White Tigers (Beyblade)

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White Tigers
Japanese name Bai Hu Zu
Country of origin China
First appearance ep:9
Alternate names White Tigers
White Tiger X
Team leader Lee (Season 1)
Ray Kon (Season 3) (Prior to season 1)
Team members Lee Wong
Mariah Wong
Kevin Cheng
Gary Tan
Ray Kon (Season 3) (Prior to season 1)
Team supporters Master Tao (Season 3)


The White Tigers are a fictional team of Beybladers in the anime series Beyblade. The team consists of Lee Wong, Mariah Wong, Gary Tan, Kevin Cheng, and in the third season Beyblade G-Revolution only, Ray Kon and Master Tao. In G-Revolution, The White Tigers are renamed White Tiger X, and Ray and Lee are tagteam partners.

In the first season, Ray had left the White Tigers to learn more about Beyblading from other bladers. After the regional qualifiers of the world beyblading championships, he decided to join up with the Bladebreakers after being inspired by Mr. Dickenson, the chairman of the Beyblade Battle Association (BBA). The rest of the team form China's competing team in the world championships, and there is a lot of tension when the Bladebreakers and the White Tigers face off in the first real tournament, and even before it. Kevin even attempts to kill Ray for leaving their team. After the tournament is over, however, Lee realizes that Ray had good intentions when he left, and will return some day to the White Tigers with what he learnt on his travels.

In the third season, Ray returns to the White Tigers, and they enter the next championship tournament competing against Tyson and Daichi. The White Tigers do not make an appearance in the second season.

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[edit] Lee (Rai)

Age: Season 1- 13, Season 3- 15

Lee is a fierce competitor in Series One. He held his grudge against Ray's defection for years and uses that as his advantage in battle. He is well respected and in turn respects his village and its people. He aimed to gain the power of the White tiger, but the village elder handed it down to Ray, his best friend, instead. This started the grudge which was fueled further still when Ray left the village. In G-Revolution, his fiery rage dies down and he becomes a strong and focus blading partner of Ray's. However because he is an emotional character it sometimes leads him to lose his cool and even break down.

In the BEGA arc of G-Revolution, when Ming-Ming and Crusher reluctantly invade the Granger dojo to destroy Tyson and Dragoon before the BEGA Justice 5 tiebreaker under orders, he partners with Rick of the All Starz to protect him.

Lee is voiced by Koichi Nagano in the original version, and by Ted Cole in the English dub.

[edit] Mariah (Mao)

Age: Season 1- 13, Season 3- 15

Mariah is the first girl-blader to appear in the series and also Lee's little sister. She has cat-like features and a fierce bitbeast named Galux. She is completely loyal to the White Tiger team and always tries to keep the peace within it. She likes to taunt other bladers who think she can't beat them and because of her speed, she can knock bladers off guard. Her loyalties are also with Ray. Despite the team distrusting him when he left in Series 1, she still believed he would return one day and remained friends with Ray (whom she has a crush on). Mariah grows a close relationship with Emily from the All Starz in season one, along with Julia and Mathilda in G-Revolution.

In the manga's epilogue, set in the future, Ray has married Mariah and together had a daughter named Lin.

Mariah is voiced by Niina Kumagaya in the original version, and by Julie Lemieux in the English dub.

[edit] Kevin (Kiki)

Age: Unknown

A member of the White Tigers team. Kevin Tan's style is wild and unpredictable. His bit-beast is Galman, a monkey that seems to produce more copies of itself to confuse his opponent. Kevin Tan loses to Tyson twice, and is never able to get revenge in the finals of the Asian tournament. His special attacks are the Crazy Monkey attack and Monkey Claw attack. When Ray left, this made Kevin Tan so angry he attempted to kill him, failing. He's slightly selfish, and is a bit of a prankster. He has a somewhat brotherly relationship with Gary.

He is voiced by Junko Shimakata in the original version, and by Lyon Smith in the English dub.

[edit] Gary (Gao)

Age: Season 1- 14?, Season 3- 16?

Gary has a special bond with his bit-beast Galzzly, which allows Galzzly to imitate Gary's emotion and use it for power. In the Asian tournament finals Gary ended up thrashing Max's blade and destroying the arena with it, proving Gary is one of the strongest bladers around. However, his mind tends to turn to thoughts of food, rather than the actual beybattles on more than a few occasions. Despite all of this, Gary is more of a gentle giant than he is a competitor who seeks to destroy his opponents. His attacks are bear axe attack and bear stomp attack. He has a somewhat brotherly relationship with Kevin.

Gary is voiced by Kazuyuki Ishikawa in the original version, and by Craig Lauzon in the English dub.

[edit] Beyblades and Attacks

LEE WONG

Galeon: Dark Lightning/ Black Thunder

Galeon2: Spiral Lightning, Black Lightning Attack

MARIAH WONG

Galux: Cat Scratch, Mounatain Cat Attack

Galux2: Cat Bites, Galux Claw Attack

KEVIN CHENG

Galman: Crazy Monkey

Galman 2: Illusion Confusion

GARY TAN

Galzzy: Bear Axe

Galzzy 2: Bear Stomp

[edit] Trivia

  • All members of the White Tigers have cat-like expressions and features, Mariah more so than her other teammates as her Japanese name Mao means cat in Chinese. Takao also referred to her as a cat-girl when they first met.
  • Lee shares the same English voice actor with Spencer, Kane, and Barthez; Ted Cole.
  • Mariah shares the same English voice actress with the dub-only character, Dizzi, Ms. Kincaide, and Julia; Julie Lemieaux.
  • Kevin shares the same English voice actor with Michael, DJ Jazzman (V-Force only), and Romero; Lyon Smith.
  • Gary shares the same English voice actor with Bryan, Joseph, Goki, Dr. Zagart, Gordo, and Claude; Craig Lauzon.
  • All members of the White Tiger's Blade starts in "Gal" and the endings are parts of animal names like leo in Galeon meaning lion and lux in Galux as in an Egyptian mountain cat. (also, monkey in Galman and grizzly in Galzzly)
Beyblade
Characters Hiro Granger | Tyson Granger | Kai Hiwatari | Kenny | Ray Kon | Daichi Sumeragi | Hilary Tachibana | Max Tate | Others
Teams Bladebreakers | White Tigers | All Starz | Dark Bladers | Majestics | Demolition Boys | Team Psykick | Saint Shields | King & Queen | Barthez Battalion | F-Dynasty | BEGA League
Media Season 1-Beyblade 2000 | Season 2 - V-Force | Season 3 - G-Revolution | The Movie: Fierce Battle | Manga
Games Beyblade (GBC) | Beyblade (PS) | Beyblade 2 | BeyBlade: Super Tournament Battle | Beyblade: GRevolution | Beyblade Ultimate Blader Jam | Bakuten Shoot Beyblade 2002: Takao Version, Daichi Version
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