Editing Tigger (section)

===Depiction and personality traits===
In [[Ernest H. Shepard]]'s illustrations, Tigger appears to bounce and he is capable of holding a pen with one of his front paws.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=[[The Tigger Movie]]|medium=Motion picture}}</ref> Though Tigger is described by Rabbit and Piglet as "large", he does not seem particularly big in the illustrations. Pooh states once "He always seems bigger because of his bounces", implying that the other animals think of Tigger as being larger than he truly is.<ref name=poohcorner /> That assessment fits very well with Tigger's personality and his assessment of his own abilities, which he always overestimates. He is cheerful, outgoing, competitive in a friendly way, and has complete confidence in himself. Some of the things which he claims Tiggers can do in the chapter "In which it is shown That Tiggers don't climb trees" include flying, jumping farther than a [[kangaroo]], swimming, and climbing trees. He never actually attempts any of the first three things in the course of the story, but he does try to climb a tree. He only succeeds half-way, being able to climb up but not to climb down again.<ref name=climbtrees>{{cite book |title=Tiggers don't climb trees |last=Milne |first=A. A. |isbn=0525462309 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/tiggersdontclimb00miln|date=December 1998}}</ref> Tigger also says Tiggers "never get lost"; unlike most of his other claims, this one seems to be true - he is able to find his way through the Forest even in a thick mist, despite Rabbit's attempts to lose him.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=[[Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too]]|medium=Motion picture}}</ref>

Like most of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger was based on one of [[Christopher Robin Milne]]'s stuffed animals, in this case a stuffed-toy tiger. However, the word "tiger" is never actually used in the book. The term "Tigger" is used instead, both as the character's name and as a description of his type of animal. No other "Tiggers" appear in the story, and at one point Tigger (who has just seen his reflection in a [[mirror]] and mistaken it for another individual) comments he thought he was the only one. Despite that belief, he constantly uses the term in the plural, as in "Tiggers don't like honey." and "So ''that's'' what Tiggers like!", etc. The term is always capitalized.