Nick Fury In Spider-Man: Far From Home - Director Explains Why The Toast Theory Is Wrong

With the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home in theaters, Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has officially concluded. Avengers: Endgame may have marked the bigger turning point for the MCU, but it left us with many questions about where things were going. Far From Home, as the finale Phase 3 movie, is left to plant some seeds for narrative threads that will presumably start to take root in Phase 4. But, like the events of Endgame, they also raise some questions--particularly about Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury--and we have answers to at least one question you may walk away with after seeing the movie. Spoilers for Far From Home follow.

In one of the post-credits scenes, we learn that Nick Fury and his right-hand Maria Hill have been Skrulls in disguise. Many fans immediately wondered: wait, exactly how long has Nick Fury been a Skrull?

The particular Skrull in question is Talos, who has been on good terms with Fury since the 1990s when they met through Captain Marvel. So when did the body switch happen? Some fans have theorized that the key is toast. Yes, as in toasted bread. In Captain Marvel, Fury reveals that he can't eat toast that has been cut diagonally. But fans noticed that he did that exact thing in Avengers: Age of Ultron, which has led some fans to conclude that he was already a Skrull in disguise at that point.

However, that bread wasn't actually toasted. So was he a Skrull or wasn't he? We're through the looking glass here, people.

For answers, we turn to Far From Home director Jon Watts. And his answer is that Talos spent a lot less time in the iconic eyepatch than you may have thought.

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"The timeline for me is that Maria and Fury are Skrulls just starting at the beginning of this movie," Watts told GameSpot. That would appear to settle it, unless another director gets clearance to retcon the timeline in a future film.

Fury and Maria's first appearance in Far From Home is when they meet up with Mysterio fighting an Elemental. So everything that follows, from tranquilizing Ned to the climactic showdown, is actually Talos. As fans have noticed, this makes sense of certain aspects, like Fury referring to Earth as "your world" and being particularly defensive of Captain Marvel. It also means it was Talos, not the remarkably paranoid Nick Fury, who was fooled by Mysterio.

But it also means that Fury really was himself during scenes such as the funeral at the end of Avengers: Endgame. Apparently his current digs on a massive space station is a fairly recent development, and Talos was lending a hand as best he could.

For more on Spider-Man: Far From Home, check out our review roundup as well as our own review.