Possibly my favorite thing about CAPTAIN MARVEL being set in the 90s is realizing that the events of that story planted in Nick Fury the seed of a dream that he grew & tended & cherished for like 20 years, looking for more of *that* and he finally gets it and it's Tony Stark
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Nick Fury: the Job of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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"Nick, you've been harping on this Avengers thing for two decades and all you've got is A Really Good Archer and an Actual Assassin" "This next guy built powered armor in a cave; he's the ticket, I'm sure" "Yeah but isn't he uh just a bit of an asshole" "NO THIS WILL BE FINE"
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Nick Fury was bound and determined that he was not going to use Carol Danvers's pager until he could say, "Welcome back, no, been up to nothing much, but look at this marvelous team I've built for you"
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from Nick Fury's POV the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe is the world's longest remake of MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE
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*1995, as the mega-powerful Captain Marvel rockets skyward* "I'll make a team of people just like her. Powerful, good to work with, good at their jobs" *ten years of abject failure later* "So what exactly do you do?" "uh, I shoot a bow and arrow pretty good" "FUCK IT, YOU'RE IN"
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I think a more parsimonious explanation is that he spent the first ten years writing grant applications.
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