Tigorr

34 years ago - Tigorr is born in a spaceport slum.

20 years ago - 14-year-old Tigorr accidentally kills a Citadel guard. He flees his spaceport home for his home planet where he joins the Karnan tribe, taking the name Toghurrhu.

12 years ago - 22-year-old Tigorr is married.

9 years ago - 25-year-old Tigorr leaves his homeworld after a Citadel attack kills much of his tribe including his wife. He goes to Hardcore Station and enlists for service with the Galactic Fleet

5 years ago - 29-year-old Tigorr, dissatisfied with the limitations of his role with the Galactic Fleet, deserts his post and becomes an interstellar freedom fighter, partnering with former Green Lantern Arisia Raab.

4 years ago - 30-year-old Tigorr & Arisia Raab join Kyle Rayner as he fights Hal Jordan, trying to stop him from breaking time.

3 years ago - 31-year-old Tigorr & Arisia Raab meet Felicity, a dancer & bar owner on Tigorr's home planet of of Karna. She helps them stop an organized crime ring from terrorizing her city. He & Felicity have a passionate affair.

2 years ago - 32-year-old Tigorr & Arisia Raab help Adam Strange return to Rann to save it from the Starbreaker.

1 year ago - 33-year-old Tigorr & Arisia Raab help Kyle Rayner restart the Oan Power Battery. She rejoins the Green Lantern Corps.He continues to help her, but starts regularly working alongside Adam Strange on Rann.

now - 34-year-old Tigorr joins the Omega Men along with Adam Strange.

Despite the changes we're making to the cosmic teams of DC, the one holdover we're keeping from the classic Omega Men is their sometimes leader, Tigorr. From the very beginning of the team's existence, Tigorr has been the character most obviously built to go on for a role outside of the main group. Comics have found some cool things to do with him, but we're going to get a little bit more creative with how we use this character, just because he's very cool and has so much potential.

Tigorr's Comic History

Tigorr appeared for the first time, along with the rest of the Omega Men, in Green Lantern #141 in 1981, setting up their own series. It's clearly a Marv Wolfman creation, with huge swaths of worldbuilding implied in it's backstory. The characters are all refugees of the Omega System, the superpowered individuals banished when their home planets are taken over by the Citadel. Their series picks up as they return, fighting against their oppressors. This whole world crosses over into the Teen Titans in the person of Starfire, who is actually from the Omega System and whose origin is tied to this whole backstory. The comic isn't deeply integrated into DC lore, it's very much its own little world, but it does touch a lot of parts of the story here and there if you look, and it also holds up all on its own, with some pretty fantastic body horror alien stuff.

Tigorr is one of the main characters in the Omega Men's story. He's a Karnan Feline, and can actually shapeshift into a four-legged beastial fighter. While the Omega Men's leader is Primus, he has that role because he's a former King. Tigorr actually has military training, and he chaffs at Primus's more measured leadership. Their conflict eventually comes to a head, with Tigorr beating the absolute tar our of Primus before it's revealed that he's being manipulated the traitor Demonia.

The Omega Men were really a standalone story that happened in the final few years before the Crisis. The worlds set up here largely all paid off in the really fun crossover storyline Invasion, which dove deep into the various alien races in the broader DC gallery, but after that the Omega Men really weren't seen that much. They were understood to exist, but they didn't really have any members that stood out as characters DC could push as standalone heroes. They made a return in 2005 in the Adam Strange miniseries by Andy Diggle & Pascal Ferry, specifically first reappearing in this image. It featured a few unknown characters, which is very par for the course with the Omega Men, but it did include a few returning faces (Doc, Broot... I think that's Demonia with the snake?) Clearly, however, the star of the show here is Tigorr. This is obviously announcing him as THE character that was going to have a role in space-faring stories going forward.

In the next decade, as more and more incredible space-based adventures happened before and after Infinite Crisis, whether in the Rann-Thanagar War, or the new R.E.B.E.L.S. series, Tigorr was featured throughout. Most recently, in the aftermath of the New 52, a modern version of the Omega Men appeared in a 2015 miniseries with a spectacular redesign of Tigorr, but it was written by Tom King, so it's too depressing to try to make canon.

Our Tigorr Story

We're cheating a little bit with our version of Tigorr. We're essentially co-opted the name Omega Men and applying it more to the group built by Vrill Dox, traditionally called L.E.G.I.O.N. Tigorr is really the only holdover from the original Omega Men lineup, unless you count Lobo. Tigorr is a very cool character that straddles the line between superhero and sci-fi adventurer, and comes from a very cool, violent world. He has a great backstory and is a fun inclusion in the world, but we have a different idea for him rather than just throwing him into our version of the Omega Men.

We're looking to build up the post-lantern career of Arisia Raab, making her a really cool space-adventurer. This comes from her appearances in Guy Gardner Warrior from the 90s, where she was often paired with a really old character called Tiger-Man, a big tiger warrior guy from an old 1965 issue of Tales of the Unexpected. We're going to use that as an excuse to pair up Tigorr as the Chewbacca-like partner of Arisia, which later brings him in contact with Adam Strange, and eventually to the new incarnation of the Omega Men, bringing him full circle.

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