Post by Nick Fury Sr. on Aug 22, 2015 17:36:37 GMT -5
Thinking of using, at least for one story, the old spymaster himself. I may not go the full Original Sin route with Nick. For now he is playing games on his own little battlefield.
Bio is from Comic Vine
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General Information
Super Name
Nick Fury
Real Name
Nicholas Joseph Fury
Aliases
Colonel Fury, Doyle, The Man in the Mystery Mask, Mr. Anger, Nicholas Joseph Fury, Patch, Scorpio, Sgt. Fury, Commander of Shield, Commander Fury, The Unseen
Publisher
Marvel
Creators
Jack Kirby
Gender
Male
Character Type
Human
First Appearance
Sgt. Fury #1 - Seven against the Nazis!
Appears in
3481 issues
Birthday
n/a
Died
None
Powers and Abilities
Intellect
Though Nick Fury has no real super-human powers, he is in peak physical condition as a human. He is a skilled tactician and an experienced leader. He is an expert in hand to hand combat (highly skilled in Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, and Jiu Jitsu), as well as a master of virtually all forms of weaponry. In the Army, he was a heavyweight boxing champion. As one of the longest-running Directors of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury has access to some of the world's most advanced weapons and technology. His position has also made him one of the most powerful men in the world in terms of his connections.
Longevity
He once had the Infinity Formula, giving him enhanced longevity and slowing the aging process so that his body is that of a much younger man. He has recently lost the Formula.
Origin
Born and raised in the area of New York City known as Hell's Kitchen around 1920, Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury was around 20 years old when he was drafted into the United States Army to fight the Nazi's in World War II. He soon florished in the rangs of the U.S. Army and became sergeant. During this time, Nick was asked to lead a handpicked squad of highly trained soldiers. This squad would soon become known as the famous Howling Commandos. Sergeant Fury and the Howling Commandos fought through much of World War II, with missions in France, Greece, Belgium, Holland and even inside Nazi Germany itself. The team also encountered and fought alongside a few of America's superheroes, such as Captain America and the Invaders. Nick even met Logan, the person whom would later be known as the X-man Wolverine.
Nick Fury managed to get most of his teammembers back alive after each and every mission. However, Nick himself was injured by a grenade at the end of the war. This grenade was the cause of the eye injury that eventually cost him the vision in his left eye. Fury began covering the eye with a cosmetic black eye-patch, which became one of his trademarks after the war. It was also at this time that he and most other Howling Commandos began their annual injections of the Infinity Formula, a chemical they found during the war. Injections with this chemical greatly slowed their aging proces.
Creation
Nick Fury was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as a WWII character for the war comic book Sgt. Fury in 1963 and first appeared in the first issue of that comic. In 1965, Lee and Kirby updated the character and put him in the present, as the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Strange Tales. Jim Steranko's landmark run starting with Strange Tales #151 in 1966, however, is what gave Nick Fury his cool spy credentials.
Character Evolution
Silver Age
While created in the Silver Age, Nick Fury's history has been retconned to World War II, so in Marvel's continuity, the character has fought along side several Golden Age characters. He became head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in this era, a position he held for most of his comic book career.
Modern Age
Besides numerous guest appearances, Nick Fury had an ongoing, two mini-series and starred in Bendis' Secret Wars in this era. After the events of Original Sin, the character of Nick Fury changed a great deal. It was revealed that the Infinity Formula had worn out which caused him to age rapidly. At the end of the event, Nick Fury was cosmically powered and has taken the place of the Watcher as the earth's defender. None of the Marvel Heroes are at this point aware that Nick Fury is still alive.
Major Story Arcs
After the War and S.H.I.E.L.D.
After the war, Nick and most of his team remained operatives for the U.S. Government. While with the CIA in the 1960's, he recruited Richard Parker and Mary Parker to rescue the so called Agent Ten. Fury also became the superhero liaison for the superhero family called the Fantastic Four. He was then recruited by Anthony Stark, who was secretly the Invincible Iron Man, to be the next director of the newly established S.H.I.E.L.D., an international anti-espionage agency under the aegis of the U.N. and the U.S. Government. Some of Fury's closest friends from the old days where also recruited into the organization and had top positions in the organization, mostly working with Fury himself, such as Dum Dum Dugan. Under his command, S.H.I.E.L.D. became the primary organization in dealings with superhuman activities and he forged alliances with many superhero teams, such as the Avengers and superheroes such as Captain America.
The organization flourished, with many new recruits such as Agent Sharon Carter and even a floating headquarters, the Helicarrier. Nick Fury made it a target to wipe out organized terrorists. With terrorist-organizations such as A.I.M. and Hydra, this was however easier sad then done. Nick fought a secret war against these terrorists for many years, managing to win most of the time, but never truly disbanding the organizations. Nick also became part of the group that brought Spider-Woman from the clutches of Hydra to the side of the angels. Some years later, Fury single handily disbanded S.H.I.E.L.D. because it was being manipulated by free-thinking Life Model Decoys (LMD's). These LMD's where generally used by S.H.I.E.L.D. as stand-ins for their highest officers. The deviant LMD's however intended to take over from Nick and the others and wanted to replace permanently. Luckily Nick managed to ruse the plot and S.H.I.E.L.D. was re-assembled.
The Punisher, Fury's apparent murder and return
When Nick Fury apprehended the Punisher, he had him locked up in the S.H.I.E.L.D. heli-carrier. The Punisher had been brainwashed and was deranged during this time period and managed not only to escape, but when Nick Fury tried to stop him, Punisher shot him dead. Many of Nick's former friends believed his death to be a conspiracy and not true. It was only when they saw Nick's grave, that they finally believed it to be true. The superhero community grieved for the loss of one of it's greatest.
However, months later, it was made out that Punisher did not indeed murder Fury but that the victim was actually one of his LMD's ( Life Model Decoy), an exact double/living clone of Fury and that the SHIELD director had used the event to go undercover. Fury was back with a vengeance and took control over an overjoyed S.H.I.E.L.D. once again. He again established good contact between the law enforcement agency and the superhero community. During this time, Nick fought alongside Captain America and Sharon Carter, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent whom Captain America was romantically involved with for many missions.
Secret War
Nick remained the leader of SHIELD for many more months and had great respect from the superhero community for backing them up whenever needed. This al changed when Nick manipulated the heroes during the Secret War and its consequent memory erasure, he was forced into hiding. Even more enigmatic than before, he has earned the distrust of his former allies. Yet he continues to be one of the most important figures in the Marvel Universe, pulling strings from behind the scenes and keeping in touch only with those whom he trusts most--or whose obedience he feels can be used to his advantage.
Secret Invasion
At the beginning of the Secret Invasion, Nick Fury had been AWOL from S.H.I.E.L.D. for years because he knew of an oncoming threat. It has been revealed that one of the Skrull Empire's main goals is to capture Nick Fury. The Skrulls soon sent in an impostor of Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine only to be killed by Nick Fury. Fury then escaped to safe house and warned current S.H.I.E.L.D. deputy director Maria Hill about an oncoming threat and to trust no one. Nick Fury then used his friend, Daisy Johnson, to gather a team of super humans who ranged in powers so they could be trained for the oncoming invasion. The team trained hard for several months. The invasion of the Skrulls ignited and Nick Fury sent in his team to save several Initiative heroes and bring them back to his safe house to regroup. During this time Nick Fury used Deadpool to gain valuable information on the Skrull Queen but the information was captured unknowingly by Norman Osborn. They later joined up with the rest of the heroes in Central Park for the last stand against the Skrulls. When his old friends Dum Dum Dugan and Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine came out of the Skrull ship with the rest of the captured heroes Nick teleported away without saying a word.
Dark Reign & Secret Warriors
After the Invasion was over, Fury and his team went underground in a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. facility where he revealed to Daisy Johnson that he'd learned HYDRA had been secretly controlling several government agencies, and controlling S.H.I.E.L.D. the entire time. It has also been revealed that at one point, the Zodiac, which Nick, Baron Von Strucker and Jake Fury were all a part of at one point controlled S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, Leviathan and other world organizations but the group went their own separate ways.
Seige
Under the guidance of Loki, Norman Osborn - now creator and director of H.A.M.M.E.R, controller of The Avengers and ruling his secret council of villains including The Hood and Taskmaster - uses Ares, the God of War, and Sentry to lead an attack and destroy Asgard in an illegal war over Broxton, Oklamhoma. With most of Earth's mightiest heroes in hiding since the Superhuman and Mutant Registration Act, Steve Rogers assembles a rogue army of those heroes to side with the Asgardians. Nick Fury stands by him to spearhead their campaign and helps to apprehend Osborn.
Battle Scars
In the past, Fury had an affair with a woman who became pregnant. She chose to keep the child, ending the relationship and forcing her to go into hiding for her own safety, as well as that of the child. This child Marcus Johnson later became a Ranger. Upon the reappearance of Orion, Fury meets his now-adult son and reveals his parentage in a bid to prevent Orion from using Johnson's blood to become more powerful. The pair are captured by Orion, who manages to extract the Infinity Formula from Fury. Fury is rescued from Orion by Johnson, who has enlisted the help of his friend Cheese as well as the Avengers. Nick, now limited to a natural lifespan due to the loss of the Infinity Formula, inducts Johnson, revealed to have the birth name Nicholas Fury Jr., and Cheese, also known as Phil Coulson, into S.H.I.E.L.D..
Original Sin
Things looked up for some time for Nick Fury. That all changed when the Infinity Formula, the formula used by Nick to keep himself young, had ran out. This resulted in Nick aging at an enormous rate. Nick, knowing that his end would be very nearby, wanted to be sure that he would leave behind a legacy of greatness. And not just that of being a super-spy, but something more. It was revealed that, decades ago, Nick had been given the task to become the 'man on the wall', a seemingly invisible force for justice that would take out threads to earth before they would become a real danger. This had resulted in Nick traveling to the farthest corners of the earth and universe, taking out every threads whenever he could. For Nick, it was vital that someone would take over this task, and so he planned to gather a band of heroes whom he found fit for the job.
Things however took a dramatic turn when Nick found out that the lair of the cosmic entity known as the Watcher had been raided by the villains Orb, Exterminatrix and their leader Doctor Midas. The Watcher had been shot, and one of his eyes had been pulled out and taken by the band of villains. Nick confronted the still living Watcher, whom told him how dangerous this eye could be in the wrong hands, since the eye had seen every single possibility for power in the universe. Thus, the person whom wielded the eye could also see these opportunities and use them for evil. Nick tried to persuade the Watcher in telling him where the villains went, so he could take them out. The Watcher however choose to remain silent towards Nick and took an aggressive stance towards the soldier. Nick, after many more refused pleads, and desperate for his time on earth to run out, shot the Watcher and took his other eye. He then went in pursuit of the villains. He also sentan anonymous message to the band of heroes (Black Panther, Emma Frost, Doctor Strange, the Punisher, Ant-Man, Gamora, Moon Knight, and the Winter Soldier) whom he had deemed worthy of taking over his work when he was gone.
It was not much later that the other heroes of the Marvel Universe noticed what had happened at the Watcher's lair, and tried to figure out whom had shot the Watcher, and who took his eyes. A Life Model Decoy of Nick Fury that was planted among the heroes by the real Nick helped them fulfill this task, until it was shot and destroyed by Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, whom had figured out the real Nick Fury was pulling the strings and that it was him that had tasked him with finding the villains. Eventually, The Orb was found and defeated. He however was taken from imprisonment and taken to an orbital space station belonging to Nick. In hot pursuit, the heroes found themselves on the star-base of Nick Fury. There, an elderly Nick confronted the heroes, and told them about his task as 'the man on the wall'. Many of heroes where repulsed by the fact that Nick had been lying to them for so many years, as well as the questionable cause of his work. Nick tried to explain his reasons to the heroes, but this did not stop a fight between Nick and his friends. Eventually, the fight took them to the Watcher's lair, where Doctor Midas had again shown himself. It was there that Nick took out the last thread, and owed up to the fact that he had killed the Watcher. Nick eventually, in what perhaps would be his last act of heroism, took the eyes, whom where overloading, and dropped himself on it like it was a grenade. A great big flash was seen, and when the heroes looked up, it seemed Nick, and most of the Watcher's lair, had been destroyed. Saddened the heroes returned for earth and mourned an old friend whom seemingly had lost his way.
It was at this time that a strange figure came out from under the rubble. It was Nick Fury, alive and well. Instead of being killed by the great energies in the explosion, Nick apparently absorbed them. Nick, whom was cosmically powered, remained on the moon, seemingly taking the place of the Watcher as the new defender of earth.
--Karen
Bio is from Comic Vine
~~~~~~~~~~~
General Information
Super Name
Nick Fury
Real Name
Nicholas Joseph Fury
Aliases
Colonel Fury, Doyle, The Man in the Mystery Mask, Mr. Anger, Nicholas Joseph Fury, Patch, Scorpio, Sgt. Fury, Commander of Shield, Commander Fury, The Unseen
Publisher
Marvel
Creators
Jack Kirby
Gender
Male
Character Type
Human
First Appearance
Sgt. Fury #1 - Seven against the Nazis!
Appears in
3481 issues
Birthday
n/a
Died
None
Powers and Abilities
Intellect
Though Nick Fury has no real super-human powers, he is in peak physical condition as a human. He is a skilled tactician and an experienced leader. He is an expert in hand to hand combat (highly skilled in Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, and Jiu Jitsu), as well as a master of virtually all forms of weaponry. In the Army, he was a heavyweight boxing champion. As one of the longest-running Directors of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury has access to some of the world's most advanced weapons and technology. His position has also made him one of the most powerful men in the world in terms of his connections.
Longevity
He once had the Infinity Formula, giving him enhanced longevity and slowing the aging process so that his body is that of a much younger man. He has recently lost the Formula.
Origin
Born and raised in the area of New York City known as Hell's Kitchen around 1920, Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury was around 20 years old when he was drafted into the United States Army to fight the Nazi's in World War II. He soon florished in the rangs of the U.S. Army and became sergeant. During this time, Nick was asked to lead a handpicked squad of highly trained soldiers. This squad would soon become known as the famous Howling Commandos. Sergeant Fury and the Howling Commandos fought through much of World War II, with missions in France, Greece, Belgium, Holland and even inside Nazi Germany itself. The team also encountered and fought alongside a few of America's superheroes, such as Captain America and the Invaders. Nick even met Logan, the person whom would later be known as the X-man Wolverine.
Nick Fury managed to get most of his teammembers back alive after each and every mission. However, Nick himself was injured by a grenade at the end of the war. This grenade was the cause of the eye injury that eventually cost him the vision in his left eye. Fury began covering the eye with a cosmetic black eye-patch, which became one of his trademarks after the war. It was also at this time that he and most other Howling Commandos began their annual injections of the Infinity Formula, a chemical they found during the war. Injections with this chemical greatly slowed their aging proces.
Creation
Nick Fury was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as a WWII character for the war comic book Sgt. Fury in 1963 and first appeared in the first issue of that comic. In 1965, Lee and Kirby updated the character and put him in the present, as the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Strange Tales. Jim Steranko's landmark run starting with Strange Tales #151 in 1966, however, is what gave Nick Fury his cool spy credentials.
Character Evolution
Silver Age
While created in the Silver Age, Nick Fury's history has been retconned to World War II, so in Marvel's continuity, the character has fought along side several Golden Age characters. He became head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in this era, a position he held for most of his comic book career.
Modern Age
Besides numerous guest appearances, Nick Fury had an ongoing, two mini-series and starred in Bendis' Secret Wars in this era. After the events of Original Sin, the character of Nick Fury changed a great deal. It was revealed that the Infinity Formula had worn out which caused him to age rapidly. At the end of the event, Nick Fury was cosmically powered and has taken the place of the Watcher as the earth's defender. None of the Marvel Heroes are at this point aware that Nick Fury is still alive.
Major Story Arcs
After the War and S.H.I.E.L.D.
After the war, Nick and most of his team remained operatives for the U.S. Government. While with the CIA in the 1960's, he recruited Richard Parker and Mary Parker to rescue the so called Agent Ten. Fury also became the superhero liaison for the superhero family called the Fantastic Four. He was then recruited by Anthony Stark, who was secretly the Invincible Iron Man, to be the next director of the newly established S.H.I.E.L.D., an international anti-espionage agency under the aegis of the U.N. and the U.S. Government. Some of Fury's closest friends from the old days where also recruited into the organization and had top positions in the organization, mostly working with Fury himself, such as Dum Dum Dugan. Under his command, S.H.I.E.L.D. became the primary organization in dealings with superhuman activities and he forged alliances with many superhero teams, such as the Avengers and superheroes such as Captain America.
The organization flourished, with many new recruits such as Agent Sharon Carter and even a floating headquarters, the Helicarrier. Nick Fury made it a target to wipe out organized terrorists. With terrorist-organizations such as A.I.M. and Hydra, this was however easier sad then done. Nick fought a secret war against these terrorists for many years, managing to win most of the time, but never truly disbanding the organizations. Nick also became part of the group that brought Spider-Woman from the clutches of Hydra to the side of the angels. Some years later, Fury single handily disbanded S.H.I.E.L.D. because it was being manipulated by free-thinking Life Model Decoys (LMD's). These LMD's where generally used by S.H.I.E.L.D. as stand-ins for their highest officers. The deviant LMD's however intended to take over from Nick and the others and wanted to replace permanently. Luckily Nick managed to ruse the plot and S.H.I.E.L.D. was re-assembled.
The Punisher, Fury's apparent murder and return
When Nick Fury apprehended the Punisher, he had him locked up in the S.H.I.E.L.D. heli-carrier. The Punisher had been brainwashed and was deranged during this time period and managed not only to escape, but when Nick Fury tried to stop him, Punisher shot him dead. Many of Nick's former friends believed his death to be a conspiracy and not true. It was only when they saw Nick's grave, that they finally believed it to be true. The superhero community grieved for the loss of one of it's greatest.
However, months later, it was made out that Punisher did not indeed murder Fury but that the victim was actually one of his LMD's ( Life Model Decoy), an exact double/living clone of Fury and that the SHIELD director had used the event to go undercover. Fury was back with a vengeance and took control over an overjoyed S.H.I.E.L.D. once again. He again established good contact between the law enforcement agency and the superhero community. During this time, Nick fought alongside Captain America and Sharon Carter, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent whom Captain America was romantically involved with for many missions.
Secret War
Nick remained the leader of SHIELD for many more months and had great respect from the superhero community for backing them up whenever needed. This al changed when Nick manipulated the heroes during the Secret War and its consequent memory erasure, he was forced into hiding. Even more enigmatic than before, he has earned the distrust of his former allies. Yet he continues to be one of the most important figures in the Marvel Universe, pulling strings from behind the scenes and keeping in touch only with those whom he trusts most--or whose obedience he feels can be used to his advantage.
Secret Invasion
At the beginning of the Secret Invasion, Nick Fury had been AWOL from S.H.I.E.L.D. for years because he knew of an oncoming threat. It has been revealed that one of the Skrull Empire's main goals is to capture Nick Fury. The Skrulls soon sent in an impostor of Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine only to be killed by Nick Fury. Fury then escaped to safe house and warned current S.H.I.E.L.D. deputy director Maria Hill about an oncoming threat and to trust no one. Nick Fury then used his friend, Daisy Johnson, to gather a team of super humans who ranged in powers so they could be trained for the oncoming invasion. The team trained hard for several months. The invasion of the Skrulls ignited and Nick Fury sent in his team to save several Initiative heroes and bring them back to his safe house to regroup. During this time Nick Fury used Deadpool to gain valuable information on the Skrull Queen but the information was captured unknowingly by Norman Osborn. They later joined up with the rest of the heroes in Central Park for the last stand against the Skrulls. When his old friends Dum Dum Dugan and Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine came out of the Skrull ship with the rest of the captured heroes Nick teleported away without saying a word.
Dark Reign & Secret Warriors
After the Invasion was over, Fury and his team went underground in a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. facility where he revealed to Daisy Johnson that he'd learned HYDRA had been secretly controlling several government agencies, and controlling S.H.I.E.L.D. the entire time. It has also been revealed that at one point, the Zodiac, which Nick, Baron Von Strucker and Jake Fury were all a part of at one point controlled S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, Leviathan and other world organizations but the group went their own separate ways.
Seige
Under the guidance of Loki, Norman Osborn - now creator and director of H.A.M.M.E.R, controller of The Avengers and ruling his secret council of villains including The Hood and Taskmaster - uses Ares, the God of War, and Sentry to lead an attack and destroy Asgard in an illegal war over Broxton, Oklamhoma. With most of Earth's mightiest heroes in hiding since the Superhuman and Mutant Registration Act, Steve Rogers assembles a rogue army of those heroes to side with the Asgardians. Nick Fury stands by him to spearhead their campaign and helps to apprehend Osborn.
Battle Scars
In the past, Fury had an affair with a woman who became pregnant. She chose to keep the child, ending the relationship and forcing her to go into hiding for her own safety, as well as that of the child. This child Marcus Johnson later became a Ranger. Upon the reappearance of Orion, Fury meets his now-adult son and reveals his parentage in a bid to prevent Orion from using Johnson's blood to become more powerful. The pair are captured by Orion, who manages to extract the Infinity Formula from Fury. Fury is rescued from Orion by Johnson, who has enlisted the help of his friend Cheese as well as the Avengers. Nick, now limited to a natural lifespan due to the loss of the Infinity Formula, inducts Johnson, revealed to have the birth name Nicholas Fury Jr., and Cheese, also known as Phil Coulson, into S.H.I.E.L.D..
Original Sin
Things looked up for some time for Nick Fury. That all changed when the Infinity Formula, the formula used by Nick to keep himself young, had ran out. This resulted in Nick aging at an enormous rate. Nick, knowing that his end would be very nearby, wanted to be sure that he would leave behind a legacy of greatness. And not just that of being a super-spy, but something more. It was revealed that, decades ago, Nick had been given the task to become the 'man on the wall', a seemingly invisible force for justice that would take out threads to earth before they would become a real danger. This had resulted in Nick traveling to the farthest corners of the earth and universe, taking out every threads whenever he could. For Nick, it was vital that someone would take over this task, and so he planned to gather a band of heroes whom he found fit for the job.
Things however took a dramatic turn when Nick found out that the lair of the cosmic entity known as the Watcher had been raided by the villains Orb, Exterminatrix and their leader Doctor Midas. The Watcher had been shot, and one of his eyes had been pulled out and taken by the band of villains. Nick confronted the still living Watcher, whom told him how dangerous this eye could be in the wrong hands, since the eye had seen every single possibility for power in the universe. Thus, the person whom wielded the eye could also see these opportunities and use them for evil. Nick tried to persuade the Watcher in telling him where the villains went, so he could take them out. The Watcher however choose to remain silent towards Nick and took an aggressive stance towards the soldier. Nick, after many more refused pleads, and desperate for his time on earth to run out, shot the Watcher and took his other eye. He then went in pursuit of the villains. He also sentan anonymous message to the band of heroes (Black Panther, Emma Frost, Doctor Strange, the Punisher, Ant-Man, Gamora, Moon Knight, and the Winter Soldier) whom he had deemed worthy of taking over his work when he was gone.
It was not much later that the other heroes of the Marvel Universe noticed what had happened at the Watcher's lair, and tried to figure out whom had shot the Watcher, and who took his eyes. A Life Model Decoy of Nick Fury that was planted among the heroes by the real Nick helped them fulfill this task, until it was shot and destroyed by Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, whom had figured out the real Nick Fury was pulling the strings and that it was him that had tasked him with finding the villains. Eventually, The Orb was found and defeated. He however was taken from imprisonment and taken to an orbital space station belonging to Nick. In hot pursuit, the heroes found themselves on the star-base of Nick Fury. There, an elderly Nick confronted the heroes, and told them about his task as 'the man on the wall'. Many of heroes where repulsed by the fact that Nick had been lying to them for so many years, as well as the questionable cause of his work. Nick tried to explain his reasons to the heroes, but this did not stop a fight between Nick and his friends. Eventually, the fight took them to the Watcher's lair, where Doctor Midas had again shown himself. It was there that Nick took out the last thread, and owed up to the fact that he had killed the Watcher. Nick eventually, in what perhaps would be his last act of heroism, took the eyes, whom where overloading, and dropped himself on it like it was a grenade. A great big flash was seen, and when the heroes looked up, it seemed Nick, and most of the Watcher's lair, had been destroyed. Saddened the heroes returned for earth and mourned an old friend whom seemingly had lost his way.
It was at this time that a strange figure came out from under the rubble. It was Nick Fury, alive and well. Instead of being killed by the great energies in the explosion, Nick apparently absorbed them. Nick, whom was cosmically powered, remained on the moon, seemingly taking the place of the Watcher as the new defender of earth.
--Karen
