Ava Ayala

**Ava Ayala** (エヴァ・アヤラ, *Eva Ayara*), also known as the third "**White Tiger**" (ホワイトタイガー, *Howaito Taigā*), is both a fictional character and protagonist of the *MDC's* *Spider-Shock* series created by Steve Ditko and Dwayne McDuffie.

She is a S.H.I.E.L.D. trainee and the current successor in her family's legacy to bear the name. Originally a lone hero, she joined in an effort to become Nick's RHW. She embarks with her group, on missions and develops further as a hero.

Throughout her time with the rest of the group, she rediscovered her hatred for Kraven for the past murders and overcame her desire for revenge with the aid of Spider-Man. She controls herself maturely and helps the others with that too.

"*All four of you are not right in the head!*"

—White Tiger.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Caitlyn Love (English), Aya Shida (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

#### As Ava Ayala

Ava Ayala is a tall Hispanic-American teenage female who has a thin but muscular build, brown eyes, and brown hair reaching mid-back. She usually wears a green, pink, or blue tunic with a white or purple long shirt underneath, a black or brown sash belt around her waist and wears strapped black high heels.

#### As White Tiger

##### Original Suit

As White Tiger, she wears a form-fitting white cat-like suit with claw markings on her waist and shoulders, it also has yellow eyes, with her hair sticking out in a long, high ponytail. When under the effects of Kraven's drum, her eyes are razor and her hair is frizzed up.

#### Upgraded Suit

After being captured by Dormammu, her costume gets a major redesign. The stripes of her original costume are darker now, making her appear more tiger-like, She also has four new ones on her mask, two under both eyes, and two under those that extend from her jaw to next to her nose. The White Tiger amulet has moved from her hips to her chest, it also resembles it's "Unleashed" appearance that it had when Kraven wore it.

* Hair Color: Brown (Ava Ayala), Black (White Tiger)
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Brown
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 5′7″ (1.7 m)
* Weight: 131 lbs. (59.42 kg.)

## Personality

"*White Tiger keeps her head in the game, her feet on the battleground and the rest of the time, she's watching your back. White Tiger doesn't need nine lives to complete this mission.*"

—Nick Fury about White Tiger's personality in the Fury Files Featurette.
Ava is a leader, and a strong-willed, down to business kind of girl. She gets along with Spider-Man and her other teammates as they fight villains together. She is defiantly the most determined, and most apt about her S.H.E.I.L.D. opportunities than her other teammates, and will sometimes even cut them some slack when they goof off. She usually has a few good wise cracks for them.

She has been known to go to school on Saturdays, and to do homework during transportations to and from missions. She is a hard working A+ students who earns her grades while secretly working with the boys to keep New Yorker's, and other citizens safe.

Ava is so strong willed and strives to be "perfect" in order to keep the tiger side of her contained. The prices that comes from wearing the amulet. Her father and grandfather were both killed by Kraven the Hunter when they were unable to keep themselves in control.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Nova
* Iron Fist
* Power Man
* Gear

### Family

* Nestor Ayala (grandfather; deceased)
* Unnamed mother
* Hector Ayala (father; deceased)
* Unnamed older brother
* Angela del Toro (niece)

### Enemies

* Ebon
* Hotstreak

## Abilities and Powers

* *Tired of bad guys busting down your door? Many Doombots giving you a sweat? Introducing White Tiger. She's an acrobatic huntress with steel claws. She slices, she dices. Did I forget to mention? She gets straight As. White Tiger is perfect for missions requiring close combat and stealth. Don't try to catch this tiger by the tail. Her speed and fighting ability make her an asset on the battlefield. You can knock her down, but White Tiger always lands on her feet.*"

— Nick Fury about White Tiger's powers in the Fury Files Featurette.
As the latest White Tiger, Ava's powers come solely from the White Tiger Amulet. Her skills, while already superb, are increasing significantly from its powers and cause her to have catlike reflexes. During many battles, she has been shown to rely heavily on it, especially while dealing with larger and much stronger opponents. However, her reflexes have not always benefited her and have caused her to be easily attacked and overpowered by opponents like Klaw.

Though her powers can be used for her rare instances of being a solo act, they benefit greatly from the reliance of others. Demonstrated during her team's assault on Latveria, Ava's reflexes and abilities are great in a crowd of opponents and have show to be heavily reliable while she has stood alone. She exhibited agileness while fighting off several S.H.I.E.L.D. robots alongside her teammates in a training session.

### Abilities

* **Master acrobatic**: White Tiger is an athlete-type able to easily dodge enemy attacks and fight enemies.
* **Peak-human agility**: White Tiger has peaked agility able to leap high and run fast enough to catch the enemy with ease.

### Weaknesses

* **Power Instability**: She must constantly keep herself focused and disciplined in order to keep the tiger side the amulet bestows in check to prevent going feral.

### Equipment

* **White Tiger Amulet**: This amulet she wears on her belt (later on her chest) gives her tiger-like agility and instinct abilities, along with the power of the Tiger God. The Amulet also gives Ava an affinity to White Tigers, following her every command through simple gestures. However the amulet has a side effect of augmenting the users aggression, causing Ava's to go animalistic, feral and to the point of potentially transforming her into a monster White Tiger. Therefore, Ava works to keep her mind disciplined to withhold her primal urges as her father taught her.
	+ **Mystical Feline Augmentation**: This amulet gives her tiger-like abilities.
	+ **Enhanced condition**: The amulet strengthens her human metabolism, such as giving her the speed, stamina, reflexes and agility of a cat.
* **White Tiger's Suit**:
	+ **Claws:** Those claws are White Tiger's main weapon of choice.
		- **Electric Claws**: Special gloves made by S.H.I.E.L.D., they're are charged with electricity that augment the damage inflicted by her claws.
		- **S.H.I.E.L.D. Tiger Claws**: S.H.I.E.L.D. gave Ava a new weapon that resembles a mechanical tiger claw. It is able to do deal more damage than her regular claws and can hold small pieces of objects inside it. Her first and only time using these claws was against Venom during his third appearance in the city. After he managed to escape, she kept a piece of his costume with her.
* **S.H.I.E.L.D. Communicator**: A wrist communicator that White Tiger uses to contact S.H.I.E.L.D. or her teammates.
	+ **Camouflage Mode**: The com also has the function to turn itself invisible when not in use.
* **Espionage Gadgets**: S.H.I.E.L.D. tech and equipment used for spy and undercover work. White Tiger and the rest of her team used these gadgets to sneak into Brighton Beach High.
	+ **Image Inducers**: A wrist watch like device that casts hard light holograms.
	+ **Unstable Molecule Uniform**: A suit made from unstable molecules that can change into any outfit.
	+ **Psycho-Suggestive Paper**: A type of psychic paper that appears as whatever the viewer wants to see.

### Weapons

* **Bow**: A bow forged by Eitri made from Uru metal, it's capable of creating and shooting arrows made of energy. It draws on Ava's ability to see flaws in others yet requires absolute concentration to fire, thus she must block out any distraction and focus on her target. The bow remains in Eitri's possession should she ever need for it again. (briefly)
* **Web-Shooters**: Having swapped their gear with Spider-Man, she used the web-shooters to defeat Taskmaster and after that, she admitted the web shooters are quite awesome. (briefly)

## History

"*Ava inherited the mysterious Jade Tiger Amulet. This amulet gives her the powers and agility of the fabled White Tiger.*"

—Nick Fury about White Tiger's origins in the Fury Files Featurette.
### Past

Little is known about Ava's home life, besides the fact that her grandfather, & father both used to wear the Tiger Amulet. Ava was born to Hector Ayala. Ava became White Tiger after her father was heavily injured by Kraven the Hunter during the latter's seeking of his power. Her father passed the White Tiger Amulet down to her and instructed that it not fall into Kraven's hands, in fear that the tyrant would become even more powerful.

She took the Tiger Amulet, every day enduring its willingness to drive her into becoming wild and uncontrolled. She then became the White Tiger and eventually joined S.H.I.E.L.D. shortly after becoming a hero. She moved into the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier and met Nova, Iron Fist, and Power Man after doing so. Soon enough, S.H.I.E.L.D. has uncovered her past and kept it in their records.

## External links

* White Tiger *Wikipedia*
* White Tiger *Marvel Database*