Comments on: Top Five Tiger Themed Characters!

By: Morgan Butler

Morgan Butler — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:14:15 +0000

I have always loved Hector Ayala "The White Tiger" ever since i saw him in a 2 issue strory arc in Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider Man. I found the White Tiger to be cool and mysterious. I was alway sorry that they didnt develop him to a fuller extant. The new incarnation with his neice wasnt very interesting in my opinion. I mean who really needs another super here that is a Fed. Maybe Hector will come back one day. I mean it IS a comic character. Viva Hector, EL TIGRE BLANCO.

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:19:21 +0000

I figured for sure that Peter Parker would be on the list when I clicked through.

By: PÃ³l Rua

PÃ³l Rua — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:29:44 +0000

Buttler is correct.
Armless Tiger Man is the best Tiger character ever.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:33:04 +0000

Bronze Tiger would have also been my choice for the top spot. However I always thought he looked cooler with his original tiger head mask.

By: Reader Zero

Reader Zero — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:03:44 +0000

"that Raven guy must be one heck of a fighterâ€¦"

Ravan was a fairly cool character, a thugee terrorist and killer. He served in the Squad for a time.

*****spoilers*****
Bronze Tiger broke Ravan's back the first time they fought and refused to kill him. This ticked Ravan off and he swore revenge. With an exoskeleton to help him walk again, Ravan lures Tiger into a rematch which is depicted in SS#18.

By: buttler

buttler — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:59:57 +0000

That's what I'm saying! Armless freakin' Tiger Man!

By: GW Crawford

GW Crawford — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:55:01 +0000

Oh COME ON!

How could you miss Armless Tiger Man?

Greatest villain EVER!

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:55 +0000

Also, he hated comic books.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:41:37 +0000

If Calvin and Hobbes ever appeared in a comic book, MAYBE. Like Pogo, Snoopy, etc., lots of comic strip characters appeared in comic books. Watterson made a point of NOT ever letting Calvin and Hobbes appear in comic books (well, it was more "not let anyone but me do the characters" than "I hate comic books" or anything like that, but the end result was the same).

By: Kirayoshi

Kirayoshi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:40:59 +0000

Loony Leo was a lion, not a tiger. Or a bear. Oh my...

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:22:51 +0000

And yeah, I thought it was Hellcat who was sent to Alaska...

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:18:44 +0000

"I am shocked that [Tiger Shark] has not been killed off yet by a short-sighted writer."

"[White Tiger] was brought back by Brian Michael Bendis in a cool story that was made less cool when he was killed off in the comic."

There's your solution right there

Didn't Tigra receive a humiliating ass-kicking by Mary-Sue Hood recently?

I haven't read SS squad, but given the Bronze Tiger's rep as martial artist (isn't he considered by many to be in the top 5 of DC's martial artists?), that Raven guy must be one heck of a fighter...

By: Tyson

Tyson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:29:07 +0000

I'd like to post the link, but these days every time I do that my comment gets eaten, so I'll just give directions. Go to Amazon's homepage. Type "Calvin and Hobbes" in the search box and press Go. You'll see several pages of books, that contain comics, that feature Hobbes. Not all "comic book characters" wear tights! (Sheesh, Brian, you probably know that better than anyone!) As far as disqualifying them because the contents of those books were first written as strips, that is also true of Action Comics #1(at least the Superman story in it), if I recall correctly. Does that mean that Superman didn't qualify as a comic book character until later? If so, Action Comics #1 should probably be removed from the current Top 50 countdown. I'm usually fairly quiet on these boards, and then, for no particularly valid reason, every few months I rear up on my hind legs and hassle Brian over some minor point on some list he posted. So, sorry, I'm done now, carry on.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:52:47 +0000

Koj is a good argument!

But Hobbes is not a comic book character!

And Peter is a cute idea.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:46:10 +0000

The top three, for me at least, were left off of the list: Hobbes, Koj from Tellos, and Peter Parker.

However, I'll cut Brian some slack, since he dropped what I seem to recall is a Groucho Marx quote in this post. That makes up for the problems with the content.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:34:02 +0000

I thought that Hellcat was the one who was sent to Alaska, rather than Tigra.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:58:47 +0000

Tawky would've been #1 for me, but, sure. This seems like a solid list.

By: David

David — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:59:04 +0000

I've gotta agree: Hobbes totally belongs on this list, and TIGORR was great in Robinson's Starman.

By: buttler

buttler — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:32:58 +0000

Interestingly, danjack, lions are not actually tigers. The Cheetah and the Black Panther aren't on the list for similar reasons.

By: danjack

danjack — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:24:12 +0000

Looney Leo from Astro City didn't even get a sniff!

What could be cooler than a fictional character becoming real [in comic book land anyway] and then opening a swanky restaurant and dressing like Bogart from 'Casablanca'. He even has Bogey's droopy eyes going for him, and wears a white tuxedo.

Also, Hobbes is one of the greatest characters in all sequential literature. He should get honorable mention as well.