Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 10 MCU Mistakes It Repeats

9. Failure To Take Risks

In the first half of The Winter Soldier, something monumental happens. Or, at least, something seemingly monumental happens. Nick Fury, returning for the sixth time as played by Samuel L. Jackson, is ambushed by assassins in what is perhaps the film's best and most memorable scene. He escapes (just barely), squashing our suspicions that this sequel would be the movie to kill of the iconic S.H.I.E.L.D. boss. And then, suddenly, in the next scene, Nick Fury is sniped from afar by the Winter Soldier himself. He dies on the operating table. Is put in a body bag. "Did they really just kill Nick Fury?" everybody said to themselves upon witnessing this. "Was that really what happened? Wow, Marvel. Props to you. Nobody expected that at all." Alas, the fact that - two thirds into the movie - Marvel backtrack on their decision to kill Nick Fury, further proves that the MCU is a place where risks aren't taken lightly - or at all. Fury is alive (of course he is), and though it would have been sad to see him go, it would have been more interesting to explore the effects of a real death, injecting the MCU with some well-needed dramatic weight.