Tyger Tiger — real name Jessán Hoan — is voiced by Kelly Hu. She is a Madripoor crime lord and the proprietor of the Princess Bar in Lowtown, Logan's regular haunt and the anchor for the game's Madripoor chapters. Hu played Lady Deathstrike in the 2003 film X2; Lady Deathstrike appears in this game too, but is voiced by Jolene Kim, so Hu returns to the franchise as an entirely different character.
Who Tyger Tiger is
Jessán Hoan is a fixture of Wolverine's Madripoor era in the comics: a crime lord who runs a chunk of the island's underworld, and an ally-of-convenience to Logan more often than an enemy. Madripoor is a place with no good options, and she is one of the less bad ones.
In the game she is the proprietor of the Princess Bar in Madripoor's Lowtown — the bar Logan drinks at. Insomniac has described the Princess Bar as the story's "Madripoorian anchor" and "a major, major touchstone", which is a strong way to describe a location and tells you roughly how much time you spend there.
That matters because Lowtown is also where the game's mutant sanctuary hub sits — the explorable social space with NPC conversations, arm wrestling and a game of "Never Have I Ever". Madripoor is the game's home base, and she owns the room.
The Princess Bar and the 2021 teaser
The Princess Bar has been in this game since the day it was announced. The 2021 reveal teaser was nothing but Logan sitting in a Madripoor bar — no gameplay, no date, just a mood and a location.
The same bar showed up again in the 2023 ransomware leak build. Five years of teasing one room is unusual, and it lines up with Madripoor surviving as a retail location while leaked plans for Alaska and Avalon did not. Our trailer timeline tracks the whole sequence.
It also fits Logan's alias there: in Madripoor he goes by Patch, and the game includes a Patch Wolverine suit. See all suits.
Kelly Hu, twenty-three years later
This is the best casting trivia in the game. Kelly Hu played Lady Deathstrike — Yuriko Oyama — in the 2003 film X2: X-Men United, opposite Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, in one of the most-remembered fights in the X-Men films.
Here she plays Tyger Tiger instead. And Lady Deathstrike is in this game — voiced by Jolene Kim. So Hu returns to the franchise, in a Wolverine story, while her own former character is recast around her.
Tyger Tiger is a substantial supporting role tied to the game's main hub, not a nod for people who spot the name in the credits. The X2 connection is a bonus, not the reason she is here.
The rest of the Madripoor cast
Madripoor is where the game's non-Team X characters cluster. Alongside Tyger Tiger you have the Hand, the ninja organisation that appears across the Japan and Madripoor sections, and the Morlock characters Callisto (Debra Wilson) and Leech (Noga Wind) in the sanctuary.
The complete cast table is on our voice cast page; for how Madripoor is structured against Canada and Japan, see is it open world.
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