Sad Tale of a Thundercat Addict: Profile on Tygra

You may have thought when you read The Truth About Tygra that you'd found out all of the architect's dirty secrets.

But sadly enough, this is not the case. It turns out that the striped Thundercat has been fighting a mega addiction for years, mostly to a magical hallucinogenic fruit, and secondarily to a crystal substance, which he originally tried to help kick his fruit habit. Unfortunately, all it resulted in was another addiction.

It all started when Tygra was doing a routine Thundercat investigation into some earth tremors, and he found a sleazy underground club. He was offered some of the fruit by a club regular named Silky

who seemed amused by Tygra's reaction to the fruit.

From the very first time he went on the fruit-trip, he was hooked. He saw strange and beautiful things, in his drug-induced fantasies, such as beautiful flowers, plants, and butterflies in the dark underground cavern...

as well as strange and beautiful birds.

Tygra was even convinced for a time that he was flying!

After this first amazing experience, he wanted more.

Here is an actual taped conversation between Tygra and Silky after his first try of the fruit, and a telltale sign that he was headed for trouble...

Before long, it was revealed that Silky was really Mumm-Ra in disguise. He was apparently in the female form looking to pick up new men without harming his reputation. However he soon found out that Tygra preferred him in his manly form anyway, and began trading sexual favors for the drug-like fruit. The ever-living source of evil naturally agreed.

Tygra was soon spending almost every night in Mumm-Ra's sarcophagus.

Soon Tygra became aware that he had a real problem. Mumm-Ra's demands became more and more unreasonable, he even forced Tygra to appear in an X-rated magazine spread

(edited to satisfy our publisher's censors)

He was reprimanded numerous times for ditching his Thundercat duties just to sneak off into the woods and get high. Pictured below is Panthro catching him doing fruit when he was supposed to help him fix the Thundertank.

Tygra hit bottom when he had a bad experience with one of his fruit-induced mind trips, (not to mention endless days of nasty hangovers)

and decided to try and give it up for good.  He suffered numerous withdrawal symptoms, including nightmares.

This led him to try a "cure" in the form of a crystal, sold to him by a notorious con artist and circus train proprietor known as Captain Bragg. He also sold WilyKat another bottle of invisible oil, "guaranteed to work this time". This is how Tygra first felt when he had the crystal... it not only removed his fruit cravings, but made him feel powerful.

Unfortunately, the crystal broke and he had to go and get a new one, but by that time, Bragg had left the galaxy and there was only one other person on Third Earth who had purchased one... a fellow addict of the crystal's powers, Alluro of the Lunatacs...

and before he knew it, Tygra had a new dealer as well as a new addiction. Here we can see Tygra begging for it.

Just like Tygra's other dealer, Alluro naturally demanded outrageous prices and twisted sexual favors in exchange for "fixes" from the crystal. He gets rough with poor Tygra when he doesn't want to pay up, too...

But Tygra is oh-so-happy once he does get his hands on it!

Poor Tygra! Reduced from powerful Thundercat to a weak, desperate junkie... oh, how the mighty have fallen...

Last we heard, the Thundercats temporarily kicked him out until he gets help. Tygra moved in with the warrior maidens, and now his addiction has reportedly gotten even worse (he's gone back on the fruit as well as still taking hits from the crystal), since he has to block out Willa's voice on a daily basis in order to maintain what little sanity he has left.

We will follow this story and keep you, our valued readers, informed of any late breaking details.

Whoa, Tygra's a druggie? What other nifty stuff can I find out in this tabloid?
After reading about Tygra's descent into the sick world of drugs, I am far too disillusioned to continue reading.