75 Facts About Tigra

Tigra is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Tigra wanted to do some books that would have special appeal to girls.

Tigra went on to guest star throughout the Marvel line, often appearing in issues of the superhero-team comic The Avengers and later in the cast of the spin-off comic West Coast Avengers.

Tigra's was a sophomore at the University of Chicago when she met her future husband, policeman Bill Nelson.

Tigra's readily consented, began wearing only her black bikini from this time on, and arose from the ceremony as a superhumanly-powered human-animal hybrid.

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Tigra's seldom made use of it, preferring her feline superpowered form and mostly abandoning her life as Greer Grant Nelson.

Tigra's fought alongside most of Marvel's heavy-hitters in wide-ranging adventures.

Tigra's first battled Kraven the Hunter, and then teamed with Spider-Man against Kraven.

Tigra's became a friend and associate of the Fantastic Four.

Tigra's convinced him to seek help from a therapist and the Molecule Man has ceased to be a threat to this day.

The nature of Tigra's powers caused her to be affected by the exposure on a far deeper level than her teammates.

Tigra's was left with great self-doubts about her qualifications as a member of Earth's premier superhero team, particularly alongside such heavy-hitters as Thor and Iron Man.

Tigra's resumed her modeling career, moving to San Francisco when employers on the East Coast proved unreceptive to the idea of a cat person model.

Tigra's sought help from her Avengers teammates in overcoming the "cat" side of her personality, which had caused her to become the lover of both Wonder Man and Henry Pym.

Tigra's was transported with the West Coast Avengers by Balkatar to the realm of the Cat People.

Tigra's lost the ability to shift back to a human form, though as before she showed no sense of loss for her human identity.

Tigra continues to hold a position of significant reverence among the Cat People.

Tigra performed a sport dive off the highest span of the Golden Gate Bridge, exhibiting no signs of any injury or fear of the water.

Tigra's terminated her ongoing relationship with Hank Pym, explaining that although she no longer felt a cat-like need to seek affection at every opportunity, she had no conventional human desire to be tied down to one mate, either.

Tigra's was captured by Graviton at one point, but freed the Avengers from him.

Tigra briefly left the West Coast Avengers in a dispute over the Avengers' policy against killing.

Tigra stated that she believed by her very nature that killing prey was sometimes necessary.

Tigra's joined Mockingbird and the Moon Knight in forming an independent group.

Tigra was forcibly shrunken down to sub-house cat size by Hank Pym and kept in a cage in his lab while the team tended to other urgent matters.

Tigra's escaped and traveled into suburbia, where she lived as a wild animal.

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Tigra's was ultimately rescued and restored to her former appearance and stability by noted witch Agatha Harkness, who was an associate of the West Coast Avengers at the time.

Tigra's briefly made Arnhem Land her home, enjoying the company of the Aborigines and the pleasures of living wild.

Tigra's focused much of her time on a personal case and in combating a force of vigilante police officers.

Tigra's appeared off and on, having a series of adventures as part of the ad hoc space-faring Avengers Infinity team in which she helps in preventing an extra-universal race from destroying all life in our universe.

Tigra returned to Earth with the Avengers Infinity team during the Maximum Security storyline, during which she helped to save the Earth from becoming a penal colony for alien criminals.

Tigra's supported the Superhuman Registration Act, although she expressed sincere concern about the fate of Captain America and the other heroes who opposed the Act and turned fugitive.

Tigra's passed information to Iron Man undetected until the very end of the conflict, when she was discovered and "outed" by Hulkling, Captain America's own spy among the pro-registration forces.

Tigra's served as a founding instructor at Camp Hammond, the training compound for the Initiative, and resumed her romantic relationship with fellow superhero Yellowjacket, unaware that he had been kidnapped and replaced by a Skrull duplicate.

Tigra was captured by Chilean soldiers controlled by the Puppet Master, who sculpted a figure in her likeness and thus put her under his mental control.

Tigra used her and the other superhuman women he had enslaved as elite guards at his South American base of operations.

Tigra intentionally gave him information that led them into an ambush.

Tigra's joined in the battle and personally beat down the Hood, saving the life of Iron Fist in the process.

Tigra continued to serve in the Initiative as a senior staff member of the central organization, and was the leader of the Arkansas Initiative team "the Battalion, ", until the Initiative was taken over by Norman Osborn and she learned of the Hood's role as his right-hand man.

Tigra's has appeared as a member of Tigra's-Hulk's "Lady Liberators" team.

Tigra's tells Trauma that she has decided to terminate the pregnancy regardless of the father's identity.

Tigra's later decides to leave the camp for Arkansas, planning to train Razorback, who had been replaced by a Skrull and recently returned, and was eager to take the impostor's place in the Battalion.

When Norman Osborn told her that he was going to take her baby for genetic testing and that moreover he had made the Hood the chief operating officer of the Initiative, Tigra went on the run with Gauntlet despite having been offered her choice of prestige assignments as a registered hero.

Tigra's co-founded the Avengers Resistance, choosing its name as a means of restoring honor to the legendary team's traditions.

Tigra is later approached by Ultra Girl, asking why she and the Avengers Resistance are going after the villains in the Initiative.

Tigra's claimed her final retribution against the Hood not on the battlefield, but after he was rendered powerless and taken into custody.

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Tigra gave birth to what is apparently a normal Cat Person kitten during the transition between Tony Stark's administration of the Initiative and Norman Osborn's; the gestation period was a mere two months, due to her feline physiology.

Tigra's hid the infant from Osborn, entrusting its care to the Cat People until the end of hostilities.

Tigra is among the 25 heroes he personally invites to join him in creating a new Heroic Age.

Alongside Hank Pym, Quicksilver, Jocasta, Speedball and Justice, Tigra serves as part of the founding faculty of Avengers Academy, training a new generation of heroes in the traditions of the world's elite superhero team.

Tigra becomes furious at their counter-heroic actions and by their refusal to appreciate the seriousness of their transgression; she summarily expels all those involved.

Tigra's has slowly grown closer to Henry Pym and the two have resumed their romantic relationship.

Tigra was one of 10 female heroes recruited by Misty Knight to aid her and the Valkyrie in repelling a group of Asgardian Doom Maidens.

Tigra appeared in the Fresh Start revival of the West Coast Avengers, in which she had been changed into a giant 200-Foot tall woman with her mind set in a feral state.

Tigra's powers are the result of a combination of science, magic, and mental energy utilized by Dr Joanne Marie Tumulo and the other Cat People.

Tigra's has pointed ears, sharper-than-normal teeth with pronounced upper and lower canines, eyes with enlarged irises and vertically slitted pupils, and retractable claws on her feet and hands instead of nails.

Tigra has a long semi-prehensile tail, and can willfully contact objects with it.

Tigra's has this same level of clarity at night, and her vision extends slightly into the infrared spectrum, allowing her to see in complete darkness.

Tigra's has stated that she wears bikinis partly because a full set of clothes over her fur would cause her to overheat in warm environments and possibly pass out.

Tigra possesses a mystical talisman that allows her to change her appearance from feline to human at will.

Tigra's rarely uses it and only appears in her human form whenever circumstances require it.

Tigra's formerly possessed what was referred to as a "cat-soul" in addition to her "human soul".

Tigra's appears to prefer to achieve this same effect through her enhanced feline senses.

Tigra is an experienced and formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with a unique fighting style that exploits her feline speed, agility, senses, and instincts.

Tigra's is a capable leader and pilot, qualified to operate Avengers aircraft as well as interstellar spacecraft.

Tigra's helps Spider-Man in several adventures, capturing villains like the Owl and Thanos.

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Tigra exists in the alternative "all-ages" version of the Marvel Universe.

Tigra's is working as an independent private investigator when a masked man, purporting to be a famous author researching a book about the Avengers, hires Tigra to secretly trail and collect information about its members.

Tigra's operates unnoticed in mainstream mutant society on behalf of pro-human groups, first as a member of the Sapien Liberation Army and then as a founding member of Luke Cage's underground "Avengers" team, as well as becoming his lover.

Tigra's takes the bullet, saving Cage's life, and dies at the scene.

Tigra's survives the first and second volumes of the Marvel Mangaverse series, but is murdered within the first few pages of the third and final volume; New Mangaverse: The Rings of Fate.

Tigra's is part of a huge group of superpowered zombies who have learned of the existence of a trio of humans.

Tigra's was originally a young police officer named Marie Grant who, after being convicted of using excessive force, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Avengers: United They Stand depiction of Tigra appears in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, voiced by Liz Cackowski.

Tigra's is a washed-up actress whose main source of income are convention appearances.

Tigra appears in The Avengers: United They Stand tie-in comic book series.