Nick Fury was the first big-time authority figure introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the character still active in the series over a decade later. Fury was the one responsible for getting the Avengers together, although his role has been relatively subdued since Captain America: The Winter Soldier after he faked his death.
Overall, Fury’s role as the leader has resulted in a number of scenarios due to the decisions he’s made. Unfortunately, quite a lot of these have had negative consequences on a global scale, as well as for Fury himself. With Nick Fury set to lead the Secret Invasion series, it’s worth noting his biggest lapses in judgment up until now.
10 Rejecting Tony Stark But Wanting To Keep Iron Man
Fury kept a watch on Tony Stark in Iron Man 2 to assess if he was good enough to join the Avengers. By the end of the movie, he showed Tony that he recommended Iron Man for the team, but not Tony himself, essentially telling Stark that only his tech was welcome.
This decision brought problems for Fury, though, as Tony decided he didn’t want to join the Avengers this way and started keeping his own tabs on S.H.I.E.L.D. By the time of the first Avengers movie, Tony had made up his mind to sway men like Bruce Banner away from Fury’s plans, as Tony argued that Fury couldn’t be fully trusted.
9 Thinking He Could Tame Goose
Fury came across Goose the alien cat in Captain Marvel and developed an attachment to her. He kept Goose with him even after Captain Marvel had left, hoping he could tame the alien as his own pet, only for Goose to scratch his eye out.
As it is, this permanently left Fury blind in one eye and limited his capabilities for fieldwork due to partial loss of vision. His decision to take the cat in ultimately brought him a lot more problems than Goose was worth.
8 Not Being Upfront About S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Manufacturing With The Tesseract
In The Avengers, the members of the titular team were kept unaware of what their purpose was to group together at the Helicarrier. Proving that he wasn't always in the wrong, the MCU's Tony Stark hacked into S.H.I.E.L.D.’s data to correctly guess that they were manufacturing weapons with the Tesseract, a point Fury didn’t deny.
While his argument that they needed weapons that could fight threats like Loki was understandable to an extent, Fury’s decision not to be honest with the team led to everyone distrusting him and an argument broke out that allowed the ambush from Loki’s forces to blindside everybody.
7 Leaving After Faking His Death
Fury refused to come back from hiding at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, leaving Phil Coulson in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. However, his decision was not only wrong due to the state of disarray this left S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers in, but because of the fact that he got nothing out of it.
Fury had claimed he was continuing his faked death in order to find out more of HYDRA’s bases to ensure the group was eradicated, yet he had no hand in ending HYDRA, as it were the Avengers who did so in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
6 Leaving Loki Unattended In The Helicarrier
Loki is known as "The Trickster God" in the MCU for good reason, and he proved exactly why when his plan to destroy the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. came about in the Helicarrier. Nick Fury was the one who had Loki held in the glass containment prison, but he also decided to leave Loki there as he was.
This came back to haunt him as Loki not only freed himself, but was able to get the drop on Phil Coulson, who had attempted to hold Loki off, and was killed in return. Had Fury not underestimated Loki, then he wouldn’t have had the calamity surrounding the Helicarrier on his hands.
5 Not Inviting Thor To Join The Avengers
Interestingly enough, Thor was never in the plans for the Avengers, as Nick Fury never actually recruited him for the team. Instead, Thor showed up looking for Loki and stuck around to fight against his brother. However, Fury was wrong not to invite Thor, as this affected the heroes negatively.
As Thor didn’t know about the Avengers, he ended up getting into a fight with Iron Man and Captain America, during which Loki saw his moment to escape, thus setting up his invasion of Earth. Had Fury included Thor in his plans, the entire Battle of New York could have been avoided.
4 Not Calling In Skrulls To Use Against HYDRA
At the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home, it was revealed that Nick Fury had never been involved in the events of the movie and was in space the whole time. Masquerading as Fury was Talos, whom the former had called in so that no one realized Fury’s absence.
This made Fury’s decision not to use the Skrulls against HYDRA a poor one, as he could have easily called Talos in to use the Skrulls’ shapeshifting abilities and weed out HYDRA agents. Instead, Fury had to let the Avengers fight HYDRA, which led to Iron Man finding the Mind Stone scepter and creating Ultron.
3 Deliberately Being Absent With His Presence During The Civil War
Fury had shown up at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron to help the team and revealed that he was still active. However, he was inconspicuously absent during Captain America: Civil War at a time where the team desperately needed a figure just like Fury to act as the mediator.
Instead, Fury decided to sit it out completely, choosing not to get involved in the conflict and allowing it to escalate to the point where Iron Man and Captain America formed two factions to determine who was right. Fury’s absence only made things worse, as Thunderbolt Ross acted as the evil authority figure who had no counterpart to challenge him.
2 Placing His Trust In Alexander Pierce
One of the few people that Nick Fury was known to consider a friend was Alexander Pierce, who was the Secretary of the World Security Council. Fury came to the conclusion that Pierce was trustworthy and a valuable ally of S.H.I.E.L.D., only for Pierce to betray Fury by arranging a hit on him.
This led to Fury having to fake his own death as he realized that Pierce was a high-ranking member of HYDRA and had been infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. for years. Fury’s mistake in trusting Pierce actually ended up ushering in his prolonged absence.
1 Not Telling Anyone About Captain Marvel
This is easily the biggest blunder Nick Fury made as far as decision-making is concerned, as he chose not to divulge the secret of Captain Marvel’s existence. Of course, it backfired in the biggest possible way, as the superhero had no clue about Thanos’ collection of the Infinity Stones.
Fury was too late to call Captain Marvel in, by which point the Snap had already been completed and he had been killed. Had Fury revealed Captain Marvel’s status to people like the Avengers, she would have been contacted to fight in the Battle of Wakanda and most likely beaten Thanos to prevent the Snap from ever happening.
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July 01, 2021 at 12:00AM
