Nick Fury

"The following information comes from Ultimate Nick Fury"General Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel section as a different version of Nick Fury. He has a substantial presence in all the Ultimate Marvel comics, appearing first in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up and Ultimate X-Men and later reappearing regularly in Ultimate Spider-Man and finally securing a regular, recurring role as the general of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the leader of the Ultimates, a re-imagining of the Avengers. His character was redesigned to look like Samuel L. Jackson, the actor who later went on to portray Nick Fury in several Marvel movies and television shows set in the established Marvel Cinematic Universe. In The Spider-Man he is portrayed by Jonathan "Jono" Pomeyie.

The Spider-Man
Fury monitored the entire situation with Mortes with teams of SHIELD agents on standby and though he had faith in the Avengers and Spider-Man being able to defeat the villain, he could see they were outmatched and got dangerously close to losing the fight. Fortunately Mortes was defeated and taken back to his home world but Fury was concerned enough to throw together a new initiative focused on a new generation of super powered individuals.

Behind the Scenes
Elijha-Adams Collorick, the assistant and casting director on The Spider-Man, spoke with Moore about plans for a spinoff for the Young Avengers. In order for it to make sense within the universe they were planning, Moore concocted a simple scene reminiscent of the credit sequence from Iron Man in 2008. "With that one small scene at the very end of Iron Man, Samuel L Jackson saying 'I'm here to talk to you about the Avengers Initiative', the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe was started so I thought we needed something like that for the end of The Spider-Man to set up the next project." Moore elaborated. "Nick Fury is a very iconic figure so having him in there also not only serves the purpose of setting up another project but also makes it feel complete in a way." After putting out the call for someone to fill the role and having it shared around by the cast, Jonathan Pomeyie made contact showing interest in the role. Collorick and Moore met with Jonathan to audition him and after a very successful audition was cast as Nick Fury. About the choice of Nick Fury, Moore said "Yes it's a bit obvious and lazy to go with the Ultimate/MCU version of Nick Fury but that's the coolest version to me, we know the original version but we decided on the one everyone recognises right now".