Marvel Comics Character Profile - The Cat/ Tigra
Name Greer Nelson Tigra Avengers
Nationality US American
Powers  
Affiliations Avengers, West Coast Avengers
1st App. THE CAT # 1 & as Tigra Giant Size Creatures #1
History- Greer worked as a Lab assistant for Dr Joanne Tumolo. When her boss began a psychological experiment to make the subject attain their full physical and mental potentia funded by Malcolm Donabain to create an army of warrior women, Tumolo enlisted greer to became a secret test subject alongside the woman chosen by Donalbain Shirlee Bryant. Both women emerged from the experiment with superhuman physical capabilities but Shirlee died during a test. To cover the death Donalblain arranged for an explosion that injured Dr Tumolo. Greer thinking her friend and mentor was dead donned an experimental cat suit and hunted down Donalbain, exposed his scheme and had him sent to jail. Calling herself the Cat, Greer set out on a career as a masked crimefighter. Unknown to Greer Dr Tumolo was in fact a member of the cat People a humanoid race mystically evolved from cats. The criminal organisation Hydra became aware of Tumolo and her true identity and abducted her, the Cat raced to the rescue but was shot with an unknown beam of radiation. To save Greer Tumolo and the Cat People magically transformed her into the feline warrior Tigra and she defeated the Hydra forces. Tigra could still return to her Greer Nelson form but rarely did so preferring her feline form. She became an adventurer fighting menaces such as the Super Skrull and Kraven the Hunter and fought alongside Spiderman and the Fantastic four. She eventually at the behest of the telepath Moondragon petitioned for membership to the Avengers. She was accepted by the team but never truly felt that she deserved the honour even though she proved herself in battle many times. She left the group but rejoined the West Coast branch when it was formed by Hawkeye. During an encounter with the Cat People, Tigra was offered the opportunity to be cured of her dual nature in return for killing the demonic human master Pandemonium, she agreed but could not in the end bring herself to break the Avengers code of not killing. Unable to control her predatory nature she elected to remain as Greer Nelson. During a later encounter with the cat people she once again refused to kill master Pandemonium and was stripped of her cat soul completely. Donning her original Cat suit she defeated the Cat People's champion and her cat soul was once more returned to her, this time though stronger than ever and controlled by Greer's own intellect. She rejoined the Avengers but her cat soul still fought her for dominance and she became wild, predatory and uncontrollable. Whilst wandering the city she was found by the witch Agatha Harkness who captured her and called on the Cat People to help her. The new leader of the Cat People Tabur wanted Tigra to mate with him but she refused, and Agatha Harkness transferred tigra's cat soul into him allowing her to retain her Tigra form whilst still retain completely her human personality, and to once again become Greer whenever she wanted.