Silver Fox (comics)

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Silver Fox
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by Tom Smith
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Wolverine vol. 2 #10 (August 1989)
Created by
In-story information
Alter egoKayla
Species Human Mutant
Team affiliations
Notable aliasesZorra de Plata
Abilities Accelerated healing

Silver Fox is a fictional character in Marvel Comics. She currently works for the terrorist organization HYDRA and is also known as a former love interest for Wolverine.

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The character has appeared in several X-Men animated series and video games, and was portrayed by Lynn Collins in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine .

Publication history

Silver Fox first appears in Wolverine vol. 2 #10 and was created by Chris Claremont and John Buscema.

Fictional character biography

Silver Fox is a member of the First Nation Blackfoot Confederacy. [1] In the early to late 1900s, she lived with Wolverine as his lover in Canada. She was allegedly murdered by Sabretooth on Wolverine's birthday, [2] but is later revealed to be alive and a member of "Team X", the most formidable covert ops team the CIA had to offer. Fox eventually betrays Team X and becomes a member of HYDRA, a subversive terrorist organization. [3]

Silver Fox reappears during the modern period when Wolverine tracks down each member of the Weapon X staff, discovering the studios where many of his memories, which he believes to be real, were staged. Allegedly she kills the professor who had been in charge of the program after Logan left. At this point it is revealed that Silver Fox is in command of a section of HYDRA. [4]

Shortly thereafter, Silver Fox captures the assassin Reiko, and forms an alliance with Reiko's boss, Hand Jonin Matsu'o Tsurayaba. Matsu'o is in the process of trying to buy Clan Yashida's underworld connections before Mariko Yashida severs them entirely. Silver Fox dupes Reiko into poisoning Mariko, giving Matsu'o what he wanted. Silver Fox's motivations in this are unclear. [5]

Later, when Mastodon, a member of the Weapon X Program, dies due to the failure of his anti-aging factor, Silver Fox reunites with Logan, Creed, Maverick, and Wraith. She is cold to Logan, and seems not to remember having spent any pleasant time with him. The group infiltrates a secret base and confronts the man who had implanted them with their false memories: Aldo Ferro, the Psi-Borg. After Carol Hines dies of fright at the hands of Ferro's transformation, Ferro takes control of their minds and this time makes Creed kill Silver Fox. [6] After Ferro's defeat, Silver Fox was to be buried in Salem Center. At the church, Logan discovered that her body has been prepared for flight. The father at the church notifies Logan that "a brick wall with an eyepatch" gave the order. Suddenly, a S.H.I.E.L.D. carrier arrives with Nick Fury, who states he never imagined the day when a top-ranking HYDRA member would get a full honors S.H.I.E.L.D. burial. Wraith appears as well, having orchestrated the entire funeral, stating "Salem Center meant nothing to her". Wraith tells Logan that they found the cabin where he really had lived with Silver Fox a lifetime ago. He gets permission to bury her there, by himself with only a shovel and uses the part of the door with "Silver Fox + Logan" in a heart that he had carved into it as a headstone. [7]

Before beheading Sabretooth, Wolverine expresses his doubt on whether or not the events of Silver Fox's return actually happened at all, but admits the pain and loss he'd felt again during that time was very much real. [8]

Powers and abilities

Silver Fox possesses an accelerated healing and an age suppressant, allowing her to retain her looks after years of being separated from Logan.

In other media

Television

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Maverick and Silver Fox

Film

Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Silverfoxfilm.jpg
Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox in X-Men Origins: Wolverine .

Video games

Kayla Silverfox appears in the video game adaptation of X-Men Origins: Wolverine voiced by April Stewart. [9]

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