Silver sends Kreese to Tahiti to rest while he hires karate fighter Mike Barnes to defeat Daniel in the next All Valley Under-18 Karate Championships. Miyagi and make Cobra Kai successful again. When Kreese tells Silver he wants to shut down Cobra Kai, Silver vows to help him get revenge on Daniel and Mr. By this time, the future of Cobra Kai is in doubt when all of Kreese's students leave after he attacked his star student Johnny Lawrence in retaliation for losing to Daniel LaRusso. Over time, he developed an increasingly erratic personality, aggravated in part by a cocaine addiction.īy 1985, Silver is the head of a toxic waste disposal company called Dynatox Industries, which illegally dumps waste in the environment. Silver would relentlessly practice karate, eventually turning into an expert in the sport. Though he left Cobra Kai to Kreese, Silver continued to provide financial support and promised to help run the dojo one day. However, Silver was forced to help run his family's business at the insistence of his father, who threatened to cut him out of the family inheritance. In 1975, Silver helped Kreese establish the Cobra Kai dojo. In honor of Ponytail, Silver grows a ponytail after leaving the military. Silver's experiences in Vietnam left him struggling with posttraumatic stress disorder, and found his return to civilian life difficult. Grateful to Kreese for saving his life, Silver pledged a lifetime debt to him. After being saved by an airstrike by the US Air Force, Kreese kills Turner and frees the remaining prisoners. While in captivity, an NVA officer chose Silver to participate in a forced hand-to-hand fight to the death with Turner, only for Kreese to volunteer himself instead. During one such mission to attack a North Vietnamese Army base, the unit is captured when Silver's radio crackles, leading to Ponytail being executed by their captors.
Kreese, Ponytail, and Silver are handpicked by Special Forces Captain Turner ( Terry Serpico) to take part in covert missions. Silver was given the nickname "Twig" by fellow squadmate Ponytail, because of his skinny arms.
Born to a wealthy family, Silver joined the US Army and was deployed to Vietnam sometime before 1968, where he met John Kreese.