White Tigers

White Tigers would be a 2025 animated superhero series loosely based on the Hector Ayala and Ava Ayala iterations of the titular character, created by Bill Mantlo & and George Perez and Christos Gage & Tom Raney, respectively. Created by Francisco Angones, the series would be a co-production between Disney Television Animation, Marvel Animation, and 5000 Broadway Productions, with Angones and Lin-Manuel Miranda executive-producing the series. The series would star the voices of Miranda and Rachel Zegler as the title characters. Miranda would also compose the score for the series, as well as write several Puerto Rico-inspired songs.
Development on the series would begin in early 2021, with Angones being set to create and executive-produce it. Miranda would join as voice actor, composer, and executive-producer in early 2022. Zegler would join the cast in late 2022. Miranda would also serve as a cultural consultant on the series due to both the characters and his' Puerto Rican heritages.
White Tigers would premiere on Disney+ on May 23, 2025. A second season would be announced on April 2025, a month ahead of the first season's premiere. The series would be met with critical acclaim, with critics praising Miranda and Zegler's performances, humor, action sequences, animation, music, and incorporation of Puerto Rican culture.
== Synopsis ==
In the first season, Puerto Rican Empire State University students Hector and Ave Ayala find two mysterious tiger amulets. Upon examinating the amulets, the two discover that it can grant them superhuman strength and martial arts abilities. The two then choose to use their newfound powers as the superhero duo White Tigers. Just as they begin their superhero career, the two are framed for an attack to the university. Hector and Ava must now find a way to work together and find the true culprits.
In the second season, the White Tigers havetaken their place a protectors of New York, and are closer than ever. However, they are suddenly attacked by a group of warriors, who try to steal the White Tiger Amulets, while claiming that "the Sons of the Tiger shall fall". Curious about what happened, the Ayalas ask Dean Irvine on everything he knows about the Amulets, eventually sending them into a worldwide adventure to uncover the mysteries behind the Amulets, as their bond is tested and face new enemies in the form of The Zealots.
== Voice cast ==
=== Main cast ===
* Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hector Ayala/White Tiger, an impulsive but optimistic and good-hearted Puerto Rican student at the Empire State University, who, upon discovering the White Tiger Amulets, becomes a superhero named White Tiger, alongside his sister Ava.
* Rachael Zegler as Ava Ayala/White Tigress, a Puerto Rican student at the Empire State University student with a determined "type-A"personality, who becomes the superhero White Tigress after she and his brother, Hector, find the White Tiger Amulets.
=== Recurring cast ===
* Laurance Fishburne as Irvine, the dean at the Empire State University, who was secretly trying to investigate the White Tiger Amulets. The character would be inspired by a minor character from the comic Emma Frost #13. Angones would compare the series' promenient use of the character to how he and Matt Youngberg featured then-minor Disney character Della Duck in a starring role in DuckTales (2017).
* Jamie Chung as Yuri Watanabe, a captain in the New York Police Department, who prefers to trust her own judgement and act on her own over the orders she is given.
* Jemaine Clemment as Curtiss Jackson (season 1 and 3 only), the extravagant leader of the criminal Corporation, and who wants to obtain the power of the White Tiger Amulets.
* Jorma Taccone as Kraven the Hunter, a mercenary who is hired by Jackson to kill the White Tigers due to his abilities, but is appaled by his honorless ways and eventually turns on him.
* Alan Tudyk as Jeremiah (season 2 only), the head of a group known as The Zealots, who plans to steal the White Tiger Amulets in order to unleash Gargantos. The character would be loosely inspired by the comics supervillain Master Khan, who wouldn't be featured in order to avoid racial stereotypes.
*Tom Hiddleston as Gargantos (season 3 only), an evil deity trying to take over Earth.
*Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man (seasons 2-3), a young superhero with spider-like abilities and a genius intellect, who is an enemy of Kraven's and tries to help the White Tigers fight the Tiger Zealots. Garfield reprises his role frpm the Marc Webb films and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2022).
== Music ==
Aside from starring and executive-producing the series, Lin-Manuel Miranda would compose the series' score, marking his first time composing an instrumental score. Miranda would be selected to compose the score due to his Puerto Rican heritage and his experience composing the music for several songs. Miranda would use several typical Puerto Rican instruments while composing the score, which would be described by him as "a mash-up between Puerto Rican music and a typical superhero TV series' score".
Miranda would also write songs for the series, which would be performed by several Puerto Rican artists. According to Miranda, the producers would "deeply research everything about Puerto Rican music, from what instruments it features, to how it sounds, to its role in storytelling". Miranda would also perform a song for the series' end-credits sequence.
== Trivia ==
* It would be the first Disney Television Animation series to feature regular hour-long episodes. According to creator Frank Angones, this would be because "[they] wanted ebery episode to tell as much as it needed to tell the story [they] wanted to tell, and Disney+ gave [them] the freedom ro be rather loose with the duration of the episodes, which [they] used for [their] favor".
* This would be the second TV series to be produced by both Disney Television Animation and Marvel Animation, after Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
* This would be the first animated series to be executive-produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
** It would also be the second Disney Television Animation series to feature the voices of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jamie Chung, after DuckTales (2017-present), and Big Hero 6: The Series (2017-present), respectively.
** This would also be the second collaboration between Lin-Manuel Miranda and Francisco Angones, after DuckTales.
** It would also be the second Disney Television Animation series in which Laurance Fishburne worked, after Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
* According to Miranda, the producers would have to "dig deeper in the White Tiger mythology than just the comics featuring the versions present here, and invent a lot of whole new elements" due to the limited story elements present in the comics.
* According to Angones, he would create the series because he would want for Latino kids to "have a superhero to grown-up with".
* Fishburne and Feige previosuly worked together in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).
* According to Miranda, Ava would have the condename "White Tigress" because the producers felt it would be "weird" to have both characters share the same code-name.
*Througth the series, Hector and Ava are showing using phones made by Stark Industries.