As you've noted before, Lara's weakness is that she has human vulnerabilities. A sufficiently good toxin should be able to kill her if there was sufficient motivation. Chiaki's old sparring parnters the Z'Sox could undoubtedly provide something undetectable by human forensics.

That said, every superhero could be wiped out some way of the plot demanded it. The secret is to find ways of pushing the plot in some other direction.




Proceed.




Do her powers include long-term precognition?







You already mentioned that Lara is unpredictable. Why would the Hood risk revealing a part of his plans when there's a risk that Lara might then use that information to oppose him?




I don't think he's being irrational. He's being enigmatic and masking his intentions.

And he's setting up the game board.