Alexander Pierce

Robert Redford
Robert Redford
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Cinematic and Comics and Nick Fury (1998)

Modern, Comics: Brought in by Fury as one of the Secret Warriors.

Cinematic

American official who, after a hostage crisis in Bogota, joined Hydra and rose to Undersecretary and then Secretary of the World Security Council while leading Hydra from inside S.H.I.E.L.D. He promoted Nick Fury to director, tried to seize the Tesseract in 2012, and in 2014 pushed Project Insight and ordered the Winter Soldier against Fury and Steve Rogers. Fury shot him dead at the Triskelion.

Comics

A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who started in accounting and decoded Hydra dispatches. He became Nick Fury's right hand during the Deltite takeover, later served in Fury's new S.H.I.E.L.D., and was recruited to the Secret Warriors, where he commanded Team Black.

Nick Fury (1998)

Alexander Pierce is a British S.H.I.E.L.D. agent based on a Helicarrier. With Valentina Allegra de Fontaine he tells a retiring Nick Fury that Clay Quartermain has been killed, persuading Fury to return to fight Hydra. Pierce later joins Fury and Kate Neville on a mission to a Hydra base in the Aleutian Islands.

Timeline 13 events

  1. Modern · Comics: Recruited by fugitive Nick Fury as his right-hand man during the Deltite takeover of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  2. Modern · Comics: Escaped an ambush at Hydra's Hong Kong base and went to the Himalayas with Fury and their prisoner.
  3. Modern · Comics: Fought in the battle that destroyed the Deltites after they were taken to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s satellite.
  4. Modern · Comics: Served as caretaker of the former headquarters, then joined Fury's new S.H.I.E.L.D.
  5. Modern · Comics: Brought in by Fury as one of the Secret Warriors.
  6. Modern · Comics: Given command of Team Black, drawn from the Caterpillar list.
  7. Modern · Comics: Pulled Team Black out of the Hell's Heaven attack, then joined the new UN-sanctioned S.H.I.E.L.D. run by Quake.
  8. 1989 · Cinematic: As Undersecretary of the World Security Council, Pierce arranges the release of imprisoned Hydra scientist Werner Reinhardt.
  9. 1992 · Cinematic: Promoted to Secretary, Pierce names Nick Fury director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  10. 2012 · Cinematic: After the Battle of New York, Pierce demands that Thor and the Avengers hand over Loki and the Tesseract, and fails when Thor takes both back to Asgard.
  11. 2014 · Cinematic: Pierce directs Project Insight and has the Winter Soldier attack Nick Fury, then hunts Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff.
  12. 2014 · Cinematic: Pierce kills most of the World Security Council with disguised explosive badges as Project Insight collapses.
  13. 2014 · Cinematic: Nick Fury shoots Pierce dead at the Triskelion moments before the Helicarrier destroys it.

enemy of

Nick Fury, Winter Soldier, Steve Rogers, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Thor, Loki Laufeyson

allied with

Nick Fury, Crossbones, Arnim Zola, John Garrett, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Kate Neville, Jasper Sitwell

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