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LARA CROFT FOX

OCCUPATION
Trust fund adventurer Elite member of The Fraternity, a group of highly trained assassins whose legacy dates back thousands of years

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EDGE: FOX
Fox. Lara Croft may have to shoot her way out of predicaments, but that's a side part of her job. Shooting to kill is Fox's only job.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Guns Guns
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EDGE: FOX
Hm. What the hell? We'll say Fox. Hers are shinier.
WORK CLOTHES
Skintight tank top, hot pants Head-to-toe black, frilly white dresses
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EDGE: LARA CROFT
Lara. Want to make any red-blooded male drool, ladies? Just bust out your best teal-beater-and-cargo-shorts ensemble.
TRAINING
Fights ED-209-style robots for practice; performs aerial ballet in her living room Fights a 300-pound knife-wielding psycho; gets punched repeatedly in the face; plays "capture the flag" atop a moving subway train
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EDGE: FOX
Lara's toys are cool, but there's always the sense that she can turn them off and call a time-out when she wants. Fox's only hope for a breather is death.
MENTOR
Her father, a grumbly archeologist even more cranky and joyless than Indiana Jones' father Sloan, a cool-as-a-heavily-armed-cucumber badass who runs The Fraternity because he's the only assassin with enough forethought to be Morgan Freeman
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EDGE: FOX
Nothing makes you cooler than being schooled by Morgan. Just ask Batman.
KNOWN ASSOCIATES
Her butler, Hillary, (snicker); her tech geek Bryce; her dubious "friends," like fellow tomb raider Alex West or ex-Marine Terry Sheridan Former-accountant-turned-assassin Wesley Gibson; fellow Fraternity members with names like "Gunsmith" and "Fixer"
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EDGE: FOX
Despite being frequently double-crossed by others, Lara has two or three people she can really count on in a pinch. Fox knows she can't really trust anyone. In fact, she may even be forced to… well, we won't spoil anything.
ORIGIN
Started out as the star of a video game adored by men with minimal dating options Started out as the star of a comic book series adored by men with minimal dating options
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EDGE: LARA CROFT
Playing video games out-toughs reading comic books. But just barely.
SIGNATURE MOVE
Double-fist shooting while doing backflips Twisting bullets in mid-flight so they can avoid objects and still hit their target
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EDGE: FOX
That's right, she looks physics in the eye and guffaws.
ABOVE-AND-BEYOND FEATS
Once punched a shark in the face Once flipped a Dodge Viper into a bus and then kept driving
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EDGE: LARA CROFT
Shark punching? Can't touch that.
WHO'S THE TOUGHEST?
The fan-boy goddess falls to the assassin queen, as FOX pummels Lara Croft 6–3. Conflicted geeks everywhere are simultaneously thrilled and disappointed. Oh, and aroused, naturally.