Nick Fury

"Long before I stepped off a C-130 at Da Nang Fury and his team had already set fire to half of Asia."

- Frank Castle on Nick Fury. Nick Fury is a former leader of a WW2 special forces group called "The Howling Commandos, a former C.I.A agent, and current head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury enlisted in the U.S Army in 1941, after the bombing of Peral Harbor Fury signed up for the US Army Rangers where he was recruited to lead the First Attack Squad AKA the Howling Commandos.  A specially-trained ban of soldiers who took part in some of the most dangerous missions in the war.  Fury led them against the likes of the Red Skull and Heinrich Zemo and other Axis villains.  He and his Howling Commandos struck several critical blows to the Nazis and their allies during the war. he struck pathes with Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker.  Strucker's humilating defeats at the hands of Fury would put him on a life-long vendetta against Fury. After the war Fury and his Howling Commandos participated in a number of "mop-up" missions. In 1954 Fury was recruited to the C.I.A and was trained as a C.I.A agent. Fury saw action in the Korean War and even saw some of his former comrades in the Howling Commandos. In the 1960's Fury was contacted by the Board of Directors of the newly formed organization S.H.I.E.L.D which at the time was called the "Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division" and was offered directorship by Tony Stark. During the cold war, S.H.I.E.L.D saw much action against HYDRA. During this time Fury would face off against his old Nemisis, Strucker. S.H.I.E.L.D was later renamed the "Stategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate". Since then Fury saw heavy action during the Civil War, Skurll Invasion, Secret Invasion, and Norman Osborn's rise to power.