Avengers: Endgame Writers Explain Why Nick Fury Wasn’t In Climactic Battle

The end of Avengers: Endgame had just about every MCU hero united to take out Thanos, but Nick Fury was left out. And the writers say that was by design. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely spoke at San Diego Comic-Con (per ComicBook.com) about the film and noted that despite multiple revisions to the big battle, Nick Fury was never part of the plan.

“I don’t think we ever put him in,” Markus said. “It was [because] we have such a traffic jam of heroes and so much power, that to have a guy who, in combat, would just be firing a gun… it doesn’t come off well for Nick Fury, frankly.”

Fury appears in the film, but instead of being in the battle, he appears at Tony Stark’s funeral. He then popped up in a major role in Spider-Man: Far From Home.