Colonel Silver

Colonel Silver is the first of the highranking Red Ribbon Army officers Goku fights and thus is overwhelmed and unprepared. He is shown to be a talented powerful fighter with a love of weapons and excellent in marksmanship as well. As evident in both the anime and the manga on multiple occasions unlike most officers he doesnt immediately turn to violence and threats in order to get information but rather simply asks a couple questions and only resorts to physical means if hes not getting the requested answers. Colonel Silver is also rather fast shocking even Goku when he runs past and swipes the bundle of cloth containing the Dragon Balls and Dragon Radar from Gokus hands. Colonel Silver had a fairly small role in the Manga but he had a considerably larger role in the Anime. This is because the Red Ribbon Army was introduced a little earlier in the Anime and Toei created several filler episodes involving Colonel Silver and Emperor Pilaf before the next chapter of the Dragon Ball manga was released and the animators could continue on with the story. The anime much like they did with Colonel Violet gave Colonel Silver a lot more characterisation. One thing to note about this character is the strange fact that his personality warps with each Dub despite no one making any alterations to the animation whatsoever. In the Japanese Dub Colonel Silver is portrayed as being quiet and serious in the FUNimation Dub he changes to being shorttempered aggressive and courteous to superiors and occasionally complimentary towards random citizens. In the French Dub he is assertive in the Castilian Dub he is irritable and foultempered whereas in a contradiction to all the Portuguese Dub he is incapable of becoming angry and is understanding and patient. In the manga Commander Red said he was going to be executed for his failure but that scene is never shown. In the anime Colonel Silver is called back to the Red Ribbon base for questioning. Colonel Silver begs for a second chance but Commander Red replies that there are no second chances in the Red Ribbon Army. He orders the guards to take him out of his sight but Colonel Silver brushes them off. He than calmly walks out the door. Though the fact that Commander Red sends two guards after him suggests that he was executed offscreen shortly after being dismissed. It is unknown if he escaped alive and still lived up until the end of Dragon Ball GT as he was not seen at all in the Super 17 Saga when all villains escaped from Hell. http://dragonball.wikia.com/