The "Captain Marvel" theory believes that Carol Danvers is responsible for the loss of control by Nick Fury

A Marvel fan poses Captain Marvel will reveal how the future S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) loses his eye, persuaded that it will be Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) who is responsible for Fury's injury.

The user of Reddit u / crazychamp_, who is certainly not familiar with the tradition of Marvel Comics, shared the theory on the subject of Reddit / FanTheories subreddit.

[Marvel] Captain Marvel Theory: How Nick Fury Lost His Eye from r / FanTheories

Quoting Fury's line in Captain America: The Winter Soldier where jaded super spy tells Steve Rogers (Chris Evans): "The last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye", the user believes that Danvers "voluntarily or accidentally" causes an injury to Fury's eye after their battle against the metamorphosed Skrulls perfectly imitating other beings.

Fury's vengeance would then explain why Danvers is apparently out of the world at the moment when Fury is forced to ask him for help via the use of a pager in the final moments of Avengers: Infinity War, but the cosmic superhero – which is so powerful that it can. According to Larson, move the planets – would not have much to fear from being human, even though they are as connected and dangerous as Nick Fury.

It is more likely that Fury places his trust in a S.H.I.E.L.D. apparently human. agent (Ben Mendelsohn), who is actually an infiltrator of Skrull posing as a human being to climb the ranks of one of the most formidable organizations on Earth.

Fury could also lose sight of a Skrull impostor posing as Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), one of Fury's most trusted allies, still working alongside Fury nearly 20 years later, in 2012 . The Avengers.

Put in 1995, Captain Marvel Fury will play a leading role in the intergalactic conflict between the Skrulls and the blue-skinned Kree when he meets Carol Danvers – a meeting likely to inspire his desire. to establish the Avengers initiative.

"There's a Nick Fury story in there," said producer Jonathan Schwartz ComicBook.com.

"The film is definitely called Captain Marvel. It becomes a two-arm for parts of it. So we wanted to give the public the kind of Nick Fury's original story, as you say, and it's all there. I hope that in a way that completes the adventure of Carol too. "

Jackson has already said EW the fury in Captain Marvel "Were not become jaded nor slave to the cynicism that we normally see," and that her encounter with the superhuman Carol Danvers is a "moment of change of attitude, of change of attitude that leads him to become the person who we know. "

Captain Marvel opens on March 8th.