The Wordsmith's Forge

>> Charitable that I am, I think Fury is an example of taking 'cracking a few eggs' to extremes, such that he considers all means necessary and has no brake. <<

I suspect that Fury started out as a decent if ruthlessly practical man, but over time, has become corrupt due to the influence of the WSC, the Tesseract, and just plain having far less accountability than power. You get what you reward. He got praised for results, and nobody with power over him gave many fucks about how he got them.

>> That he brings Hill to siding with that, shows the corrosive nature. <<

Painfully true.

I do love watching Steve tell Fury where to shove his compromises. "No, YOU move." Still my favorite Cap speech of all time.

>> I wish I believed he's an intentional cautionary tale, I think Fury is just the most BadAss Freudian Slip flying. <<

Mine is the former, made out of Marvel's latter. It makes such a difference when the writer knows the infrastructure of storytelling down to the bones in the Aarne-Thompson index and the Hero With a Thousand Faces.

>> When he learns Captain America has been found, he considers Steve a tool, and not even one worth diligent care. <<

Alas, this is sadly accurate -- and familiar, because Howard was the same way. "He's like a fantastic socket wrench with a burr on the handle. If you weren't careful, he'd cut you."

>> He doesn't think of him as a man <<

Which is deeply wounding to Steve, especially after losing everyone he cared about to the war and the ice. That's what put him off his game so badly in The Avengers.

>> and he doesn't think of him as another tactician. <<

Yeah, there are a lot of HYDRA guys who could speak to that mistake. Oh wait, they can't because they're dead.