BIOGRAPHY - Page 8
Most of Camp Hammond’s senior staff was disassembled as a result of the invasion. Yellowjacket was a traitor, War Machine went AWOL and Tony Stark was ousted as head of the Initiative in favor of the new director, Norman Osborn. Drill instructor Gauntlet was acting senior officer on base, but Tigra and several other veteran heroes remained on hand during the transition of S.H.I.E.L.D. into H.A.M.M.E.R. It was chaos when the Thor clone escaped confinement and caused even more damage to Stamford. A near miss when the false Mjolnir creased her stomach made Greer start to reconsider her feelings for the baby. [Avengers: The Initiative #21-23]
With Osborn in charge, Tigra was a little looser about obeying the rules. She ducked out of Camp Hammond to reunite with the original West Coast Avengers (Ronin, Mockingbird, Wonder Man and War Machine) in a fight against Ultimo, even though most of her former teammates were unregistered heroes or actively opposing Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R. [War Machine (2nd series) #8-10] However, she also felt strongly about making sure the Initiative served its original intention of a proper training ground for young heroes. When Stegron the Dinosaur Man started hitting random S.H.I.E.L.D. installations across the country, Tigra was placed in charge of an Initiative task force of heroes to find him, including a young rookie named Reptil. Humberto Lopez was 
essential for the mission given his dinosaur empathy powers but hadn’t completed basic training yet. Tigra made a point of looking out for Reptil. When he lost his cool in the field, she told him the story of her own lapse of courage facing the Molecule Man. Greer saw the value of making sure the next generation of heroes didn’t make the same mistakes as her and her contemporaries. [Avengers: The Initiative Featuring Reptil #1]
When Norman Osborn finally got around to addressing Tigra’s status in the Initiative, it was even worse than she expected. Osborn breached Trauma’s confidential patient files and learned about Greer’s pregnancy. He intended to harvest her child’s hybrid genetic code in an effort to kickstart a bio-weapons program bridging the gap between human and Skrull. Osborn mockingly gave her the choice between an abortion or carrying the child to term before he claimed it for his scientists. On top of this travesty, Osborn assembled his own Cabal of criminal allies to secretly run the Initiative for their mutual gain. The Hood was the last person Tigra expected to see in Avengers Tower, but Osborn informed her that Parker Robbins was the new chief operating officer of the 
Initiative. The Hood dismissed their past encounters as “just business,” but this was all too far for Greer. The Gauntlet had come to similar conclusions as Tigra, and the two of them explosively rejected Osborn’s offers before going underground. They found Justice and his team of New Warriors already opposed to the Initiative and formed a united Avengers Resistance to Osborn and his dark reign. [Avengers: The Initiative #25]
Fortunately for Greer, a cat’s gestation period was only about two months, and she had already given birth in secret during the transition period between S.H.I.E.L.D. and H.A.M.M.E.R. Her son was born feline, with no overt signs of Skrull heritage. She named him William after her late husband and gave him to the Cat People for his protection until her work with the Avengers Resistance was over. [Avengers: The Initiative #35]
Working with Gauntlet, Justice and Night Thrasher, Tigra organized the Avengers Resistance in the hopes of finding legal evidence of Osborn’s corruption which could bring him down. She arranged contact with Diamondback as a double agent feeding them intelligence from inside Camp H.A.M.M.E.R., the new remote training site out in the remote desert of the Southwest. Tigra also coordinated actions with Hank Pym’s globally active Avengers operating outside Osborn’s jurisdiction, and other unregistered heroes fighting back.
In the meantime, Greer took advantage of her outlaw status to begin taking revenge on the Hood and his people. After moving her mother out of the country, she decided there was nothing to hold her back from settling those old scores. Tigra stalked and brutalized several members of the Hood’s syndicate including the Brothers Grimm, Razor-Fist and Mandrill. Each time she filmed their beatings 
as retribution, stoking fear in the rank-and-file until she could reach Parker Robbins. When Ultra Girl of the New Warriors learned what Tigra was doing, she objected. Suzy thought their Resistance was about showing what heroes really looked like, but Greer was willing to commit crimes and go to new extremes in order to remove Osborn and the Hood from power.
The Avengers Resistance had few clear victories. They tapped the electronic transfers for Charlotte, North Carolina’s banking information after one of Osborn’s new “heroic” Initiative teams the U-Foes started showing interest in it. When the Nevada Heavy Hitters took a public stand on the airwaves against Osborn’s corruption, Tigra and the Resistance helped evac several of their members. After Night Thrasher was captured, they tried to rescue him from Camp H.A.M.M.E.R., 
only to get caught up when Trauma’s father, the Fear-Lord called Nightmare, possessed him to bring nightmares to the waking world. Tigra’s innate empathy helped Penance (formerly Speedball of the New Warriors) recover from Nightmare’s attack and, in turn, reach out to his counselor Trauma to help him escape his father’s influence.
Osborn finally overreached when he sought to build his credibility against a new foe. In order to justify an invasion of Asgard, floating over Oklahoma for the past few months, Osborn paid off the U-Foes to attack Volstagg of the Warrior Three, creating a new tragedy similar to Stamford when thousands died at Soldier Field. Thanks to their banking tap, the Avengers Resistance had evidence of Osborn’s financial transfers to the U-Foes in advance of the attack. While many 
unregistered heroes converged on Oklahoma to defend Thor and fight off Osborn, Tigra and the Avengers Resistance traveled to Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. in order to dismantle Robbins and Osborn’s power base while their attention was elsewhere. Tigra had a vicious fight with the Hood, but Robbins attended Osborn’s call for reinforcements and brought the bulk of his crew to Oklahoma, only to face defeat.
In the days that followed, Norman Osborn was stripped of his powers and a resurrected Steve Rogers assumed command of the Initiative. He convinced the President to dismantle the Registration Act, and nearly all the unregistered heroes received full pardons. Parker Robbins lost the Norn Stones which gave him his powers, and he was soon captured by the unregistered Avengers as he tried running from Oklahoma. Tigra managed to get in a room with Robbins and considered murdering him for her revenge. She taunted him a bit, but then decided he wasn’t worth her hatred anymore. Parker Robbins sold out everything he had in the name of power, and now he had nothing. Tigra passed his girlfriend and daughter in the hall, having just learned of 
Parker’s criminal ties for the first time, knowing the Hood sacrificed what really mattered. At Avengers Tower, the heroes celebrated their victory as Tigra brought William out of hiding to meet his extended family for the first time. [Avengers: The Initiative #26-35]
With Steve Rogers’ support, Tigra, Justice and Hank Pym made plans to lead the next generation of heroes. Instead of basic training at a boot camp, new heroes would learn from a school as Avengers Academy opened its doors. Its inaugural class included Reptil and other teen superhumans who were tortured or manipulated by Osborn in the last days of his reign. [Enter the Heroes Age #1] Hank moved the academy into the Infinite Avengers Mansion in Overspace to avoid any potential threat to civilians by their training. Furthermore, the first class was 
considered “at risk” of future villainy after Osborn’s machinations, leading the faculty to watch them closely. Greer and William lived in the extra-dimensional mansion, which was occupied and operated by Jocasta’s sentient A.I. Interpersonal relations were dodgy among the staff, as Hank Pym and Jocasta recently separated, and Greer was raising a son conceived with a man she thought was Hank at the time. [Avengers Academy #1-6]
Greer and Hank had to have an uncomfortable conversation about boundaries after she asked him for a medical evaluation of William. Hank confirmed that William was perfectly healthy while also showing no signs of alien Skrull DNA anywhere in his genetic structure. It seemed the Super-Skrull posing as Yellowjacket was so efficient at shape-changing and concealment that he only passed on mimicked human genes to his child. Ergo, William was genetically both Greer and Hank’s son. Tigra’s immediate reaction was to reject Hank as any sort of father figure for her son. Giant-Man was understanding… he and the Wasp had decided to avoid having children in part 
because of his past and acknowledged mental issues. Still, when Greer calmed down, she was more empathic with Hank. While she was committed to raising William as a single mother, she asked Hank to take responsibility for her son if anything ever happened to her. Hank was honored by her show of trust and accepted. [Avengers Academy #7]
One of Tigra’s greatest shames came back to haunt her when the Hood’s video started showing up online. The Slug, one of Robbins’ former associates, needed money and released a teaser of Tigra and the Hood’s footage in anticipation of selling it on a pay-site. Greer had to relive the experience when her students located a copy of the teaser footage. Tigra and Giant-Man had a meeting with the students where she owned the situation and tried to put on a brave face, but Greer was clearly shaken by the tape. They found the Slug easily enough and stopped the full release of the tape, but Tigra recognized she needed to do more before the whole ordeal was really behind her. She went on Focus Point with Trish Tilby and allowed the full video to be played 
on the air, at her discretion. Using her own trauma as a launching pad, Greer gave a speech on how victims are often afraid to come forward and seek help, be it physical or psychological. Her new foundation, the “Always an Avenger” Center, would team with veteran’s, women’s and children’s aid organizations to ensure that anyone who experienced such trauma had aid and advocates available to them in the future.
It was a wonderful lesson on moving beyond one’s past that was immediately wrecked by her students’ actions. Striker, Veil and Hazmat did their own research and learned the Hood had escaped custody. They sought him out and roughed up the now powerless Parker Robbins themselves, making their own video as they beat him into begging Tigra for her forgiveness. Tigra was livid with them – the brutality, punching down, the needless revenge, all of these were the opposite lessons she was trying to teach at the Academy. Tigra impulsively expelled all three of them from Avengers Academy. In a private meeting afterwards, most of the faculty disagreed with her decision. They felt the students needed to remain under their supervision to correct this 
behavior, rather than abandoning any opportunity to impress on them what they did wrong. Tigra very reluctantly bowed to the majority and allowed the students to remain at the academy, on probation. And, in her private quarters that night, Greer quietly watched their video of the Hood’s beating, over and over again. [Avengers Academy #8-9]