Fleck: "There were definitely a lot of discussions and that was not the first idea on the table. You're probably going to ask me what some of the other ideas were and I don't know if I can tell you that, not because I'm hiding anything, but because there were just so many absurd ideas we had. There was a strong contender for a while that a fight with the Skrulls seemed like the most obvious choice but then the more we thought about it, it just became too obvious.



"Since this is just as much Nick Fury's origin story as Captain Marvel's, we thought that it would be a fun piece of his backstory that moving forward, he was creative a new narrative for himself that he didn't really talk about but he was fine with people wanting to muse about a potentially more serious way he could have lost his eye."



Boden, meanwhile, added: "Yeah, he didn't go around flaunting that he basically got a cat scratch!" That's understandable, of course. Fury's conversation with Agent Coulson at the end of the movie is hilarious, and the start of him creating a myth around the loss of his eye.



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The Russo Brothers Directed The Mid-Credits Scene

Heading into Captain Marvel , the thing fans really wanted to know was how Nick Fury lost his eye. It was obvious that this 90s set adventure would shed some light on that, and the prevailing theory was that a battle with a Skrull would be what led to the future S.H.I.E.L.D. Director donning that eyepatch.After all, he did previoulsy state that someone he trusted was responsible for the nasty looking wound on his face, but the movie ultimately revealed that it was Goose who scratched Fury.When I recently had the opportunity to talk to Captain Marvel directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck about the Marvel Studios movie before its DVD and Blu-ray release, I asked if they ever considered any other ways for Fury to lose his eye. As it turns out, a battle with a Skrull was indeed a very strong contender for a while before they settled on the Flerken being responsible.This probably won't come as too much of a shock but it was actually Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo who directed that mid-credits scene featuring Carol Danvers' return to Earth and first meeting with The Avengers.says Boden.What we don't know is whether or not a longer version of the scene will play out during Avengers: Endgame similar to that Captain America: Civil War stinger at the end of Ant-Man back in 2015.