Master Tigress

Appearance: Tigress is a slender, South China tiger, who has orange and white fur with black intricate stripes, and amber eyes with yellow sclera. She wears a traditional red Chinese vest with golden vine patterns and black trim, held together with small metal fasteners and a waist wrap. She also wears black silk pants and black sandals with soles designed to resemble paw pads.

Personality: Tigress is the strongest and boldest of the Furious Five. She is noted to have the typical qualities of a hero: overachieving, brave, fearless, and willing to do anything to save the day. The one exception to her willingness, however, was to believe in Po, whom she thought was a joke. But even the strongest can be wrong, and Tigress learned that destiny sometimes arrives in unexpected ways. Since the events of the first film, she has been unwaveringly loyal to Po and what he represents as the Dragon Warrior. But underneath her stoic, iron-jawed exterior is a warm compassion that others seldom see. She is generally friendly, but the least sociable of the Five, and can be very intimidating at times due to her incredibly serious and direct demeanor.

In many scenes of the first film in which the other four of the Furious Five and/or Po were joking or having fun, Tigress would often remain quiet and withdrawn. At the time, it was strongly believed, by Shifu and herself, that Oogway was about to choose her as the Dragon Warrior before Po's entrance, despite Oogway's statements. As a result, Tigress bitterly resented Po for thwarting her dream, and was the most vocal of the Five in her contempt for the panda and his perceived lack of respect for kung fu, even while her comrades grew to respect him, perhaps still believing she was the Dragon Warrior. Also, while facing Tai Lung, she claimed that he was looking at the Dragon Warrior, although he instantly saw through this lie. Despite seeming cold however, Tigress does have a true compassionate side. She refused to allow Po to enter the fray while something was burdening him, just after the panda had unintentionally allowed Shen to escape.

After learning that Po was troubled by knowing that Shen was involved in his past and his parents however, Tigress hugged Po and seemed to have empathized with him. Even while stating that she does understand what Po was going through, she didn't want to watch him get killed. Tigress was an orphan who was left at the Bao Gu Orphanage by her parents. During her years at the orphanage, she scared the other children and as a result was seen as a monster. After being trained and raised by Shifu however, she began to not let others' perceptions get to her and became a stronger person inside. It is clear that when she empathized with Po in the second film, she did relate to him on a personal level.

When Tigress was a kid and a teenager, she was energetic and desired to be as amazing as Master Shifu, but she learned to be her own master and grew more mature and calm in the future.

Backstory: Tigress was left at the doorstep of the Bao Gu Orphanage for unknown reasons by her biological parents when she was an infant.

As a little girl, Tigress was raised in the Bao Gu Orphanage, presumably located in the Valley of Peace. However, the residents of the orphanage lived in fear of her due to her violent temper and frightening strength. One night, Tigress escaped from the room and innocently approached the children in an attempt to play. However, her fangs and claws scared them off, and a rejected Tigress roared in rage. After being put in an isolated room, Tigress soon began to see herself as a monster, as everyone else did. Unsure of what could be done with the tiger cub, the caretakers summoned the aid of Master Shifu.

After meeting Tigress, the Shifu firmly told her that she was not a monster, and introduced her to a game of dominoes, which required discipline to master. At first, Tigress couldn't place the dominoes correctly, often breaking the fragile wooden tiles in her grip, which frustrated her. But Shifu was a calm and patient teacher, and over time he instructed her to control her temper and her strength, teaching her the importance of discipline.

Finally, after much training, Tigress presented her hard work to the other children of the orphanage by skillfully placing the dominoes correctly with precision and agility; when she finished, she tipped the placed dominoes to form the symbol of yin and yang, earning the trust and friendship of the caretakers and other orphans. Despite this, the adults who came to adopt children were still afraid of her, and she was still left at the orphanage. However, Shifu decided to take her in, giving Tigress a new home at the Jade Palace.

Even in her new home, Tigress still felt unaccepted due to Shifu's closed and often stern personality, caused by the betrayal of his adopted son and former student, Tai Lung. She also formed an aversion to asking questions, as she had been ridiculed by others for her childlike curiosity in the past.

However, Shifu was seen encouraging young Tigress in a moment where she failed to perform a side kick, and assured her that she would get the move right when she needed it, cheering her up afterward by offering to play a game of checkers. As the years passed, Tigress strove to gain Shifu's approval by bettering herself in kung fu and becoming a strong and dedicated student. One of the many ways of training she endured was punching the iron-wood trees outside the Jade Palace, an exercise that eventually resulted in her having no feeling in her paws after 20 years.

In Tigress' teenage years, Master Shifu tried to get her to use his style. Tigress tried to impress Shifu, even insisting on fetching the four warriors that Shifu had asked for due to his illness preventing him from protecting the valley from the villain, Boar. However, due to a mix-up involving the scroll given her by Shifu and one written and then thrown away by Po, she ended up recruiting four strangers instead of the specific warriors Shifu had requested. Shifu was bitterly disappointed, but Oogway counseled Tigress that she had to be herself and couldn't expect to be just like Shifu. Tigress, Crane, Monkey, Viper, and Mantis eventually defeated Boar, and formed the Furious Five.

Over time, Tigress became a master of the Tiger Style of kung fu. As the unofficial leader of the Furious Five, she and her comrades protected the Valley of Peace and gained great fame across China with their many accomplishments in battle.

Movie story: She was originally going to be the Dragon Warrior but Master Oogway instead choose a seemingly random fat panda named Po, as the Dragon Warrior. This led to her resenting Po and believing she was the Dragon Warrior and that Po had simply gotten in the way of Master Oogway's choice. Po had proved resilient even when beaten by the Five and thrown out the Jade Palace. His resilience had inpressed most of the Furious Five except for Tigress.

Shifu then brought bad news that Tai Lung had escaped prison, in which Tigress tried to convince Shifu to let her fight. But Shifu honored Oogway's dying choice and said that Po was choosen to do it. When Po ran away scared of Tai Lung, Tigress and the Furious Five went to fight him and lost. Po then miraculously won against Tai Lung and earned Tigress's respect and they became close friends.

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