When I regularly read comics, back in the Dark Ages, Nick Fury was either a white guy in his 20s serving in the US Army in WWII, or a middle-aged guy with an eye-patch and brown hair going white at the temples, serving in SHEILD. In both versions, he was a cigar-chompin’ mean dude.
Now that PiperCub is interested in super-heroes, I’ve been re-introduced to Nick. He’s now black, serving solely with SHEILD, an eye-patch, and of course, no cigar whatsoever.
So when did he get ret-conned? Anything else I should be brought up to speed on in the Marvel universe?
In 2000, Marvel decided to start a new line of comic books called their Ultimate series. Basically, they took established characters and rebooted them as if they were new characters. Some of the characters got some changes. One of these was Nick Fury who became a clone of Samuel L. Jackson (with Jackson’s permission) when Marvel started its new Avengers series.
The new series were successful and led to a jump over into the movies. Jackson had essentially already been cast in the part.
Furthermore, recently the “normal” Marvel Universe introduced a character called Nick Fury Jr. who is the son of the original… and looks and acts exactly like the Sam Jackson Fury of the Ultimate line and the movies. This character serves actively with SHIELD and seems to have largely taken over his father’s role. Nick Classic still exists and occasionally shows up, but hasn’t starred in a series since Secret Warriors ended in 2011.
Marvel launches “Ultimate” universe, with Nick Fury made to look like Samuel L. Jackson
Marvel starts making movies, and decide to actually get SLJ to play Nick Fury.
Some idiot decided that having a black Nick Fury in the movies but a white Nick Fury in the comics would be too confusing for moviegoers looking to buy comic books, and come up with a fairly torturous storyline that ends up with “Nick Fury” replaced by his black son, who just happens to look like SLJ.
As I see it, she’s an attractive, well endowed woman who likes showing it off. And women who can casually bend steel in their hands or reduce you to ash with a glance probably have rather fewer problems with sexual harassment than the average good looking woman does, so there’s less of a downside for her than there might otherwise be. And it’s not like there aren’t scads of scantily clad superheroines flying around.
Well, as long as you don’t ask anybody to explain Hawkman’s origin… I hear there’s several DC editors who have gone insane trying to make sense of that one.
OK, I can go along with Nick the Elder having a kid that looks like Samuel L. Jackson, but what I want to know is, how did they *both *manage to poke their left eye out? Genetic genetic predisposition for running with scissors?
