Hector Ayala will appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Daredevil: Born Again (2025), played by Kamar de los Reyes.

[4] Believing that, due to being Puerto Rican, George Pérez had "intimate knowledge" of the daily life in the South Bronx during the 1970s, he approached the artist with a proposal to create a "character that reflects that grim reality".

[4] Due to the monochromatic style of Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, the initial concept for White Tiger's costume was simply Spider-Man's suit "without any detail".

[11] Alongside Jack of Hearts, Shang-Chi, and Iron Fist, the White Tiger fought Stryke and other agents of the Corporation, and learned his brother Filippo was attempting to find employment with Fu Manchu.

[21] Angela quit the FBI to understand the amulets, and was trained in the use of their powers by Daredevil,[22] becoming the latest person to assume the White Tiger identity before being killed by the Hand and resurrected as their servant.

When wearing the amulets, Hector's physical strength, speed, stamina, agility, dexterity, reflexes & reactions, coordination, balance, and endurance were all enhanced, although not to the point of being invincible.

2) #21 (2007), a rogue scientist from Earth-721 (Earth-A) invents a dimension-traveling machine that allowed average citizens to travel to Earth-616, where they became superpowered themselves and receive the equipment associated with the heroes in the mainstream timeline.

Regarding the introduction of the character, Ralph Macchio has stated that "in the '70s, it was quite an event to introduce a Hispanic super hero, and Hector Ayala, the White Tiger, was at the forefront.

"[30] Upon release, the character served as inspiration for The Ibis writer Dave Schmidtt to reflect about the role of superheroes as a tool for the escapist, inherently being a figure with the power to change reality in ways that common people can't.

[32] Barbara F. Tobolowsky and Pauline J. Reynolds emphasize that the inclusion of Ayala and other characters in The Amazing Spider-Man made the publication more diverse, but that it still tapped into "fearful white stereotypes" when it came to protest storylines.

[33] In 2016, Jon Huertas played Hector Ayala in an independent short film titled White Tiger, which was produced by WestSide Stories Productions.

[34] After working on Marvel's Voices, Older asserted that as the "first Latinx Super Hero, White Tiger holds such an integral and iconic status in comic book history" and commented on the importance of the introduction of Ayala by saying that it filled the void of children "growing up as [Latino nerds] not having people who looked like [them] on the page and [wondering] 'where are we?".

Considering the White Tiger a "character that's just fantastic" due to it being an "improbable her[o ...] in a journey of redemption" that mirror's the beginnings of his own life as a poor, bullied and marginalized young man.

[37] In Teaching comics by and about Latinos/as, Frederick Luis Aldama places the introduction of the White Tiger as the moment where Latino superheroes were given more complex aspects to their characters.

[42] In Death Representations in Literature: Forms and Theories, Adriana Teodorescu uses the murder of his family as a case study to establish the vulnerability that superheroes face when their secret identities are exposed.

: Living and Dying Latina/o in a Superhero World, where the author examines the sociological context of Puerto Rican's in New York during the 1970s, how they were marginalized as a group and how Hollywood represented them as negative stereotypes.

[44] The characterization of Ayala before becoming White Tiger does not escape these clichés, as its internal monologue and vocal expressions are carried out bilingually and he is depicted as "passive" and "the useless son [of] hard working, humble Puerto Ricans [who] spends his time] loitering in dark alleys by himself.

[44] Ultimately, Saenz considers this characterization as failing to accurately reflect the Nuyorican community and as problematic, since it tries to be "a positive representation of minorities, in spite of all these problems [thus reaffirming] hegemonic views on Puerto Ricans.

[44] In A Choice of Weapons: The X-Men and the Metaphor for Approaches to Racial Inequality, Gregory S Parks, Matthew Hughey agree about the character's original depiction being a reflection of American stereotypes.