Last scene after the credit: away from home: Comic Book Connections

Specifically, Fury spends holo vacations in a gigantic spaceship / space station in the cosmos, before cleaning the sand from his fake beach and getting back to work alongside a legion of Skrulls. SHIELD may be … well, it's complicated by a number of charming swaggering ABCs, but what about Marvel movies? It's basically dead. It is thus that a new organization with the intergalactic spirit is raised in its place. What could it be? Well, comics actually offer two interesting options.

Raise your S.W.O.R.D.

Let's start with the obvious, given the presence of Fury and the fact that this new cosmic group is clearly supposed to be born from the ashes of SHIELD: SWORD. You see what they did there, yes?

Introduced for the first time in Marvel Comics during the race of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday Astonishing X-Men In 2004, SWORD – the even more awkward service of world observation and intervention – was, as the nomenclature suggests, a SHIELD sister organization. If SHIELD protected the Earth's interests against ground threats, SWORD had to be the vanguard among the stars and ready to face cosmic threats. Before SHIELD and SWORD stop looking in the eyes with Fury's departure as SHIELD director during Civil war, C & # 39; is.

SWORD, led by Agent Abigail Brand – who will become important again in a moment, so remember this name – faced these threats from Peak, the operational base in orbit of the planet, sending out superheroes and SWORD agents participate in space reconnaissance missions and other cosmic-related adventures that essentially act as the first line of defense of the Earth. Beyond that, SWORD did not really have a big story, outside the Peak being invaded from time to time by aliens because … well, that's what you need to do, pretty much .

If the organization of Fury in Spider-Man: far from home is supposed to be the MCU version of SWORD, it would not be the first time that Marvel Studios would try to canonize the organization – the first Thor The film cut a reference to SWORD archives in a deleted scene, after it was decided that there were legal issues around several notable SWORD agents who also happened to be mutants, such as Lockheed and even Brand. C & # 39; do not a problem anymore, thanks to the painful power of Mickey Mouse, so maybe now is the time for SWORD to shine on the big screen?

Take the alpha flight

But there is another option available by Disney and Marvel Studios. Since Skrulls on Earth have a very specific connection to Captain Marvel, there is actually a more recent comic book organization that becomes a possibility for what Fury is up to now. In fact, it's actually the organization that apparently replaced SWORD in the Marvel Comics gun: Alpha Flight.

You may be wondering what a group of Canadians have to do with space – the answer is often helpful – but yes, Alpha Flight was / is also a group of Canadian superheroes who have been around since the late 70, a mix of mutants including Northstar, and even early in the team, Wolverine) and powered by humans operating under a secret branch of the Canadian government called Department H. They even worked with Justin Trudeau's father when he was prime minister!

Although Alpha Flight is still a team of Canadian superheroes from time to time – and is always ready to form a team with members of the Trudeau family – since Marvel has redistributed its multiverse into the universe. Brand new, all different "after the events of Secret wars in 2015, Alpha Flight has also space program, in collaboration with Captain Marvel, acting as the first line of interstellar defense of humanity. It was introduced for the first time in the revived Captain Marvel ongoing by Agent Carter celebrities Michèle Fazekas and Tara Butters, while Carol took over as commander of the Alpha Flight space station.

It's essentially SWORD, except name, plus Carol and Canada's most powerful heroes. The brand is at the forefront of Alpha Flight's operations, backed by a board of world leaders such as Black Panther, as well as cosmic races such as Shi'ar and Kree, although Captain Marvel is the public face of the program. And although their low-orbit space station is much less pointed than the Peak, it is essentially the same thing and also exists to be very useful until the story demands that it not be at all. As at the events of Secret Empire, when Steve Rogers' brainwashing prevented Alpha Flight from preventing its hostile takeover of the United States by Hydra, by organizing a Chitauri invasion as a distraction.

It's, uh, a long and very bad story. Whatever the case may be, since it is the most common (and unique) example in the canon of comics, and that it is built in connection with Captain Marvel, Alpha Flight would be a natural angle to take for the new interstellar organization of the MCU, even though Fury is still behind. wheel. The Skrulls connection to Carol is already here, it would be a good starting point for everything Captain Marvel 2 and could even be an opportunity to introduce these great Canadians to the big screen. Who does not want to see Puck get his own movie?

The fourth phase of Marvel Cinematic Universe will catapult us into a place even wilder and stranger than the one we have already given in the last decade of films. Like Mysterio, we already have people on the ground who discern between your daily evil act and an Avengers-level threat. What's bigger than something that needs the most powerful of the Earth than something, like Thanos, that could come from the stars? It's not surprising, Skrull-twist or otherwise, that a man like Nick Fury is ready to fight him.

So whether it's SWORD or Alpha Flight, what does it all mean? Fury's ultimate goal is far more ambitious than simply protecting the Earth from ground threats. But it shows how far the scope of Marvel's movie has grown considerably since Tony Stark's salad days announced to the assembled press that he was the Iron Man. This world is not the only world we are familiar with in the MCU, and between Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy, and even things like the next Eternals movie, Marvel Land is about to become much more intimately familiar with its place in the ever-expanding galaxy.

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