Nick Fury in other media

Adaptations of Nick Fury in other media
Created by	Stan Lee Jack Kirby
Original source	Comics published by Marvel Comics
First appearance	Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 (May 1963)
Print publications
Novel(s)	Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD: Empyre
Films and television
Television show(s)	Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Since his debut in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 (May 1963), the Marvel Comics superhero Nick Fury has appeared in many different forms of media, including film, television and video games.

Television

Nick Fury from the Iron Man episode "The Beast Within".

David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D..

1990s

Live action

• David Hasselhoff portrays Fury in the 1998 Fox television movie Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D..^[1]

Animated

• Nick Fury appears as a guest character in the Iron Man animated series, voiced by Philip Abbott.
• Fury appears in episodes of Spider-Man: The Animated Series, initially voiced by Philip Abbott and later by Jack Angel. He confronts the identity-changing terrorist the Chameleon in the episodes "Day of the Chameleon", "The Cat", and "The Black Cat". He also appears in the "Six Forgotten Warriors" six-part episode.
• Fury appears in X-Men: The Animated Series' the season two episode Time Fugitives Part I watching Graydon Creed's speech blaming the mutants as virus carriers inside S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters with G.W. Bridge and War Machine and in the season-five episode Old Soldiers with his World War II band of Howling Commandos.
• Although he didn't appear, Fury has numerous mentions in The Incredible Hulk animated series.
• For the animated series Spider-Man Unlimited, Fury makes an appearance in the episode "Worlds Apart" Pt. 1 voiced by Mark Gibbon.

2000s

• Fury is featured in the animated series X-Men: Evolution, voiced by Jim Byrnes. He appears in the episodes "Operation: Rebirth", "Day of Recovery", "X-23", "Target X", "Uprising", and "Ascension". This show marks the last time that Nick Fury was depicted in animation as Caucasian, later appearances have modeled the character after Samuel L. Jackson as in the Ultimate Marvel comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.
• A Nick Fury TV series was considered for development in 2001.^[2]
• Fury appears in the episode "Wolverine vs. The Hulk" of the animated series Wolverine and the X-Men, voiced by Alex Désert. His patch is on the right eye, and not the left as in most iterations.
• Nick Fury recurs in the CG animated series Iron Man: Armored Adventures, voiced by Dean Redman.
• Fury appears in The Super Hero Squad Show animated series, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.^[3]

2010s

Animation

• Alex Desert reprises his role as Nick Fury in the animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.^[4][5] Fury initially appears as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., but leaves the position to investigate an invasion by the Skrulls.
• Chi McBride voices the Ultimate version of Nick Fury in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series.^[6] McBride would later reprise his role in Avengers Assemble, Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel,^[7] Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.,^[8] and in Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload.

Live action

• Samuel L. Jackson made a guest appearance as Nick Fury in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "0-8-4", reprising the role from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He scolds S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson for the damage Coulson's plane sustained during a mission. In the aftermath of the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Fury makes a return appearance in the first season finale "Beginning of the End", helping Coulson defeat Hydra sleeper agent John Garrett and his Deathlok program. Before leaving for Europe, Fury appoints Coulson as the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and charges him with rebuilding the organization from scratch.^[9][10] While not appearing in season 2, it is explained that Fury had Coulson create Theta Protocol, which was to secretly hide a helicarrier and recruit as many former S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives to man it, in case of ever assisting the Avengers in their time of need. This plan would come into effect during the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Film

• According to the audio commentary of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, director Tim Story said the script originally contained Nick Fury, but the role eventually became that of General Hager (played by Andre Braugher).

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury in Iron Man.

Samuel L. Jackson has signed a nine-film contract with Marvel to portray Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.^[11]

• Fury first appears in the post-credits scene of Iron Man, meeting Tony Stark at his Malibu home to discuss the Avengers Initiative.
• In Iron Man 2, Fury helps Stark deal with Ivan Vanko and hires him as a consultant for the Avengers Initiative.
• Fury makes a cameo in the post-credits scene of Thor, enlisting Erik Selvig to study the Tesseract.
• At the end of Captain America: The First Avenger, Fury informs Steve Rogers: "You've been asleep, Cap, for almost seventy years."
• In The Avengers, Fury brings the titular team together when Loki arrives on Earth to take the Tessaract in order to lead the Chitauri invasion.
• In Captain America: The Winter Soldier,^[12] an attempt is made on Fury's life by Hydra, which is revealed to have taken over S.H.I.E.L.D. Once Hydra's plan to control the world is foiled, Fury fakes his death and heads to Eastern Europe to hunt down the remaining Hydra cells.
• In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fury shows up on Clint Barton's farm to help the Avengers formulate a plan to stop Ultron from destroying humanity. He and other former agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. use a helicarrier to help the Avengers in the final battle against Ultron. He also appears at the end of the film, helping the Avengers get their new headquarters up and running.
• Fury is set to appear in Avengers: Infinity War and the fourth Avengers movie.^[13]
• Marvel co-president Louis D’Esposito said he thought about making a Marvel One-Shots film about a young Nick Fury but felt it would be too complicated.^[14]

Animation

• Andre Ware voiced Ultimate Nick Fury in the direct-to-video animated feature Ultimate Avengers (2006) and its sequel.^[15]
• Nick Fury appears in the Anime film Iron Man: Rise of Technovore, voiced by John Eric Bentley in English and Hideaki Tezuka in Japanese.^[16]
• Nick Fury appears in the anime film Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher, with John Eric Bentley reprising the role.^[17]

Video games

• Nick Fury is the second player's character in the arcade game The Punisher.
• Nick Fury appears as a non-playable character in The Punisher. Several of his S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are featured in a later level.
• Nick Fury was featured in the video game adaptation of the 2005 Fantastic Four film, voiced by Andre Ware.
• Nick Fury appears in the video game X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, voiced by Khary Payton.
• Ultimate Nick Fury appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man video game, voiced by Dave Fennoy.
• Nick Fury appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance voiced by Scott MacDonald. He becomes a playable character after completing the game the first time.^[18] He has two costumes based on the mainstream Marvel universe Fury and two costumes based on the Ultimate Marvel Fury.
• Nick Fury appears as a non-playable character in the video game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, voiced by Marc Graue.
• Nick Fury appears in the PSP and PS2 versions of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
• Nick Fury appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 voiced by David Kaye.^[19] Upon completing the game, Nanite Nick Fury is unlocked as a playable character.
• Nick Fury appears in the video game adaption of Iron Man 2, voiced by Samuel L. Jackson (with additional dialogue provided by John Eric Bentley).
• Ultimate Nick Fury is mentioned by Ultimate Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, before Carnage attacks the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. He called Ultimate Spider-Man when S.H.I.E.L.D. ignores his warning not to experimenting on the fragment from another Earth, until Spider-Man arrived, which causes a chaos of Triskelion, after S.H.I.E.L.D. mixing the fragment with Carnage in their experiments.
• Nick Fury, in his Ultimate appearance appears in Crimson Viper's ending for Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds where he offers her a job with S.H.I.E.L.D.. He later reappeared in Ultimate ending of Captain America, in taking Barack Obama's place from original version.
• Two versions of Nick Fury appear as playable characters in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online: one based on his appearance in The Super Hero Squad Show animated series, and one based on his appearance in the film The Avengers.
• Nick Fury appears as a non-playable character in the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
• Nick Fury appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes voiced by John Eric Bentley.^[20]
• Nick Fury appears as a non-playable character in Marvel Heroes, voiced by Keith David.^[21]
• Nick Fury is a non-playable character in Marvel Avengers Alliance Tactics.
• Nick Fury is a playable character in Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition), with Samuel L. Jackson reprising his role.^[22][23]
• Nick Fury is a playable character in Marvel Puzzle Quest.
• Nick Fury appears in the Spider-Man Unlimited video game and would later be made a playable character.
• Nick Fury is a non-playable character in Marvel: Future Fight mobile game.
• Nick Fury is a playable character in Marvel Mighty Heroes.
• Nick Fury is a playable character in Disney Infinity 3.0, with Samuel L. Jackson reprising his role.

Live performance

• Nick Fury appears in the Marvel Universe: LIVE! arena show.^[24]

Toys

• Nick Fury is the 51st figurine in The Classic Marvel Figurine Collection.
• There have been three Nick Fury figures released in Toy Biz's 6" Marvel Legends line. A version of Fury in his classic outfit was released in wave 5, a version of Fury in his Ultimate appearance was released in the first wave of two-packs packed with Ultimate Captain America, and another version of Fury in his classic outfit was released in the second wave of two-packs packed with a Hand Ninja.
• Nick Fury first appeared in wave 5 of the Marvel Super Hero Squad line in his Ultimate guise, packaged with Ultimate Captain America. He later appeared in wave 10 in his classic appearance, packaged with a Skrull.
• A figure of Nick Fury in his classic attire was released in wave 12 of the Marvel Minimates line, and another, Ultimate Nick Fury was released in wave 27. A third figure, based on Fury from the film Iron Man 2, was released in the Battle Tactics boxset.
• A figure of Fury in his classic costume was released in the 3.75" Marvel Universe line. It was available through a special offer involving subscribing to the Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited website.
• A Nick Fury action figure was released in Hasbro's 3.75" Iron Man 2 line in the "Fury of Combat" four-pack.
• A Nick Fury minifigure was released as part of the Ultimate Spider-man Lego playset series.

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