Fury enacts the Avengers Initiative in response to Loki's invasion of Earth, a plan he previously developed after meeting Carol Danvers and learning of extraterrestrial threats.

and his near fatal encounter with the Winter Soldier, Fury fakes his death and hunts down Hydra cells before assisting the Avengers in their battle against Ultron.

intergalactic defense space station until being called back to Earth in an effort to thwart the invasion of a rogue group of Skrulls.

[5] However, Marvel Studios initially discussed a potential film role with George Clooney, who turned it down after reviewing some of the comic book source material and finding Fury to be too violent of a character.

Feige, a self-professed "fanboy", envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done with their comic books in the early 1960s.

In both the original comic book and the Ultimate Marvel versions, Fury was able to remain active many decades after the war because he aged unnaturally slowly due to regular doses of an Infinity Formula.

Vers, escaping capture by the Skrull, uses memories they have extracted to bring Fury to the Project Pegasus installation at a U.S. Air Force base.

Meanwhile, Fury adopts Goose and drafts an initiative to locate heroes like Danvers, naming it after her Air Force call sign, "Avenger".

In 1998, Fury goes to New York City and meets in a restaurant with Varra, who has assumed the appearance of a human named Priscilla, where she discloses top secret information about the Red Room.

's Bogotá station, where he "proved his leadership mettle" by engineering the rescue of hostages captured by Colombian rebels at the country's embassy, including the daughter of then-S.H.I.E.L.D.

Later, Fury uses Coulson's death to motivate the Avengers, now including Thor, to work as a team, leading to their stand against Loki and the invading Chitauri army in New York City.

When the World Security Council authorizes the nuclear bombing of the city to defeat the invasion, Fury uses a rocket launcher to take out one of the two jets launching for that mission, but is too late to stop the second, which fires a missile that is intercepted by Stark.

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".

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.

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.

Though Romanoff is successful, Fury is unable to decrypt the data, increasing his suspicions and forcing him to convince Pierce to delay the project.

Fury is apparently killed by their most dangerous assassin, the Winter Soldier, but he is revealed to have faked his death using Tetrodotoxin B, a drug designed by Banner that was capable of slowing down the heart to 1 beat per minute.

Coulson subsequently reveals to Gonzalez and his board that he and Fury had discovered that the original helicarrier survived HYDRA's attack and repaired it as a failsafe in case of an emergency.

He is then tasked by the United States government to lead S.A.B.E.R., an organization focused on protecting Earth from extraterrestrial threats, and run the space station.

They learn from G'iah that Gravik has had some of his men infiltrate a British Royal Navy submarine with the intention of firing a missile at a plane transporting a United Nations delegation.

Reconvening with Talos, Fury infiltrates Raava's hotel suite and tricks her into drinking a bottle of expensive bourbon containing a liquid tracker.

In Finland, Fury leads Falsworth to a grave marked with his name which contains the "Harvest": a collection of DNA from the superheroes who fought during the Battle of Earth.

When the station gets destabilized due to the jump point anomalies created by Dar-Benn, Fury sees that Goose has given birth to Flerken kittens and uses them to safely evacuate the S.A.B.E.R.

He, Goose, and the Khans evacuate in an escape pod but are blasted by Dar-Benn's unstable jump point and crash land in New York City.

vessel Lemurian Star, where Carter later discovered Rogers preserved in the Hydra Stomper armor, but brainwashed by the agents of the Red Room.

After Pym is defeated, Loki quickly subjugates the planet and becomes its ruler, prompting Fury to summon Danvers and awaken Rogers.

After the egg has hatched after its energies subdued Kaecilius' forces, Malekith's army, and Thanos and the Black Order while Zeus flees, Fury decides to abandon taking the child, and returns to Earth.

Weeks later, Fury is with Queen Hela and Prince Thor to hear Loki's performance, when a tear in the universe opens up due to the impending incursion.

Later, Fury is present in the courtroom when Carter, Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, and Scott Lang arrive to take Thor's Scepter.

[20] Writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman said of the latter film that the "digitally de-aged Samuel L. Jackson" in Captain Marvel was "done a surprising favor by the visual trickery.