Although a younger Nick Fury was an integral character in 2019’s Captain Marvel, we haven’t seen Samuel L. Jackson’s present day version of the character prominently featured since Avengers: Age of Ultron, as he was dusted in Avengers: Infinity War, cameoed at Tony Stark’s funeral in Avengers: Endgame and only appeared in Spider-Man: Far From Home’s post-credits scene after it was revealed the Fury we’d been following along with was the Skrull Tales in disguise. But now we’re not long away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Fury being placed front and center for the Secret Invasion series, albeit with one big change. This time around, he isn’t wearing an eyepatch, and Jackson has explained why this aspect of Fury’s look has been ditched.
Nick Fury and an eyepatch go hand in hand, whether we’re talking Samuel L. Jackson’s version, the original one from the comics or any number of takes on the character. So it was a bit surprising when our first look at Jackson in Secret Invasion back in November 2021 was him sans eyepatch. A year and a half later, Jackson informed Vanity Fair that the reason for this is not because his eye has healed from that Goose scratch, but because of the character’s state of mind when we reunite with him, saying to Vanity Fair:
