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Tiger Division is a 2022 comic book limited series from Marvel Comics, starring the titular South Korean superhero team. It's written by Emily Kim and illustrated by Creees Lee.

The series is set in the shared Marvel Universe, and Tiger Division have previously appeared as a team in other comics (they made their debut as a team in the Taskmaster series, although White Fox and Luna Snow had both appeared elsewhere beforehand). However, this is the first time they've starred in their own comic.

The first issue was released November 2, 2022.


Tiger Division contains the following tropes:

  • The Atoner: Taegugki is driven to heroism as a way of making up for his past as a criminal, especially after learning that most of his old crew ended up starting their own crews and spreading misery over a wider area.
  • The Big Guy: The General resembles a massive walking statue.
  • Flying Brick: Taegugki flies, has Super-Strength, and has some level of invulnerability. The first issue shows him stopping a ferry by flying straight into its bow, then pushing. The ferry's a bit dented and broken, whereas Taegugki is unharmed.
  • The Gambler: Lady Bright is a sorceress with card-themed magic. She can fly on a giant card, Sky Surfing style.
  • Hijacked by Ganon: New villain Min-Jae is initially positioned as the Big Bad for the series, but the arrival of Doctor Doom leads to a very different final confrontation.
  • Legacy Character: Gun-R II replaces the original Gun-R android, who was destroyed in the Contest of Champions series.
  • Power Crystal: Eventually revealed to be the source of Taegugki's powers. Loki left a crystal behind for one of his schemes. It was discovered and experimented on by the government, Taegugki accidentally empowered by it during a failed heist of a government facility.
  • Sky Surfing: Lady Bright flies by standing atop a giant playing card.
  • Speech Bubbles:
    • Gun-R's robotic voice is portrayed with grey, rectangular speech bubbles. They have jagged tails, rounded corners and a different font to normal speech.
    • The General's speech is yellow text on a dark grey background. The bubbles have irregular yellow and red borders, whereas the tails have purely red borders.
  • Variant Cover: As well as the standard cover, the first issue has eight different variants.
  • We Used to Be Friends: The miniseries' main villain is Min-Jae, Taegugki's childhood friend, who has become a big businessman with military contacts.

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