Why Captain Marvel Is Going To Be A Very Different MCU Movie
6. Nick Fury Will Have Both His Eyes
Marvel Studios
It's been a little while since we last saw Samuel L. Jackson in the MCU, with his last appearance coming in 2015's Age of Ultron. And while the character is billed for a return in next year's Infinity War, it's his appearance in Captain Marvel that we're most stoked about.
Given the setting of the film, fans will be receiving their first look at the character before he took over at S.H.I.E.L.D., and indeed, before he started sporting that snazzy eyepatch too. It's a premise for a story that not many people would've considered at first. But, given the character's already mysterious and indeed checkered past, it's a story no less worth telling. If it's taking a backseat to the rest of Captain Marvel's plot, then you can begin to imagine the scale of the narrative that Boden and Fleck are crafting.
It's always great to see Fury when he pops up, and given how he's always been great at making introductions to the MCU, there's a great precedent for Danvers to follow.
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.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
