Secret Invasion

Fury seems to be really out of shape here. How's he going to fight this war alone.

And where is SHIELD now?

Being used as a sled by Morgan Stark.

Though the idea of this show putting Fury's back against the wall in a way not even HYDRA could is definitely going to be an interesting focal point for this show.

SHIELD doesn't exist anymore. Fury seems to have some vaguely defined spy network set up (As seen in FFH), and has connections to the SABER space station (Also FFH and The Marvels.

Wonder how many more weapon acronym names they can come up with for their agencies.

Can they use HAMMER, or would they have to pay Justin Hammer royalties?

There's also ARMOR, STAKE, WAND, and SPEAR from the comics. Marvel really loves to theme their government agencies.

Norman Osborne of all people once hung a hilarious lampshade on it in the comics by giving his organisation an acronymic title (H.A.M.M.E.R I think) and only afterwards did he then deputise someone to work out what that would actually stand for.

Y'know, I do how to wonder how closely connected this show is going to be to The Marvels, if it connects to it at all.

It's just so bizarre to see Fury go from changing up his appearance and fighting the Skrulls on Earth to going back up into space while looking how he normally does.

And they never even revealed what HAMMER meant anyways.

Honestly it seems they have no idea what to do with Fury now that SHIELD is gone. He just kind of gets plugged into whatever role is needed for the movie.

When there's nothing to S.H.I.E.L.D the Fury, it emerges in the most unexpected of places...

I'm wondering if Fury might die. The trailer, I think, has a very "retired veteran's last hurrah" feel to it, Jackson's pretty old now, and Hollywood is less shy about killing off "iconic" characters these days when their actors want to stop, as happened to Iron Man, Captain America, Han Solo, James Bond...

He still has to be in The Marvels, so he probably won't die here.

Captain America didn't die. Not onscreen, at least.

Yeah, but everyone treats him like he's dead.

Or on the moon.

I thought Far From Home confirmed he died (of old age, I'd assume)?

I think the public just thinks he died. It's clear from TFATWS that nobody but Sam and Bucky actually knows what happened (see again, the moon thing).

Far From Home... You mean the cheesy school video honoring "Our fallen heroes?"

That's assuming that The Marvels isn't a prequel to Secret Invasion...

To be frank, after Far From Home, we can't be 100% sure that the Fury in The Marvels (2023) is actually Fury.

Edited by HandsomeRob on May 7th 2023 at 7:30:50 AM

They did that once as a fake out, I doubt they would do it again.

Hasn't Jackson said he plans on playing the character as long as he can?

Yes, he recently gave an interview where he talked about he still really enjoys playing Fury and wants to do keep doing so.

I remember he once said that he likes Nick Fury so much because he's a dude without superpowers in charge of people with superpowers, and they let him do so. Which, yeah, that is a pretty cool character to be.

I wonder if they're going to do a God Squad at some point. And if so, whom shall be on the roster? The only member established thus far is Hercules. And I guess technically Atum/Demogorge by inference. :hmm

I'm really hoping we get Teddy Altman aka Hulkling in this show.