Nick Fury only briefly appears at the end of the last two movies in the Infinity Saga, but the writers originally wanted to have him killed by Corvus Glaive in Avengers: Infinity War. If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Fury in the MCU, it’s that death dogs his footsteps. Yet somehow, the superspy has managed […]
I’m really glad they didn’t go for this. It would have been a terrible way for Fury to go out, in all the madness his death would’ve just been overlooked. (Like Black Widow’s was…)
On the other hand, ur, at least there was already a grave for him.
all other logical flaws aside, what pissed me off the most about nick’s absence in civil war was that nick fury would have never allowed tony to bring peter parker into the field. in ultimate, when nick finds out about peter, what he does is go and tell the kid that he should quit the super-heroics before he gets killed, or he can join shield and receive proper training before going back out. he understands that peter could very much end up dead, and he doesn’t take it lightly.
the fact that nobody (not even natasha or clint, who would be the next logical options!) says anything about peter being in the fight is ridiculous lazy writing, and the exclusion of nick is nonsense.
“We knew, that despite all the diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, to build a better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.”
HYDRA doesn’t need you to be a Nazi. That’s a distraction; HYDRA merely asks that you mistrust and hate other people. That’s their way in, and it’s an easy one: just turn on the news. People are terrible, dead set on destroying the environment, history, ideals, and – most of all – each other… Not you, of course. You know better. So isn’t it then your duty to save people from themselves, even if they can’t see it’s for their own good?
Once HYDRA knows your cause, it’s just a matter of looking up the correct script in their asset-handling files and telling you what you want to hear. Everybody has a file.
“I know I’m asking a lot, but the price of freedom is high; it always has been.
It’s a price I’m willing to pay. And if I’m the only one, then so be it. But I’m willing to bet I’m not.”
This is why Steve is HYDRA’s antithesis. It’s more than fighting bullies – his worldview is entirely incompatible with their vision because each is based on opposite conclusions about humanity. Steve is willing to bet on us.
It’s telling that HYDRA’s answer to Captain America is an ‘ideal’ soldier who has been utterly stripped of identity and agency, while Steve represents both the desire to be better and the freedom to make that choice. For himself; for everyone. This is not naivete. Anyone who survives to adulthood will have long-since learned that justice may exist, but is far from guaranteed, and Steve’s decision to both love and trust others is a dangerous one. As others have said: choosing to be a moral person in an amoral world is one of the hardest things there is.
“Grandad loved people. But he didn’t trust them much.”
Fury is interesting.
He doesn’t share HYDRA’s contempt for humanity, but it’s no coincidence that he delivers his anecdote about lacking trust even while Project Insight, the poisonous fruit of this mindset, looms in the background. He represents the gulf between HYDRA’s misanthropy and Steve’s defiant faith in others, the complicated middle-ground between two complicated extremes.
Nick’s paranoia is hard-earned – it’s a survival mechanism – yet the behaviors that made him successful were instrumental in HYDRA’s infiltration of SHIELD. His rational reaction to evil also allowed that evil to perpetuate itself. But what do you do if that’s the only way you know how to live?
