Editing Tigger (section)

==Disney adaptations==
{{Infobox character
| franchise = [[Winnie the Pooh (franchise)|Disney's ''Winnie the Pooh'']]
| name = Tigger
| image = File:TiggerDisney.jpg
| caption = Tigger, as he appears in ''[[The Tigger Movie]]''
| first = ''[[Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]'' (1968)
| creator = [[A. A. Milne]]
| voice = [[Paul Winchell]] (1968–1999)<br/>[[Sam Edwards]] ([[Walt Disney Records|record release]])<br/>[[Will Ryan]] (''[[Welcome to Pooh Corner]]'')<br/>[[Jim Cummings]] (1989–present)<br/>[[Ed Gilbert]] (''Read-Along books'')<br/>[[Marc Silk]] (''Bounce Bounce Tigger'')<ref name="Bounce Tigger">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUsl9-cnrFc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/PUsl9-cnrFc| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Marc Silk - voice of Tigger|publisher=YouTube|access-date=March 13, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref><br>Gracen Newton (''Playdate with Winnie the Pooh'')
| species = [[Tiger]] (or "tigger")
| gender = Male
}}
Tigger appears in the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] cartoon versions of the Winnie the Pooh stories, beginning with ''[[Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]'' in 1968. He starred in his own film, ''[[The Tigger Movie]]'' (Disney, 2000), along with his friends from the [[Hundred Acre Wood]].

From 1968 to 1999, Tigger was voiced by [[Paul Winchell]]. However, [[Walt Disney]] initially planned to have the character voiced by [[Wally Boag]], but the role was turned over to Winchell after Disney's death, since Boag's performance of the character was considered to be "too zany for a children's film".<ref name="laughingplace.com">{{cite web| url=http://www.laughingplace.com/News-PID115010-115011.asp |title=Legacy Content: Jim Hill: From the Archives |page=2 |first=Jim |last=Hill |date=3 April 2001 |website=LaughingPlace.com |access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> [[Sam Edwards]] voiced Tigger in a couple of albums for [[Disneyland Records]] before ''Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day'' was released.<ref>[https://www.discogs.com/Sterling-Holloway-Sam-Edwards-2-Camarata-Walt-Disney-Presents-Winnie-The-Pooh-And-The-Blustery-Day/release/9775694 "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"] at Discogs. Retrieved 2017-10-05.</ref><ref>[https://www.discogs.com/Various-Winnie-The-Pooh-And-Tigger/release/6726880"Winnie the Pooh and Tigger"] at Discogs. Retrieved 2017-10-05.</ref> [[Will Ryan]] voiced Tigger only in the [[Disney Channel]] program ''[[Welcome to Pooh Corner]]'', which ran from 1983 to 1986. Later, [[Jim Cummings]] (who is also the new voice of Pooh) provided Tigger's voice, starting with later seasons of ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]''. For a while, Cummings shared the role with Winchell, with the latter providing Tigger's speaking voice while the former sang as the character, until he took the role full-time starting with the 2000 film ''[[The Tigger Movie]]''.

Since 1989, Tigger has been voiced by [[Jim Cummings]] (also the voice of Winnie the Pooh), with the exceptions of ''What's the Score, Pooh?'' (1990), ''Eeyi Eeyi Eeyore'' (1990), ''[[Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin]]'' (1997), ''[[A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving]]'' (1998), ''[[Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You]]'' (1999), archive footage of ''[[Seasons of Giving|Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving]]'' (1999),<ref>Though Paul Winchell voiced Tigger in these projects, he believed that his voice was too weak from old age to sing anymore. Because of this, Cummings provided the character's singing voice.</ref> and [[The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (attraction)|The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]] attraction at Walt Disney World, in which Winchell reprised the role of Tigger (Cummings voiced Tigger in the Disneyland version). On some albums and read-along cassettes in the early '90s, [[Ed Gilbert]] voiced Tigger.

In the movies, Tigger sings his own theme song, "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers",<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/VurBc_QpUbs Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150809180238/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurBc_QpUbs&list=PLpSnlSGciSWPBUsHQKmXGX3TB-FTSO0U6 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurBc_QpUbs |date=June 29, 2015 |title=Tigger - The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers |medium=Entertainment |work=[[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] |access-date=February 20, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> written by the [[Sherman Brothers]] and first sung in [[Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]. The song is repeated in Disney's 1974 release ''[[Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!]]'', [[The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (attraction)|The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]] ride and then again in the 1977 release ''[[The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]''. In 1974, [[Paul Winchell]] earned a [[Grammy]] for his rendition of the song.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4624547.stm |title=Disney's Tigger voice dies at 82 |access-date=2008-10-06 |date=2005-06-26 |work=BBC News}}</ref> The music was composed by [[Richard M. Sherman]], with the lyrics and idea by [[Robert B. Sherman]]. Performed by [[Sam Edwards]] on record albums and [[Paul Winchell]] in ''[[The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'' and later [[Jim Cummings]] in ''[[The Tigger Movie]]'', ''[[Piglet's Big Movie]]'', the 2011 film ''[[Winnie the Pooh (2011 film)|Winnie the Pooh]]'', and the 2018 live-action film ''[[Christopher Robin (film)|Christopher Robin]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wdsmediafile.com/media/ChristopherRobin/writen-material/ChristopherRobin5b5a465f530ff.pdf |title=''Christopher Robin'' Press Kit |publisher=Walt Disney Studios |access-date=27 July 2018 |archive-date=22 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422113651/http://www.wdsmediafile.com/media/ChristopherRobin/writen-material/ChristopherRobin5b5a465f530ff.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> According to the song, Tigger is "the only one", which leads to his search for his family in ''The Tigger Movie''. The song opens up that film's first release.

In ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'' and subsequent cartoons, Tigger lives in a large treehouse. A tire swing hangs prominently from a branch of the tree. In ''The Tigger Movie'', Tigger builds a makeshift addition (gluing the shingles on with bubble gum, using honey as brick mortar) in anticipation of a hoped-for visit by members of his family. This "family room" is eventually relocated to serve as a replacement for Eeyore's collapse-prone house of sticks.

The Disney version of Tigger appeared in both the TV special ''[[Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue]]'' and the TV series ''[[House of Mouse]]''. Tigger also made recurring appearances in the live-action wrap-around skits television series ''[[The Mouse Factory]]'', alongside the other costumed characters and celebrity guests.

===Personality traits===
Tigger's personality in the cartoons is much like his personality in the book. He is always filled with great energy and optimism, and though always well-meaning, he can also be mischievous, and his actions have sometimes led to chaos and trouble for himself and his friends. He is very confident and possesses high self-esteem to the point of [[egotism]]. Also, he often undertakes tasks with gusto, only to later realize they were not as easy as he had originally imagined. As in the books, Tigger never refers to himself as a tiger, but as a "Tigger". When Tigger introduces himself, he often says the proper way to spell his name and that is "T-I-double-Guh-Er", which spells "Tigger".

Tigger's language is full of [[malapropisms]], mispronunciations, or unnecessary/incorrect emphasis on syllables. Examples of this include him pronouncing "villain" as "villian"; "terrible" as "terribibble"; "regulations" as "regularations"; "ridiculous" as "ridickerous" (or "ricky-diculus" in ''Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day''); "allergic" as "allergical"; "recognize" as "recoganize"; "suspicious" as "suspicerous"; "Eureka" as "Topeka".

A declaration often made, is that ''"Tiggers are wonderful things. Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs."'' In cartoon, he's often depicted bouncing around in ways which would make such a statement appear to be valid.

In ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'', Tigger is often well-meaning but usually does more harm than good. In the episode "Tigger is the Mother of Invention", he invented a [[bulldozer]]-like contraption intended to provide convenience for Pooh, Piglet, and Rabbit, but the invention proved to have disastrous results, and Rabbit insisted that Tigger shut it down; however, in the winter, a depressed Tigger accidentally started the machine up, and it proved to be useful by [[snowplow|plowing snow]] around Piglet's house before malfunctioning. On another occasion, Tigger attempted to mimic a superhero, "The Masked Offender", bringing mayhem to the Hundred-Acre Wood. In response, Pooh, Rabbit, Gopher, and Owl (unaware that the Masked Offender was actually Tigger) staged a [[hoax]] in which they made an [[wikt:inanimate|inanimate]] monster from a sticky glue-like material. The plan worked, revealing Tigger as the Masked Offender, but the fake monster (which was on wheels) turned on its makers, ultimately resulting in Pooh, Rabbit, Gopher, and Owl hanging by the glue from a rickety bridge. Subsequently, Tigger resumed his role as the Masked Offender, and saved his friends.

It's also shown that Tigger will jump in to help without thinking about the danger to himself. On at least three occasions, he has nearly fallen off a cliff, and ''has'' fallen two of those times, to retrieve something important (Half of the map in ''[[Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin]]'', his locket in ''[[The Tigger Movie]]'', and a page of [[Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh)|Piglet's]] scrapbook in ''[[Piglet's Big Movie]]'').

Tigger's birthday is believed to be in October 1928, the year ''The House at Pooh Corner'' was first published. However, on Tigger-related merchandise, Disney often indicates Tigger's birthyear is in December 1968, a reference to the first appearance of Tigger in a Disney production, ''[[Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]''.

Disney's Tigger is also remembered for his song "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" when he made his first appearance. However, he wasn't included in the "Winnie the Pooh" theme song until [[Winnie the Pooh (2011 film)|the 2011 film]].