Tigger (Character)



Tigger is a fictional tiger character originally introduced in A. A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner. Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals.

Tigger has been voiced by Paul Winchell and Will Ryan and currently voiced by Jim Cummings.

In literature
Tigger is introduced in Chapter II of House at Pooh Corner, when he shows up on Winnie-the-Pooh's doorstep in the middle of the night, announcing himself with a big bounce. Most of the rest of that chapter is taken up with the characters' search for a food that Tigger can eat for breakfast - despite Tigger's claims to like "everything", it is quickly proven he does not like honey, acorns, thistles, or most of the contents of Kanga's larder. In a happy coincidence, however, he discovers what Tiggers really like best is extract of malt, which Kanga has on hand because she gives it to her baby, Roo, as "strengthening medicine".

From that point on, Tigger lives with Kanga and Roo in their house in the northeastern part of the Hundred Acre Wood near the Sandy Pit. He becomes great friends with Roo (to whom he becomes a sort of older sibling figure), and Kanga treats him in much the same way she does her own son. Tigger also interacts enthusiastically with all the other characters — sometimes too enthusiastically for the likes of Rabbit, who is sometimes exasperated by Tigger's constant bouncing, Eeyore, who is once bounced into the river by Tigger, and Piglet, who always seems a little nervous about the big, bouncing tiger in the Forest. Nonetheless, the animals are all shown to be friends.

In addition to chapter II, Tigger also appears in chapters IV, VI, VII, and X of The House at Pooh Corner, and is mentioned in several others. He is the only new major character to be introduced in The House at Pooh Corner; all of the others had been established in the earlier Winnie-the-Pooh book.

Depiction and personality traits
In Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, Tigger appears to walk (or more often, bounce) on four feet as opposed to two. He is, however, capable of holding a pen with one of his front paws. Though Tigger is described by Rabbit and Piglet as "large", he does not seem particularly big in the illustrations. Pooh states once "He always seems bigger because of his bounces", implying that the other animals think of Tigger as being larger than he truly is. That assessment fits very well with Tigger's personality and his assessment of his own abilities, which he always overestimates. He is cheerful, outgoing, competitive in a friendly way, and has complete confidence in himself. Some of the things which he claims Tiggers can do in the chapter "In which it is shown That Tiggers don't climb trees" include flying, jumping farther than a kangaroo, swimming, and climbing trees. He never actually attempts any of the first three things in the course of the story, but he does try to climb a tree. He only succeeds half-way, being able to climb up but not to climb down again., Tigger also says Tiggers "never get lost"; unlike most of his other claims, this one seems to be true - he is able to find his way through the Forest even in a thick mist, despite Rabbit's attempts to lose him.

Like most of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger was based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals, in this case a stuffed toy tiger. However, the word "tiger" is never actually used in the book. The term "Tigger" is used instead, both as the character's name and as a description of his type of animal. No other "Tiggers" appear in the story, and at one point Tigger (who has just seen his reflection in a mirror and mistaken it for another individual) comments he thought he was the only one. Despite that belief, he constantly uses the term in the plural, as in "Tiggers don't like honey." and "So that's what Tiggers like!", etc. The term is always capitalized.

Counterparts (Winnie the Pooh Version) (Boy Version)

 * Percy (Thomas the Tank Engine/The Railway Series)
 * Sunshine (TUGS/Salty's Lighthouse)
 * Foduck, George, Digby, or Theodore (Theodore Tugboat)
 * Emery, Harrison, Chatsworth, or Wilson (Chuggington)
 * Schemer, Billy Twofeathers, Barton Winslow, or RS Mr. Conductor (Shining Time Station)
 * Luigi or Yoshi (Super Mario Bros.)
 * Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Bo Sheep (Garfield and Friends)
 * Persnikitty (Garfield: The Movie; both are ironic)
 * Runt, Flavio or Ralph (Animaniacs)
 * Little Beeper (Tiny Toon Adventures)
 * Beefy Bert (Horrid Henry)
 * Horton the Elephant or The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss/The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss)
 * Marty the Zebra (Madagascar)
 * Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
 * Chuckie Finster (Rugrats)
 * Ed Crosswire, Mr. Ratburn, Binky Barnes, or Arthur Read (Arthur)
 * Barney Gumble, Ned Flanders, Ralph Wiggum or Homer Simpson
 * Mort Goldman, Chris Griffin or Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
 * Turtwig, Buizel, Squirtle, Meowth, Sudowoodo, or Pikachu (Pokemon)
 * Tuff (Kirby)
 * Owen (Total Drama)
 * Heffer Wolfe (Rocko's Modern Life)
 * Willy/Zippy (Wacky Races/The Perils of Penelope Pitstop)
 * Goofy (Mickey Mouse)
 * Q*Bert or Wreck-It Ralph (Wreck-It Ralph)
 * Tinky Winky, Noo-Noo, or Dipsy (Teletubbies)
 * Brick, Ace, The Mayor of Townsville, Big Billy, or Boomer (The Powerpuff Girls)
 * Ferb Fletcher or Jeremy Johnson (Phineas and Ferb)
 * Blooregard "Bloo" Q. Kazoo, Wilt, or Eduardo (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)
 * Darwin Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball, both are orange)
 * Dee Jay (Street Fighter)
 * Ernie, Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, or Snuffy (Sesame Street)
 * Mower Mouth (Shaun the Sheep)
 * Rigby or Mordicai (Regular Show)
 * El Chupacabra (Planes)
 * Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
 * Spike (Maya the Bee/Movie)

Counterparts (Girl Version)

 * Mavis, Molly, Elizabeth, or Emily (Thomas the Tank Engine/The Railway Series)
 * Sally Seaplane or Lillie Lightship (TUGS/Salty's Lighthouse)
 * Emily, Sigrid, or Rebecca (Theodore Tugboat)
 * Princess Sally Acorn, Blaze the Cat, Rouge the Bat, Cream the Rabbit, or Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Gorgeous Gurinder (Horrid Henry)
 * Mindy (SpongeBob SquarePants)
 * Didi Pickles (Rugrats)
 * D.W. Read (Arthur)
 * Luann Van Houten, Maude Flanders, or Marge Simpson (The Simpsons)
 * Eileen (Regular Show)
 * Clarabelle Cow (Mickey Mouse)
 * Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)
 * Nicole Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball)

Counterparts (House of Mouse Version)

 * Porter (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)

Parodies

 * Tigger/Thomas
 * Tigger/TUGS
 * Tigger/Theodore Tugboat
 * Tigger/Chuggington
 * Tigger/SpongeBob SquarePants
 * Tigger/Brandy & Mr. Whiskers
 * Tigger/Garfield
 * Tigger/The Simpsons
 * Tigger/Family Guy
 * Tigger/Toby
 * Tigger/The Brave Little Toaster
 * Tigger/Barney
 * Tigger/Edward
 * Tigger/Mickey Mouse
 * Tigger/Wreck-It Ralph
 * Tigger/The Amazing World of Gumball
 * Tigger/Regular Show
 * Tigger/James
 * Tigger/Street Fighter
 * Tigger/Phineas & Ferb
 * Tigger/Jack and the Pack
 * Tigger/The Little Engine That Could
 * Tigger/PeeKay (2014)
 * Tigger/Arthur
 * Tigger/The Berenstain Bears
 * Tigger/Dr. Seuss