Editing Tigger (section)

==In literature==
[[File:The original Winnie the Pooh toys.jpg|thumb|right|The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin and featured in the ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' stories. Clockwise from bottom left: Tigger, Kanga, Edward Bear (a.k.a. Winnie-the-Pooh), Eeyore, and Piglet. They were on display in the [[Donnell Library Center]] in [[New York City]], until it closed in 2008, when they were relocated to the Children's Room in the [[New York Public Library Main Branch|Main Branch]].]] Tigger is introduced in Chapter II of ''[[House at Pooh Corner]]'', when he arrives at [[Winnie-the-Pooh]]'s doorstep in the middle of the night, announcing himself with a stylised roar. Most of the rest of that chapter is taken up with the characters' search for a food that Tigger can eat for breakfast — despite Tigger's claims to like "everything", it is quickly proven that he does not like [[honey]], [[acorn]]s, [[thistle]]s, or most of the contents of [[List of Winnie-the-Pooh characters#Kanga|Kanga]]'s larder. In a happy coincidence, however, he discovers that Tiggers like an [[Extract of malt#Malt extract|extract of malt]], which Kanga has on hand because she gives it to her baby, [[Roo]], as "strengthening medicine".<ref name=poohcorner>{{cite book|title= Winnie-the-Pooh and the house at Pooh Corner: Alan Bennett – WorldCat |publisher=WorldCat |oclc = 248534060}}</ref>

Subsequently, Tigger resides with Kanga and Roo in their house in the part of the [[Hundred Acre Wood]] near the Sandy Pit. He becomes great friends with Roo (to whom he becomes a sort of older sibling figure), and Kanga treats him in much the same way she does her own son. Tigger also interacts enthusiastically with all the other characters — sometimes too enthusiastically for the likes of [[Rabbit (Winnie-the-Pooh)|Rabbit]], who is sometimes exasperated by Tigger's constant bouncing, [[Eeyore]], who is once bounced into the river by Tigger, and [[Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh)|Piglet]], who always seems a little nervous about the new, large, bouncy animal in the Forest. Nonetheless, the animals are all shown to be friends.

In addition to chapter II, Tigger also appears in Chapters IV, VI, VII, IX, and X of ''The House at Pooh Corner'', and is mentioned and seen in Chapter V. He is the only new major character to be introduced in ''The House at Pooh Corner''; all of the others had been established in the earlier book, [[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|''Winnie-the-Pooh'']].

===Depiction and personality traits===
In [[Ernest H. Shepard]]'s illustrations, Tigger appears to bounce and he is capable of holding a pen with one of his front paws.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=[[The Tigger Movie]]|medium=Motion picture}}</ref> Though Tigger is described by Rabbit and Piglet as "large", he does not seem particularly big in the illustrations. Pooh states once "He always seems bigger because of his bounces", implying that the other animals think of Tigger as being larger than he truly is.<ref name=poohcorner /> That assessment fits very well with Tigger's personality and his assessment of his own abilities, which he always overestimates. He is cheerful, outgoing, competitive in a friendly way, and has complete confidence in himself. Some of the things which he claims Tiggers can do in the chapter "In which it is shown That Tiggers don't climb trees" include flying, jumping farther than a [[kangaroo]], swimming, and climbing trees. He never actually attempts any of the first three things in the course of the story, but he does try to climb a tree. He only succeeds half-way, being able to climb up but not to climb down again.<ref name=climbtrees>{{cite book |title=Tiggers don't climb trees |last=Milne |first=A. A. |isbn=0525462309 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/tiggersdontclimb00miln|date=December 1998}}</ref> Tigger also says Tiggers "never get lost"; unlike most of his other claims, this one seems to be true - he is able to find his way through the Forest even in a thick mist, despite Rabbit's attempts to lose him.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=[[Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too]]|medium=Motion picture}}</ref>

Like most of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger was based on one of [[Christopher Robin Milne]]'s stuffed animals, in this case a stuffed-toy tiger. However, the word "tiger" is never actually used in the book. The term "Tigger" is used instead, both as the character's name and as a description of his type of animal. No other "Tiggers" appear in the story, and at one point Tigger (who has just seen his reflection in a [[mirror]] and mistaken it for another individual) comments he thought he was the only one. Despite that belief, he constantly uses the term in the plural, as in "Tiggers don't like honey." and "So ''that's'' what Tiggers like!", etc. The term is always capitalized.