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Fictional character biography
Jessan Hoan was born in Singapore. She worked at her family's financial institution, the Hoan International Bank, when the Reavers robbed the bank. The Reavers kidnapped Jessan and killed several members of her family during the robbery. While Jessan was held prisoner at the Reavers' Australian base, the Reaver named Pretty Boy tried to alter Jessan's mind so that she would join their criminal band as a financial expert. The X-Men interrupted the process, freed Jessan, and defeated the Reavers. The supernatural being Roma subsequently teleported Jessan back to her family's bank.[1]
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to the north. Singapore's territory consists of one main island along with 62 other islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23%. The nation is known for its transition from a developing to a developed country in a single generation under the leadership of its founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
The Reavers are a fictional team of criminal cyborgs appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The most significant team of Reavers were dedicated to the destruction of the mutant X-Men, and a number of them especially wanted to take revenge on one particular X-Man, Wolverine. The name was originally used by a gang of Australian cyborgs. The name later referred to a group under the leadership of Donald Pierce, consisting of the three survivors from the original Reavers along with other cyborgs.
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Jessan was ostracized by her family because she mysteriously survived the attack that killed several of her relatives. In addition, Jessan found that she had lost some of her inhibitions as a result of the partial brainwashing by Pretty Boy. However, she still retained most of her moral integrity and did not become entirely evil.[2]
Jessan later discovered that the Reavers had been hired to attack Hoan International bank by Roche, the crime lord of Madripoor. She moved to the island of Madripoor, where she became embroiled with the criminal element and adopted the alias "Tyger Tiger", after the William Blake poem "The Tyger".[2] Wolverine later joined Jessan's efforts against Roche. Jessan decapitated Roche after he shot Wolverine.[3]
The Principality of Madripoor is a fictional island located in Southeast Asia appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Based on illustrations, it is in the southern portion of the Strait of Malacca between Singapore and Sumatra.
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".
"The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the Songs of Experience collection. Literary critic Alfred Kazin calls it "the most famous of his poems", and The Cambridge Companion to William Blake says it is "the most anthologized poem in English". It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works.
As Tyger Tiger, Jessan became the new crime lord of Madripoor, but she refuses to deal in either drugs or slavery. She briefly wore a highly resistant suit of armor, a duplicate of the armor used by the X-Man Psylocke.[4]
Psylocke is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Herb Trimpe in 1976, she first appeared in the Marvel UK series Captain Britain.
Tyger is allies with a local Madripoor cargo pilot named Archie Corrigan. They work together when drug lords kidnap them both.[5] One of Tyger's rivals, Prince Baran, has Archie slain to gain revenge on Wolverine. In turn, Tyger kills Baran.[6]
Wolverine allows Tyger Tiger to operate, but decides to act as an ethical check on her enterprises.[volume&issueneeded] Later, when Tony Stark manages to overthrow Madame Hydra's government of the region, control is given to Tyger Tiger, now turned into a Robin Hood-esque figure, on the grounds that she is one of only two people the natives of Madripoor would follow in a revolution (the other being "Patch," Wolverine in disguise) and that she is a capable independent leader who will work for Madripoor without being another's puppet.[7] She attempts to bring in free elections, despite the interference of Hydra, who had moved underground.[8]
Around this time Tyger faces another threat to her position when Da'o Coy Manh, a powerful business woman, attempts to use the X-Men to take the country.[9]
Tyger Tiger loses control of Madripoor after being used and manipulated by Wolverine's son Daken. Her entire team has been killed or now works for Daken. She vows to take Madripoor back from him as well as his life. As a result of Daken's plan, Madripoor suffers days of riots.[10] Gambit and X-23, the young female clone of Wolverine, come to Madripoor as well on a related mission. Tiger works with them to clear out a branch of Weapon X that is kidnapping and experimenting on the children of Madripoor. This is led by the long-term Wolverine adversary, Malcolm Colcord, who was complicit in Tyger's troubles. Colcord is stopped, partly due to the X-Man Gambit. Later it is revealed Gambit has a peaceful, friendly history with Tyger.[11]
X-23 is later brainwashed by Kimura, a criminal who has gained control over most of Mardipoor's underworld elements. Kimura attempts to have X-23 kill Tyger, who is the current power on the island. This plan is stopped by Gambit.[12]
In a later incident, Tiger recruits the unofficial help of Black Widow in order to destroy a criminal organization that is murdering innocent Madripoor citizens for profit. [13]
Powers and abilities
Jessan Hoan's partial mental reprogramming granted her a high degree of martial art skill. She is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, and proficient at using fire-arms and hand-held weapons.
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