10 Biggest MCU Surprises We Didn't See Coming
3. How Nick Fury Lost His Eye
Ever since Nick Fury appeared in the first Iron Man film, right at the start of the MCU, fans were wondering if we would ever get an explanation of how he lost his eye and started wearing his signature eyepatch. The many comic book versions of Fury have several different backstories. For example, in Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos #27, Fury caught a live grenade in his hand and failed to throw it back in time before it exploded in his face.
The MCU version of this story is slightly more anticlimactic…
When the trailer for Captain Marvel first came out and we saw Samuel L. Jackson playing a younger Nick Fury without the eyepatch, many fans speculated that this would be the movie to finally shed some light on this mystery. Although they were correct, the fans didn’t get exactly what they were hoping for.
At the end of the movie, while holding Goose, an alien disguised as a cat, Goose gets upset and claws at his face. That’s it. That is the big reveal for how one of the most influential and important characters in the MCU lost his eye: a kitty cat. Though, an alien cat that can devour people whole, to be fair.