Nick Fury

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

Nick Fury is a bald man who publicly presents himself as one-eyed, with an eyepatch covering his healed left eye. He maintains the appearance of blindness to disguise his full visual capabilities. 93 242

• Bald head and a single visibly exposed eye.
• Usually wears an eyepatch over his restored left eye. 114 242
• Carries a handgun and reacts quickly to perceived intruders. 438

Personality

Fury is deeply suspicious, methodical, and unwilling to trust even his closest personnel without verification. His initial response to Devil Fruits is skepticism, but he promptly accepts the evidence once Black Widow demonstrates her transformation. 100 111

He treats information as a strategic weapon. After uncovering Hydra's infiltration, Fury avoids an immediate purge that would alert the enemy; instead, he quietly builds trusted forces, establishes off-record facilities, and uses his abilities to identify loyal agents. 144 190 191

Fury is also pragmatic and ruthless when necessary. He uses Black Widow's Mimic-Mimic Fruit to replace Alexander Pierce at the head of Hydra, considers controlling Captain America through a Devil Fruit, and commissions memory alteration for the Winter Soldier. 224 239 259

Abilities & Skills

Glare-Glare Fruit

Fury chose the Glare-Glare Fruit for its intelligence-gathering value and uses it as his primary advantage against spies and infiltrators. 111 112

• Sees through solid objects with X-ray vision; its effective range varies with the user's development. 112
• Reads thoughts, allowing him to learn conversations he cannot physically hear. 116 190
• Uses an “OK” hand gesture to activate his abilities, often disguising the motion as an adjustment of his eyepatch. 112 116
• Scanned the Triskelion Building for surveillance blind spots and discovered suspicious contact involving Rumlow. 115
• Used prolonged surveillance and mind reading to uncover Rumlow's Hydra allegiance and the scale of Hydra's infiltration. 130 190
• Cannot read Rosha's mind due to the Devil Fruit system's protection. 114

Tear Attack

The Glare-Glare Fruit allows Fury to harden and shape his tears into weapons. 112 113

• Can form hardened tears into small, sharp constructs such as needles. 113
• Considers the ability a concealed trump card because opponents would not expect tears to be lethal. 113
• Its precision and quantity can improve with further practice. 113

Intelligence Tradecraft

Fury is an experienced, high-level agent and intelligence director.

• Personally conducts covert surveillance, counterintelligence, and threat assessment. 115 223
• Maintains secret facilities outside S.H.I.E.L.D.'s official records, including Base No. 3 and the Red Trumpet safehouse. 144 154
• Displays fast reactions when confronted by an intruder, immediately drawing his firearm. 438
• Is described as a level-ten agent. 438

Equipment / Resources

• Eyepatch — Conceals the restoration of his left eye and helps hide activation of his Devil Fruit abilities. 114 242
• Handgun — Drawn when he detects Captain Marvel inside his home. 438
• Base No. 3 — An unrecorded base used to test Hawkeye Barton's Devil Fruit powers away from Hydra surveillance. 144
• Red Trumpet safehouse — A secret detention and operational site unknown to Black Widow before Fury directs her there. 154
• S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra intelligence networks — Following Pierce's replacement, Fury gains a route to counter-infiltrate Hydra through Black Widow. 224

Relationships

• Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow — Trusted subordinate and frequent partner in intelligence operations; her Mimic-Mimic Fruit is central to Fury's takeover of Hydra's leadership. 100 224
• Phil Coulson — Loyal senior agent whom Fury verifies through mind reading; Fury later protects him from field work after learning the value of the Regression Fruit. 116 242
• Clint Barton / Hawkeye — Trusted agent and one of Fury's earliest Devil Fruit-backed assets; Fury tests Barton's Falcon Form at Base No. 3. 116 144
• Alexander Pierce — Fury's former superior, secretly Hydra's leader; after discovering Pierce's assassination plan, Fury captures him and has Black Widow assume his identity. 223 224
• Steve Rogers / Captain America — Recruited by Fury to lead a department regulating ability users, though Fury's attempts to control powerful assets create conflict between them. 248 259
• Peggy Carter — Works with Fury on interrogating the future Captain America, but clashes with him over whether to aid the alternate universe's Avengers. 346 352
• Rosha — Initially investigates Rosha and classifies him as extremely dangerous; later regards information from the shopkeeper as reliable despite remaining wary of him. 101 115 158
• Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel — An old friend who visits Fury after hearing that Rosha may have killed Thanos. 438 439

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Devil Fruit investigation — Fury receives reports that Kingpin, Bullseye, Elektra, Stick, and Zhao Hailun are not Mutants, beginning S.H.I.E.L.D.'s investigation into Devil Fruit users. Black Widow later confirms that Devil Fruits are real. 93 100
• Acquisition of the Glare-Glare Fruit — Fury visits Devil Fruit Household as a private customer, selects the Glare-Glare Fruit for its surveillance and mind-reading utility, then secretly restores his left eye. 110 111 114
• Hydra infiltration discovery — Using his new abilities, Fury identifies Rumlow as suspicious and eventually learns that roughly seventy percent of S.H.I.E.L.D. is Hydra. 115 130 190
• Secret buildup — Rather than openly confronting Hydra, Fury cultivates a small circle of verified allies, recalls Barton for a Devil Fruit allocation, and begins seeking additional ability users. 116 144 191
• Counter-infiltration of Hydra — After overhearing Pierce's plan to assassinate him, Fury captures Pierce and installs Black Widow as his replacement, allowing S.H.I.E.L.D. to infiltrate Hydra from its highest position. 223 224
• Ability-user regulation and recruitment — Fury forms a superpowered team, recruits Captain America to lead a department handling ability-user disputes and arrests, and uses Hawkeye as one of its key combatants. 191 248
• Winter Soldier operation — Fury keeps the Winter Soldier in a secret base and hires Simon Bolen to erase and implant memories, intending to create a controllable operative. 259
• Iron Man Armor project — After losing Captain America's support, Fury accelerates his secret development of Iron Man Armor technology to maintain S.H.I.E.L.D.'s strength. 277
• Battle of New York — Fury assembles Hawkeye, Bruce Banner, Captain America, and Tony Stark against Loki and the Chitauri, while keeping Black Widow out of combat because of her importance to Hydra control. 326
• Future Avengers incident — Fury and Peggy Carter interrogate Captain America from another timeline after future Avengers are captured; Fury later opposes assisting the alternate universe when he judges the risk to his own world too high. 346 347 352

Trivia

• Fury continues pretending to be blind after his eye is healed, treating the restored eye as a secret trump card. 114 242
• He initially judges Rosha to be an extremely dangerous threat and explicitly orders S.H.I.E.L.D. to avoid conflict with him. 115
• Fury's mind-reading ability exposes Coulson's private resentment toward him despite Coulson's outward professionalism. 116