BIOGRAPHY - Page 7
Greer returned to Chicago under unhappy circumstances when she learned her father was dying. Gregson Grant’s company was bought out by Dirkreich Pharmaceuticals, who apparently committed numerous criminal acts. Gregson and several others intended to act as whistleblowers, only for all of them to come down with the same mysterious disease. Tigra looked into Dirkreich and learned the entire ordeal was a trap for her. Frederick Dirkreich intended to become a superior being artificially, but his genetic virus failed to stabilize and left him with a degenerative condition. By exposing Gregson to an accelerated version, he forced Tigra to assist him by letting Dirkreich scientists use her own genetically-altered cells to craft a stabilizing agent. Once it was 
finished, Dirkreich intended to use the agent only on himself, but Tigra escaped their shackles and stole the stabilizing agent for her father. Gregson survived to testify against Dirkreich, and Greer Grant Nelson reunited with her father. [Marvel Super-Heroes (2nd series) #2]
Tigra continued to operate out of Arnhem land in Australia, becoming accepted by the local tribes as a protector of their people. The sultan of Temasika in Southeast Asia hired cyborg slavers to kidnap women for his harem, and they trespassed on Tigra’s adopted people. Tigra beat the cyborgs and delivered them to tribal justice. She then flew to Temasika and ensured the escape of the sultan’s three captives. [Marvel Comics Presents (1st series) #162-165]
Time passed, and many of the Avengers’ veterans seemingly died in battle with Onslaught. As they returned, another extreme threat arose from Morgan le Fay, leading to a massive gathering 
of every available Avenger from rosters past. Tigra took part in this assemblage, working with a strike team under Iron Man largely composed of Avengers West alumni. After Morgan was defeated, a new stable roster of seven was established, and the various reserves went their separate ways. Tigra started a flirtation with Starfox, Eternal of Titan, and they decided to take a vacation to the pleasure palaces of Deneb-7. [Avengers (3rd series) #1-4]
When Quasar detected the ravaging of a Rigellian colony world, he summoned a team of Avengers which included Tigra, Starfox, Moondragon, Thor and Photon. They encountered the omniversal entities known as the Infinites, so massive in scale that they physically moved entire galaxies to suit their needs. Tigra and the Avengers appealed to the Infinites through the aspect of Eternity himself to convince them that even the tiniest specks of life deserved their respect. [Avengers: Infinity #1-4] On their way back to Earth, this Avengers squad discovered the galactic council had quarantined Earth’s solar system for humanity’s many interferences in other cultures, turning the planet into a penal colony and dumping ground for undesirables. Tigra’s team helped discover this was all a plot by the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence. They helped drive the Kree off of Earth and save it from infestation by the living bio-sphere of Ego. [Maximum Security crossover]
Greer visited her husband’s grave on his birthday when she got a visit from Chief Winston Morrison. He alerted her to a secret order of dirty cops known as the Brethren of the Blue Fist, going beyond the law to enact vigilante killings in their twisted view of justice. Morrison was killed by the Blue Fist for breaking their code of silence before he could explain Bill Nelson’s involvement in the Fist to Greer. Seeking to root out corruption in the NYPD, Tigra had the 
Avengers arrange an undercover identity for her as “Greer Sorenson” and infiltrated the New York Police Academy. Greer demonstrated exceptional fighting skill and an edge of brutality during training in order to get the Brethren’s attention. She suspected training Commander Ronald Weising, but it was actually smiling Sergeant Matt McMullin who staged her recruitment trials for the Brethren of the Blue Fist.
Greer fed information about the Brethren to Brian Keenan, Bill’s old partner on the force, while also independently rattling cages as Tigra. Thanks to her tips, most of the inner circle of the Brethren was arrested, but Matt McMullin and rookie members from the Academy were still on the loose. Keenan was shot and killed in the final sweep of the Brethren. Greer discovered Weising was undercover trying to bring the Blue Fist down from within, while McMullin was responsible for 
the shootings of Bill Nelson and Winston Morrison. Bill founded the original Brethren as a fraternal order, but McMullin killed him when Bill refused to lead the Brethren in dishonorable acts. With the Brethren of the Blue Fist disbanded, Greer Grant Nelson found her new calling in life, and joined the NYPD under her own name to serve and protect in her husband’s memory. [Tigra #1-4]
[Note: This series indicated that Bill Nelson’s murder was never solved, while the original story had him shot during a robbery in front of Greer. It also misrepresented Greer and Bill Nelson’s history as if they came from New York, not Chicago.]
After the devastation in Stamford, Connecticut from an ill-advised super-battle, the Superhuman Registration Act raced through Congress to regulate super-powers and masked crime-fighters. With her own ties to law enforcement, Greer was initially pro-registration and supported the idea 
of giving super-heroes training and policing their conduct. However, many heroes were not, including a rogue team of Secret Avengers led by Captain America himself. The leading trio for the Act, Iron Man, Yellowjacket and Mr. Fantastic, crafted a Thor clone to enforce the law. Tragically, though, this clone went wild on its first outing with extreme prejudice, and murdered the hero Goliath in a battle between pro- and anti-Registration forces.
Many heroes switched sides after this turning point and joined up with Captain America. Tigra appeared to be one of them at first, but she actually acted as a double agent and spy, feeding intelligence back to Hank Pym and Iron Man. When the Black Panther joined the Secret Avengers, his heightened senses helped him ferret out the spy among Cap’s forces, and so they began feeding Tigra false information. An ambush was planned for the anti-registration heroes at Number 
42 prison in the Negative Zone thanks to Tigra forewarning Iron Man of the mission. However, the shape-changer Hulkling had already replaced Yellowjacket in their camp, preemptively opening all the cells and releasing an army of captive heroes to Captain America’s side. The resulting battle was the last conflict of the Superhuman Civil War, spilling over into Manhattan and leading to Captain America’s surrender. [Civil War event]
After the war ended, Tigra helped established the groundwork for the Fifty States Initiative, 
building a network of trained and registered super-teams for every state in the nation. Yellowjacket served as base commander for Camp Hammond built on the site of Nitro’s blast in Stamford, and Tigra was one of several instructors training the many new recruits. Perhaps because of their close ties in setting up the Initiative, Tigra and Yellowjacket rekindled their personal relationship. Greer often spent nights with Hank at Camp Hammond, while also maintaining her apartment in New York. [Mighty Avengers (1st series) #3, Avengers: The Initiative #6]
However, the early days of the Initiative did not go well for Tigra. She and several other super-powered women were kidnapped by the Puppet Master and used as mind-controlled slaves and enforcers down in Chile. They were saved by Ms. Marvel and Operation: Lightning Storm, but Carol didn’t even know Tigra and the others were missing – she was there on tangential business. [Ms. Marvel (2nd series) #18-20] Tigra also struggled with her lack of notoriety and influence in the Initiative. She broke up a robbery by the villain Jigsaw, only for the police to draw on her when they arrived on the scene. Even being NYPD, a registered hero and a former Avenger wasn’t enough for Tigra to command respect in the situation. Jigsaw escaped while she was verifying her authority with the police. For her next insult, Tigra was notified she was being transferred to Arkansas to begin construction of its Initiative branch. Having never been to Arkansas, Greer still couldn’t get through the Initiative’s call waiting to complain to Tony Stark directly.
To make things even worse, Greer was attacked in her home by a criminal known as the Hood. Parker Robbins was building a new super-villain syndicate, and Jigsaw was one of his new partners. As a signing bonus, the Hood made an example out of Tigra. Using street fighting and magic, he got the drop on her, shooting Greer in the leg before pistol-whipping her some more. He threatened her life, he threatened her mother, and he kept beating on Greer long past the point where she could put up a fight. As a final humiliation, Jigsaw filmed the entire beating for the 
entertainment of the Hood’s gang, and copies of her assault were distributed throughout the criminal underworld for some time to come. [New Avengers (1st series) #35] After the Hood’s crew got roughed up by Luke Cage and the unregistered Avengers, he dropped in on Tigra to threaten her and her mother again. Greer told him they were hiding out in Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum, only no one could pierce the glamour illusions surrounding the place to prove it. Tigra refused to remain the Hood’s victim, and she gathered her courage before following him and lending a hand against Hood, Jigsaw and the others alongside the outlaw Avengers. [New Avengers (1st series) Annual #2]
Tigra continued to stall before traveling out to Arkansas. She joined an ad hoc team of Lady Liberators formed by She-Hulk to tackle the mysterious new Red Hulk threat. She also took her romance with Yellowjacket even further during her frequent trips out to Camp Hammond. [Hulk (2nd series) #7-9, Avengers: The Initiative #14] However, she eventually trekked out to the 
Arkansas Initiative and began assembly of the Battalion, beginning with Razorback, the local Texarkana hero, mutant and big rig truck driver. The Battalion was still only two members when the Skrull invasion struck Earth, and Razorback was revealed as one of many shape-changing infiltrators throughout the Initiative. Tigra joined forces with the Skrull Kill Krew and other Initiative loyalists to hop between the various States’ teams and root out the Skrulls among them. [Avengers: The Initiative #19]
Once the invasion was over, the Initiative was on shaky ground and Tigra had a lot to process, personally. Yellowjacket was revealed as one of the major Skrull imposters on Earth before his death in the final battle. In fact, the Initiative was largely Hank Pym’s idea and used to seed Skrull agents around the country. The real Hank Pym, Tigra’s late friend Mockingbird and other people the Skrulls had replaced were freed from captivity, but Greer had to deal with more than just a lover’s betrayal. She discovered she was pregnant with the child of Hank Pym’s imposter. Tigra scheduled time with Camp Hammond’s counselor, Trauma, in order to process her fears about 
what this could mean. At first, she decided to terminate the pregnancy. The prospect of having an alien baby essentially conceived without her consent wasn’t something she enjoyed. Even if the child had been Hank Pym’s, Tigra had to confront her own feelings about Hank’s abusive past with the Wasp, and what that would mean for a child. For these reasons, Greer largely stayed clear of the real Hank Pym when he briefly stayed at Camp Hammond before departing the program which he had no real hand in making. [Avengers: The Initiative #20]