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Jackson’s Nick Fury](http://time.com/5303218/samuel-l-jackson-ellen-black-panther/) finally gets an origin story of his own in _Captain Marvel_. Ever since he broke into [Tony Stark’s](http://time.com/5256412/tony-stark-flip-phone/) (Robert Downey Jr.) mansion in the _Iron Man_ post-credits scene, he has been an integral character in the [Marvel Cinematic Universe](http://time.com/5227935/marvel-cinematic-universe-timeline/). And in _Captain Marvel_, audiences learn how he found out about those super-villains — and lost his eye in the process. As the head of the covert American military operation known as S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division), Fury played a key role in the formation of the Avengers — a storyline that positioned his character as one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s main connective threads. Of the 21 Marvel movies that have been released as part of the [Marvel Cinematic Universe](http://time.com/5167535/upcoming-marvel-movies/), Jackson has appeared in nine: _Iron Man_, _Iron Man 2_, _Thor_, _Captain America: The First Avenger_, _The Avengers_, _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_, _Avengers: Age of Ultron_, _Avengers: Infinity_ _War_ and _Captain Marvel._ Not to mention that he is already set to reprise the role of Fury in [_Avengers: Endgame_](http://time.com/5470611/avengers-endgame-trailer-analysis/) and [_Spider-Man: Far From Home_](http://time.com/5503235/spider-man-far-from-home-trailer-breakdown/). But Jackson’s longtime involvement in the MCU is no coincidence. When the Marvel Comics limited series _The Ultimates_ launched in 2002, it featured an updated version of the original Nick Fury character that writer Mark Millar had modeled after Jackson himself. “Sam is famously the coolest man alive and both myself an artist Bryan Hitch just liberally used him without asking any kind of permission,” Millar told [_Business Insider_](https://www.businessinsider.com/samuel-l-jackson-thanks-mark-millar-2015-4?r=UK)in 2015\. “You have to remember this was 2001 when we were putting this together. The idea that this might become a movie seemed preposterous as Marvel was just climbing out of bankruptcy at the time. What we didn’t know was that Sam was an avid comic fan and knew all about it. Jackson discovered that his likeness was being used and nearly took legal action. But when Marvel instead offered to cast him as Fury if the character was ever featured in a movie, Jackson took the deal. When we last saw Fury in [_Avengers: Infinity War_‘s post-credits scene](http://time.com/5252891/avengers-infinity-war-post-credit-scene/), he had just managed to transmit a signal to Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) before becoming one of the victims of [Thanos’ Infinity Stones-powered purge of half the universe](http://time.com/5252990/avengers-infinity-war-deaths/). In _Captain Marvel_ — which is [set in the 1990s](http://time.com/5537132/captain-marvel-timeline/) — Jackson appears as a younger version of Fury who is still a low-level employee at S.H.I.E.L.D. “The Nick Fury we meet is sort of a bureaucrat in an interesting sort of way,” he told [_Entertainment Weekly_](https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/07/captain-marvel-samuel-l-jackson-young-nick-fury/) in a September interview. “He hadn’t become jaded or a slave to the cynicism that we normally see. He sort of respects the people that are above him, more so than the Nick Fury that people are used to.” When Fury’s superiors are infiltrated by an [alien race called the Skrulls](http://time.com/5537334/captain-marvel-aliens-kree-skrull/), Fury learns to become skeptical of the system. He also learns another hard lesson about trust when he befriends what he thinks is a feline named Goose. Goose, who looks like a house cat but turns out to be an [alien called a Flerken](http://time.com/5544214/captain-marvel-cat-goose/), becomes a constant companion of Fury and Captain Marvel when they discover him at Captain Marvel’s mentor’s office.  Marvel Studios' CAPTAIN MARVEL..Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) ..Photo: Film Frame..©Marvel Studios 2019 null—null But when Fury tries to get too cuddly with the Flerken, Goose scratches his eye. 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