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"Cap" is such a nickname, and honestly reads as retro and out of place. Fury's forcing him into his heroic role, reinforced with "playful banter" to deflect him from any moral consideration of what he does everyday as Captain America. "Cap" is an army-boy nickname, an anachronism that reminds Rogers that he's decades out of date and encourages the "fogey talk" about "dames doing all the hard work" and such. It would appear - for whatever reason - that Fury keeps "Cap" thinking in really black/white-good/evil terms.
Fury's up there with Betty as far as characters with the ability to make me love them one second and hate them the other; he's had quite a few creepy moments but also these debonair counter-moments that make me appreciate him as being quite fun by comparison to psycho-Cap and depressive Hank Pym. He's obviously manipulating everybody, but why? I suppose he COULD be a Chitauri like you say, but I can't quite see a motive for his actions yet. Yet.
Betty on the other hand fluctuates between cold-hearted P.R. Bitch to a woman in love with Bruce but unable to quite deal with him to a woman constantly putting him down for his inferiorities to a woman turned on by him, ah, cannibalizing a Chitauri. I quite enjoy her as a character in part because I can never keep track of what she really feels and what's an act, and how "innocent" she is compared to the darker flavours going on.
Hawkeye's personality seems spotty at best so far, Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver stand around posing in slightly incestuous positions with snide remarks. Black Widow I enjoy because she's clearly has a couple personas of her own to shift between.
Actually, it does seem that while none of the Ultimates have secret identities, per se, most of the good ones do to some extent in a less obvious costume/civilian fashion - Hank Pym's the obvious example, but Natasha's another one. |
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Between the Oval Office bit, his grrrrim face at the end of Hank and Bruce's convo about the Ultimate Psychopaths and his treatment of Cap since Vol 1, Ish 1 I've got a bit of a feeling we've got two Fury's. The smooth talking Bond type and a possibly machiavellian and definitely sinister plotter.