Jessan Hoan Reavers had been hired to attack Hoan International bank by Roche, the crime lord of Madripoor. She moved to the island of Madripoor, where she became embroiled with the criminal element and adopted the alias "Tyger Tiger", after the William Blake poem "The Tyger". Wolverine later joined Jessan's efforts against Roche. Jessan decapitated Roche after he shot Wolverine. As Tyger Tiger, Jessan became the new crime lord of Madripoor, but she refuses to deal in either drugs or slavery. She briefly wore a highly resistant suit of armor, a duplicate of the armor used by the X-Man Psylocke. Tyger is
HMS Tyger barge was sunk and several men wounded, but none of the "Tyger"'s crew were killed. Preparations were made to leave Garden Key. The salvaged sloop was repaired, and one "periagua" was lengthened and rigged as a schooner. On 19 March the crew of the "Tyger" boarded the sloop, the schooner rigged "periagua", the yawl, the two other "periaguas" and the canoe, and set sail for Port Royal. The canoe capsized and sank after only two days, but its crew were rescued by one of the other boats. The little fleet rounded the western end of Cuba and reached the Cayman