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White Tiger (Marvel Comics)

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  • Can't Un-Hear It: Due to her appearance in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), most fans hear Caitlyn Taylor Love as Ava.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite being fairly underused characters, all of the White Tigers have their respective fans who appreciate them and wish Marvel would use them more often. It helps that the first one, Hector Ayala, is Marvel's first Hispanic superhero.
  • Fandom-Enraging Misconception:
    • Don't imply that they are Black Panther characters just because they both have a cat theme and much less confuse them with White Wolf. Obviously this doesn't apply to Kasper Colenote  and the Tiger God.note 
    • As demonstrated by one of the comments on this post, never say that White Tiger is inspired or an Expy of Vixen. The first, Hector Ayala (as well as the mantle itself), precedes her by 6 years (3 if you count that Vixen was created in 1978, originally planned to debut as the protagonist of her own series before it was cancelled by the DC Implosion).
  • Fanon Discontinuity:
    • There are some fans who prefer to ignore certain things that have happened to the character, such as Hector's death, Angela's murder and resurrection (under brainwashing) by The Hand (both happened in Daredevil (1998)) or Ava losing the powers of the amulet in New Avengers (2015).
    • Even those who had no problem with the above prefer to ignore Ava's decision to retire as White Tiger (and convince Angela to do the same) in the final issue of the aforementioned New Avengers. The fact that Ava continues to appear as White Tiger and that said number has never been mentioned since only adds to this feeling and actually makes it easier to ignore.
    • When talking about White Tiger's legacy, a few people tend not to count the second and third White Tigers. Unlike the other examples, this isn't because they are bad characters (As mentioned above, every White Tiger in general is well-liked and they are no exceptions), it's just because of their little to no connection to the Ayala-del Toro family.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: Crossed with Crack Pairing, but some pair White Tiger off with Spider-Man.
  • More Popular Replacement:
    • Among the wielders of the Amulets of Power, the White Tigers are better known for using them than the Sons of the Tiger.
    • Among the general public (especially the younger ones), even those who know of the other wielders of the mantle will mention that Ava Ayala is the first White Tiger they met.
      • This is also partly due to a bit of Adaptation Displacement: Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) was the first general adaptation of the character, but instead of using one of the existing wielders, they preferred created a new one.note  With Hector only appearing in a flashback and the others being Adapted Out in said cartoon, along with Ava being used in some media such as some video games, people who are not familiar with the comics are surprised to find out that there were at least four White Tigers before Ava.note 
  • The Woobie: Hector and Ava's parents were murdered after Hector's secret identity was revealed, Hector was wrongly framed for a crime (and acquitted too late), Angela was killed and resurrected with brainwashing, and Ava is no longer welcome at home for following in her brother and niece's legacy.

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