MCU: 10 Things You Learn Rewatching Captain America: The Winter Soldier
8. The Fury Twist Is A Little Weak
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Marvel have long been fans of a putting a little bit of deception into their trailers, and in Winter Soldier they laid their cards down pretty quickly.
Both the film's teaser and its theatrical trailer included shots of Nick Fury in considerable distress, either on the highway or on the operating table. He looked set to pass, and low and behold when the film came proper he did... for approximately forty-five minutes.
The attack on Fury made for one of The Winter Soldier's tensest scenes, and when he "died" on the operating table it lent the film a genuine sense of terror. Steve and Nat were now up against one of the most powerful intelligence apparatuses in the world, and while it's always been the case that Fury is several steps ahead of, well, pretty much everyone in the Marvel Universe, his subsequent return didn't feel all that great.
It doesn't derail the film by any means, but nothing of note has been done with the character since, making this particular resurrection feel doubly pointless.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
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