Silver Fox (character)
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| Silver Fox | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Wolverine vol. 2 #10, (August, 1989) |
| Created by | Chris Claremont (writer), John Buscema (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Kayla Silverfox |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | HYDRA Weapon X Team X |
| Notable aliases | Zorra de Plata, Madame Hydra |
| Abilities | Artificial healing factor and age suppressant. |
Silver Fox is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe created by Chris Claremont and John Buscema. The character's first appearance was in Wolverine vol. 2 #10 (August, 1989).
Silver Fox is a former love interest for Wolverine, and currently works for the terrorist organization HYDRA. She is sometimes known as "Madame Hydra."
Fictional character biography
In the early 1900s, Silver Fox lived with Wolverine as a lover in Canada. She was apparently killed by Sabretooth on Wolverine's birthday,[1] but is later revealed to be alive and a member of "Team X", the best covert ops team the CIA had to offer. Fox betrays Team X and becomes a member of HYDRA, a subversive terrorist organization.[volume & issue needed]
Silver Fox reappears during the modern period when Wolverine tracks down the members of the Weapon X staff, discovering the studios where many of his memories he believes to be real were staged. Apparently, 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.[volume & issue needed]
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.[volume & issue needed]
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. Ferro takes control of their minds and this time makes Creed kill Silver Fox. After Ferro's defeat, Silver Fox was to be buried in Salem Center. At the church, Logan discovers 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.[volume & issue needed]
In Wolverine vol. 3 #50, Wolverine again relives the induced memory of Sabretooth killing Silver Fox on his birthday, although this issue seems to ignore her previous "return" to life.[2]
Powers and abilities
Silver Fox possesses an artificial healing factor and an age suppressant, allowing her to retain her looks after years of being separated from Logan.
In other media
Television
- Silver Fox appeared in the X-Men Animated Series episode "Weapon X, Lies and Videotapes" (a play on the film, Sex, Lies, and Videotape). In this continuity, she too was a member of Team X, Wolverine's lover, and a victim of the Weapon X Program. She and Maverick were thought to have died after a battle with Omega Red but they were later revealed to be alive.
Film
- Actress Lynn Collins plays Silver Fox in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. She is named Kayla Silverfox. Instead of the accelerated healing factor that Silver Fox was originally given, in the movie she possesses a tactile mind control ability (similar to that of Alpha Flight's Murmur II) where she can control the mind of anyone she touches. She is in a relationship with Logan, apparently working as a schoolteacher. Silver Fox is responsible for Logan's choice of "Wolverine" as his alias: a story she told him involved a spirit that was tricked into being parted forever from his lover the Moon, the spirit (whose name translates as "Wolverine") subsequently forced to look at the Moon forever and never be with her again. However, Wolverine also picked up from the story a new rationale for Silver Fox's sobriquet, as, upon being made aware of her deceptions, he identifies Kayla with the Trickster Spirit who betrayed the Wolverine. She also has a mutant sister who can turn her skin into a diamond hard form similar to that of Emma Frost. It is revealed that her death was faked in a grand plan to copy Wolverine's powers, but she comforts Wolverine with the assurance that their feelings for each other were real as her power never worked on him. Silver Fox suffers fatal injuries in the final assault on the Island prison facility. Before she dies she touches William Stryker, telling him to walk until his feet bleed (he is seen later having done just that, only stopping by some military officers when he is brought in to be questioned about the murder of General Munson). Logan sees her dead body shortly afterwards, but as he has amnesia from being shot in the head with an adamantium bullet, he is unable to remember her connection to him.
Video games
Kayla Silverfox appears in the video game adaptation to X-Men Origins: Wolverine voiced by April Stewart.
References
External links
- Fox Silver Fox (character) at the Comic Book DB (archived from Fox the original)
- Silver Fox at the Marvel Universe wiki
