DC's equivalent of Nick Fury

[Micromind]

Amanda Waller is way too similar to Nick Fury and should not be included in the DCCU, in my opinion. A headstrong, no-nonsense African American government agent sent in to corral all of these super powered weirdos popping up? No thank you, do something more original.
It's funny looking back at GL and seeing how they were clearly trying to build up the DCCU that way, and clearly Amanda Waller was their Nick Fury. Glad that whole thing blew up in their face so we wouldn't have to see that play out over multiple films.

Urmm.. Amanda Waller in Green Lantern movie was not doing what Nick Fury does.


She was the investigating all the possibilities of aliens and other phenomenon that could be a threat. If anything.. she is against any super powered vigilantes that operate on their own.

 

[Greens]

Honestly, the DC universe doesn't need a Nick Fury equivalent. There's already characters appearing across the films.

Think about it:

- Batman v Superman: DOJ will have Lex Luthor, and he might also appear in Suicide Squad.

- Wonder Woman will appear in Batman v Superman: DOJ, Wonder Woman, and Justice League Part One

- Aquaman will appear in Batman v Superman: DOJ, Aquaman, and maybe Justice League Part One

- Flash will appear in Flash and maybe Justice League Part One. We don't know yet.

- We don't know who will be in Justice League Part Two. Probably all of the heroes.

So characters will already cross films. No need to have one just for that.

Exactly. DC will make sure everyone and their mother knows it's a shared universe.

 

[Victarion]

I like that DC's going at it like the universe is already a shared one instead of easing into it.

 

[100]

If anything since Marvel has Nick Fury I wonder just who is DC's equivalent of Nick Fury? And if DC's equivalent of Nick Fury should show up in future DC Comics films to further build up the much anticipated Justice League film that I know everyone including myself is anxious to see

I would rather the go with Rick Flagg since Tom Hardy is in the role.

 

[The Question]

For a while in the early 2000s, DC tried to make the obscure 1980s super villain "Mr. Bones" into their Nick Fury equivalent. He's a weird mutant guy who was born with all of his soft tissue completely invisible, so he looks like a walking talking skeleton, and after reviving him from his short lives villain career he became the director of the Department of Extra-Normal Operations, which was kind of like DC's answer to SHIELD, except it was structured a bit more like the FBI than SHIELD's hybrid of the CIA and the Air Force, and it was exclusively dedicated to dealing with superhuman, extra-terrestrial, and paranormal happenings, with none of the focus on comparatively mundane intelligence and counter-terrorist operations that SHIELD sometimes engages in. He and the DEO ended up kind of petering out, but I thought he was cool.

 

[smallville fan]

Batman
Amanda Waller
King Faraday
Maxwell Lord

That's all the characters I can think would play that equivalent.

 

[Keehar]

How is Batman the DC equivalent of Nick Fury?

 

[The Guard]

DC has like nine "Nick Furys".

 

[CaptainWagner]

For a while in the early 2000s, DC tried to make the obscure 1980s super villain "Mr. Bones" into their Nick Fury equivalent. He's a weird mutant guy who was born with all of his soft tissue completely invisible, so he looks like a walking talking skeleton, and after reviving him from his short lives villain career he became the director of the Department of Extra-Normal Operations, which was kind of like DC's answer to SHIELD, except it was structured a bit more like the FBI than SHIELD's hybrid of the CIA and the Air Force, and it was exclusively dedicated to dealing with superhuman, extra-terrestrial, and paranormal happenings, with none of the focus on comparatively mundane intelligence and counter-terrorist operations that SHIELD sometimes engages in. He and the DEO ended up kind of petering out, but I thought he was cool.

Bones was pretty cool. I wouldn't mind seeing him show up, if DC/Warner Brothers would allow something that "unrealistic".

 

[KillerMcQueen]

How is Batman the DC equivalent of Nick Fury?

Well, he'd likely be the funding behind the JL, I'd definitely be able to see some parallels if they do a version of the Tower of Babel story for one of the films.

 

[smallville fan]

How is Batman the DC equivalent of Nick Fury?

Well he's the one who sees everything with his tech and keeps tabs on everyone. Plus he's always paranoid like Fury and is always prepared.

 

[Keehar]

Since when does Batman see everything with his tech? What's everything?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Umm... Why? That's my only question. Why? Cuz... Yeah. Why?

I reiterate.

 

[smallville fan]

Since when does Batman see everything with his tech? What's everything?

He's a Detective with drones and other computers.