![]() That’s the same career track as the comic book Nick Fury, who began life as the headliner of a World War II comic called Sgt. He achieved the rank of Colonel during the war (presumably Vietnam, as he says he went into the service right out of high school, and we see he was born in 1950), and after doing his combat time, he spent the rest of the cold war as a spy. While they do move his timetable forward a few years, all of the elements that make Fury who he is are present and accounted for in Captain Marvel. Most of it aligns quite closely with the Nick Fury of the comics. Throughout the movie, we learn details about Fury’s origin. Jackson is digitally de-aged to something roughly resembling his 1995 form to provide backup for Carol during her fish-out-of-water early moments back on Earth, and to serve as a suitably incredulous audience POV character as someone who has yet to encounter a proper superhero, let alone one who is kind of from another planet. ![]() While Captain Marvel is thoroughly committed to establishing Carol Danvers and her place in the MCU, it’s also the closest thing to a Nick Fury origin story that Marvel Studios is ever likely to give us. ![]() We have a spoiler free review of the movie here. This article contains massive Captain Marvel spoilers.
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