However, by the end of the story, Nick Fury revealed that he had Dugan’s brain preserved inside a central containment unit, and that there are several copies available, offering Fury the chance to upload his best friend into an army of Life Model Decoys operated remotely by Dugan’s brain.
Die hard fans of Marvel’s comic book lore will instantly recognize this narrative device, as it bears a striking similarity to something that happened to Captain America character Dum Dum Dugan in the Original Sin story arc.
During that story, Nick Fury couldn’t live with Dugan’s death (in 1966) and subsequently had the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s consciousness uploaded into an L.M.D. This revelation enraged the revived Dugan, who angrily put a bullet in his own head to end his existence as a machine.