Tyra Elson

==Summary==
Tyra is one of the main protagonists of Metal Slug Advance. She is a new recruit, who enrolled in the PF Squadron drew by her thirst for justice.
Tyra, Walter and other cadets where sent in a remote island in the South Pacific, with the assignment of taking part in a mock battle and escape from the island without having any previous knowledge of the flora, fauna or geography and equipped with little supplies.
However, a large number of rebel forces suddenly invaded the island and captured all the recruits. Tyra and Walter, the only ones who didn't fell in enemy's hands, had to defend themselves from both the environment and the invaders. After many battles in different parts of the island, Tyra finally defeated the rebels and their leader, Allen Jr., saving her comrades and preventing the complete occupation of the island.
After returning home, Tyra and her friends graduated and officially entered the PF Squad. 
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: physically. to with weapons and vehicles
Name: Tyra Elson, Referenced as Tyler sometimes
Origin: Metal Slug
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Classification: Human, Soldier, Cadet of the Peregrine Falcons Squad 
Powers and Abilities:
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|-|Normal= Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery and Marksmanship (Skilled in marksmanship and combat with hatchets, tonfas and many different types of firearms), Vehicular Mastery (Skilled in driving military vehicles like tanks and planes), Martial Arts (Skilled at close combat), Acrobatics (Usually dodges bullets and other projectiles coming from multiple opponents and different directions. Can jump higher than normal and across multiple platforms. Can easily shoot downwards while jumping), likely Stealth Mastery (As a cadet who enlisted to enter the PF Squad, she should have received a training similar to that of Marco), Explosion Manipulation (Via Grenades), Pseudo Gliding (Via the parachute inside her pouch), Statistics Amplification (Can enhance the performances of her weapons and the SV-00 via various upgrades), Damage Reduction (Can reduce the damage received by herself and the SV-00 via Armor and Flak Jacket), Enhanced Senses (Via Infrared Sensor and X-Ray Sensor)
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Attack Potency: Wall level physically (Characters on her level can kill soldiers with a single kick and tear them to shreds with a knife swing). Wall level to Small Building level with weapons (Can destroy tanks, helicopters and even large robots, giant monsters and heavily armored vehicles. Her weakest weapon, the handgun, takes only 9 shots to collapse a small building, while stronger weapons gradually increase in strength to the point of even dwarfing the total damage of said shots [more details can be found here, although numerical values and multipliers are not to be taken literally]. The laser gun can vaporizes human beings. The SV-001 releases such levels of force through self-destruction)
Speed: Superhuman (Easily outruns soldiers) with Supersonic+ to possibly Hypersonic reactions/combat speed (Can dodge bullets, cannon shells and lasers on-foot), Speed of Light attack speed with laser guns
Lifting Strength: Class 5 (Comparable to at least one of the Japanese Tank Soldiers, two of which can lift a small tank)
Striking Strength: Wall level 
Durability: Wall level (Comparable to General Morden, who survived the explosion of his tank), higher with vehicles.
Stamina: Superhuman (Can rush through and fight dozens of enemies. Can withstand prolonged battles with large machines that require many hits in order to be taken down. Went through an unknown and hostile island while fighting against hordes of soldiers)
Range: Standard melee range with physically and with melee weapons. Tens to hundreds of meters with weapons and vehicles.
Equipment: 
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*Handgun: A semi-automatic pistol that has unlimited ammo, but lacks the heavy firepower or high fire rate of other weapons. The handgun almost looks like the Enfield No.2 revolver.
*Hatchet: Tyra can use her hatchet for close-quarters combat when close to an enemy. Can kill humans in one strike and even hit multiple targets. Does more damage than a pistol shot.
*Tonfa: Tyra's second melee weapon. Just like the hatchet, it can kill humans in a single hit and deal more damage than the handgun.
*Grenade: Tyra can throw a powerful grenade that explodes upon contact with an enemy or when it's momentum ends.
*Punching Glove: A punching glove springs out of Tyra's pouch when she's crouching near an enemy.
*Flak Jacket: A body armor used to provide protection against light damage.
*Parachute: Tyra's pouch contains a parachute that can slow her motion while in the air.
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*Heavy Machine Gun: Has a very fast fire rate, its bullets are slightly more powerful than the handgun's. An upgraded version has a faster rate of fire and much larger shots. Starts with 200 ammo.
*Rocket Launcher: Fires small, slow-moving rockets with great attack power. Can adjust rockets' trajectory somewhat to hit targets on different platform levels. An upgraded version fires larger rockets with much greater destruction.
*Shotgun: A short-ranged weapon that has incredibly powerful blast. Is very effective at taking out groups of enemies when very close to them. An upgraded version fires a larger blast with double the range of the normal shotgun.
*Flame Shot: Fires a large flame blast, but has limited range and a slow fire rate. Flame waves travel in a upwards trajectory when fired horizontally with longer range. An upgraded version fires a larger flame wave and is powerful enough to damage armored vehicles.
*Enemy Chaser: Fires small rockets that chase enemies. The rockets are slightly less powerful than the standard rocket launcher, but compensates with homing capability and increased ammo capacity.
*Laser Gun: Fires a laser that can cut down groups of infantry in row and destroy large vehicles effectively. An upgraded version fires a laser that's 5 times as wide as the regular laser and is much more powerful.
*Iron Lizard: Fires remote-controlled missile cars which travel along the ground until making contact with a target by exploding and releasing a large blast of blue flame. Is very effective against infantry and very weak against vehicles.
*Super Grenade: Fires large RPGs rather than rockets. Upon contact, a large plume of fire is shot straight up to take out an enemy above. Is very effective against light-armored vehicles.
*Fire Bomb: Essentially molotov cocktails, which can cause flames over a large area and burn shielded enemies on contact.
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*Metal Slug Attack: A self-destruct move that can be performed with most Slugs. Tyra will toss her Slug onto enemy groups, jumping out of the Slug immediately. Vehicle Slugs trample over enemy infantry with ease but crash at bigger enemies or walls. 
*SV-001 "Metal Slug": A tank vehicle that features vulcan guns and a powerful shell-firing shells. Its sheer strength and weight can crush cars and knock infantry out of the way with ease. It can be upgraded with the Armor Piercer, a type of fast-travelling, armor-piercing tank shells that tear any vehicle and infantrymen in its way in a straight line.
*SV-001 Type-R: The SV-001 Type-R boasts a new engine with better mileage and torque and new tracks for higher acceleration and speed. Despite its enhancements, the Type-R's armaments are essentially the same as those on the standard Metal Slug tank.
*Slug Flyer: A Super Vehicle designed for aerial combat. While it possesses excellent maneuverability, its Vulcans have limited range. It is also equipped with air-to-air missiles that, while being powerful, take some time to accelerate after being deployed.
*Jetpack: If Tyra loses the Slug Flyer, she will receive and use a back-up jetpack, able to fly in the air and use homing missiles from its pack.
*Slug Gunner: The ultimate evolution of the SV-001. It can change between mech and tank forms, being equipped with a huge cannon, a Minigun and jets that enable it to jump high or perform a double jump. It also comes with a pile bunker for melee combat, which uses a revolver-like mechanism to empower its blows.
*Black Hound: The Ptolemaic Army created the experimental SV-001 "Black Hound" using data stolen from the Regular Army. It is similar to the original Metal Slug but painted black with devilish eyes and a smile. It retains the main cannon, but, instead of the vulcans it features a mortar that fires homing missiles similar to those of the Enemy Chaser.
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Intelligence: Above Average (Despite being a new recruit, Tyra has shown to excel in military activities and also scored first on the paper test. During her final exam, she was sent in a far island and encharged with the objective of escaping from there using only a limited equipment and her own survival skills against a lethal and unknown environment. Almost alone and with little experience, Tyra not only succeeded in completing her task, but also went through different locations and fought off the the rebels who had taken control of the island. During her mission she confronted and defeated soldiers, tanks, aircrafts and even huge, armored war machines)
Weaknesses: Firearms' ammo are limited (except a handgun).
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
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