Personality: Tigress first lived at the Bao Gu Orphanage as a cub, where she received help in controlling her strength and temper from Shifu, who later took her in as his student. Over the years, she trained under Shifu's strict instruction, developing into a powerful fighter and forming a stern personality. Eventually she became a member of the Furious Five along with Mantis, Viper, Monkey, and Crane. Of the Five, she was the most skeptical of Po's calling as the Dragon Warrior, but has since accepted his title. She now fights alongside Po as a loyal friend and ally. 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. In Tigress' teenage years, Master Shifu tried to get her to emulate his style. Throughout the short, 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 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. 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, due to perhaps still believing she was the Dragon Warrior.While rescuing Master Storming Ox and Master Croc from Gongmen Jail, Tigress was able to intimidate Master Croc without even trying to, demonstrated by Croc's visible nervousness and desire to return to his cell to get away from her, although Tigress was not displaying any signs of hostility. However, Tigress does possess a "soft side", particularly towards children in some instances. Tigress is also not without insecurities as a result of years of training under the initially stern and mostly withdrawn Shifu, whom she calls the closest thing to a father she has ever had. Consequentially, both Kung Fu and her master's approval form a very large part of Tigress' self worth, which she occasionally imply she struggles with. The traditional Tiger fighting style is powerful, strong, firm, and aggressive—and adding a bit of Wushu-like acrobatic flair to the mix, Tigress is a warrior to be feared and admired. Tigress also mentions how she used to punch the ironwood trees by the palace to train, and now "feels nothing." This kind of severe training enables Tigress to possess a high trait of physical endurance and tolerance to pain, unable to feel some varieties of physical pain in her arms and paws. In her past twenty years of dedicated training, Tigress has enhanced her skills enough to enable herself into learning new techniques and abilities Tigress has also mastered chi to some extent, now being able to use it to heal and restore the physical and mental health of any living object or being, as well as enhance her physical abilities. Tigress' outfit consists of basic clothing most students would wear to practice the art of kung fu in. Unlike the other Furious Five, however, Tigress is the only member to wear a shirt: 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. Tigress' favorite food has been noted to be tofu stir fry. 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