Tigra (DC Comics)

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Tigra
Tigra is banished by Darkseid in New Gods #7. Art by Jack Kirby
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	New Gods vol. 1 #7, (February 1972)
Created by	Jack Kirby (writer & artist)
In story information
Alter ego	Tigra
Species	New God
Place of origin	Apokolips
Abilities	Superhuman strength and speed Razor sharp nails Superb tactician.

Tigra is a fictional character, appearing in the New Gods comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Jack Kirby.

[edit] Fictional character biography

Tigra is the first wife of Darkseid (Uxas), and the mother of Orion. Darkseid was forced by his mother Heggra to marry Tigra against his will. At some point in the past he had her placed in Hyperfreeze for over a thousand years. Once released from Hyperfreeze she was impregnated. After the pact between New Genesis and Apokolips which required an exchange of sons was ratified, Darkseid had an inconsolable Tigra banished from Apokolips.^[1]

At one point Tigra told Orion that Darkseid may not be his father and intimated that he might be the son of her dead lover Captain Hathak, in fact Tigra had Lakutha the midwife killed in order to keep the identity of Orion's true parentage a secret.

Tigra was later slain by Apokoliptian Suicide Jockeys sent by Justeen, an ambitious lieutenant of Desaad, was acting in she saw as Darkseid's best interest, if not his orders. ^[2]