Samuel L. Jackson Reveals Nick Fury and SHIELD Will Return to the MCU

Nick Fury has played a key role in the MCU since its inception. Now, it seems the popular character (accompanied by SHIELD) will return to the MCU!

In a recent interview with Coming Soon, Nick Fury himself Samuel L. Jackson was asked whether or note SHIELD still has a place in the MCU after the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier:

Yeah! For sure, definitely. Why wouldn’t there be? There’s some way of fixing what they created, and hopefully somebody has that going on or Nick Fury is out there — wherever he is, probably hanging out with Jules and walking the world — figuring out what happened and how it got to that particular place. Maybe they’ll find out that all that was part of a ruse to get to something else also. That would be great. They’ll bring me back somehow, some way, for some reason. I mean, they didn’t have me around to referee the kids when they didn’t go to their rooms and got in this big old fight. We’ll see what happens.

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SHIELD was last seen in the Winter Soldier while Nick Fury last made an appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The prospect of both returning to the MCU sounds exciting.

Some of what Jackson said was a little jokey, but he did bring up an interesting point: SHIELD needs to come back (officially) to fix the damages caused in their wake. Granted, Hydra had a hand in the dismantling of SHIELD, but the damage was still done in their name. So Nick Fury leading SHIELD again makes sense. With Avenger: Infinity War on its way, the heroes need all the help they can get. Also, this could be a great way to FINALLY tie the MCU to Agents of SHIELD. That last bit was too optimistic but it could happen.