Characters of the Tekken series

Bandai Namco Entertainment's Tekken media franchise is known for its diverse cast of characters hailing from various nationalities, all coming together to compete in the King of Iron Fist tournament. In addition to the human characters, Tekken also introduces non-human characters for comic relief, such as the bear Kuma, his love interest Panda, the boxing kangaroo Roger, and the dinosaur Alex. Certain characters like Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima, Lee Chaolan, and Jun Kazama have their own alternative versions. Each character has their own goals for participating in the tournament.

Character appearances[edit]

Main series[edit]

Players can choose from a diverse cast that hails from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and fighting styles. A few characters have supernatural origins, such as the Devil and the Ogre, while animal characters like Kuma the bear and Roger the kangaroo provide comic relief.^[1] In the story mode of the game, each character generally has their own personal reasons for entering the tournament and competing for the prize.

Only three characters have been playable in all eight main Tekken installments to date: Yoshimitsu, Nina Williams, and Paul Phoenix. King and Kuma also been playable in all the games, but as two different characters, with King I and Kuma I being in the first two games and King II and Kuma II being in the remaining games.

Four characters: Heihachi Mishima, Kazuya Mishima, Marshall Law, and Lee Chaolan would come close, having been playable in seven installments. Jack has also been playable in seven main installments with 7 different models and names (Jack, Jack-2, Gun Jack (Jack-3), Jack-5, Jack-6, Jack-7, and Jack-8), with Tekken 4 being the only game a Jack robot was absent from (although a Jack-4 was created, this version was mass-produced instead of only one produced like the other Jack robots, although Jack-4 made a cameo appearance in Tekken 5 and appeared as a NPC in the story mode of Tekken 7).

Comparison table

Yes = Playable and available by default.

Yes = Playable via update or unlockable.

Costume / Costume = Playable, whether by default, unlockable, or via update, but as a palette swap or in-battle transformation of another character instead of a standalone character.

DLC = Playable as paid downloadable content.

Guest = Third-party character.

NPC = Appears, but is not playable.

Cameo = Makes a cameo appearance in cinematics, intros, trailer, background of a stage, or in a picture.

? = To be confirmed.

No = Does not appear.

(Notes are given below the table for more details).

Character information		1	2	3	4	5/DR	6/BR	7/FR/Rnd2	8	Total
Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5/DR	6/BR	7/FR/Rnd2	8	Total
Akuma	Japanese	No	No	No	No	No	No	Guest⁵	No	1
Alex	Unknown/None	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	1
Alisa Bosconovitch	Russian^e	No	No	No	No	No	Yes³	Yes	Yes	3
Ancient Ogre	None	No	No	Yes	Cameo	No	No	No	Cameo	3
Angel	None	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	1
Angel Jin	Japanese^c	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	NPC¹¹	1
Anna Williams	Irish	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	DLC⁵	No	6
Armor King I	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Cameo	Cameo	No	Cameo	No	No	5
Armor King II	Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes²	Yes	DLC⁵	No	3
Asuka Kazama	Japanese	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Azazel	Unknown^a	No	No	No	No	No	NPC	Cameo⁵	NPC	3
Azucena Milagros Ortiz Castillo	Peruvian	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Baek Doo San	South Korean	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	3
Bob Richards	American	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes⁵	No	2
Bruce Irvin	American	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	3
Bryan Fury	American	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
Christie Monteiro	Brazilian	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Cameo	No	4
Claudio Serafino	Italian	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Combot	Unknown/None	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Cameo⁵	No	2
Craig Marduk	Australian	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	DLC⁵	No	4
Crow	Unknown^b	No	No	NPC	No	No	No	No	No	1
Devil Jin	Japanese^c	No	No	Cameo	Cameo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
Devil Kazumi	Japanese^c	No	No	No	No	No	No	NPC	No	1
Devil Kazuya	Japanese^c ^d	Costume	Yes	Cameo	Cameo	No	No	Costume	Costume	6
Dr. Bosconovitch	Russian	No	Cameo	Yes	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	No	No	5
Eddy Gordo	Brazilian	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes⁵	DLC	6
Eliza	Unknown	No	No	No	No	No	No	DLC⁵	No	1
Fahkumram	Thai	No	No	No	No	No	No	DLC⁵	No	1
Feng Wei	Chinese	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Forest Law	American	Cameo	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	2
Ganryu	Japanese	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	DLC⁵	No	5
Geese Howard	American	No	No	No	No	No	No	DLC/Guest⁵	No	1
Gigas	Unknown	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Gon	Unknown/None	No	No	Guest	No	No	No	No	No	1
Gun Jack (Jack-3)	Unknown	No	No	Yes	No	NPC⁷	No	No	No	2
Heihachi Mishima	Japanese^d	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Cameo	8
Hwoarang	South Korean	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
Jack	Russian^e	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	1
Jack-2	Russian^e	No	Yes	Costume	No	No	No	No	No	2
Jack-5	Unknown/None	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	1
Jack-6	Unknown/None	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	NPC⁸	No	2
Jack-7	Unknown/None	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Costume	2
Jack-8	Unknown/None	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Jin Kazama	Japanese	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
Jinpachi Mishima	Japanese	No	No	No	No	Yes¹	Cameo	Cameo	No	3
Josie Rizal	Filipina	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Julia Chang	American	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	DLC⁵	No	5
Jun Kazama	Japanese	No	Yes	Cameo	Cameo	No	No	No	Yes	4
Katarina Alves	Brazilian	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Kazumi Mishima	Japanese	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Kazuya Mishima	Japanese^d	Yes	Yes	Cameo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Kid Kazuya	Japanese	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes⁵ ⁶	No	1
King I/II	Mexican	Yes⁹	Yes⁹	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	8
Kinjin	Unknown/None	No	No	No	No	No	No	Cameo	No	1
Kuma I/II	Japanese^e	Yes⁹	Yes⁹	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	Yes⁵ ¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	8
Kunimitsu I	Japanese	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Cameo⁵	No	3
Kunimitsu II	Japanese	No	No	No	No	No	No	DLC⁵	No	1
Lars Alexandersson	Swedish	No	No	No	No	No	Yes³	Yes	Yes	3
Lee Chaolan	Japanese^f	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes⁵	Yes	7
Lei Wulong	Hongkonger	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	DLC⁵	No	6
Leo Kliesen	German	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Leroy Smith	American	No	No	No	No	No	No	DLC⁵	Yes	2
Lidia Sobieska	Polish	No	No	No	No	No	No	DLC⁵	DLC	2
Lili De Rochefort	Monégasque	No	No	No	No	Yes²	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Ling Xiaoyu	Chinese	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
Lucky Chloe	Unknown	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Marshall Law	American^h	Yes	Yes	Cameo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Master Raven	Unknown	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes⁵	No	1
Michelle Chang	American	Yes	Yes	Cameo	No	No	No	No	No	3
Miguel Caballero Rojo	Spaniard	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes⁵	No	2
Miharu Hirano	Japanese	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Mokujin	Japanese^e	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Cameo	No	4
NANCY-MI847J	Japanese^e	No	No	No	No	No	NPC⁴	Cameo⁵	No	2
Negan Smith	American	No	No	No	No	No	No	DLC/Guest⁵ ⁸	No	1
Nina Williams	Irish	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes⁵	Yes	8
Noctis Lucis Caelum	Unknown	No	No	No	No	No	No	DLC/Guest⁵	No	1
Panda	Chinese^e	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes⁵	Yes	6
Paul Phoenix	American	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Prototype Jack	Russian^e	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	2
Raven	Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Cameo	Yes	4
Reina	Unknown	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Roger	Unknown/None	No	Yes	No	No	Cameo	Cameo	No	No	3
Roger Jr.	Unknown/None	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	2
Sebastian	Monégasque	No	No	No	No	Cameo²	Cameo	No	No	2
Sergei Dragunov	Russian	No	No	No	No	Yes²	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Shaheen	Saudi Arabian	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Slim Bob	American	No	No	No	No	No	Cameo	No	No	1
Steve Fox	British	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Tiger Jackson	Unknown	No	No	Yes	No	Cameo²	No	No	No	2
True Ogre	None	No	No	Yes	No	NPC⁷	No	No	No	2
Victor Chevalier	French	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Violet	Japanese^f	No	No	No	Yes	Cameo	No	Yes⁵	No	3
Wang Jinrei	Chinese	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Cameo	No	5
Yoshimitsu	Japanese	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	8
Zafina	Unknown^g	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	DLC⁵	Yes	3
Total (Playable characters)		18	25	24	23	36	41	54	37

Notes:

^ Not including arcade history mode of Tekken 5 and gallery mode of Tekken 7.
^1 NPC in Tekken 5 and Tekken 5: DR (PSP, arcade, and online only)/Unlockable in Tekken 5:DR (PS3 and offline only)
^2 Only in Tekken 5: DR.
^3 Only in Tekken 6: BR (arcade and console).
^4 Playable in a campaign level.
^5 Only in Tekken 7: FR (arcade and console)/Round 2.
^6 Only playable in story mode for a short amount of time in the console version.
^7 Only in Tekken 5 and in the Devil Within mode.
^8 Not playable and available in Round 2.
^9 As King I/Kuma I.
^10 As King II/Kuma II.
^11 Only playable in story mode in The Dark Awakens.

^a Probably none.
^b There are several people, therefore unknown.
^c Origin of the devil gene is unknown, but the person is from Japan.
^d The person has denied nationality.
^e Comes from this country but is not a citizen.
^f He was born in China, but his nationality is currently Japanese.
^g Alluded to be Egypt but not confirmed.
^h American fighter of Chinese descent.

Major spin-offs[edit]

Bryan Fury, Jin Kazama, Ling Xiaoyu, Paul Phoenix, King II, and Nina Williams are the only characters to have appeared as playable in all five major spin-off games. Games highlighted in green are no longer supported.

Comparison table

Yes = Playable and available by default.

Yes = Playable via update or unlockable.

DLC = Free downloadable character.

Guest = Third-party character.

NPC = Non-playable character.

Cameo = Cameo appearance - characters appearing in cinematics, intros, trailer, background of a stage, or in a picture.

No = Not included.

(Notes are given below the table for more details).

Character information		TCC	TTT	TTT2	TR	TM	Total
Name	Nationality	TCC	TTT	TTT2	TR	TM	Total
Akuma	Japanese	No	No	No	No	Guest	1
Alex	Unknown/None	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	3
Alisa Bosconovitch	Russian^d	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Ancient Ogre	None	Yes	Yes	DLC	No	Cameo	4
Angel	None	No	Yes	DLC	No	No	2
Anna Williams	Irish	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	4
Armor King I/II	Unknown	No	Yes⁵	Yes⁶	Yes⁶	No	3
Asuka Kazama	Japanese	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Baek Doo San	South Korean	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	2
Bob Richards	American	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Bruce Irvin	American	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	3
Bryan Fury	American	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Christie Monteiro	Brazilian	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Combot	Unknown/None	No	No	Yes¹	No	No	1
Craig Marduk	Australian	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	2
Crow	Unknown^a	Yes	Cameo	NPC	No	No	3
Devil Jin	Japanese^b	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Devil Kazuya	Japanese^b ^c	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	3
Dr. Bosconovitch	Russian	Yes	Cameo	DLC	No	No	3
Eddy Gordo	Brazilian	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	3
Eliza	Unknown	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Feng Wei	Chinese	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Forest Law	American	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	3
Ganryu	Japanese	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	2
Gun Jack (Jack-3)	Unknown	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	2
Halloween Dragunov	Russian	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Heihachi Mishima	Japanese^c	Yes	Yes	Yes	NPC	No	4
Hwoarang	South Korean	Yes²	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	4
Isaak	Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Jack-2	Russian^d	No	Yes	No	No	No	1
Jack-6	Unknown/None	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Jaycee	American	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Jin Kazama	Japanese	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Jinpachi Mishima	Japanese	No	No	Yes	NPC	No	2
Julia Chang	American	Yes	Yes	Cameo	No	No	3
Jun Kazama	Japanese	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	3
Katarina Alves	Brazilian	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Kazuya Mishima	Japanese^c	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
King II	Mexican	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Kinjin	Unknown	No	No	No	NPC	No	1
Kuma II	Japanese^d	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	4
Kunimitsu I	Japanese	No	Yes	DLC	Yes	No	3
Lars Alexandersson	Swedish	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Lee Chaolan	Japanese^e	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Lei Wulong	Hongkonger	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	3
Leo Kliesen	German	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Lili De Rochefort	Monégasque	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Ling Xiaoyu	Chinese	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Marshall Law	American^g	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Michelle Chang	American	No	Yes	DLC	No	No	2
Miguel Caballero Rojo	Spaniard	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Miharu Hirano	Japanese	No	No	DLC	No	No	1
Mokujin	Japanese^d	Yes	Yes	Yes	NPC	NPC	5
Nina Williams	Irish	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Panda	Chinese^d	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	4
Paul Phoenix	American	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Prototype Jack	Russian^d	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	2
Raven	Unknown	No	No	Yes	No	No	1
Revenant	Unknown	No	No	No	No	NPC	1
Rodeo	American	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Roger	None	No	Yes	Cameo	No	No	2
Roger Jr.	None	No	No	Yes	No	No	1
Ruby	Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Sebastian	Monégasque	No	No	DLC	No	No	1
Sergei Dragunov	Russian	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Shaheen	Saudi	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Slim Bob	American	No	No	DLC	No	No	1
Steve Fox	British	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Summer Asuka	Japanese	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Summer Bob	American	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Summer Lili	Monégasque	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Summer Nina	Irish	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Super Combot DX	Unknown/None	No	No	Yes³	No	No	1
Tetsujin	Unknown	No	Yes	No	NPC	NPC	3
Tiger Jackson	Unknown	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	2
Tiger Miyagi	Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
True Ogre	None	NPC	Yes	Yes	NPC	No	4
Unknown	Japanese	No	Yes⁴	DLC⁴	No	No	2
Violet	Japanese^e	No	No	DLC	No	No	1
Wang Jinrei	Chinese	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	2
Yoshimitsu	Japanese	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	3
Yue	Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Zafina	Unknown^f	No	No	Yes	No	No	1
Total (Playable characters)		21	39	61	30	37

Notes:

^1 Unplayable in online mode.
^2 Unlockable if not selected in Adventure Mode.
^3 Only playable in Fight Lab mode for the prologue.
^4 Unplayable in arcade mode.
^5 As Armor King I.
^6 As Armor King II.

^a There are several people, therefore unknown.
^b Origin of the devil gene is unknown, but the person is from Japan.
^c The person has denied nationality.
^d Comes from this country but is not a citizen.
^e He was born in China, but his nationality is currently Japanese.
^f Alluded to be Egypt but not confirmed.
^g American fighter of Chinese descent.

Other games[edit]

Jin Kazama has appeared as playable in eight out of the ten games listed, while Ling Xiaoyu and Nina Williams have appeared as playable in seven out of the ten games listed. Game highlighted in green is no longer supported and game highlighted in blue is currently on pause in production.

Comparison table

Yes = Playable and available by default.

Yes = Playable via update or unlockable.

DLC = Paid downloadable character (Free in PlayStation Vita version).

NPC = Non-playable character.

Cameo = Cameo appearance - characters physically appeared in cinematics, intros, trailer, background of a stage, or in a picture.

? = Unconfirmed.

No = Not included.

(Notes are given below the table for more details).

Character information		Adv	DbD	Res	TB	3D: PE	SFxT	TCT	Ar	G:TE	TxSF	Total
Name	Nationality	Adv	DbD	Res	TB	3D: PE	SFxT	TCT	Ar	G:TE	TxSF	Total
Alisa Bosconovitch	Russian^c	No	No	No	No	Yes	DLC	No	No	NPC	?	3
Ancient Ogre	None	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	?	1
Anna Williams	Irish	No	Yes¹	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	NPC	?	3
Armor King II	Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Asuka Kazama	Japanese	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	4
Baek Doo San	South Korean	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Bob Richards	American	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	NPC	?	3
Bruce Irvin	American	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Bryan Fury	American	No	No	No	No	Yes	DLC	No	No	No	?	2
Christie Monteiro	Brazilian	No	No	No	No	Yes	DLC	No	No	No	?	2
Claudio Serafino	Italian	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	?	1
Craig Marduk	Australian	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	NPC	?	3
Devil Jin	Japanese^a	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	NPC	Yes	4
Dr. Bosconovitch	Russian	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	NPC	No	?	1
Eddy Gordo	Brazilian	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	NPC	?	2
Feng Wei	Chinese	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	NPC	No	?	2
Forest Law	American	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	1
Ganryu	Japanese	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	NPC	?	2
Gun Jack (Jack-3)	Unknown/None	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	1
Heihachi Mishima	Japanese^b	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	6
Hwoarang	South Korean	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	?	4
Jack-6	Unknown/None	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	NPC	?	2
Jack-X	Russian^c	No	No	No	No	No	DLC	No	No	No	?	1
Jaycee	American	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	NPC	?	1
Jin Kazama	Japanese	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	8
Julia Chang	American	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?	2
Kazuya Mishima	Japanese^b	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	6
King II	Mexican	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	NPC	?	6
Kuma II	Japanese^c	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	NPC	?	3
Lars Alexandersson	Swedish	No	No	No	No	Yes	DLC	No	No	No	?	2
Lee Chaolan	Japanese^d	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Lei Wulong	Hongkonger	No	No	No	No	Yes	DLC	No	No	No	?	2
Leo Kliesen	German	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Lili De Rochefort	Monégasque	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	4
Ling Xiaoyu	Chinese	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NPC	?	8
Lucky Chloe	Unknown	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	?	1
Marshall Law	American^f	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NPC	?	6
Miguel Caballero Rojo	Spaniard	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Mokujin	Japanese^c	No	No	No	Cameo	Yes	No	No	No	NPC	?	3
Nina Williams	Irish	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NPC	?	8
Panda	Chinese^c	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	NPC	?	4
Paul Phoenix	American	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NPC	?	7
Raven	Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	NPC	?	4
Roger Jr.	None	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Sergei Dragunov	Russian	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Steve Fox	British	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	?	3
Wang Jinrei	Chinese	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Yoshimitsu	Japanese	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	NPC	?	6
Zafina	Unknown^e	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	?	1
Total		10	2	8	3	41	25	13	15	25	2

Notes:

^ Only including Tekken characters in SFxT and TxSF.
^1 Only playable in "Anna Mode".

^a Origin of the devil gene is unknown, but the person is from Japan.
^b The person has denied nationality.
^c Comes from this country but is not a citizen.
^d He was born in China, but his nationality is currently Japanese.
^e Alluded to be Egypt but not confirmed.
^f American fighter of Chinese descent.

Adaptations[edit]

Character	TMP	Tek (2009)	BV	KR	Bl	Total
Alisa Bosconovitch	TMP	Tek (2009)	BV	KR	Bl	Total	No	No	Yuki Matsuoka / Cristina Vee	No	No	1
Anna Williams	Kaori Yamagata / Claire Hamilton	Marian Zapico	Akeno Watanabe / Tara Platt	No	No	3
Baek Doo San	Kyousei Tsukui / Lowell B. Bartholomee	No	No	No	No	1
Bruce Irvin	Seiji Sasaki / Peter Harrell	No	No	No	No	1
Bryan Fury	No	Gary Daniels	No	Gary Daniels	No	2
Christie Monteiro	No	Kelly Overton	No	No	No	1
Devil Jin	No	No	Isshin Chiba / Darren Daniels	No	Isshin Chiba / Kaiji Tang	2
Dr. Bosconovitch	Tamio Ōki / Ken Webster	No	No	No	Jamieson Price	2
Eddy Gordo	No	Lateef Crowder	No	No	No	1
Ganryu	Takashi Nagasako / Lowell B. Bartholomee	No	Hidenari Ugaki / Paul St. Peter	No	Hidenari Ugaki / Earl Baylon	3
Heihachi Mishima	Daisuke Gōri / John Paul Shephard	Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	Unshō Ishizuka / Jamieson Price	Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	Taiten Kusunoki / S. Hiroshi Watanabe	5
Hwoarang	No	No	No	No	Toshiyuki Morikawa / Todd Haberkorn	1
Jack-2	Akio Ōtsuka / Mark O'Brien	No	No	No	No	1
Jin Kazama	Minami Takayama / Jacob Franchek	Jon Foo	Isshin Chiba / Darren Daniels	No	Isshin Chiba / Kaiji Tang	4
Julia Chang	No	No	No	No	Seiko Yoshida / Jeannie Tirado	1
Jun Kazama	Yumi Tōma / Edi Patterson	Tamlyn Tomita	No	No	Mamiko Noto / Vivian Lu	3
Kazuya Mishima	Kazuhiro Yamaji / Adam Dudley	Ian Anthony Dale	Masanori Shinohara / Kyle Hebert	Kane Kosugi	Masanori Shinohara / Eliot	5
King II	No	No	No	No	Masayuki Hirai / Leandro Cano	1
Lee Chaolan	Shin-ichiro Miki / David Stokey	No	Ryōtarō Okiayu / Kaiji Tang	No	No	2
Lei Wulong	Akio Nakamura / Gray Haddock	No	No	No	No	1
Leroy Smith	No	No	No	No	Yasuhiro Kikuchi / Krizz Kaliko	1
Ling Xiaoyu	No	No	Maaya Sakamoto / Carrie Keranen	No	Maaya Sakamoto / Faye Mata	2
Marshall Law	No	Cung Le	No	No	No	1
Michelle Chang	Narumi Hidaka / Jessica Robertson	No	No	No	No	1
Miguel Caballero Rojo	No	Roger Huerta	No	No	No	1
Mokujin	No	No	Keiko Nemoto / Mary Elizabeth McGlynn	No	No	1
Nina Williams	Minami Takayama / Ellie McBride	Candice Hillebrand	Atsuko Tanaka / Mary Elizabeth McGlynn	No	Yumi Tōma / Erika Harlacher	4
Ogre	No	No	No	No	Bill Butts	1
Panda	No	No	Taketora	No	No	1
Paul Phoenix	No	No	No	No	Hōchū Ōtsuka / Jamieson Price	1
Raven	No	Darrin Dewitt Henson	No	No	No	1
Sergei Dragunov	No	Anton Kasabov	No	No	No	1
Steve Fox	No	Luke Goss	No	No	No	1
Yoshimitsu	No	Gary Stearns	No	No	No	1
Total	14	15	12	3	15

Introduced in Tekken[edit]

Anna Williams[edit]

Fighting style: Assassination Arts based on Koppo, Hapkido
Voiced by:

English
Claire Hamilton (Tekken: The Motion Picture)^[2]
Lenne Hardt (TK5 - TK6 [full voice], TTT2 - TK7 [battle grunts])^[3]
Tara Platt (TK6 Scenario Campaign, TK: Blood Vengeance, TTT2 - present)^[4]
Japanese
Yumi Tōma (TK1 - TTT)^[4]
Kaori Yamagata (Tekken: The Motion Picture; drama CD)^[4]
Tamako Nohama (2009 live-action film)
Akeno Watanabe (TK: Blood Vengeance)^[4]

Anna Williams (Japanese: アンナ・ウィリアムズ, Hepburn: An'na U~Iriamuzu) is the flamboyant younger sister of Nina Williams.^[5] Their father, Richard, a former assassin, trained the two in a variety of martial arts. However, when Richard dies under mysterious circumstances, the sisters accuse each other, marking the beginning of a fierce, long-lasting feud. With both sisters going their separate ways, Anna enlists in a paramilitary organization and becomes an officer in the Tekken Force.

Anna plays a minor role in the story of the first game, only appearing as a sub-boss character for Nina. Later games, however, would begin to flesh out her story. Tekken 2 saw Nina once again contracted to assassinate the tournament's sponsor, this time being Kazuya Mishima. Whether at Kazuya's behest or Anna's own choice, Anna becomes a bodyguard for Kazuya, along with Ganryu and Bruce Irvin. Soon after, Nina is captured by Mishima Zaibatsu's forces and becomes a subject of Dr. Bosconovitch's cryongenic research. Likewise, Anna is captured by Kazuya and joins her sister in a cryogenic slumber.

In Tekken 3, following their subjection to cryogenic sleep in Tekken 2, Nina awakes fifteen years later under the possessive influence of the recently unearthed Ogre, who compels her to target Jin Kazama for assassination. Anna awakens with her sister, though is unaffected by Ogre's influence. In an act of compassion, Anna sets out to stop Nina, who had lost her memories, from reverting to her assassin ways and to help regain her memories. However, her efforts are in vain as Nina suddenly recalls her lifelong feud with Anna, resulting in Nina leaving and severing all ties with her younger sister.

Anna is absent as a playable character in Tekken 4 but makes her return in Tekken 5, when the sisters' reunion triggers Nina's repressed hostility towards Anna. Anna retaliates, leading to a prolonged gunfight lasting several days. Eventually, the sisters reach a deadlock and agree to settle their grievances once and for all, with a glimpse of their battle appearing in the game's opening sequence. In the following tournament, both sisters agree that only one will emerge alive. However, despite Nina's victory over Anna, she decides to spare her life, feeling unsatisfied with the outcome.

In Tekken 6's "Scenario Campaign" story mode, Anna leads G Corporation's defenses against the Mishima Zaibatsu and Lars Alexandersson's rebel army; during a confrontation with the rebels, Anna's actions indirectly result in the death of Lars' friend, Tougou. She also accompanies Kazuya to Azazel's Temple in the desert. Following Kazuya's stalemate with Lars, Anna flees with him.

Anna additionally appears in Nina's 2005 spin-off action game Death by Degrees as a commander of the Tekken Force.

Anna later becomes playable in Tekken 7 as part of the Season 2 DLC. After the tumultuous events of Tekken 6, Anna's spirit grew weary of constant conflict. After finally retiring, she meets and falls in love with an elite soldier in the G Corporation. However, tragedy strikes on the day of their planned wedding, when the sound of gunfire suddenly fills the venue amidst preparations. Anna rushes toward the commotion only to discover her beloved killed and her sister, Nina, escaping in Anna's wedding dress. Fueled by vengeance, Anna resolves to reengage in combat once more.

Anna's fighting style is based on Koppo and Hapkido, a martial art known for its use of spinning back kicks, jumping kicks and close-range throws. Although their father taught Anna and Nina the same martial arts skills, each sister has developed a distinct fighting style seen in the games.^[6]

Armor King I/II [edit]

Fighting style: Professional Wrestling (AK1 - US style, AK2 - Japanese style)

Armor King (アーマー・キング, Āmā Kingu) is a professional wrestler and was a rival of King when the latter was still an inexperienced wrestler. He suffered eye damage in a fight with King, but when he later found King distraught and drunk in an alleyway, Armor King convinced him to get back into fighting and enter the second King of Iron Fist tournament. After King is killed by Ogre, Armor King trains a new fighter who sports a jaguar mask similar to that of King's. Armor King is not selectable in Tekken 4, as he is beaten to death in a bar fight instigated by Australian brawler Craig Marduk, who then steals his mask and mockingly wears it in the tournament, provoking Armor King's protege King into entering the competition to seek revenge.^[7] Marduk is then attacked in Tekken 5 by what is believed to be Armor King, but his assailant is revealed in Tekken 6 as the original Armor King's younger brother. After recovering from a brutal beating where he and Marduk knocked out each other and brought to hospital by King, the younger Armor King accepts Marduk's challenge for a retirement match arranged by King in Tekken 7.

Ganryu[edit]

Fighting style: Sumo
Voiced by:

English
Lowell B. Bartholomee (Tekken: The Motion Picture)
Earl Baylon (Tekken: Bloodline)^[8]
Japanese
Banjō Ginga (Tekken)
Takashi Nagasako (TK2-Tekken Tag Tournament; Tekken: The Motion Picture)
Hidenari Ugaki (TK5-present)

Ganryu (Japanese: 巌竜, Hepburn: Ganryū) is a Japanese sumo wrestler who is barred from the sport for infractions such as firebreathing and taunting his opponents. This rejection, coupled with his mounting gambling debts, steers him into a life of crime. Heihachi Mishima hires him as a henchman for the first King of Iron Fist tournament, in which Ganryu loses to Yoshimitsu, who then drains Ganryu's remaining finances and leaves him broke. Kazuya Mishima pays him handsomely for his services in his Mishima Zaibatsu corporation. Ganryu participates in the second tournament as Kazuya's bodyguard, but he also wishes to build his own sumo ring to impress his secret crush, Michelle Chang, but instead, she defeats him in battle and Ganryu returns to Japan. Two decades after the events of Tekken 2, Ganryu opens a sumo stable and trains other wrestlers. However, after seeing Michelle's daughter Julia on television fighting in the fourth tournament, he enters the fifth in hopes of wooing Julia if he is able to recover her lost "Forest Rejuvenation Data" that he eventually finds inside the Mishima Zaibatsu's laboratory, but Julia receives the information and flees before Ganryu can propose marriage. Now faced with a failing restaurant he had opened afterward in Hawaii, Ganryu enters the tournament again in Tekken 6 in attempt to advertise the restaurant and bring in revenue. Unfortunately, Ganryu accidentally donated all his restaurant earnings to Julia's reforestation campaign. In order to fix his financial problems, Ganryu decided to enter the seventh tournament.

Ganryu's occupations have varied in alternate Tekken media; in the animated film Tekken: The Motion Picture, he is Lee Chaolan's bodyguard, and in Tekken: Blood Vengeance, he is a PE teacher at the Mishima Polytechnic School.

GameSpy named Ganryu as one of their "25 Extremely Rough Brawlers" in video gaming: "Ganryu is more of a tragic character as his unrequited love for fellow fighter Julia fuels his brutality."^[9] In 2011, Computer and Video Games deemed Ganryu one of the series' "worst ever characters": "If losing some weight and not wearing a massive nappy all the time isn't the first thing you do to attract someone whose mother you've already failed to hit on, then you're doing something terribly, horribly wrong."^[10]

Heihachi Mishima[edit]

Jack (series)/Prototype Jack[edit]

Fighting style: Sheer force
Voiced by:

English
Mark O'Brien (Tekken: The Motion Picture) (Jack-2)
Jordan Byrne (Street Fighter X Tekken) (Jack-X)

Japanese
Banjō Ginga (Tekken - Tekken 5)
Akio Ōtsuka (Tekken: The Motion Picture) (Jack-2)
Kenichirou Matsuda (Street Fighter X Tekken) (Jack-X)

The various Jack models were originally created by the Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corporation for different purposes:

Jack (introduced in Tekken) is the original model, created by Heihachi's Mishima Zaibatsu in order to counter a coup from Kazuya Mishima in the King of Iron Fist Tournament. In-game, the player is one of these machines.
Jack-2 (introduced in Tekken 2) is a direct upgrade of the Jack model, also created by the Mishima Zaibatsu. Once a Jack-2 witnesses a young girl named Jane lose her mother during a battle, he takes it upon himself to look after her, until he is destroyed by Dr. Abel. Jack-2 also appears in Tekken 3 as a palette swap of Gun Jack.
Prototype Jack (or P. Jack) (introduced in Tekken) is a prototype created to combat both Jack and Jack-2. After the first King of Iron Fist Tournament, the remains of Prototype Jack are almost destroyed by Jack's combat abilities. His body is later remodeled by Dr. Bosconovitch and goes on to combat Jack-2. P. Jack is seemingly destroyed by Jack-2 in the second tournament. This is the only Jack to appear in more than three games, appearing in the original Tekken, Tekken 2, Tekken Tag Tournament, and the console version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2.
Gun Jack (also known as "Jack-3") (introduced in Tekken 3) is a more advanced prototype, created by Jane in an attempt to revive her friend, Jack-2. She is successful in implanting her Jack-2's memories, including an energy shield inside him. However, as Gun Jack's energy shield ran out of power, it is destroyed by gunfire by the Tekken Force when he and Jane attempt to break into the Mishima Zaibatsu labs. G Corporation rescues her in time and retrieves Gun Jack's body as well. This is the only Jack that is associate to Jane and not mass produced.
Jack-4 (introduced in Tekken 5) is an upgrade of Gun Jack, created by G Corporation and the only one in the Jack series that is non-playable. Like P. Jack, this model has a separate personality. Unlike other models in the Jack series, this one is mass-produced to serve as the foot soldiers of the G Corporation. While these never participate in any tournament, they are sent by G Corporation's Nebraska branch to kill Kazuya Mishima after they no longer need him, and the subsequent battle in Hon-Maru almost results in the death of Heihachi Mishima. However Heihachi survived and blasted far away from Hon-Maru, until he recovered from a comatose for days when the fifth tournament was announced. These specific models have a self-destruct device embedded in them, indicated when one of them peels away its face to reveal a countdown. They also appear as enemies in the Scenario Campaign mode in Tekken 6 and a Tekken 5 flashback chapter of Tekken 7.
Jack-5 (introduced in Tekken 5) is an upgrade of Jack-4, created by Jane during her first time at G Corporation to participate in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Currently upgraded into Jack-6 after Kazuya's take over.
Jack-6 (introduced in Tekken 6) is an upgrade of Jack-5, upgraded from Jack-5 with same model of previous version, with a minor body part upgrade by G Corporation with the mission of destroying the Mishima Zaibatsu in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 6. As of Tekken 7, starting from Jack-6, a previous Jack model which was playable in a previous tournament has been mass produced in a later tournament, where the later Jack model serves as a main playable model in a corresponding number within the tournament series is deployed for combat experimental purposes.
Jack-X (introduced in Street Fighter X Tekken) and his official tag partner, Bryan Fury were released on July 31, 2012, as downloadable content.^[11] Unlike Jack-5 – 6, this Jack can talk, although it was revealed to be in prototype stage between both of these main Jack series.
Jack-7 (introduced in Tekken 7) is an upgrade version of Jack-6. It finally has a proper model modification since it was ended with Jack-5, albeit recolored from Jack-6. Jack-7 also appears in Tekken 7 as a palette swap of Jack-8.
Jack-8 (introduced in Tekken 8) is an upgrade version of Jack-7. Besides receiving further upgrades based on the previous Jacks above, he is now equipped with both visor and summonable giant flying drill/laser cannon-hybrid weapon, and he can now utilizes projectile-based rocket punches, similar to Alisa Bosconovitch’s. It was created as an anti-suppression weapon against G Corporation's enemies.

The Jack series robots also appear in Tekken Tag Tournament (Jack-2, Gun Jack, and Prototype Jack) and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Jack-6 and Prototype Jack). The player's Jack character (barring original Jack, Prototype Jack, Jack-X and Jack-4) in most series is belonged to Jane.

Kazuya Mishima/Devil Kazuya/Kid Kazuya[edit]

King I/II[edit]

Kuma I/II[edit]

Fighting style: Kuma Shinken (later adopts Heihachi's Shorin-ryu-styled Mishima Fighting Karate as of TK8)
Voiced by: Katsuhiro Harada (Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory) (Kuma II)^[12]

Kuma I

The first Kuma was once an abandoned bear cub in the forests of the Mishima estate. Heihachi Mishima found Kuma and took him in as his pet. Despite Kuma's unflinching loyalty to his master, Kuma often left Heihachi's side to sleep, even during the summer. This lazy approach means that Kuma's fighting style has never really matured and is very disjointed. This was demonstrated in the first King of Iron Fist Tournament, where Kuma was easily defeated by Paul Phoenix. Kuma was very impressed with Paul's fighting prowess, as he'd thought that the only strong human was Heihachi. Heihachi was also defeated in the last tournament (by Kazuya Mishima), and so he and Kuma retreated to a mountain dojo to re-train. Kuma traveled to the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2 with his master, vowing to destroy Paul Phoenix this time, and to eat anyone who got in his way. Kuma was immediately defeated by Paul Phoenix again.

Kuma II

Just after the second tournament Kuma died of old age, Heihachi trains a replacement, also named Kuma, Just like his father, the second Kuma is Heihachi Mishima's pet and bodyguard. Kuma is in love with the panda bear Panda, but she neither feels the same nor has any interest in him. It is noted that although she does not love him, she does occasionally give him a thought - that Kuma II is smarter than his father, and a good bodyguard for Heihachi. One day, when Kuma was absorbed in watching TV, he suddenly went wild at the sight of a martial artist with a scarlet go-gi - it was Paul Phoenix. Kuma has trained since that day to defeat Paul in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3. He doesn't think anything of Ogre, who is the God of Fighting; only of defeating Paul. However, during the third tournament Kuma was once again easily defeated by Paul. Kuma would finally accomplish his goal of defeating Paul in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4. However, Kuma's happiness was brought to an abrupt end with the death of his master Heihachi. Kuma lived in sorrow over Heihachi's presumed death, but on seeing the uncertainty surrounding the Mishima Zaibatsu, Kuma realized that saving it would be the ultimate display of loyalty to his presumed deceased master. However, the chaos at Mishima Zaibatsu had already subsided when Kuma arrived, and he was thrown out of the building by security. Kuma had no choice but to return to the mountains.

When the Mishima Zaibatsu announced the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, Kuma decided he would enter the tournament and take back the Mishima Zaibatsu. During the fifth tournament Kuma fought his old enemy Paul Phoenix but just barely lost to him. Sometime after the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 and the death of his master Heihachi Mishima, Kuma was convinced that he was the only one who could save the Mishima Zaibatsu. He set out to the Mishima Zaibatsu headquarters with resolve.

Waiting for him there was the new leader of the Zaibatsu, Jin Kazama. Easily defeated by Jin, Kuma was dumped out of a helicopter into the Hokkaido wilderness. Despite that, Kuma survived, traversed the vast forests, and entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament 6, determined to defeat Jin and take his place as the rightful successor of the Mishima Zaibatsu.

Following Heihachi's surprising return as a Mishima Zaibatsu leader since Jin's disappearance, Kuma was found by his master's Tekken Force army, and learned that his master promotes him to lead his own Tekken Force unit. Due to being busy with important tasks as a leader of his Tekken Force unit, Kuma forfeit his spot in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 7 where he supposedly would have fought his old enemy Paul again. Instead, Paul's opponent is Kuma's crush, Panda (unbeknownst to Kuma himself). Kuma's last known location during the tournament was the Philippines, where he and his unit provides supplies for the Filipino survivors of a typhoon disaster. After earning the local country's trust, Kuma became the final opponent for the Zaibatsu's employment exam. Many young participants either quit or lost to Kuma during the exam: only one participant, a typhoon survivor named Josie Rizal, succeeded - despite Kuma's misgivings about her crybaby attitude.

Unfortunately, following the true death of Heihachi at the hands of Kazuya during the seventh tournament, Kuma begins to adopt Heihachi's fighting style and dons his signature gi, with a headband of matching red color as Heihachi's karate belt. Before G Corporation fully takes over Mishima Zaibatsu and its assets, Kuma rescues one of the researchers from Mishima Heavy Industries in time, who eventually provides him aimable salmon-like rocket explosives during The King of Iron Fist Tournament 8. After Kuma learns the truth behind Heihachi's death, he ultimately sides with Jin against Kazuya. During the war, Kuma sneakily attempts to take Paul and Marshall out, but instead accidentally takes a hit by a rocket meant to hit both men and thereby saves them, to Kuma's dismay.

Kunimitsu I/II[edit]

Fighting style: Manji Ninjutsu
Voiced by:

Kunimitsu I:

Katsuhiro Harada (TK)

Shiho Kikuchi (TK2 and TTT)

Megumi Toyoguchi (TTT2 and TKR)

Kunimitsu II:

Saori Hayami

Kunimitsu I

Kunimitsu made her debut in the original Tekken as a thief and rival of Yoshimitsu. A former member of Yoshimitsu's clan, known as the Manji Clan, she was banished from the clan for her theft. In order to make ends meet, Kunimitsu enters the King of the Iron Fist Tournament to attempt to steal valuable treasure from Michelle Chang. Michelle manages to defeat her in battle.

Two years later, upon learning that Yoshimitsu's sword also holds value, she enters the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 2 to try and steal it. When she confronts Yoshimitsu in battle, she is once again defeated.

After the previous two failures, Kunimitsu decides to retire from thievery and does not participate in any more King of the Iron Fist Tournaments. Meanwhile, she gives birth to her daughter, who would also take the title of Kunimitsu.

Kunimitsu I would also appear in the non-canon games Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

Kunimitsu II

Kunimitsu II first appeared in Tekken 7 as a DLC character. This Kunimitsu enters the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 7 with the same goal her mother once had: To steal Yoshimitsu's sword, in an attempt to cheer up her ill mother. She also had an undercover mission at Mishima Polytechnical School, prior to rushing back to her mother to finish what the latter started.

Lee Chaolan/Violet[edit]

Fighting style: Martial Arts (main fighting style), Mishima Style Fighting Karate (TK1, TK2 and TTT)
Voiced by:

English
Kaiji Tang (Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Tekken Tag Tournament 2)^[13]^[14]
David Stokey (Tekken: The Motion Picture)^[2]

Japanese
Jōji Nakata (Tekken - Tekken Tag Tournament (laughs))
Nozomu Sasaki (Tekken 2 - Tekken Tag Tournament)
Ryōtarō Okiayu (TK5—present; Tekken: Blood Vengeance)
Shin-ichiro Miki (Tekken: The Motion Picture)

Lee Chaolan (Chinese: 李超狼; pinyin: Lǐ Chāoláng; Japanese: リー・チャオラン; Hepburn: Rī Chaoran) is the adoptive son of Heihachi Mishima, whose own son Kazuya's defeat is Lee's motivation for entering the numerous King of Iron Fist tournaments held throughout the Tekken series.^[15] Lee was adopted by Heihachi to provide a rival for Kazuya, who he felt was too weak to lead his Mishima Zaibatsu company.^[16] Lee studies in the United States alongside Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law. After Kazuya wins control of the company, Lee works as Kazuya's secretary, in addition to overseeing Kazuya's team of bodyguards and Dr. Bosconovitch's experiments, all while secretly hoping to take over the Zaibatsu. However, Lee is soon expelled from the Zaibatsu for unknown reasons while Heihachi disowns him,^[16] causing him to leave the world of fighting and pursuing a career in robotics.^[16]

Lee returns in Tekken 4 as a playboy whose robotics operation is a success. Upon learning that the Zaibatsu's rival G Corporation was attacked by the Tekken Force, Lee joins the fourth tournament with a vastly different appearance, competing under the name of Violet, in order to conceal his identity, while hoping to test his new "Combot" experiment in the process.^[15] However, he is defeated in the later stages by Kazuya, whom Lee had believed to be dead, but he then learns someone else had controlled the Zaibatsu in Heihachi's absence. Believing it to be Kazuya, Lee enters the fifth tournament in Tekken 5 to take him out personally and regain control of the Zaibatsu, but upon learning that the culprit is Lee's adoptive paternal grandfather Jinpachi, he drops out of the tournament and returns to his business.^[15] After Kazuya legitimately takes control of the company, Lee enters the next tournament in attempt again to come in contact with Kazuya. In the game's "Scenario Campaign" story mode, Lee joins forces with Julia Chang, Lars Alexandersson, and Dr. Bosconovitch's android daughter Alisa, with a shared objective of stopping Kazuya and Jin, but Lee and Lars are not aware at first that Alisa was created to serve Jin, thus acting as a mole for Lars. When Alisa is destroyed at the climax, Lee promises Lars that she will be reconstructed with his company's resources, which he finally succeeds at the same time of Heihachi's return in the seventh tournament, shortly before the latter's true demise at the hands of Kazuya in their final battle. During the seventh tournament, Lee also recruits a journalist who lost his family in the war that occurred during the sixth tournament to join his cause, as well as a redeemed Jin to investigate how the Mishima affair first started.^[15] In the eighth tournament, ahead of Kazuya's public revelation to the world as a devil, Lee manages to recruit Alisa's "father", Doctor Bosconovitch, and by extension, Manji Clan, in co-developed an aircraft carrier Vlodnir, and armored suits for their allies, including Lee himself against Kazuya, while also aiding the doctor in removing the remaining inhibitor inside Alisa's body, so as to set her free. In response of Jin's last encounter against Kazuya that cause the former loses his will to control his devil a week prior where the latter announced the eight tournament, Lee summons the Kliesen Family for their expertise on researching the Devil Gene and its originator Azazel, recognizing that Niklas's child Leo also previously participated the Tekken tournament as Lee was.

Lee is also selectable in the non-canon games Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken 3D: Prime Edition, and Tekken Revolution.

As mentioned before, Violet was first introduced in Tekken 4 as an alter-ego of Lee Chaolan. Serving as his public persona as the CEO of Violet Systems, Lee used this alter-ego to allow himself to enter the fourth King of Iron Fist Tournament without being found out by the Mishima Zaibatsu. While primarily a main palette swap of Lee in most mainline games since his debut game, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is the only game where Violet has his own character slot, even being the main character in the Fight Lab mode of the game.

Marshall Law[edit]

Fighting style: Jeet Kune Do
Voiced by:

English
David Vincent (TK6–present)
Japanese
Katsuhiro Harada (TK1–TK5:DR [grunts])
Keisuke Fujii (Street Fighter X Tekken)
Yoshimitsu Shimoyama (2009 live-action film)

Marshall Law (Japanese: マーシャル・ロー, Hepburn: Māsharu Rō) is a martial artist who owns a restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown,^[17] and like his close friend Paul Phoenix, financial difficulty becomes his primary motive for entering the King of Iron Fist fighting tournaments held throughout the Tekken series. His appearance and fighting style are based on Hong Kong martial artist and actor Bruce Lee.^[18] Sometimes known as "The Fighting Chef", Law is the father of Forest Law. He enters the first King of Iron Fist Tournament in the original game in hopes of opening his own dojo with the winnings, Law would eventually draw against Wang Jinrei. Despite not winning the tournament, Marshall would eventually open his own dojo. However, in Tekken 2, his students are soon attacked and his dojo destroyed by Baek Doo San, provoking Law into entering the second tournament to seek revenge. Law would eventually face his villainous assailant and successfully defeated him, Law would drop out of the tournament after achieving his goal. In Tekken 3, his storyline details that he rebuilt his dojo while running a successful restaurant chain called "Marshall China" in the United States. Meanwhile, Paul convinces Marshall's son Forest Law to enter the third tournament, which causes friction between Law and Paul.^[19]

Similar to Paul's storyline in Tekken 4,^[20] Law's restaurant business goes under and he is consequently bankrupt. He attempts to use the fourth tournament as a crutch to ease his money troubles, but is unable to do so and he is afterwards relegated to taking a dishwashing job in Japan, where the tournaments are held.^[21] While participating in the fifth tournament in Tekken 5 in hopes of being able to cover medical bills stemming from Forest being hurt in a motorcycle accident,^[22] Law is deported to the United States upon discovery that he was employed illegally in Japan.^[23] Paul approaches Law with the proposition of forming a team for the upcoming sixth tournament, believing that the odds of victory (and winning the prize money) would be better as a group than individually, and Law accepts. They later add boxer Steve Fox to their ranks, while they did well in the tournament, Paul and Law ended up being paired against each other and they both fought to a draw, as a result they were unable to claim the top prize nor restore their respective previous aims, though Steve already got what he need in Tekken 7, yet still haunted by the truth about his past, until Marshall and Paul restore his fighting spirit and reason to live.^[23] Marshall's opponent during the seventh tournament was Feng Wei, whom Marshall initially planned to look after the recently restored dojo he neglected, but changes his mind and retreat when finding out how dangerous Feng is, prior to the latter's defeat by Leroy Smith. During Kazuya's tyranny in the eighth tournament, Marshall’s dojo has been repossessed as a collateral before he finds out about the recent events. He temporarily join G Corporation in desperation to get his money to pay off his debt, and was deceived into believing Paul, who won the North American qualifier of the eight tournament unable to keep his promise, unaware that the tournament was cancelled during the quarter finals and is actually a set up for Kazuya's scheme. He and Paul are accidentally saved by Kuma from a G Corporation tank's rocket meant to hit him and Paul during the war. After Jin Kazama's victory against Kazuya, and signaling the world's freedom from the latter's tyranny, Marshall, reconcile with Paul and return to the good side where they and their allies, including Azucena opens food kitchens at Manhattan and help restore the city.

Marshall also appears in the noncanonical Tekken games Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken Revolution, Street Fighter X Tekken, and the 2005 Namco beat 'em up Urban Reign.^[24] Marshall appears as a Spirit in the Nintendo crossover video game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.^[25]

Michelle Chang[edit]

Nina Williams/Summer Nina[edit]

Paul Phoenix[edit]

Fighting style: Integrated Martial Arts based on Judo
Voiced by:

English
Eric Kelso (TK4—TK6, TK3D:PE (grunts))
Jamieson Price (since TK6 (dialogue), later also grunts as of TTT2)
Mike McFarland (Street Fighter X Tekken)
Japanese
Hōchū Ōtsuka (drama CD, Tekken: Bloodline)^[26]
Kanehira Yamamoto (Street Fighter X Tekken)

Paul Phoenix (ポール・フェニックス, Pōru Fenikkusu) is an American biker and martial artist who regularly enters the King of Iron Fist fighting tournaments while hoping to use the prize money to pay off his debts, yet he falls short of victory each time due to various circumstances. He is also a friend of Marshall Law and his son, Forest, alongside a silver-haired man Lee Chaolan. Paul remained undefeated in the first tournament until he fought Kazuya Mishima to a draw. He battles his way to the finals of the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2 in Tekken 2, earning the right to have a rematch with Kazuya, but ended up getting replaced by another competitor, Heihachi Mishima, after getting stuck in traffic and therefore unable to make the match on time.^[19]

Paul goes undefeated throughout the entire King of Iron Fist Tournament 3 in Tekken 3, leaving victorious after defeating the "God of Fighting", Ogre. Unbeknownst to him, Ogre morphs into his monstrous form, True Ogre, after absorbing immense fighting force and is then defeated a second time by Paul's replacement Jin.^[20] As a result, by Tekken 4, Paul's dojo has gone out of business due to lack of students and he ends up being homeless. He again enters the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4 in an attempt to get his life back together and go head-to-head with Kazuya, a rival he hadn't fought in over 20 years.^[20]

During the first two tournaments, Paul had fought and defeated Kuma, a large brown bear trained in combat by Heihachi.^[27] After the animal dies of old age, Heihachi trains a replacement, also named Kuma, who was easily defeated by Paul in the third tournament but Kuma manages to defeat him in the early stages of the fourth tournament.^[27]

Paul adopts a new training regimen and gets his revenge against Kuma in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 in Tekken 5, but the match leaves Paul too exhausted to continue in the competition and he is forced to drop out. Again departing the tournament penniless and already burdened by his increasing debt, he wastes no time in entering the King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 in Tekken 6 in hopes of finally easing his financial troubles.^[28] This time, he believes assembling a team would increase his chances of victory, and so he joins forces with Marshall and a boxer Steve Fox. While they did well in the tournament, Paul and Marshall ended up being paired against each other and they both fought to a draw, as a result they were unable to claim the top prize.

He entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament 7 in Tekken 7 with not only the intention, but the necessity of winning as the hefty prize would keep him in the black. Things didn't exactly pan out for him when the previous tournament got suspended. Paul returns in Tekken 8 as a playable character with new design and a significantly different hairstyle (although he was criticized for his new hairstyle).^[29] Paul and Steve join Jin's side against Kazuya's tyranny, while Marshall briefly joins Kazuya's side. After Kuma saves them, they help repair damages and celebrate Jin's victory.

Paul is also selectable in non-canon spin-off Tekken games such as Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken Card Challenge, Tekken Advance, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and Tekken Revolution, in addition to the crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken. He is an unlockable character in the 2005 beat-'em-up multiplayer game Urban Reign.^[30] He also appears in SNK's mobile phone game The King of Fighters All Star.^[31] Paul appears as a Spirit in the Nintendo crossover video game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.^[32]

Wang Jinrei[edit]

Fighting style: Xing Yi Quan
Voiced by: Tamio Ōki (TK1~TTT); Hu Qian (TK5~TTT2 [dialogues]); Chan Ho (TK5~TTT2 [in-game grunts])

Wang Jinrei (Japanese: 王椋雷(ワン・ジンレイ), Hepburn: Wan Jinrei, pinyin: Wáng Jīngléi) is an elderly Chinese old man who was a close friend of Heihachi Mishima's father Jinpachi, and lived as a recluse in the Mishima gardens. Wang tutors his distant relative Ling Xiaoyu (who debuts in Tekken 3) in the martial arts at a young age. He draws rival Marshall Law in the first King of Iron Fist Tournament, then enters the second tournament in Tekken 2 in order to fulfill the deceased Jinpachi's wishes of eliminating Heihachi and Jinpachi's grandson Kazuya, who have both followed the path of evil. Wang opts to face all challengers giving way to those adept enough to defeat Kazuya, however Wang was defeated by Jun Kazama during the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2. In Tekken 5, set two decades after Jinpachi's death, Wang receives a letter from Jinpachi, who is actually alive but has been possessed by a demon, having been brought to life after starving to death years previously and requests Wang's participation in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, Wang was defeated in the semi-finals of the tournament by Jin Kazama whose purpose was to wipe out the Devil Gene which had been plaguing within both himself and Kazuya. Wang holds no grudge towards Jin for Jinpachi's death, but does also shows distaste towards the Devil Gene.

Yoshimitsu[edit]

Introduced in Tekken 2[edit]

Angel[edit]

Fighting style: Mishima Style Karate
Voiced by: Yumi Tōma (TTT1); Yuka Koyama (TTT2)^[33]

Angel (Japanese: エンゼル, Hepburn: Enjeru) is a female supernatural entity and opposite of Devil. According to Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada, she is the representation of what is left of the goodness in Kazuya Mishima after he had been controlled by Devil, although she herself is not a part of Kazuya's soul.^[34] Her Tekken Tag Tournament 2 profile states that she wields the power to purify things, and carries a compassionate and a cruel side. Angel was a palette swap of Devil in Tekken 2 and Tekken Tag Tournament, but receives a distinct design for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 while her fighting style borrowed from Kazuya and Devil Jin.^[35] Because of this, she has a laser attack but it's clearly not a laser from her tiara, it's actually more like a light beam.

Angel's existence is likely the results from the first encounters and strange attractions between Kazuya and Jun Kazama, until Kazuya lost half of his power at time when he unknowingly caused Jun to be pregnant, shortly before Kazuya's defeat by Heihachi in second tournament, then the birth of Jin Kazama.

Baek Doo San[edit]

Fighting style: Tae Kwon Do
Voiced by:
English
Lowell B. Bartholomee (Tekken: The Motion Picture)
Japanese
Kaneto Shiozawa (TK2~TTT)
Kyousei Tsukui (Tekken: The Motion Picture)
Korean
Yun Beyong hwa (TK5 [dialogues] ~TTT2)
Il-Kwon Cho (TK5 [grunts])

Baek Doo San (Japanese: 白頭山(ペク・トー・サン), Hepburn: Peku Tō San, Hangul: 백두산 Baek Dusan) is a South Korean Tae Kwon Do practitioner who debuted in Tekken 2 as the sub-boss of Marshall Law. He accidentally kills his father during a sparring session, causing him to destroy several dojos—including Law's—in a fit of rage. He then challenges, and loses to, Law in the second tournament. In Tekken 3, Baek is presumed dead after encountering Ogre, and his student Hwoarang enters the third tournament to avenge his master's supposed death, but Tekken 5 reveals that Ogre had beaten Baek into a yearlong coma. After his recovery, Baek begins teaching traditional Tae Kwon Do at military bases. Hwoarang is drafted into the South Korean military but flees to compete in the fourth tournament, for which he is arrested, but is also informed that Baek is alive. After Hwoarang completes his service, he and Baek enter the fifth tournament to test Hwoarang's skills, but Baek later withdraws after Hwoarang is injured in battle and lays unconscious in the hospital for three days. Once he recovers, Baek and Hwoarang return to Korea, and devote themselves solely to improving their fighting skills. Baek's last playable appearance is in Tekken 6, in which he and Hwoarang enter the tournament together once again.

Bruce Irvin[edit]

Fighting style: Muay Thai
Voiced by:

English
Peter Harrell, Jr. (Tekken: The Motion Picture)

Japanese
Seiji Sasaki (Tekken: The Motion Picture)

Bruce Irvin (Japanese: ブルース・アーヴィン, Hepburn: Burūsu Āvin) is a muscular and Mohawked American Muay Thai practitioner. He lost his parents and older brother in his youth, and grew up in a violent environment. He longed to make a difference, and became a police officer. He was sent to Japan to investigate the multinational conglomerate Mishima Zaibatsu and its leader, Kazuya Mishima, who knew of Bruce's mission and therefore arranged for his flight to crash. Bruce survives the crash but becomes an amnesiac, and Kazuya hires him as his bodyguard. In Tekken 2, Bruce fought his old police partner Lei Wulong, who had entered the tournament to arrest Kazuya. Bruce was defeated and attempted to escape on another plane, but it somehow exploded later. In truth, Bruce survives and fakes his death off-screen. He is then absent from the series until returning in Tekken 5 as an unlockable character. After becoming reacquainted with Kazuya Mishima in the tournament, Bruce assists Kazuya in taking over G Corporation, a biotech firm, when its Nebraska branch which fully recovers Kazuya from his previous injuries suddenly betrays him. G Corporation then wages war with the Mishima Financial Group, now led by Jin Kazama, and Bruce becomes the captain at G Corporation's private corps and is enlisted by Kazuya to lead the army on battlefields. G Corporation attempts to gain an advantage by placing an enormous bounty on Jin, which results in the staging of the sixth tournament, in which Bruce is selectable from the start and participates in an attempt to capture Jin.

Bruce makes a brief appearance in Tekken: The Motion Picture, serving as Lee Chaolan's bodyguard and fighting Jack-2 on a boat en route to the tournament.

Brenda Brathwaite of The Escapist, in 2008, included Bruce among many black fighting game characters, such as Mortal Kombat's Jax and Street Fighter's Balrog, as "either non-existent or consistent in their overall attributes."^[36] Bruce's Tekken 5 render was additionally the lone character illustration that was used for the article.^[36]

Jun Kazama/Unknown[edit]

Fighting style: Kazama Style Traditional Martial Arts
Portrayed: Tamlyn Tomita (live-action film)
Voiced by:

English
Edi Patterson (Tekken: The Motion Picture)
Lucy Farris (Tekken: The Motion Picture) (young)
Vivian Lu (Tekken: Bloodline)

Japanese
Shiho Kikuchi (Tekken 2, Tekken Tag Tournament)
Yumi Tōma (Tekken: The Motion Picture, Tekken Tag Tournament [the latter entry as Unknown])
Eri Sendai (Tekken: The Motion Picture) (young)
Yūko Sasaki (Japanese dub of the Tekken film)
Mamiko Noto (since Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - onwards)

Jun Kazama (風間準, Kazama Jun) is an officer of the wildlife protection organization WWWC. She is called "The Chosen One" by her relatives and one of the two last known members of her clan's main branch. She is highly psychic, being able to sense that Kazuya Mishima's power stemmed from Devil. At the WWWC's orders, she sets out to arrest Kazuya, who smuggles environmentally-protected animals, Jun decides to enter the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2. When the second tournament was coming to an end, Jun comes to the realization that Kazuya's supernatural strength stems from Devil, though she is attracted to him by a mystic force beyond her control.^[37] Besides her duty to arrest Kazuya, she wants to free him of his evil power and drops out of the tournament as a result. At some point during this time, Jun became pregnant with Kazuya's child; whilst Jun was able to cause conflict within Kazuya, swaying Devil's hold over him, ultimately she was unable to prevent him from going to meet his father, Heihachi Mishima, in the tournament finals. After Kazuya is thrown into a volcano by Heihachi in the conclusion of the tournament, it was initially believes that parts of Devil leave him and unsuccessfully attempt to possess Jun's unborn son. However, as evident how Kazuya was born from his mother, Kazumi, as shown in Tekken 7, it is revealed that Kazuya looses half of his Devil's power after unknowingly impregnated Jun with an unborn son who is imprinted with the demonic gene he will be born with, and its highly impure state cause Jun to seal her son's devil to ensure his human half is born safely.^[37] She flees to the forests of Yakushima, where she raises her child, Jin, away from evil and danger. 15 years later, before the events of Tekken 3, Jun senses the approaching of Ogre and warns Jin to seek out his grandfather Heihachi should anything happen to her.^[37] One night, Ogre attacks and knocks out Jin. When Jin wakes up, the Kazama's house has burned to the ground and Jun is missing.^[37] Jin is devastated and swears revenge on Ogre, and publicly becoming the last survivor of Kazama main branch.

Although Jun did not appear in subsequent canonical games in the series, she is still mentioned throughout. She appears as a soul or vision in Jin Kazama's Tekken 4 ending, which persuades Jin to spare Heihachi's life in honor of herself. She is also mentioned numerous times by Jin and Kazuya during the prologue of the Scenario Campaign mode of Tekken 6, which retells the main events of previous games. Outside of the main series, Jun appears as a playable character in the non-canonical Tekken Tag Tournament as well as its sequel, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, where she is fought as a boss and transforms into Unknown in the final stage after defeating her. She is also playable in the free-to-play spin-off Tekken Revolution.

Jun made her return to the canonical story of Tekken in Tekken 8 as she was revealed to be a playable character during the gameplay trailer footage at The Game Awards 2022.^[38] Despite previously being presumed dead, due to her encounter with Ogre prior to the events of Tekken 3,^[39] series director Katsuhiro Harada confirmed that Jun never actually died, but was simply missing.^[40] It is reveals that Jun and Ancient Ogre she and Jin encountered was transported inside Yakushima's sacred sanctuary, where she defeated the alien. However, while trying to get out of the sanctuary, Jun falls unconscious, as her soul trapped inside the astral world after hearing Kazama main branch's lullaby and saw a vision of Jin and Kazuya's final conflict in the future during the eight tournament. Six months after the death of Heihachi at the hands of Kazuya in Tekken 7, then followed by Jin's self-purification of his devil self at the near end of Tekken 8, Jun wakes up from a coma. She uses an astral projection to communicate with Jin and complete his transformation into an angel of hope to ward Kazuya off from his Devil Gene and Azazel's existences. After Jin defeated Kazuya and restored world peace, Jun picks up Kazuya's unconscious body to an unknown point along with her.

Unknown

Unknown (アンノウン, Announ) made her debut in 1999 in the non-canonical Tekken Tag Tournament, where she serves as the final boss. Unknown also appears as a rival unit in the tactical role-playing game Project X Zone 2.

Unknown appears to be a tortured soul who has been enslaved by the "Forest Demon" (which takes the form of a wolf-like appearance and appears behind her in fights, controlling and mimicking her actions). She has many demonic traits, such as glowing yellow eyes and no sclera, and a devil symbol tattooed on her upper right arm which resembles that of Jin Kazama's. Her default "costume" appears to have her otherwise nude body mostly covered in purple with short, dark brown hair, shiny body paint, or oil as if she had been submerged in it to her chest. Her second, alternate costume shows her dressed in the burnt, ripped remains of a dark brown dress, with bandages wrapped around her arms, shins, and instep.

Unknown did not have a story as Tag Tournament was non-canonical, though her ending shows her finally defeating the Forest Demon and therefore freeing herself. Her appearance as the final boss in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 looks like Jun's alternate form (black hair with a similar fashion to Jun, though her eyes have demon-like pupils and this time has normal white sclera). An artbook included in the Tekken 6 Arcade Stick Bundle revealed that she was meant to be Jun's sister enslaved by the "Forest Demon" before the scenario was ultimately dropped.

Similar to Mokujin, Unknown does not have an original moveset. Instead, she mimics other characters' fighting styles (with some exceptions), though her fighting style defaults to that of Jun Kazama. In Tag Tournament 2, she instead uses Jun's moveset with added boss-like moves such as summoning spikes and giant hands. In both her incarnations of the first Tag Tournament and its sequel, Unknown has originally appeared as an unplayable final boss in the arcade versions. She was later made a playable character in the console version of both games, with the former giving her the ability to freely switch her fighting styles using analog stick and the latter toning down her boss moves.

Lei Wulong[edit]

Fighting style: Five Animals and Zui Quan
Voiced by:
English
Gray G. Haddock (Tekken: The Motion Picture)
David Jeremiah (TK6 onwards)
Japanese
Wataru Takagi (TK2)
Akio Nakamura (Tekken: The Motion Picture)
Hiroya Ishimaru (TK3—TK5 (archived grunts in TK6–TK7), SFxTK)

Making his debut in Tekken 2 (1995), Lei Wulong (雷武龍(レイ・ウーロン), Rei Ūron, pinyin: Léi Wǔlóng Jyutping: Leoi Mou Lung) is a respected police officer who has put countless criminals behind bars,^[41] which earns him the nickname of "Super Police".^[19] While investigating the nefarious Mishima Zaibatsu corporation's illegal hunting and trading practices, he ends up fighting former fellow officer Bruce Irvin, who has switched his allegiance to Kazuya Mishima, son of Mishima Zaibatsu CEO Heihachi Mishima. After Lei defeats Bruce, Bruce escapes in a plane that later crashes, he somehow survives.

After the second King of the Iron Fist Tournament during the events of Tekken 3 (1998), Lei's reputation as a crime fighter wanes and his work declines after his girlfriend dumps him for his assistant. When he discovers that a syndicate will send Nina Williams to kill professional boxer Steve Fox, he sets out to stop her and restore his reputation by joining the fourth tournament in Tekken 4 (2001). Lei is successful in thwarting the assassination and captures Nina, but Steve intervenes and frees Nina by assaulting Lei. Lei nonetheless breaks up the syndicate that had dispatched Nina to the tournament.^[42]

Lei's storyline in Tekken 5 has him shipped off to Japan in pursuit of Feng Wei, who is responsible for the destruction of multiple dojos in Japan and China, including Asuka Kazama's family dojo.^[43] At the same time, he joins forces with Steve in an attempt to destroy the Mishima Zaibatsu while finding evidence behind their dubious activities, including Steve's further past. However, Feng's trail goes cold and Lei has no choice but to return to Hong Kong.^[43] In Tekken 6 (2007), Lei enters the sixth tournament in attempt to arrest Jin Kazama, as well as not forgetting his father Kazuya. In the sixth game's "Scenario Campaign" story mode, Lei is assisted by Lars Alexandersson and Alisa Bosconovitch in defeating the invading G Corporation's forces at the "ICPO Branch Office", and informs them that Kazuya has claimed the corporation by force.

Lei returned in Tekken 7 as one of the Season 2 DLC characters, although drastically redesigned. Depending on which stance he is in, Lei will utilize different Rage Drives. In his story biography, while once again investigating Kazuya's illegal activities undercover, but this time on G Corporation, Lei also planned to meet the corporation's hired mascot Lucky Chloe secretly, whom Lei is a big fan of.

Lei appears as a playable character in the non-canon Tekken titles Tekken Card Challenge, Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tekken 3D: Prime Edition. He appears as a playable downloadable character in Street Fighter X Tekken.

Lei appears in the 1998 animated film Tekken: The Motion Picture, in which he is partnered with Jun Kazama to investigate the Mishima Zaibatsu's illegal activities during the tournament. Rather than actually competing in the tournament, Lei infiltrates the island's underground base with Jack-2's help.^[44] He was voiced by Akio Nakamura, and by Gray G. Haddock in the English dub.

Roger, Roger Jr. and Alex [edit]

Fighting style: Commando Wrestling

Roger family line and Alex are comic-relief characters who make their first appearances in Tekken 2. They are genetically modified animals created by Dr. Bosconovitch, under Kazuya's orders. Roger (ロジャー, Rojā) was crafted from kangaroo DNA, and Alex (アレックス, Arekkusu) from Dromaeosaurid fossil samples. However, Kazuya considered them worthless and wanted to kill them, but they escaped and met Armor King, who schooled them in wrestling. Alex and Roger compete in the second Iron Fist Tournament, where Jun Kazama, a WWWC wildlife-protection program officer, is dispatched to arrest Kazuya. She finds Roger and Alex and relocates them to a safe location in Australia. Alex disappears from the series canon thereafter while Roger's story is expanded in Tekken 5, in which he is not playable but appears in the game's cinematic sequences, where he, now renamed as Roger Sr. (ロジャーシニア, Rojā Shinia) is shown to be married with a son named Roger Jr., who is a kangaroo with human attributes like his father. After Roger Sr. is abducted by Mishima Zaibatsu, Roger Jr. enters the fifth tournament to find him but discovers that he was not abducted but instead secretly living a luxurious lifestyle. In Tekken 6, Roger Sr., again not playable, and his wife are since divorced but she suffers financial hardship without his presence and currently. She and Roger Jr. both participate in the sixth tournament in hopes of establishing financial security. Roger and Alex both appear in the noncanonical Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2, in which Roger Jr. is playable in Roger Sr.'s stead. As Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is semi-canon and set between Tekken 6 and Tekken 7, Alex and Roger Jr.’s endings eventually ties to Roger Sr.’s reconciliation with his family.

Introduced in Tekken 3[edit]

Ancient Ogre/True Ogre[edit]

Fighting style: Personal style, sampled from many fighters
Voiced by: Bill Butts (Tekken: Bloodline)

Ogre (オーガ, Ōga) is believed to be a biological weapon abandoned on earth by an ancient alien race, while he is additionally worshipped by ancient Aztecs as the "God of Fighting". In Tekken 3 (1997), Heihachi Mishima sends his personal army, the Tekken Force, to search a temple in central Mexico, but they are promptly obliterated by Ogre. Having witnessed his power firsthand, Heihachi seeks an opportunity to use him in hopes of creating the ultimate life form while staving off his own aging process, and therefore stages the third edition of the King of Iron Fist Tournament held throughout the Tekken series in order to draw Ogre out.^[45] In the meantime, Ogre kills King in combat,^[46] beats Baek Doo San into a yearlong coma, and supposedly kills Jin's mother Jun Kazama. Paul Phoenix defeats Ogre in the tournament finals, but he then quits the competition under the impression that he has won, when he had one last opponent remaining in Ogre's true form, True Ogre.^[20] Heihachi then collects blood samples and skin tissue from the creature in order to splice his genomes with his own, but the project is unsuccessful,^[47] as he is missing a key ingredient called the "Devil Gene", which the series protagonist Jin Kazama and his father Kazuya possess.^[48] In Tekken 5 (2004), Ogre is playable in the "Arcade History" mode and is the final boss of the "Devil Within" minigame, where clones of him and Heihachi are defeated by Jin Kazama.^[45]

Ogre also appears in the non-canon games Tekken Card Challenge and Tekken Mobile, and is playable in the spinoff titles Tekken Tag Tournament and in Tekken Tag Tournament 2,^[49] whereas the latter Tag game has his True Ogre form as part of the starting roster and simply dubbed as Ogre since its arcade version, while his initial form, Ancient Ogre is exclusively free downloadable post-launch character.^[50]

Bryan Fury[edit]

Fighting style: Kickboxing
Portrayed by: Gary Daniels (Tekken films)
Voiced by:

English
Keith Silverstein (Street Fighter X Tekken)^[51]

Japanese
Kazuyoshi Hayashi (Japanese dub of the live-action Tekken films)
Tomokazu Seki (Street Fighter X Tekken)^[51]

Bryan Fury (Japanese: ブライアン・フューリー, Hepburn: Buraian Fyūrī) was once an officer in the International Police Organization, Bryan was killed during a shootout in Hong Kong one day. His corpse was transported to the laboratory of a mad scientist named Dr. Abel in his attempt to complete his project of forming a cyborg army. Abel thought that a perfect cyborg must have the mechanics built by his rival Bosconovitch, so he reanimated Fury's body and sent him to collect data on similar plans by his rival, Dr. Bosconovitch. Bryan enters the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, targeting Yoshimitsu, who has strong ties with Bosconovitch, but during the tournament, Bryan was defeated by Yoshimitsu.^[52]

In Tekken 4, Dr. Abel abandons Bryan when Heihachi Mishima and the Mishima Zaibatsu corporation recruits him as its top scientific advisor. This sends Bryan into a murderous rage, and he enters the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, feeling victory will force Abel to change his body, thus becoming the most incredible being in existence once again. This does not happen, and after his loss, Bryan instead uses his last ounce of strength to knock Abel out before losing consciousness and left him to die in the burning laboratory. Yoshimitsu brings him to Dr. Bosconovitch, who promises to transfer Bryan's mind into a new body, although it will take a whole year.

In Tekken 5, however, Bryan awakens a month later. Bosconovitch tells Bryan that his body was too complex to work with, but as a last resort, he had installed a perpetual power generator in him as an emergency measure. Upon learning this, Bryan attacks Bosconovitch and the Manji clan members assigned to guard the doctor, and leaves the laboratory. Bryan enters the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 to test his performance with the generator installed, unaware that Yoshimitsu is pursuing him for revenge. Yoshimitsu's repeated meddling hinders Bryan's hopes of unlocking the generator's true powers in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Soon afterwards, Yoshimitsu defeats Bryan and his frustration reaches its pinnacle, and he begins to destroy everything in sight after leaving the tournament. Driven by rage, he ventures to various battlefields around the world, indiscriminately leveling everything in his way into rubble. However, he soon grows tired of the same thing repeating itself countless times. Around this time, he catches wind of the King of Iron Fist Tournament 6. Hungry for more capable prey, Bryan headed for the tournament to prove his mettle. Bryan also appears in Tekken 7, being one of the 18 characters available in the first location tests of the game. As of Tekken 8, Bryan develops a new taste for anarchy, and even join G Corporation's side for his own end.

Bryan also appears in Tekken Card Challenge, Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken 3D: Prime Edition, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and Tekken Revolution. Bryan appears in Capcom-made crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken as a DLC character with Jack-X as his official tag partner. His Swap Costume is modeled after Urien. According to the download blurb, with his powers and abilities being recognized by Urien, the second in command of a mysterious organization, Bryan is brought into their ranks. Additionally, M. Bison's Swap Costume is modeled after Bryan's appearance.

Crow[edit]

Fighting style: Military Training

Crow (カラス, Karasu) is a codename assigned for the lowest ranking members of the Tekken Force (the others, in ascending order, are Falcon, Hawk, and Owl). They appear as enemies in the Tekken Force mini-game. Crow made his first playable appearance in Tekken Card Challenge as an unlockable character, as well as in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as non-playable opponents in the Fight Lab mode.

Dr. Bosconovitch [edit]

Fighting style: Everything that he knows
Voiced by:

English
Ken Webster (Tekken: The Motion Picture)^[2]
Jamieson Price (Tekken: Bloodline)^[53]
Japanese
Tamio Ōki (Tekken: The Motion Picture)
Russian
Alexander Golovchanskiy (Tekken Tag Tournament 2)

Dr. Bosconovitch (ボスコノビッチ博士, Bosukonobitchi hakase) originally worked for the Mishima Zaibatsu. During the first Tekken, the Manji ninja clan (led by Yoshimitsu) raided the Mishima Zaibatsu's vault. During the raid, Yoshimitsu lost his arm and was found by Bosconovitch who helped him escape and fitted him with a mechanical arm. Dr. Bosconovitch was kidnapped by Kazuya Mishima in the run-up to The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2 and was forced to work for him. Some of the many projects involved the creation of the bio-weapons Roger and Alex, as well as the completion of the Prototype Jack unit. He began the "Cold Sleep" project as a means of preserving his daughter's body (who seemingly died) by using Nina Williams and Anna Williams as test subjects. After completing his tasks, and before being executed, Doctor Bosconovitch is rescued by the friend he helped save previously, Yoshimitsu. Nineteen years later, he contracted a rare disease that affects the spine as a result of working on his Cold Sleep project. In order to cure himself and to revive his daughter, he needed the blood of the fighting god, Ogre. He turned to an old friend, Yoshimitsu, for help. Yoshimitsu entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3 and was successful in obtaining a sample of Ogre's blood after Jin Kazama had killed it. Dr. Bosconovitch appears in Bryan Fury's Tekken 4 ending. In it, he explains to Bryan that he will now mechanize him and allow him to be completely reborn in a new incarnation. Bryan lays supine on the table and Bosconovitch holds a gun-shaped device containing sleeping gas. Bidding him sweet dreams, he injects the gas into Bryan. Throughout, he speaks in a calm and gentle tone. However, the doctor found Bryan's body too complex, and he instead installed a perpetual generator. Bryan proceeded to attack the doctor, as well as Manji Clan members who were with him. While the members were slain, Bosconovitch survived, though he was severely injured until he made his full recovery by the time of Tekken 7. In Tekken 6, he creates an android in his daughter's image, Alisa Bosconovitch. At the same time Tekken 8 begins, where he and the Manji Clan joins a rebellion via his cooperation with Violet Systems against Kazuya's tyranny, the doctor reunites with his "daughter" and fully removes the inhibitor installed in her body to let her go with her own free will.

Dr. Bosconovitch appears in Tekken Tag Tournament's mini game Tekken Bowl mode, where he can be seen in the crowd of people cheering. It is even possible to "take him out" using a bowling ball. He also appears in Tekken Hybrid where he returns again as an onlooker in the crowd of Tekken Bowl (there is also a trophy named after him called "Doctor B!" with the description being "K.O. an onlooker in Tekken Bowl" with an icon of Bryan as the picture). He returns in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as part of a free update. Although he does not appear in person in Death by Degrees, Nina Williams' spin-off game, he is mentioned several times in journals and documents, and he has a laboratory on the Solitaria Penitentiary island, although it's abandoned. Dr. Bosconovitch was mentioned by several Tekken characters in Capcom-made crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken.

Eddy Gordo[edit]

Forest Law[edit]

Fighting style: Martial Arts (based on Jeet Kune Do)
Voiced by: Katsuhiro Harada (TK3-TTT)

Forest Law (Japanese: フォレスト・ロウ, Hepburn: Foresuto Rou) is the good-natured son of Marshall Law who made his first playable appearance in the Tekken series, replacing his father in Tekken 3.^[54] He hopes to follow his father's footsteps as a fighter, but Marshall forbids him to enter contests of any kind, even the King of Iron Fist Tournament.^[55] However, Forest's friend and sparring partner Paul Phoenix convinces him to enter the third King of Iron Fist Tournament behind his father's back, causing a rift between Paul and Marshall. Forest is mentioned in Tekken 5 as having been hospitalized after a motorcycle accident, which becomes Marshall's motive for entering the tournament. He is playable in Tekken Tag Tournament as a replacement of his father Marshall Law and in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as a console-exclusive character.^[56]

Hwoarang[edit]

Fighting style: Taekwondo
Portrayed by: Daren Nop (Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Live-Action Short Film)
Voiced by:

English
Chris Rickabaugh (Street Fighter X Tekken)
Todd Haberkorn (Tekken: Bloodline)

Japanese
Toshiyuki Morikawa (Tekken 3 - Tekken Advance, Tekken 4 (grunts (all versions), dialogues (Japanese version), Tekken: Bloodline)^[26]
Tomoaki Maeno (Street Fighter X Tekken)^[51]

Korean
Lee Jong-gug (Tekken 4 (international version, dialogues))
Um Sang-hyun (Tekken 5 - onwards)

Hwoarang (Japanese: ファラン, Hepburn: Faran, Hangul: 화랑 Hwarang) was born in South Korea, a proud student of Baek Doo San and extremely proficient in the martial art of Taekwondo, Hwoarang used his skills to gamble in street fights with his other gang members. During these street fights, Hwoarang would lure his opponents in by sending his gang members to pose as weaker fighters. Once his gang members had been defeated, Hwoarang would enter and defeat his opponents to win the money at stake. One day, Hwoarang lured in an opponent by the name of Jin Kazama and they fought to a draw. This was the first time Hwoarang did not outright win a match and he immediately rushed to his master to tell him the news. Upon arriving at Baek Doo San's dojo, Hwoarang finds that his master had been apparently slain by Ogre, The God of Fighting. Hwoarang enters The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3 to defeat Jin Kazama and to seek revenge for his master, Hwoarang got to fight Jin in the later stages of the tournament but he was narrowly defeated after an hours-long fight very similar to the fight between Jin's father Kazuya Mishima and his rival Paul Phoenix in the first King of Iron Fist Tournament.

Returning to South Korea, Hwoarang was drafted into the South Korean military and was assigned to a special operations division. Although his successes in various missions were highly regarded along with his prowess at Taekwondo and combat techniques, his penchant for disobeying rules and orders gave his senior officers more than a few headaches. Hwoarang was uninterested in military life and felt a strange emptiness within him. He longingly recalled the days of hustling money in street fights and the rush he experienced from hand-to-hand combat. He often thought of one fight in particular - the fight against Jin Kazama; These longings could not be quelled by the military. One day, Hwoarang found out about the announcement of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4. Hwoarang's blood stirred. He would defeat Jin, Heihachi Mishima, and anyone else who dared to challenge him to claim the Mishima Zaibatsu. Filled with excitement he hadn't felt in years, Hwoarang slipped away from the military base and headed for the Tournament.

The South Korean Army took Hwoarang into custody during the later stages of the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, keeping him from his long-awaited fight with Jin Kazama. Upon his arrival at the embassy, Hwoarang is granted an official pardon by the ambassador and is given urgent military papers. Hwoarang immediately flies to South Korea to complete his training, which he completes in time to enter The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, once again hoping to get a rematch with Jin Kazama. He also had a brief reunion with his master, Baek, who he thought was killed, standing as a visitor. Hwoarang hears the details from Baek. In The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, Hwoarang faced Jin and defeated him in the later stages of the tournament. While Jin was lying on the ground, suddenly, he roars paranormally and produces a gale that blows Hwoarang away. From Jin's back, two black wings spread, and Jin stands up in his devil form. Hwoarang is at his wits end. He is not able to fight back, and soon he is knocked unconscious.

When Hwoarang wakes up, he finds himself in the hospital, and Baek is sitting besides him. He ignores his nurse and tries to move from his bed. He falls down in order to beseech Baek to make him stronger. After leaving the hospital, Hwoarang starts training with unprecedented devoutness in order to defeat the "paranormal" Jin. Thus, with the announcement of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6, he prepares for the tournament.

Hwoarang appears in Tekken 7, being one of the eighteen characters initially available in the game. In both of his and Devil Jin's endings reveals that Hwoarang temporarily lost use of his right eye after saving Jin from a grenade thrown by UN soldiers pursuing Jin. His ending takes place before Lars would rescue Jin, wherein Hwoarang finally defeats his rival's devil form, but is still left unsatisfied about killing a monster like Jin.

Hwoarang later returns in Tekken 8, where his right eye heals, and dyes his hair color back to orange six months later, as well as having reconciled his rivalry with Jin into friendly terms once again. After meeting Asuka Kazama, Jin's cousin, along with tournament finalist Lili de Rochefort, he learns that Kazuya's tournament was a set-up to lure Zafina into his trap and eventually absorb Azazel to become a true devil. He ultimately joins Jin and his allies against G Corporation.

Jin Kazama/Devil Jin/Angel Jin[edit]

Julia Chang/Jaycee[edit]

Ling Xiaoyu[edit]

Fighting style: Baguazhang and Piguaquan
Portrayed by: Claudia Alan (TTT2 "Girl Power" trailer)
Xuan Thanh Nguyen (TTT2 live-action short film)

English
Carrie Keranen (TK:BV)
Carrie Savage (SFXTK)
Faye Mata (TK:Bl)

Japanese
Yumi Tōma (TK3–TK6, TK3D:PE, SFXTK)
Maaya Sakamoto (TK:BV–TTT2, PXZ–present)

Ling Xiaoyu (Chinese: 凌曉雨; pinyin: Líng Xiǎoyǔ; Japanese: リン・シャオユウ, romanized: Rin Shaoyū) is a Chinese teenager who is a friend of the series' main protagonist, Jin Kazama, as well as a potential love interest,^[57] while trying to interfere with the affairs of the increasingly corrupt Mishima family. Following her debut in Tekken 3 (1997), she has appeared in every subsequent game in the series.

Design and gameplay[edit]

Ling Xiaoyu's age (sixteen) in her series debut was the result of the Tekken 3 development team wanting a younger girl in the game, as most of the game's female characters were "more than 25 years old".^[58] She was created alongside protagonist Jin Kazama by Namco artist Yoshinari Mizushima after he graduated from college, with the character's design being a great surprise to the Tekken staff.^[59] Her black hair is kept in pigtails throughout her series appearances, while her costumes have varied from a modified cheongsam in Tekken 6 to a kogal-style schoolgirl uniform in the 2011 animated film Tekken: Blood Vengeance.^[60]

Tekken: Blood Vengeance screenwriter Dai Satō said in 2011 that he had chosen her as one of the two lead characters because he felt she "symbolize[d] the older Tekken games".^[61] Katsuhiro Harada was surprised by the decision to use Xiaoyu, believing she was not that popular within the main demography. Satō had been a fan of the Tekken games and played the arcade version of the third installment as part of research. As he discussed the handling of these leads with Harada, Satō claims he wanted to use these characters since they come across as weak, something which he believes films require in order to undergo a character arc, common in coming-of-age story stories. The relationship between Xiaoyu and Alisa was compared to the ones of a buddy film. Xiaoyu was written to be relatable to the audience and balance the more supernatural elements in the process. Xiaoyu's relationship with Alisa was made so that the latter develops a "soul" as the film progresses as she is a robot.^[62]^[63]

Xiaoyu was first voiced by Yumi Tōma in Japanese. Starting with Blood Vengeance, the role was taken by Maaya Sakamoto. The staff from Tekken was glad with this new cast.^[64] Director Yoichi Mohri enjoyed Sakamoto's performance, believing her work turned Xiaoyu into a beautiful woman.^[65]

Her fighting style is officially listed as "various Chinese martial arts",^[43] in particular Baguazhang and Piguaquan.^[66] In his 2003 book Kung Fu Cult Masters, author Leon Hunt wrote that her style "draws extensively on wushu, with graceful balletic sweeps and wide, extravagant stances—like Lei [Wulong], she is a 'shapes'-based fighter and harder to learn than the Japanese or Korean boxers."^[67] according to Simon Hill of Prima Games, her "main strength lies in her speed ... she's the fastest character in Tekken 3."^[68]

Appearances[edit]

A sixteen-year-old Chinese martial artist,^[58] Ling Xiaoyu was tutored by her elderly relative, Wang Jinrei, at a young age.^[69] He believed she could achieve true greatness but was frustrated by her flippant attitude. She dreams of opening an amusement park, which Heihachi Mishima agrees to assist her with should she win the company-sponsored King of Iron Fist tournament. Xiaoyu enrolls at the Mishima Polytechnic School, where she befriends Miharu Hirano and Heihachi's grandson Jin.^[70] Heihachi additionally teaches her trained giant panda to fight and thus serve as Xiaoyu's bodyguard.^[71]

Xiaoyu remains a ward of the Mishima Zaibatsu during the events of Tekken 4, and enters the fourth tournament in hopes of reconnecting with Jin and uncovering the Mishima Zaibatsu's nefarious deeds.^[72] She is saved from Heihachi's evil plans by Yoshimitsu, who informs her of the Mishima family's tragic history. Xiaoyu therefore takes it upon herself to try and save the Mishima family,^[41] and as the fifth tournament commence. Before she can try to stop Jin, the Mishima Zaibatsu pushes towards militarization and declares a worldwide war. When the sixth tournament is announced, Xiaoyu enters in attempt to save Jin's soul from evil.^[43]

After Jin's disappearance in Tekken 7, Xiaoyu infiltrates the Mishima Zaibatsu building to find Jin. Xiaoyu meets Claudio Serafino. Claudio instead led her to the roof and challenged her to a fight. Xiaoyu accepts the challenge unaware of Claudio's true plan.^[73] In Tekken 8, Xiaoyu learns Claudio's true plan and rejects it, traveling the world to search Jin and join his forces to defeat Kazuya. They find fortuneteller Zafina unconscious and Kazuya sets up an ambush in Italy. Xiaoyu and Panda are entrusted to escort Jin to Yakushima to restore his devil power. Yggdrasil commander Lars Alexandersson rescues Xiaoyu and distracts Kazuya for Jin to purify his devil self. After defeating Kazuya and leaving him unconscious, Xiaoyu and Jin start a normal relationship. They celebrate their victories against G Corporation in Manhattan, New York.

Outside of the main series, Ling Xiaoyu has appeared in numerous noncanonical Tekken spinoff games, including Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken Revolution, and Street Fighter X Tekken.

Critical response[edit]

Upon her debut in Tekken 3, Next Generation commented that she and fellow Tekken 3 character Julia Chang "conform to different and equally depressing 'cute schoolgirl' stereotypes",^[74] while PlayStation Universe felt she was unique in the franchise due to her innocence rarely seen in other characters.^[75] Kevin Wong of Complex said that "Ling Xiaoyu is what happens when you put an 8-year-old girl's mind into a 19-year-old girl's body. With her plaid-skirted school uniform, barely legal hairstyle, and butt slapping shenanigans, Ling is somehow both kawaii and creepy."^[66]

Robert Workman of GameDaily named Ling Xiaoyu as one of his favorite female Asian video game characters, calling her "a joy to behold".^[76] GameDaily considered her a physically strong female character.^[77] MSN said of the character made the cheongsam fashionable again, and reminded the world that girls in tight clothing can still pull off some amazing fighting moves.^[78] Anthony Taormina of Game Rant called Xiaoyu "not just a representative of the strong female fighters in Tekken, but in video games in general".^[79]

In criticizing the plot of Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Charles Webb of MTV.com said, "Ling and Shin are simply pieces in a larger, mostly incomprehensible game being played by father and son Kazuya Mishima and Jin Kazama."^[80]

Mokujin/Tetsujin/Kinjin [edit]

Fighting style: Mimicry
Voiced by:

English
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Tekken: Blood Vengeance) (Mokujin)
Japanese
Keiko Nemoto (Tekken: Blood Vengeance) (Mokujin)

Mokujin

Mokujin (Japanese: 木人（もくじん）, "wood-person") is a training dummy made from a 2,000-year-old tree. He comes alive in the presence of great evil and it was said that he would become the world's last resort when humanity is unable to deal with them. While he appears to be mute (his "voice" is the sounds of wood-clicks), he is able to communicate with the humans using telepathy. Due to his experience as a dummy, he is able to imitate any fighting style. In Tekken 3, Mokujin is awakened when Ogre, the God of Fighting, was released. After Jin Kazama defeated True Ogre in The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, Mokujin grew lifeless once more, but he had a smile on his face.^[81] In Tekken 5, with the awakening of another powerful evil entity (Jinpachi Mishima), Mokujin has come to life once more. After the defeat of Jinpachi Mishima, Mokujin again became lifeless. In Tekken 6, Mokujin again comes to life when a being of great evil and the source of Devil Gene, Azazel awakened. Other than the main series, Mokujin appears in the non-canonical game Tekken Tag Tournament and its sequel Tekken Tag Tournament 2. He also appears as one of the unplayable penultimate bosses in free-to-play game Tekken Revolution.

Tetsujin

Tetsujin (鉄人（てつじん）, lit. "iron person") first appearing in Tekken Tag Tournament. Whereas Mokujin is constructed of wood, Tetsujin is constructed of iron. Both characters use the fighting styles of the other characters, and they both switch fighting styles between each round. While Mokujin's "fighting style" is referred as "Mokujin-ken", Tetsujin's is called "Tetsujin-ken", and similarly is the only sentence written in the movelist screen. He rarely appears in subsequent games, although Mokujin can be customized to look like Tetsujin in later installments. Tetsujin also appears as one of the unplayable penultimate bosses in free-to-play game Tekken Revolution and Tekken (Mobile).

Kinjin

Kinjin (金人（キンじん）, Kinjin, lit. "gold(en) person") is a secret unplayable boss character in free-to-play game Tekken Revolution. His design is likely based on an easter egg in the console version of Tekken Tag Tournament, where meeting certain requirements would cause Tetsujin's normally silver color to turn gold. In Tekken Revolution, he is basically Tetsujin made of gold wearing a crown, glasses, mustache, bow tie, and a cape. He is one of the Stage 7 penultimate bosses in Arcade mode, along with Mokujin, Tetsujin, Heihachi Mishima, and Jinpachi Mishima.

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Characters of the Tekken series

Character appearances[edit]

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Other games[edit]

Adaptations[edit]

Introduced in Tekken[edit]

Anna Williams[edit]

Armor King I/II [edit]

Ganryu[edit]

Heihachi Mishima[edit]

Jack (series)/Prototype Jack[edit]

Kazuya Mishima/Devil Kazuya/Kid Kazuya[edit]

King I/II[edit]

Kuma I/II[edit]

Kunimitsu I/II[edit]

Lee Chaolan/Violet[edit]

Marshall Law[edit]

Michelle Chang[edit]

Nina Williams/Summer Nina[edit]

Paul Phoenix[edit]

Wang Jinrei[edit]

Yoshimitsu[edit]

Introduced in Tekken 2[edit]

Angel[edit]

Baek Doo San[edit]

Bruce Irvin[edit]

Jun Kazama/Unknown[edit]

Lei Wulong[edit]

Roger, Roger Jr. and Alex [edit]

Introduced in Tekken 3[edit]

Ancient Ogre/True Ogre[edit]

Bryan Fury[edit]

Crow[edit]

Dr. Bosconovitch [edit]

Eddy Gordo[edit]

Forest Law[edit]

Hwoarang[edit]

Jin Kazama/Devil Jin/Angel Jin[edit]

Julia Chang/Jaycee[edit]

Ling Xiaoyu[edit]

Design and gameplay[edit]

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Panda[edit

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