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|type1            =Bone
|type1            =Bone
|type2            =Red
|type2            =Red
|image            =Icarus Tigris infobox.png
|image            =Icarus_Tigris_infobox.png
|caption          =Icarus Tigris in GvK: Kingdom Kong
|caption          =A Spirit Tiger in Kingdom Kong
|name            =''Icarus Tigris''
|name            =Spirit Tiger
|dt              =''Icarus Tigris''
|nicknames        =''Icarus Tigris'', Holy Tiger, Tiger Creature, Majesty of the Winds
|nicknames        =Holy Tiger, Tiger Creature
|classification  =''Tigris Spiritus''<ref name="Kingdom">{{harvnb|Anello|2021|pp=87-88}}</ref>
|species          =''Icarus Tigris''
|species          =Giant feline
|length          =14 feet
|length          =15 feet{{R|Kingdom}}<ref group="note">The Chinese Monarch profile for the Spirit Tiger instead listed its length as 14 feet.</ref>
|enemies          =[[King Kong/Legendary|King Kong]]
|enemies          =[[King Kong (Monsterverse)|King Kong]]
|stat1            =~1.5 meters|1=Footprint length
|stat1            =~1.5 meters|1=Footprint length
|debut            ="Skull Island: Archives"
|debut            =''[[Kong and Me]]''
|last            =''[[GvK: Kingdom Kong]]''
|last            =''[[Kingdom Kong]]''
}}
}}
'''''Icarus Tigris''''' is a tiger monster profiled in "Skull Island: Archives," a featurette included on home video releases of the [[2017]] [[Legendary Pictures]] film ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]''. It is also seemingly alluded to in ''[[Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization]]''. Like the [[Death Jackal]], [[Psychovulture]], [[Sirenjaw]], [[Magma Turtle]], [[Swamp Locust]], and [[Vinestrangler]], ''Icarus Tigris'' was created for the film but ultimately cut. ''Icarus Tigris'' was the only one of these creatures not to be featured in the film's tie-in comic series ''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'', although it will appear in ''[[GvK: Kingdom Kong]]'', due for release in 2021.  
The '''Spirit Tiger''' is a giant tiger [[superspecies]] which appears in the [[2021]] [[Legendary Pictures|Legendary Comics]] graphic novel ''[[Kingdom Kong]]'' and the picture book ''[[Kong and Me]]''. It is one of several monsters to have been cut from the [[2017]] film ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'' but subsequently appear in other [[Monsterverse]] media.
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==Name==
==Name==
In a bio for the creature included in the Chinese marketing for ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'', it is given the English species name '''''Icarus Tigris'''''. Its Chinese name, 圣虎 (''Shèng Hǔ''), roughly translates to "'''Holy Tiger'''." It is referred to as simply '''Tiger Creature''' in some concept art.
In a bio for the creature included in the Chinese marketing for ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'', the Spirit Tiger was classified as '''''Icarus Tigris'''''. Its Chinese name, 圣虎 (''Shèng Hǔ''), roughly translates to "'''Holy Tiger'''." It is referred to as simply '''Tiger Creature''' in some concept art.
==Design==
 
''Icarus Tigris'' resembles an abnormally large Bengal tiger or white tiger. Some depictions have antlers, while others have curved, elongated teeth. Director [[Jordan Vogt-Roberts]] cited the video game ''Okami'' as an influence on its design.<ref name="Twitter">[https://twitter.com/VogtRoberts/status/865250821620944897 Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Twitter: "At one point there was a very OKAMI inspired creature in KONG. I was obsessed with a tiger that had antlers. Didn't make the cut."]</ref>
The comic ''Kingdom Kong'' finally revealed the creature's English name, Spirit Tiger, and retconned its cryptozoological classification to "''Tigris Spiritus''." The Spirit Tiger's scientific name comes from the Latin words ''tigris'', meaning "tiger," and ''spiritus'', meaning "spirit."
==History==
==Development==
In the book ''[[The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island]]'', writer John Gatins describes the planned scene involving ''Icarus Tigris'':
In the book ''[[The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island]]'', writer John Gatins describes the planned scene for ''Kong: Skull Island'' involving the Spirit Tiger:


<blockquote>[The characters] had landed on the island and spent the night on the beach before they traveled inland. They sit around and drink beer by a fire and sing sailor shanties. I just loved it, but it was a bit kind of tangential to having to get to the meat of the matter. In the morning after this raucous night, two saber-toothed tigers come out of the jungle and sniff around the camp. Someone says, "Don't shoot and they'll go away," but the guy takes the shot and kills one. They were a pair, a male and a female, and the other one just goes nuts. It kills the guy who took the shot. It's like the inciting incident of a war, a kind of harbinger; you're in a place you don't know, and now you've awakened more than you know. It was the first indication that we're not in a normal place. There's no such thing as a saber-toothed tiger ''and'' it's enormous.</blockquote>
<blockquote>[The characters] had landed on the island and spent the night on the beach before they traveled inland. They sit around and drink beer by a fire and sing sailor shanties. I just loved it, but it was a bit kind of tangential to having to get to the meat of the matter. In the morning after this raucous night, two saber-toothed tigers come out of the jungle and sniff around the camp. Someone says, "Don't shoot and they'll go away," but the guy takes the shot and kills one. They were a pair, a male and a female, and the other one just goes nuts. It kills the guy who took the shot. It's like the inciting incident of a war, a kind of harbinger; you're in a place you don't know, and now you've awakened more than you know. It was the first indication that we're not in a normal place. There's no such thing as a saber-toothed tiger ''and'' it's enormous.</blockquote>
 
==Design==
In ''[[Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization]]'', Conrad observes the tracks of a feline he estimates to be at least one-and-a-half meters long, although the creature itself is never seen.
The Spirit Tiger resembles an abnormally large Bengal tiger or white tiger with antlers. The serrated stripes running down the Spirit Tiger's body are composed of epidermal leaves that shimmer in the soft breezes.{{R|Kingdom}} Director [[Jordan Vogt-Roberts]] cited the video game ''Okami'' as an influence on its design.<ref name="Twitter">[https://twitter.com/VogtRoberts/status/865250821620944897 Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Twitter: "At one point there was a very OKAMI inspired creature in KONG. I was obsessed with a tiger that had antlers. Didn't make the cut."]</ref>
==Behavior==
Spirit Tigers are elegant, ethereal and mysterious creatures.{{R|Kingdom}} However, they are also shown to be aggressive, as seen when Wallace and Cooper observed one before it attacked them.
==Tabletop games==
*''[[Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure]]'' (2023) [profile]
==Books==
*''[[Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization]]'' (2017) [mentioned, indirect]
*''[[Kong and Me]]'' (2021)
===''[[Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization]]''===
Conrad observed the tracks of a feline, estimating them to be at least one-and-a-half meters long, although the creature itself was never seen.
===''[[Kong and Me]]''===
The Spirit Tiger lounged in a field of flowers with [[Jia]] and [[King Kong (Monsterverse)|Kong]] as they watched a swarm of blue butterflies.
==Comics==
==Comics==
*''[[GvK: Kingdom Kong]]'' (2021)
*''[[Kingdom Kong]]'' (2021)
 
===''[[Kingdom Kong]]''===
While Wallace and Cooper were on watch, they noticed a Spirit Tiger moving in the distance. As they prepared to head back to base, they noticed the Spirit Tiger had disappeared, only for it to reappear and kill Cooper. The tiger chased Wallace down, but before it could devour him, it was grabbed by [[King Kong (Monsterverse)|Kong]] who snapped its neck and tossed it aside.
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==Abilities==
===Hallucinogenic aura===
[[Human]]s in close proximity to a Spirit Tiger reported "dizziness, euphoria, and the ability to hear the creature's heart audibly beating at the center of our heads."{{R|Kingdom}}
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
===Concept art===
===Concept art===
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===''[[GvK: Kingdom Kong]]''===
====''[[Kong: Skull Island - Isle of the Damned]]''====
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===Profiles===
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File:Spirit Tiger Porfile.png|Profile from ''[[Kingdom Kong]]''
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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*Giant saber-toothed tigers also appeared in the ''[[The King Kong Show]]'' segment "Tiger Tiger."
*Giant saber-toothed cats previously appeared in ''[[The King Kong Show]]''{{'}}s episode "Tiger Tiger."
*''Icarus Tigris''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s genus name is the same of that of the [[Leafwing]], ''Icarus folium''.
*The first half of the Spirit Tiger's original cryptoozological classification, ''Icarus'', is shared with the [[Leafwing]] (''Icarus Folium'').
==Notes==
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==References==
==References==
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===Bibliography===
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*{{cite book|title=[[Kingdom Kong]]|last=Anello|first=Marie|date=6 April 2021|publisher=[[Legendary Comics]]|isbn=978-1-68116-080-1}}
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Latest revision as of 18:49, 27 February 2024

Spirit Tiger
A Spirit Tiger in Kingdom Kong
Alternate names Icarus Tigris, Holy Tiger, Tiger Creature, Majesty of the Winds
Class-
ification
Tigris Spiritus[1]
Species Giant feline
Length 15 feet[1][note 1]
Footprint length ~1.5 meters
Enemies King Kong
First appearance Latest appearance
Kong and Me Kingdom Kong

The Spirit Tiger is a giant tiger superspecies which appears in the 2021 Legendary Comics graphic novel Kingdom Kong and the picture book Kong and Me. It is one of several monsters to have been cut from the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island but subsequently appear in other Monsterverse media.

Name

In a bio for the creature included in the Chinese marketing for Kong: Skull Island, the Spirit Tiger was classified as Icarus Tigris. Its Chinese name, 圣虎 (Shèng Hǔ), roughly translates to "Holy Tiger." It is referred to as simply Tiger Creature in some concept art.

The comic Kingdom Kong finally revealed the creature's English name, Spirit Tiger, and retconned its cryptozoological classification to "Tigris Spiritus." The Spirit Tiger's scientific name comes from the Latin words tigris, meaning "tiger," and spiritus, meaning "spirit."

Development

In the book The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island, writer John Gatins describes the planned scene for Kong: Skull Island involving the Spirit Tiger:

[The characters] had landed on the island and spent the night on the beach before they traveled inland. They sit around and drink beer by a fire and sing sailor shanties. I just loved it, but it was a bit kind of tangential to having to get to the meat of the matter. In the morning after this raucous night, two saber-toothed tigers come out of the jungle and sniff around the camp. Someone says, "Don't shoot and they'll go away," but the guy takes the shot and kills one. They were a pair, a male and a female, and the other one just goes nuts. It kills the guy who took the shot. It's like the inciting incident of a war, a kind of harbinger; you're in a place you don't know, and now you've awakened more than you know. It was the first indication that we're not in a normal place. There's no such thing as a saber-toothed tiger and it's enormous.

Design

The Spirit Tiger resembles an abnormally large Bengal tiger or white tiger with antlers. The serrated stripes running down the Spirit Tiger's body are composed of epidermal leaves that shimmer in the soft breezes.[1] Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts cited the video game Okami as an influence on its design.[2]

Behavior

Spirit Tigers are elegant, ethereal and mysterious creatures.[1] However, they are also shown to be aggressive, as seen when Wallace and Cooper observed one before it attacked them.

Tabletop games

Books

Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization

Conrad observed the tracks of a feline, estimating them to be at least one-and-a-half meters long, although the creature itself was never seen.

Kong and Me

The Spirit Tiger lounged in a field of flowers with Jia and Kong as they watched a swarm of blue butterflies.

Comics

Kingdom Kong

While Wallace and Cooper were on watch, they noticed a Spirit Tiger moving in the distance. As they prepared to head back to base, they noticed the Spirit Tiger had disappeared, only for it to reappear and kill Cooper. The tiger chased Wallace down, but before it could devour him, it was grabbed by Kong who snapped its neck and tossed it aside.

Abilities

Hallucinogenic aura

Humans in close proximity to a Spirit Tiger reported "dizziness, euphoria, and the ability to hear the creature's heart audibly beating at the center of our heads."[1]

Gallery

Concept art

Kong: Skull Island

Kong: Skull Island - Isle of the Damned

Profiles

Trivia

  • Giant saber-toothed cats previously appeared in The King Kong Show's episode "Tiger Tiger."
  • The first half of the Spirit Tiger's original cryptoozological classification, Icarus, is shared with the Leafwing (Icarus Folium).

Notes

  1. The Chinese Monarch profile for the Spirit Tiger instead listed its length as 14 feet.

References

This is a list of references for Spirit Tiger. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

Bibliography

  • Anello, Marie (6 April 2021). Kingdom Kong. Legendary Comics. ISBN 978-1-68116-080-1.

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