Editing Tigger (section)

===Personality traits===
Tigger's personality in the cartoons is much like his personality in the book. He is always filled with great energy and optimism, and though always well-meaning, he can also be mischievous, and his actions have sometimes led to chaos and trouble for himself and his friends. He is very confident and possesses high self-esteem to the point of [[egotism]]. Also, he often undertakes tasks with gusto, only to later realize they were not as easy as he had originally imagined. As in the books, Tigger never refers to himself as a tiger, but as a "Tigger". When Tigger introduces himself, he often says the proper way to spell his name and that is "T-I-double-Guh-Er", which spells "Tigger".

Tigger's language is full of [[malapropisms]], mispronunciations, or unnecessary/incorrect emphasis on syllables. Examples of this include him pronouncing "villain" as "villian"; "terrible" as "terribibble"; "regulations" as "regularations"; "ridiculous" as "ridickerous" (or "ricky-diculus" in ''Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day''); "allergic" as "allergical"; "recognize" as "recoganize"; "suspicious" as "suspicerous"; "Eureka" as "Topeka".

A declaration often made, is that ''"Tiggers are wonderful things. Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of springs."'' In cartoon, he's often depicted bouncing around in ways which would make such a statement appear to be valid.

In ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'', Tigger is often well-meaning but usually does more harm than good. In the episode "Tigger is the Mother of Invention", he invented a [[bulldozer]]-like contraption intended to provide convenience for Pooh, Piglet, and Rabbit, but the invention proved to have disastrous results, and Rabbit insisted that Tigger shut it down; however, in the winter, a depressed Tigger accidentally started the machine up, and it proved to be useful by [[snowplow|plowing snow]] around Piglet's house before malfunctioning. On another occasion, Tigger attempted to mimic a superhero, "The Masked Offender", bringing mayhem to the Hundred-Acre Wood. In response, Pooh, Rabbit, Gopher, and Owl (unaware that the Masked Offender was actually Tigger) staged a [[hoax]] in which they made an [[wikt:inanimate|inanimate]] monster from a sticky glue-like material. The plan worked, revealing Tigger as the Masked Offender, but the fake monster (which was on wheels) turned on its makers, ultimately resulting in Pooh, Rabbit, Gopher, and Owl hanging by the glue from a rickety bridge. Subsequently, Tigger resumed his role as the Masked Offender, and saved his friends.

It's also shown that Tigger will jump in to help without thinking about the danger to himself. On at least three occasions, he has nearly fallen off a cliff, and ''has'' fallen two of those times, to retrieve something important (Half of the map in ''[[Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin]]'', his locket in ''[[The Tigger Movie]]'', and a page of [[Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh)|Piglet's]] scrapbook in ''[[Piglet's Big Movie]]'').

Tigger's birthday is believed to be in October 1928, the year ''The House at Pooh Corner'' was first published. However, on Tigger-related merchandise, Disney often indicates Tigger's birthyear is in December 1968, a reference to the first appearance of Tigger in a Disney production, ''[[Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]''.

Disney's Tigger is also remembered for his song "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" when he made his first appearance. However, he wasn't included in the "Winnie the Pooh" theme song until [[Winnie the Pooh (2011 film)|the 2011 film]].