Fury is a deadly "cybiote" built by the reality-manipulating psychic Mad Jim Jaspers of the parallel timeline of Earth-238 and programmed to destroy all superhumans but himself. It is immensely powerful, capable of generating lethal energy blasts and of adapting and regenerating its mechanical body.
Fury killed all of Earth-238's superheroes, with the exception of Captain UK, who fled to another world at the moment that Fury killed her husband Rick. Most of Fury's victims on Earth-238 were based on British comic book characters from the 1950s-1970s. After succeeding in its mission, Fury was deactivated until Captain Britain and his elf-like sidekick Jackdaw were sent to Earth-238 by the Captain's mythic mentor Merlyn. Jaspers had his agents, the Status Crew, reactivate Fury and send it to kill the hero. Fury murdered Jackdaw, and then killed Captain Britain himself.[2]
The Captain was retrieved by Merlyn and revived in the alien magician's home dimension, Otherworld. Fury detected that its prey again lived, and began to adapt itself to interdimensional travel in order to hunt him down. Meanwhile, the temporal overseer Mandragon destroyed Earth-238 in order to kill Jaspers; Fury barely escaped to Captain Britain's native world, Earth-616. There, Fury killed several more of Captain Britain's allies, growing ever more powerful as it did so. Tracking Captain Britain and disabling him, it finally confronted Earth-616's counterpart of Mad Jim Jaspers, who was beginning to organize a program against his own world's superhumans. Fury determined that this Jaspers was not its creator and therefore was not exempt from its directive to kill superhumans. The two fought on equal footing, but Fury won when it transported the pair to the empty void that had been Earth-238. Jaspers was unable to use his powers of reality manipulation in a universe where reality had been destroyed, and Fury swiftly incinerated his brain. The weakened Fury returned to Earth-616, where it was ambushed and destroyed by Captain Britain and Captain UK, sustaining more damage in the process than it could regenerate.[volume&issueneeded]
Fury preyed on Captain Britain's mind and thus was used by the insane Orpington-Smythe, leader of the R.C.X. He had one of his super-powered agents cast an illusion of Captain Britain's lover Meggan, making her look like Fury. The Captain instantly struck her down, though she survives with minor injuries.[volume&issueneeded]
Fury reappeared years later in several issues of Uncanny X-Men that were written by Captain Britain co-creator Chris Claremont and illustrated by Fury co-creator Alan Davis.[3] Fury, which was later revealed to be a facsimile created by Captain Britain's brother Jamie Braddock, destroys Captain Britain's home and beat the visiting X-Men unconscious. It takes control of X-Men member Sage, who possesses a "computer brain", and has her attack her teammates, but its control over her is severed by an electrical field created by Storm. Fury is again destroyed when Rachel Summers creates an artificial black hole inside its body, collapsing it into a singularity.[volume&issueneeded]
In The Uncanny X-Men #462, Mad Jim Jaspers is resurrected in Otherworld and appears to have merged with Fury. This leads into the miniseries X-Men: Die by the Sword, in which Jaspers begins transforming the Captain Britain Corps members into Fury. This results in most of the Corps being slain. In the conclusion of this series Fury takes complete control of Jaspers before being defeated and destroyed.[4]
A small remnant of Fury is shown binding with an unknowing Merlyn. He later discovered it, extracted it, and used it as part of a spell to resurrect a fallen Captain Britain.[5]
Powers and abilities
Fury is described as "the supreme killing machine", and was created via a combination of reality warping and technology, granting it the ability to adapt to anything and everything without limit, making it near-invincible. Its left arm fires energy blasts that are potent enough to kill literally every superhero in its original reality. Fury can also fire poisonous, barbed darts. Fury carries detailed files on all known superhumans, and its sophisticated array of sensors is powerful enough to recognize when it has killed all superhumans present in the universe. It has a back-up brain in its spine, should its main brain be disabled.[volume&issueneeded]
Fury has superhuman physical abilities and is virtually indestructible. If damaged, it has self-repair systems, and is capable of developing new powers to deal with unexpected situations. Fury develops limited teleportation abilities, and when it continues to track the resurrected Captain Britain across realities, it acquires the ability to cross dimensions. Trans-dimensional travel nearly destroys Fury, and it usually needs to acquire raw "genetic material" to rebuild itself. It is most vulnerable to being destroyed at this time, as its strength, invulnerability and energy blasts are compromised. Fury can kill regular humans and use their bodies for this purpose, although killing non-superhumans appears to not be a primary function of Fury.
Fury's dart weapons are tipped with a powerful sedative and mutagen. Fury kills a host body with its attached barb and drags the body closer to itself. Sid, a hapless drifter, managed to escape Fury shortly after it warped to Captain Britain's dimension, but he was grazed by one of Fury's darts. The powerful toxin turns him into a monster that terrorizes London until Captain Britain and the British Army kill him.[6]
Fury can use any other resources around to rebuild and improve itself. It absorbs most of the 'Mastermind' computer at Braddock Manor, giving it vastly improved computational abilities.
In 2009, Marvel Heroes #15-16 featured the return of Fury. In #15, Captain Britain returned to Earth with a warning that Fury was coming back: repeated simulations by a Panini equivalent of the Illuminati ran hundreds of combat simulations, finding that in each one Fury would slaughter them. The Silver Surfer offered a solution: making a deal with Galactus to obtain the Ultimate Nullifier. Captain Britain fires the Nullifier at close range, which destroys Fury, erases all memory of its rampage, and resurrects those it had killed.
Collections
Fury's appearances have been collected into a number of trade paperback:
Captain Britain (by Alan Moore and Alan Davis, collects Marvel Super-Heroes #386-388, The Daredevils #1-11, & The Mighty World of Marvel #7-13, 1982–1984, 208 pages, Marvel Comics/Marvel UK, 2002, ISBN0-7851-0855-6)
Uncanny X-Men: The New Age, Volume 1: The End Of History (collects The Uncanny X-Men #444-449, 144 pages, Marvel Comics, December 2004, ISBN0-7851-1535-8)
X-Men: Die By The Sword (128 pages, Marvel Comics, April 2008, ISBN0-7851-2791-7)
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