise. It's then revealed that 'Fury' was actually a 'Life Model Decoy' android duplicate, and the masked man was the real Nick Fury.
** The second issue starts with Jimmy Woo fighting his way through a DeathCourse. It's not until he reaches the end that it's revealed to be a recruitment test for S.H.I.E.L.D.
