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|nicknames        =Holy Tiger, Tiger Creature
|nicknames        =Holy Tiger, Tiger Creature
|species          =''Icarus Tigris''
|species          =''Icarus Tigris''
|length          =14 feet
|stat1            =~1.5 meters|1=Footprint length
|firstappearance  ="Skull Island: Archives"
|firstappearance  ="Skull Island: Archives"
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'''''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]]''. Like the [[Death Jackal]], [[Psychovulture]], [[Sirenjaw]], [[Magma Turtle]], [[Swamp Locust]], and [[Vinestrangler]], ''Icarus Tigris'' was conceptualized for the film but did not make it in. However, while most of these creatures were featured in the film's official tie-in comic series ''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'', ''Icarus Tigris'' has not made an official appearance outside of "Skull Island: Archives" and the film's Chinese marketing. It is also seemingly alluded to in ''[[Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization]]''.
'''''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]]''. Like the [[Death Jackal]], [[Psychovulture]], [[Sirenjaw]], [[Magma Turtle]], [[Swamp Locust]], and [[Vinestrangler]], ''Icarus Tigris'' was conceptualized for the film but did not make it in. However, while most of these creatures were featured in the film's official tie-in comic series ''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'', ''Icarus Tigris'' has not made an official appearance outside of "Skull Island: Archives" and the film's Chinese marketing. It is also seemingly alluded to in ''[[Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization]]''.
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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 roughly translates to "Holy Tiger." In some concept art, it is referred to simply as '''Tiger Creature'''.
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.
==Design==
==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]] cites the video game ''Okami'' as an influence on its design.<ref name="Twitter">[https://twitter.com/VogtRoberts/status/865250821620944897 Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Twitter]</ref>
''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>
==History==
==History==
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 involving ''Icarus Tigris'':

Revision as of 03:20, 18 April 2019

Icarus Tigris
Concept art of Icarus Tigris
Alternate names Holy Tiger, Tiger Creature
Species Icarus Tigris
Length 14 feet
Footprint length ~1.5 meters
First appearance "Skull Island: Archives"

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. Like the Death Jackal, Psychovulture, Sirenjaw, Magma Turtle, Swamp Locust, and Vinestrangler, Icarus Tigris was conceptualized for the film but did not make it in. However, while most of these creatures were featured in the film's official tie-in comic series Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, Icarus Tigris has not made an official appearance outside of "Skull Island: Archives" and the film's Chinese marketing. It is also seemingly alluded to in Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization.

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.

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.[1]

History

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

[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 sign 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.

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.

Concept Art

Trivia

  • Icarus Tigris is reminiscent of the giant Saber-Toothed Tigers from The King Kong Show segment "Tiger Tiger."

References

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