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2. Strucker vs Fury
Every hero has an arch-nemesis. Captain America has the Red Skull, Iron Man has the Mandarin, Thor has Loki, the X-Men have Magneto, Batman has the Joker, Superman has Lex Luthor, and so on. This is also true of Nick Fury.
Fury was initially depicted in the pages of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, a war comic set during WW2. Furys arch-nemesis in that series was none other than Baron Strucker. Even after WW2, both Fury and Strucker continued their rivalry well into the twenty-first century, both kept in their physical primeFury through the Infinity Formula and Strucker through serums developed by Hydra.
The question is will Fury and Struckers rivalry make it to the big screen? The Winter Soldier gave us some potential clues. In the post-credits scene, Strucker calls SHIELD and Hydra two sides of a coin that are no longer currency. Where does Strucker fit into Hydras structure given that Alexander Pierce appeared to be their leader? Was he actually the Supreme Hydra and Pierce a front man?
In The Winter Soldier, Fury also tells Cap that the last time I trusted someone I lost an eye. Given Hydras status in the films as a mole within SHIELD and many of Hydras operatives masquerading as SHIELD agents (such as Garrett, Ward, Sitwell and Rumlow), could Strucker have been one of those agents as well? Could he have been the reason Fury lost an eye?
With Fury letting the world believe him dead following the events of The Winter Soldier and the first season of Agents of SHIELD, the return of the man who cost him his eye might be what it takes to get him to come back into action.