List of Tekken characters

The following is a list of characters from the fighting game series Tekken. Characters are chronologically listed in order of the games in which they debuted.

Characters

Players can choose from a diverse cast that hails from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and fighting styles. A few characters have supernatural origin, such as Devil and Ogre, while animal characters like Kuma the bear 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 four characters have appeared as playable characters in all seven main Tekken installments to date: Heihachi Mishima, Nina Williams, Paul Phoenix, and Yoshimitsu. King have appeared in all seven main Tekken games with two different characters.

Three characters: Kazuya Mishima, Lee Chaolan, and Marshall Law also come close having appeared in six installments. Kuma have appeared as playable in six installments with two different characters, and Jack with six (Jack, Jack-2, Gun Jack, Jack-5, Jack-6 and Jack-7).

Main series

Character	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Akuma	No	No	No	No	No	No	Guest19	1
Alex	No	Yes2 5	No	No	No	No	No	1
Alisa Bosconovitch	No	No	No	No	No	Yes10 17	Yes	2
Ancient Ogre	No	No	Yes4 5	No	No	No	No	1
Angel	No	Yes2 4 5	No	No	No	No	No	1
Anna Williams	Yes3 5 16	Yes5	Yes5	No	Yes5 8	Yes	No	5
Armor King I/II	Yes3 5 16	Yes5	No	No	Yes1 9	Yes	No	4
Asuka Kazama	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Azazel	No	No	No	No	No	Boss6	No	1
Baek Doo San	No	Yes5	No	No	Yes5 8	Yes	No	3
Bob Richards	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes17 19	2
Bruce Irvin	No	Yes5	No	No	Yes5 8	Yes	No	3
Bryan Fury	No	No	Yes5	Yes5	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Christie Monteiro	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	3
Claudio Serafino	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Combot	No	No	No	Yes5	No	No	No	1
Craig Marduk	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	3
Crow	No	No	Enemy15	No	No	No	No	1
Devil/Devil Kazuya	Yes2 3 5 16	Yes4 5	No	Film14	No	No	Yes2	4 (3)
Devil Jin	No	No	Film14	Film14	Yes5 8	Yes	Yes17	5 (3)
Devil Kazumi	No	No	No	No	No	No	Boss6	1
Dr. Bosconovitch	No	Film14	Yes3 5	Film14	No	No	No	3 (1)
Eddy Gordo	No	No	Yes	Yes2 3 5	Yes5 8 12	Yes	No	4
Feng Wei	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	3
Forest Law	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Ganryu	Yes3 5 16	Yes5	No	No	Yes5 8	Yes	No	4
Gigas	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes17	1
Gon	No	No	Guest3 5	No	No	No	No	1
Gun Jack	No	No	Yes5	No	Enemy15	No	No	2
Heihachi Mishima	Yes3 4 5 16	Yes	Yes5	Yes4 5	Yes5 8	Yes	Yes	7
Hwoarang	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
(1, 2) (5, 6, 7) Jack (1, 2, 5, 6 and 7)	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes17	5
Jin Kazama	No	No	Yes	Yes5	Yes	Yes	Yes17	5
Jinpachi Mishima	No	No	No	No	Yes3 4 7 11	No	No	1
Josie Rizal	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes17	1
Julia Chang	No	No	Yes5	Yes5	Yes	Yes	No	4
Jun Kazama	No	Yes	No	Film14	No	No	No	2 (1)
Katarina Alves	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Kazumi Mishima	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes4 18	1
Kazuya Mishima	Yes	Yes5	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	6
King I/II	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
Kuma I/II	Yes3 5 16	Yes5	Yes5	Yes5	Yes5 8	Yes	No	6
Kunimitsu	Yes3 5 16	Yes5	No	No	No	No	No	2
Lars Alexandersson	No	No	No	No	No	Yes10 17	Yes	2
Lee Chaolan	Yes3 5 16	Yes5	No	Yes5	Yes	Yes	Yes19	6
Lei Wulong	No	Yes	Yes	Yes5	Yes	Yes	No	5
Leo Kliesen	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Lili De Rochefort	No	No	No	No	Yes1 9	Yes	Yes	3
Ling Xiaoyu	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	5
Lucky Chloe	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Marshall Law	Yes	Yes	Film14	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	7 (6)
Master Raven	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes17 19	1
Michelle Chang	Yes	Yes	Film14	No	No	No	No	3 (2)
Miguel Caballero Rojo	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes19	2
Miharu Hirano	No	No	No	Yes2 3 5	No	No	No	1
Mokujin	No	No	Yes5	No	Yes5 8	Yes	No	3
NANCY-MI847J	No	No	No	No	No	Boss6 13	No	1
Nina Williams	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes5	Yes	Yes	Yes19	7
Panda	No	No	Yes2 5	Yes2 5	Yes2 5 8	Yes2	No	4
Paul Phoenix	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
Prototype Jack	Yes3 5 16	Yes5	No	No	No	No	No	2
Raven	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Roger	No	Yes5	No	No	Film14	Film14	No	3 (1)
Roger Jr.	No	No	No	No	Yes5 8	Yes	No	2
Shaheen	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Sebastian	No	No	No	No	Film14	Film14	No	2
Sergei Dragunov	No	No	No	No	Yes1 9	Yes	Yes	3
Slim Bob	No	No	No	No	No	Film14	No	1
Steve Fox	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Tiger Jackson	No	No	Yes2 5	No	No	No	No	1
True Ogre	No	No	Yes4 5	No	No	No	No	1
Violet	No	No	No	Yes2 5	No	No	Yes2 19	2
Wang Jinrei	Yes3 5 16	Yes5	No	No	Yes5 8	Yes	No	4
Yoshimitsu	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes17	7
Zafina	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Total	18	25	23	23	36	41	36

Notes:

^1 Update version only (console version).
^2 Skin/palette swap.
^3 Playable in console versions only.
^4 Playable boss.
^5 Unlockable.
^6 Unplayable boss.
^7 Unplayable in Tekken 5.
^8 Unlockable in Tekken 5.
^9 Only in Tekken 5: DR.
^10 Only in Tekken 6: BR.
^11 Unlockable in Tekken 5: DR.
^12 Skin/palette swap in Tekken 5.
^13 Playable in a campaign level.
^14 Characters appearing only in cinematics.
^15 The characters are only enemies in a certain mode.
^16 Unplayable in arcade version.
^17 Update version only (arcade version).
^18 Unplayable boss (release date (arcade)) / playable update character (later (arcade)).
^19 Only in Tekken 7: FR.

Spin-off games

Heihachi Mishima, Jin Kazama, Bryan Fury, Ling Xiaoyu, Mokujin, Hwoarang, Paul Phoenix, King II, True Ogre, Nina Williams and Kuma II have appeared in all four major spin-off games.

Character	CC	TTT	TTT2	R	Total
Alex	No	Yes2 5	Yes3	No	2
Alisa Bosconovitch	No	No	Yes	Yes5	2
Ancient Ogre	Yes5	Yes5	Yes1 3	No	3
Angel	No	Yes2 5	Yes1 3	No	2
Anna Williams	Yes5	Yes	Yes	No	3
Armor King I/II	No	Yes	Yes	Yes1 7	3
Asuka Kazama	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Baek Doo San	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Bob Richards	No	No	Yes	Yes1 7	2
Bruce Irvin	No	Yes5	Yes	No	2
Bryan Fury	Yes5	Yes	Yes	Yes5	4
Christie Monteiro	No	No	Yes	Yes1 7	2
Combot	No	No	Yes3	No	1
Craig Marduk	No	No	Yes	No	1
Crow	Yes5	No	Enemy9	No	2
Devil/Devil Kazuya	No	Yes5	Yes2	Yes2	3
Devil Jin	No	No	Yes	Yes1 7	2
Dr. Bosconovitch	No	No	Yes1 3	No	1
Eddy Gordo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	3
Eliza	No	No	No	Yes1 7	1
Feng Wei	No	No	Yes	Yes1 7	2
Forest Law	Yes5	Yes	Yes3	No	3
Ganryu	No	Yes	Yes	No	2
Gun Jack	Yes5	Yes	No	No	2
Heihachi Mishima	Yes	Yes	Yes	Boss6	4
Hwoarang	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes1 7	4
(2) (6) Jack (2 and 6)	No	Yes5	Yes	Yes	3
Jaycee	No	No	Yes	Yes1 7	2
Jin Kazama	Yes5	Yes	Yes	Yes1 7	4
Jinpachi Mishima	No	No	Yes	Boss6	2
Julia Chang	Yes5	Yes	Film8	No	3 (2)
Jun Kazama	No	Yes	Yes4	Yes1 7	3
Kazuya Mishima	No	Yes5	Yes	Yes	3
King II	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Kinjin	No	No	No	Boss1 6	1
Kuma II	Yes5	Yes5	Yes	Yes1 7	4
Kunimitsu	No	Yes5	Yes1 3	Yes1 7	3
Lars Alexandersson	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Lee Chaolan	No	Yes5	Yes	Yes1 7	3
Lei Wulong	Yes5	Yes	Yes	No	3
Leo Kliesen	No	No	Yes	Yes5	2
Lili De Rochefort	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Ling Xiaoyu	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes1 7	4
Marshall Law	No	No	Yes	Yes	2
Michelle Chang	No	Yes	Yes1 3	No	2
Miguel Caballero Rojo	No	No	Yes	Yes1 7	2
Miharu Hirano	No	No	Yes1 3	No	1
Mokujin	Yes5	Yes2 5	Yes	Boss1 6	4
Nina Williams	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes1 7	4
Panda	Yes5	Yes2 5	Yes	No	3
Paul Phoenix	Yes5	Yes	Yes	Yes	4
Prototype Jack	No	Yes5	Yes3	No	2
Raven	No	No	Yes	No	1
Roger	No	Yes5	Film8	No	2 (1)
Roger Jr.	No	No	Yes	No	1
Sebastian	No	No	Yes1 3	No	1
Sergei Dragunov	No	No	Yes	Yes1 7	2
Slim Bob	No	No	Yes1 3	No	1
Steve Fox	No	No	Yes	Yes5	2
Tetsujin	No	Yes2 5	No	Boss1 6	2
Tiger Jackson	No	Yes2	Yes3	No	2
True Ogre	Boss6	Yes5	Yes	Boss6	4
Unknown	No	Yes3 4 5 10	Yes1 3 4 10	No	2
Violet	No	No	Yes1 3	No	1
Wang Jinrei	No	Yes5	Yes	No	2
Yoshimitsu	Yes5	Yes	Yes	No	3
Zafina	No	No	Yes	No	1
Total	21	39	60	36

Notes:

^1 Update version only.
^2 Skin/palette swap.
^3 Playable in console versions only.
^4 Playable boss.
^5 Unlockable.
^6 Unplayable boss.
^7 Update and unlockable.
^8 Characters appearing only in cinematics.
^9 The characters are only enemies in a certain mode.
^10 Unplayable in Arcade version.

Other games

Character	Ad	NxC	TR	3D: PE	SFxT	CT	Ar	G:TE	Total
Akuma	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	2
Alisa Bosconovitch	No	No	No	Yes	Yes1	No	No	Enemy5	3
Ancient Ogre	No	Yes	No	No	Yes3	No	No	No	2
Anna Williams	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Enemy5	2
Armor King I/II	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	2
Asuka Kazama	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes1	No	Yes4	4
Baek Doo San	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Bob Richards	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Enemy5	3
Bruce Irvin	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Bryan Fury	No	No	No	Yes	Yes1	No	No	No	2
Christie Monteiro	No	No	No	Yes	Yes1	No	No	No	2
Claudio Serafino	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	1
Craig Marduk	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Enemy5	3
Devil/Devil Kazuya	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	1
Devil Jin	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes1 2	No	Enemy5	3
Dr. Bosconovitch	No	No	No	No	No	No	Boss5	No	1
Eddy Gordo	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Enemy5	2
Feng Wei	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Boss5	No	2
Forest Law	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	1
Ganryu	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Boss5	2
Gun Jack	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	1
Heihachi Mishima	Yes4	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes1	Yes	Yes	7
Hwoarang	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes1	No	No	4
(6,X) Jack (6 and X)	No	No	No	Yes	Yes1	No	No	Enemy5	3
Jaycee	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Enemy5	1
Jin Kazama	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes1	Yes	No	7
Julia Chang	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	2
Kazuya Mishima	No	No	Yes4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes4	6
King II	Yes	Yes	Yes4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Boss5	7
Kuma II	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Boss5	3
Lars Alexandersson	No	No	No	Yes	Yes1	No	No	No	2
Lee Chaolan	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Lei Wulong	No	No	No	Yes	Yes1	No	No	No	2
Leo Kliesen	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Lili De Rochefort	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	4
Ling Xiaoyu	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Boss5	7
Lucky Chloe	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes4	1
Marshall Law	No	No	Yes4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Enemy5	6
Miguel Caballero Rojo	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Mokujin	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Enemy5	3
Nina Williams	Yes	No	Yes4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Enemy5	7
Panda	No	No	No	Yes2	No	Yes	No	Enemy5	3
Paul Phoenix	Yes	No	Yes4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Enemy5	7
Prototype Jack	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	1
Raven	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Enemy5	4
Roger Jr.	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Sergei Dragunov	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Steve Fox	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	2
Unknown male Character 1	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Unknown male Character 2	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Unknown male Character 3	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	1
Wang Jinrei	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Yoshimitsu	Yes	No	Yes4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Enemy5	6
Zafina	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	1
Total	10	9	8	41	25	13	15	25

Notes:

^1 Update version only.
^2 Skin/palette swap.
^3 Playable boss.
^4 Unlockable.
^5 Unplayable character/boss.

Introduced in Tekken

Anna Williams

Armor King

Armor King (アーマー・キング, Āmā Kingu) 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's protege King into entering the competition to seek revenge.^[2] 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.

Brett Elston of GamesRadar said of the character's appearance in the 2006 PSP game Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection: 'We're big fans of Armor King's 'grab you out of the air and pile drive into the ground' attack."^[3]

Ganryu

Voiced by: Banjō Ginga (Tekken); Hidenari Ugaki (TK5-present); Takashi Nagasako (TK2-Tekken Tag Tournament; Tekken: The Motion Picture); Lowell B. Bartholomee (Tekken: The Motion Picture, English); Paul St. Peter (Tekken: Blood Vengeance, English)

Ganryu (Japanese: 巌竜, Hepburn: Ganryū) is a 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.

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 Julie fuels his brutality."^[4] 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."^[5]

Heihachi Mishima

Jack (1, 2, 5, 6 and 7)/Gun Jack/X

Kazuya Mishima and Devil/Devil Kazuya

King

Kuma

Kunimitsu

Voiced by: Katsuhiro Harada (TK1); Shiho Kikuchi (TK2-TTT); Houko Kuwashima (TTT2)

Kunimitsu (Japanese: 州光) is a treasure hunter who conceals the upper half of her face with a cat-shaped mask.^[6] She was a member of the Manji, a clan of ninja bandits led by Yoshimitsu, and became skilled in usage of the stealth knife and Manji-style Ninjutsu before being expelled from the group for petty theft. She enters the first King of Iron Fist Tournament in the original Tekken, intending to steal a Native American pendant from fellow competitor Michelle Chang, but she is defeated by Chang and goes into hiding before seeking solace with her bladesmith grandfather. He reveals to Kunimitsu that Yoshimitsu's sword is a priceless relic that was handed down through the Manji and capable of dismembering enemies spiritually and mentally. Kunimitsu enters the second tournament in Tekken 2 to defeat Yoshimitsu and claim his sword so her grandfather can duplicate it before his death, but the outcome of this storyline is unknown as she does not make any further series appearances. Kunimitsu is selectable in the noncanonical Tekken Tag Tournament, and is a downloadable console-exclusive character in Tekken Tag Tournament 2.^[6]

In a 2012 fan poll held by Namco, Kunimitsu was the eighth-most requested Tekken character for the then-upcoming crossover fighter Tekken X Street Fighter, receiving 10.97% of 88,280 total votes.^[7]

Lee Chaolan/Violet

Marshall Law

Michelle Chang

Nina Williams

Paul Phoenix

Prototype Jack

Wang Jinrei

Voiced by: Tamio Ōki (TK1~TTT); Hu Qian (TK5)

Wang Jinrei (Japanese: 王 椋雷(ワン・ジンレイ), Hepburn: Wan Jinrei, pinyin: Wáng Liángléi) is an elderly man who was a close friend of Heihachi Mishima's father Jinpachi, and lived as a recluse in the Mishima gardens. Wang tutors his granddaughter 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. In Tekken 5, set two decades after Jinpachi's death, Wang receives a letter from Jinpachi, who is actually alive and requests Wang's participation in the latest tournament. He loses to Jin Kazama, who then informs him that his purpose is to wipe out the Mishima family's cursed blood. However, Wang then faces Jinpachi's demonic form, whom he refuses to kill but reluctantly relents at Jinpachi's insistence, as he can preserve his human consciousness only through death.^[8] Wang is playable as a downloadable console-exclusive in his first three Tekken series appearances before being selectable from the outset in Tekken 6, in which he ultimately dies of old age.^[8]

Gavin Jasper of 4thletter.net ranked Jinpachi's death fifth in his 2012 ranking of the fifteen best fighting game storylines, but commented: "The elderly Wang Jinrei has been in the Tekken cast since the beginning, but he’s also been boring as hell while adding nothing of interest."^[8]

Yoshimitsu

Introduced in Tekken 2

Angel

Voiced by: Yuka Koyama (TTT2)

Angel (Japanese: エンゼル, Hepburn: Enjeru) is an ambiguous 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.^[9] Her Tekken Tag Tournament 2 profile states that she wields the power to purify things, and carries a compassionate and a cruel side. Angel is a palette swap of Devil in Tekken 2 and Tekken Tag Tournament, but receives a distinct design for Tekken Tag Tournament 2^[10] while her fighting style borrowed from Kazuya and Devil Jin.^[11]

Baek Doo San

Voiced by: Kaneto Shiozawa (TK2~TTT); Um Sang-hyun (TK5); Kyousei Tsukui (Tekken: The Motion Picture; Japanese); Lowell B. Bartholomee (Tekken: The Motion Picture; English)

Baek Doo San (Japanese: 白頭山(ペク・トー・サン), Hepburn: Peku Tō San, Hangul: 백두산 Baek Dusan) is a master of Tae Kwon Do 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 Hworang completes his service, he and Baek enter the fifth tournament to test Hworang's skills, but Baek later withdraws after Hworang 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 Hworang enter the tournament together once again.

Bruce Irvin

Voiced by: Peter Harrell, Jr. (Tekken: The Motion Picture; English); Seiji Sasaki (Tekken: The Motion Picture; Japanese)

Bruce Irvin (Japanese: ブルース・アーヴィン, Hepburn: Burūsu Āvin) is a muscular and Mohawked African-American kickboxer. 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.^[12] 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. He is then absent from the series until returning in Tekken 5 as a downloadable character. After becoming reacquainted with Kazuya Mishima in the tournament, Bruce assists Kazuya in taking over G Corporation, a biotech firm. G Corporation then wages war with the Mishima Financial Group, and Bruce, as Kazuya's captain, leads Kazuya's private corps into battle. G Corporation attempts to gain an advantage by placing an enormous bounty on Jin Kazama, which results in the staging of the sixth tournament, in which Bruce is selectable from the start and participates in 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 African-American fighting game characters, such as Mortal Kombat's Jax and Street Fighter's Balrog, as "either non-existent or consistent in their overall attributes."^[13] Bruce's Tekken 5 render was additionally the lone character illustration that was used for the article.^[13]

Jun Kazama

Lei Wulong

Roger/Roger Jr. and Alex

Roger 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 escape and meet Armor King, who schools 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 is shown to be married with a son named Roger Jr., who is a kangaroo with human attributes like his father. After Roger 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, again not playable, and his wife are since divorced but she suffers financial hardship without his presence. She and Roger Jr. both participate in the sixth tournament in hopes of establishing financial security. Roger and Alex both appear the noncanonical Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2, in which Roger Jr. is playable in Roger's stead.

Darragh O'Connor of WhatCulture jointly named Alex and Roger among his "5 Terrible Fighting Game Characters That Nobody Should Ever Choose" in 2013. "Roger share[s] almost everything with Alex: his moves, win animations, back-story...and stupidity."^[14]

Introduced in Tekken 3

Bryan Fury

Crow

Crow 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 in both Tekken 3 and Tekken 4. Crow also appears 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

Eddy Gordo/Tiger Jackson

Forest Law

Voiced by: Katsuhiro Harada (TK3-TTT), Todd Haberkorn (TTT2)

Forest Law (Japanese: フォレスト・ロウ, Hepburn: Foresuto Rou) is the good-natured but slow-witted son of Marshall Law who makes his only appearance in the Tekken series as a selectable character replacing Marshall in Tekken 3.^[15] He hopes to duplicate his father's greatness as a fighter but is forbidden by Marshall to enter any contests. 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, which causes 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 in replacement of Marshall and in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as a console-exclusive character.^[16]

Gon

Gon (Japanese: ゴン) is a diminutive dinosaur who is the eponymous title character of the manga series and media franchise. He makes a one-time playable guest appearance in the PlayStation version of Tekken 3.

Hwoarang

Jin Kazama/Devil Jin

Julia Chang/Jaycee

Ling Xiaoyu

Mokujin/Tetsujin/Kinjin

Ogre/True Ogre

Panda

Introduced in Tekken 4

Christie Monteiro

Combot

Combot (Japanese: コンボット, Hepburn: Konbotto) makes his lone series appearance in Tekken 4 as a general-purpose robot created by Lee Chaolan for the fourth tournament, crafted to be the ultimate fighting machine. It is programmed to learn every fighter's style as it progresses through the tournament. It was also used to increase the chance of Lee gaining the Mishima Zaibatsu if Heihachi were to be defeated by Combot. Production of the prototype was rushed, resulting in glitches such as using only one fighting style at a time while switching through them randomly. The robot utilizes some physical attributes of other characters, such as brandishing Yoshimitsu's sword or having a long tail similar to King's.

Combot is a playable training dummy in in Tekken Tag Tournament 2's "Fight Lab" tutorial.^[17] Lee (as his alter ego, Violet) completes work on Combot as part of his Super Combot DX Plan.^[18] However, Lee is caught up in the success of his handiwork that he neglects to pay attention to the robot and it explodes. He constructs a second model and then kidnaps Heihachi, Jin, and Kazuya as test subjects until Jin destroys it.

Craig Marduk

Miharu Hirano

Voiced by: Eriko Fujimaki (TK4)

Miharu Hirano (Japanese: 平野 美晴, Hepburn: Hirano Miharu) is Ling Xiaoyu's best friend and a student of Mishima Polytechnical High School. She first appeared as an alternate costume of Xiaoyu in Tekken 4, sharing her storyline, special moves, and win animations. She wears a school uniform identical to Xiaoyu's, and has short, dark red hair. Miharu was included in the console version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as a free update released by Namco on October 9, 2012.^[19]

Steve Fox

Voiced by: Ezra J. Stanley (TK4); Guy Perryman (TK5-present, in-game voice); Gideon Emery (Street Fighter X Tekken, English); Yoshimasa Hosoya (Street Fighter X Tekken, Japanese)

Steve Fox (Japanese: スティーブ・フォックス, Hepburn: Sutību Fokkusu) is a British boxer whose mother is Nina Williams; she was impregnated via in vitro fertilization and gave birth while held captive by Heihachi Mishima as a test subject for the Mishima Zaibatsu corporation's cryogenic sleep studies. Steve was adopted in his infancy and grew up to become a middleweight boxing champion while searching for the truth about his past. While on the run from the Mafia after refusing to throw a fight for them, Steve enters the fourth King of Iron Fist tournament, which he loses but learns that Nina is his mother. During the events of the fifth tournament, Steve succeeds in destroying the Mishima Zaibatsu's research institute. However, his boxing career dries up due to the world war started by Jin Kazama, but he is invited by Marshall Law and Paul Phoenix to train with them in the martial arts. Steve is playable in Tekken 3D: Prime Edition, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken Revolution, and Street Fighter X Tekken. His main costumes feature the red, white and blue of the Union Jack.

British actor and musician Luke Goss played Steve in the 2010 Tekken film.^[20] His storyline from the games is changed to his being a retired fighter^[20] with no relation to Nina and instead becoming the friend and mentor of Jin Kazama after Jin defeats Marshall in the tournament. Steve is later killed by Jackhammers while breaking Jin and other imprisoned participants out of their holding cells.

In 2012, Gelo Gonzales of FHM listed Steve and Street Fighter character Balrog as one of his "10 Awesome Fantasy Fights" for Street Fighter X Tekken: "Balrog’s the aggressive, in-your-face, no-nonsense Mike Tyson type. Steve, on the other hand, is a pretty boy British boxer who likes to weave around and counter at the ideal moment."^[21] Samuel Riley of GamesRadar ranked Steve fourth in his selection of the "7 baddest boxers in video games" in 2014: "Decked out in Union Jack shorts and a tasty pair of golden gloves, Steve favours punishing body strikes to the precision jab, a high stakes style that metes out as just much pain as it invites."^[22]

Introduced in Tekken 5 and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection

Asuka Kazama

Feng Wei

Voiced by: Hiroshi Tsuchida (TK5 gameplay); Chuan Yin Li (TK5 cutscenes and endings)

Feng Wei (Japanese: 馮 威(フェン・ウェイ), Hepburn: Fen Wei, pinyin: Féng Wēi) is a mute fighter who was raised as a disciple of the God Fist style (神拳 Shinken, based on nanquan). Though he was his dojo's top student, Feng killed his master after he was scolded for fighting outside the dojo. Feng seeks the secrets of the God Fist scrolls that were stolen by the Mishima family, leading to his competing in the fifth King of Iron Fist Tournament and his destruction of Asuka Kazama's dojo in the process of his search.^[23] and he is ultimately successful in retrieving the scrolls. Feng has featured regularly in the series since his Tekken 5 debut.

Jinpachi Mishima

Lili De Rochefort

Raven

Voiced by: Jack Merluzzi (TK5, also TK6-TTT2 gameplay); D. C. Douglas (TK6–TTT2 cutscenes); Kenji Sugimura (2009 live action film; Japanese); Kenichiro Matsuda (Street Fighter X Tekken; Japanese)

Raven (Japanese: レイヴン, Hepburn: Reivun) is an international intelligence agent who sports a distinctive X-shaped scar across his face. He enters the fifth tournament to seek out those responsible for the event, and witnesses an attack on Hon-Maru by G Corporation's Jack-4 foot soldiers while on a mission to look into the company and Mishima Zaibatsu, as the conglomerates are warring with each other. Raven fights Heihachi after the tournament but leaves in the middle of battle to return to headquarters. Raven was then sent to investigate the Mishima Zaibatsu once again via the sixth tournament. Raven is a featured character in Tekken 6's "Scenario Campaign" story mode, first appearing as an enemy boss defeated by Lars Alexandersson and Alisa Bosconovitch. He later helps Alisa and Lars escape from a rampaging NANCY robot. He appears with Yoshimitsu as a playable unit in Street Fighter X Tekken.

Raven was portrayed by Darrin Henson in the 2010 live-action film Tekken.^[24] He defeats Eddy Gordo in the tournament and offers advice to Jin Kazama before the latter's fight with Bryan Fury.

Sergei Dragunov

Voiced by: Kenichi Morozumi

Sergei Dragunov (Japanese: セルゲイ・ドラグノフ, Hepburn: Serugei Doragunofu, Russian: Сергей Драгунов) is a Russian Spetsnaz soldier who practices Sambo and is nicknamed "White Angel of Death" due to his fighting prowess. While investigating a mysterious body found in Siberia, Dragunov receives special orders from an unknown party supposedly regarding Devil Jin and enters the fifth tournament to carry them out, but Tekken 6 reveals that his mission is unsuccessful. As a result of the ongoing world war caused by Jin, now the new owner of the Mishima Zaibatsu, Dragunov competes in the sixth King of Iron Fist Tournament to capture Jin and bring down the organization. Dragunov shares a rivalry with Raven that includes having inflicted his facial scar. Save for battle grunts, the character has no dialogue in any of his in-game appearances.^[25]

Dragunov is portrayed by martial artist and actor Anton Kasabov In the 2010 live-action Tekken film, in which he has no dialogue. He participates in the Iron Fist tournament and is killed in battle by Bryan Fury.

Introduced in Tekken 6 and Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion

Alisa Bosconovitch

Azazel

Voiced by: Richard Epcar (story mode)

Azazel (Japanese: アザゼル, Hepburn: Azazeru) is the main antagonist of Tekken 6, and the source that created the devil gene within the Mishima bloodline, set to be released from his tomb after the clash of "two evil stars" (Jin and his father Kazuya). He is the physical embodiment of the spirit resonating within Jin's psyche that is affected by his struggles with his father Kazuya (the "two evil stars"). Azazel has blue-gray skin, a large spiked tail and huge crystalline spikes protruding from his forearms, and wears a ceremonial headdress and loincloth. His offensive attacks range from summoning giant crystal stalagmites from the ground to unleashing scarab beetles onto his opponents. Azazel appears in the final stage of Tekken 6's story mode, brought forth by Jin so he can defeat him and end his own life in the process. Azazel is defeated not by Jin but by Lars Alexandersson and Raven, but Jin reveals that Azazel can only be permanently vanquished by someone carrying the Devil Gene. Jin powers up with his Devil form, making him immune to Azazel's attacks. Jin kills Azazel by punching his fist straight through his chest but both fall and disappear into the temple ruins.

Azazel has received critical reception for his difficulty as a final boss. Lucas Sullivan of GamesRadar included him in his 2014 selection of twelve "unfair" fighting-game bosses. "Hated that mutated old guy [Tekken 5 boss Jinpachi], huh? Here, have a fire-breathing crystal dragon that's as tall as the screen."^[26] Rick Marshall of MTV said in 2009, "As far as boss battles go, Azazel is the most difficult the franchise has ever offered—even on 'Easy' mode."^[27] Stephen Nadee of WhatCulture named Azazel the number-one "worst" fighting game boss in 2013: "Understanding the game mechanics mean almost nothing when it comes to fighting Azazel particularly when he has his advantage in defense, his moves are fairly difficult to sidestep, and can counter-attack through his own blocking."^[28] Eric Neigher of GameSpy wrote in his 2009 review of the game's PlayStation Portable release: "Azazel, Tekken 6's official nemesis, is perhaps the most badly designed, frustrating to play against, and overall worst boss ever."^[29]

Bob Richards

Voiced by: Patrick Seitz (TK6–present); Tsutomu Isobe (Street Fighter X Tekken, Japanese)

Making his debut in Tekken 6, Robert Richards (Japanese: ロバート・リチャーズ, Hepburn: Robāto Richāzu),^[30] simply known as Bob, is an American martial artist who participated in numerous fighting competitions but lacked power against larger opponents. He therefore fattened himself up to the point of morbid obesity while maintaining his previous speed, then entered the sixth tournament to silence his doubters. A thin version of the character, called "Slim Bob", is included in Tekken Tag Team Tournament 2 as a download, while the original Bob was added to the roster of the 2016 Tekken 7 update.^[31]

Reception to the character has been mixed, mainly due to his design. Robert Workman of GameDaily ranked Bob the tenth "ugliest game character" in 2008: "If the bright red shirt covering the gigantic frame isn't insulting enough, he also has a bleach blonde mop on his head."^[32] In 2010, GamesRadar proposed a fantasy fight between Bob and Street Fighter's Rufus for Street Fighter X Tekken: "How two totally different companies [Namco and Capcom] decided they both needed speedy fat asses in their games at exactly the same time is something of a mystery, though ... we feel there’s room for both of them."^[33] Complex ranked Bob among the "25 Most Badass Fat Guys in Games" in 2011.^[34] In 2012, Jeff Marchiafava of Game Informer deemed Bob one of the most "ridiculous" Tekken characters: "Bob is from America. Bob is also morbidly obese. That's pretty much all the thought Namco put into Bob."^[35]

Lars Alexandersson

Leo Kliesen

Voiced by: Veronica Taylor (TK6, TTT2 (grunts))

Leo Kliesen (Japanese: レオ・クリーゼン, Hepburn: Reo Kurīzen)^[36] is a Bajiquan practitioner whose father was a world-famous spelunker and her mother Emma a G Corporation executive. Though her father disappeared during an expedition, Leo still wanted to follow his career path, until her mother was murdered by an unknown assailant. When the police abruptly call off the investigation, she opts to seek the truth herself, during which the G Corporation's Kazuya Mishima materializes as a person of interest. It was at this time that she learned of the Mishima Zaibatsu-sponsored The King of Iron Fist Tournament, at which Mishima planned to appear, and Leo decides to enter the competition in hopes of gaining access to him. In her Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ending, Leo infiltrates a train owned by Mishima Zaibatsu and learns that her mother was involved with the company twenty years before, heading a project called "Hybrid Gene", and one of her subjects was Steve Fox. In Tekken Comic, Leo is male and Lili Rochefort's bodyguard. He accompanies Lili to Osaka to shoot a martial arts film.

Namco attempted to cater to both male and female players with the character's shortened name and ambiguous design of short blonde hair and non-revealing clothing.^[37] Series producer Katsuhiro Harada revealed Leo's full name (Eleonore) and gender at the 2011 Tekken: Blood Vengeance premiere in Cologne, Germany.^[38] Tom Goulter of GamesRadar said in a 2012 feature on the Tekken characters, "Choose this character if anyone tries to tell you that videogames are all about enforcing restrictive gender binaries."^[39]

Miguel Caballero Rojo

Voiced by: Liam O'Brien (TK6, TTT2 (grunts))

At the age of fifteen, Spanish brawler^[40] Miguel Caballero Rojo (Japanese: ミゲル・カバジェロ・ロホ, Hepburn: Migeru Kabajero Roho) was kicked out of the house by his parents for constantly fighting. He ran away and sought sanctuary inside a bar, where his sister, with whom he was extremely close, would visit him in secret. However, she is later killed on her wedding day after a group of Mishima Zaibatsu fighter jets launch an airstrike on the church where the ceremony was being held.^[41] Miguel's investigation leads to the sixth tournament in order to seek answers from the corporation's CEO, Jin Kazama. His early appearances resemble that of a bullfighter, but his design was simplified in Tekken 7 to an open red shirt and green combat trousers.^[41] He has no formal training in the martial arts.

Miguel has a minor role in the 2010 Tekken live-action film, and was played by Roger Huerta. He is defeated in the tournament by Jin.

NANCY-MI847J

NANCY-MI847J is a massive robotic security unit under the command of Jin Kazama. It is very difficult to destroy and possesses an arsenal of missiles and lasers. NANCY only appears in Tekken 6's arcade mode and "Time Attack" Mode as a bonus round battle before the player fights Jin. In the story mode, the robot is controllable in one level of the story mode when the player attempts infiltration of G Corporation's headquarters.

Steve West of Cinema Blend said about the character's fighting style: "Nancy doesn’t react like a typical Tekken opponent. Rather than block your puny attempts to damage it, the robot will simply attack you whenever it feels like it."^[42] However, Dale North of Destructoid commented in 2008: "Where do [Namco] get these [character] names? Bob and Nancy? That sounds like a Middle-American surburban couple."^[43]

Zafina

Voiced by: Lisle Wilkerson

Zafina (Japanese: ザフィーナ, Hepburn: Zafīna) is a Middle Eastern woman of Egyptian descent.^[44] She was born into an ancient bloodline of dispellers of evil and possesses spiritual powers. Raised as a warrior and serving as her clan's assassin, she uses her spiritual gifts on the side working as an astrologist. Zafina is tasked with guarding a sealed royal tomb that believed to maintain the clan's wellbeing, and she has defeated all who have tried to infiltrate it. She prophesies the clash of two "evil stars" (Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima) who will bring about the world's end. Zafina therefore travels to the Far East, where Jin and Kazuya are predicted to meet. In Tekken 6's "Scenario Campaign" story mode, Zafina allies herself with Lars Alexandersson and Raven against the Tekken Force, and gives them the location of Azazel's Temple.

Introduced in Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Sebastian

Voiced by: Serge Bourrier (TTT2)

Sebastian (セバスチャン, Sebasuchan) is Lili's butler who made his debut as a playable character in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 as part of a free update on October 9, 2012.^[19] He previously appeared as an unplayable character in Lili's Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection and Tekken 6 endings. Sebastian also appears alongside Lili in the game Digimon World Re:Digitize with his trained Angemon.^[45]

Sebastian utilizes Lili's moveset, sharing many of her moves including the ones from Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection that were removed in the current releases.^[46]

Introduced in Tekken Revolution

Eliza

Eliza (エリザ, Eriza) is a vampire who made her debut in the free-to-play spin-off Tekken Revolution. She was one of the ten character choices in a poll to determine the new character addition for the game; she was eventually voted number one most wanted character, ahead of Sexy Female Tekken Force and Shin Kamiya at San Diego Comic Con 2013, ensuring her inclusion to the game. According to her backstory, Eliza is a powerful and immortal vampire who had existed since more than 1000 years ago. One day, when she was about to ge to sleep inside her coffin, she accidentally fell into a deep sleep for hundred of years. In present-day Monaco, the Rochefort family built a mansion above her coffin, thus imprisoning her. She eventually woke up and managed to escape recently. Eliza still has difficulty in controlling her sleep and will fall asleep even in the middle of fights; however, she can potentially recover her health while doing so.

Eliza's fighting style incorporates several supernatural moves (such as teleportation). She is the first character in the series with a projectile attack; she can shoot a grounded energy wave that goes straightforward, although unlike Jinpachi's fireball, it is blockable.

Introduced in Tekken 7 and Tekken 7: Fated Retribution

Akuma

Voiced by: Taketora (T7:FR)

Akuma, known in Japan as Gouki (豪鬼, Gōki), is a Japanese martial artist who has mastered the dark powers of Satsui no Hado, seeking to increase his own strength and defeat the most powerful opponents in the world. Hailing from the Street Fighter series, Akuma makes a special guest appearance in Tekken 7: Fated Retribution. In the story, Kazumi asks him to find and kill Heihachi and Kazuya should she perish. Akuma agrees, claiming that this will settle the debt that he owes Kazumi. Akuma retains many of his abilities from the Street Fighter games, such as his Gohadoken, Shakunetsu Hadoken, Gou Shoryuken, Tatsumaki Zankukyaku, Zanku Hadoken, Hyakkishu, Ashura Senku, Messatsu Gou Hadou as his Super Move and Shin Shun Goku Satsu as his Rage Art. Akuma is the only character who has mechanic exclusive to himself, Street Fighter's EX/Super meter, in place of Rage Drive, which is safe and can be used many times than other Tekken characters.^[47]

Claudio Serafino

Claudio Serafino (クラウディオ・セラフィーノ, Kuraudio Serafīno) is a white-clad man hailing from Italy. He is a leader of a secret Anti-Devil organization in combating the Devil Gene's threat, known as Archers of Sirius. Empowered with a Sirius magic, he has tattoos around his left eye and black tapes covering his right arm, which can project and shoot blue lights/boost during battles. He is one of the playable characters in the first location tests of Tekken 7.^[48] During an interview with Harada, it was said that Claudio was created to counter the Devil Gene's reign, thus will play an important role in the game.^[49]

The reason why behind his organization's secret from the public and a sudden disclosure is not yet known at this point. Sometimes later, Claudio's organization was approached by the Mishima Zaibatsu, led by Heihachi to join their conglomerate. However, the archers refused and the Mishima Zaibatsu continues to persuade them. Due to noticing a suspicious act on what Heihachi and his Zaibatsu are up to, Claudio prompted to investigate the reasons behind the Mishima Zaibatsu's persuasion.

Gigas

Gigas (ギガース, Gigās) is a hulking, red-skinned humanoid who appears to have cybernetics attached to his otherwise nude body. His fighting style is "Destructive Impulse". He was one of the characters whose existence was leaked before being officially revealed as the second new character added post-launch of Tekken 7. Gigas was revealed to be created by Jane and her group in the development of biotechnological weapons. Gigas was sent in the tournament to tests it fighting capabilities.

Josie Rizal

Josie Rizal (ジョシー・リザール, Joshī Rizāru) is a young woman from the Philippines. She wears a yellow top, a blue miniskirt, and a red rabbit-like hair accessory. Josie practices eskrima, the native martial art and national sport of her home country (formally known as Arnis), combined with kickboxing reminiscent of Yaw-Yan, an indigenous kickboxing martial art. Josie's name bears a very close resemblance to José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines. Shortly after Josie was introduced to the public on March 29, 2015, she became a trending topic on Twitter with many Filipino fans expressing generally positive reactions.^[50] Just two days after Josie was officially announced, someone claiming to be an official from the Philippine National Center for Culture and the Arts told the Philippine media that they plan to "take steps to correct any wrong impression Josie Rizal may have given about Dr. Rizal and the Philippines."^[51] However, three days later NCCA legal counsel Trixie Cruz-Angeles clarified that the agency had yet to issue any position on the matter in a post she made in her personal Facebook page stating "The NCCA has not asked for the deletion of Tekken character Josie Rizal. In fact, the NCCA has not taken cognizance of the issue nor issued an opinion. If you've been reading that website, understand this please, it's SATIRE. The name of our chairman is Prof. Felipe de Leon, Jr. Also, matters pertaining to national heroes are within the jurisdiction of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines. Chill."^[52]

Josie was designed by character designer Mari Shimazaki, well known for her work in the Bayonetta series, who also worked on the design of the final boss of Tekken 7, Kazumi Mishima. Before her official announcement, Josie was first revealed in a leaked arcade data discovered by players, who also found data relating to other characters yet to be added at the time.^[53]

Josie was a big crybaby at the young age as her parents are the fans of Martial Arts and they insist their daughter to learn Martial Arts which she initially refuses until she reluctantly agrees to her parents expectations but she is unable to cure herself for being a crybaby when she accustomed to train Kickboxing.

After Josie was accustomed to train by mastering kickboxing, she becomes a kickboxer and a model to help her household on track until a large typhoon had struck on their home. When the Mishima Zaibatsu sends the Tekken Forces to give relief aids to the typhoon victims in their ravaged country, Josie aspires to become the member of the Tekken Force. She currently decides to join the Tekken Force by taking an employment examination.

Katarina Alves

Katarina Alves (カタリーナ・アウヴェス, Katarīna Auvesu) is a Brazilian woman who practices the art of savate. She is described as a "sassy, mouthed talker", as well as a beginner-friendly character, with simple strings to execute combos. Along with Claudio, she is one of the characters available in the first location tests of Tekken 7.^[48]

Kazumi Mishima/Devil Kazumi

Voiced by: Yumi Hara

Kazumi Mishima (三島 一美, Mishima Kazumi) is the wife of Heihachi and the mother of Kazuya. She serves as the final boss in Tekken 7.^[54] Before Tekken 7, she was only alluded to twice: once in Heihachi's stage in Tekken 2, in which her and Heihachi's names are written on the floorboard of the temple in the style of Aiaigasa (a romantic expression to show love between couples), as well as in the non-canon OVA Tekken: The Motion Picture, in which she is mentioned to have died shortly after giving birth to Kazuya. She is seen in a photo inside a locket, cradling baby Kazuya. The debut trailer of Tekken 7 features Kazumi appearing in person for the first time, with her and Heihachi's Aiaigasa-stylized name also shown. Prior to becoming the seventh time release character added to Tekken 7, her human form was playable, yet her devil form remains unplayable.

Kazumi's fighting style is Hachijo Style Karate, which is very similar to the Mishima Style Karate as practiced by the rest of her family, with additional tiger-summoning and levitating ability akin to Jinpachi Mishima. As a final boss, Kazumi is fought in two phases; upon beating her once, she transforms into a stronger phoenix-like white Devil form and remains that way for the duration of the stage. In her devil form, besides having the original devil's powers of third eyed Devil Blaster and wings, her tiger-summoning ability is enhanced, and the tiger's color itself changes to white.

In the story, Kazumi asks Street Fighter's Akuma to find and kill Heihachi and Kazuya should she perish. Akuma agrees, claiming that this will settle the debt that he owes Kazumi.

Lucky Chloe

Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto

Lucky Chloe (ラッキー・クロエ, Rakkī Kuroe) is a teenage girl wearing a black, pink and white kitten-themed costume, including cat ears, tail, and paws. She is described as an otaku, having an obsession with Japanese pop culture and speaking in Japanese and English with a Japanese accent, though given her blonde hair and blue eyes, she may be as that of Caucasian descent. She is hired by G Corporation to be a mascot commercial. Her fighting style involves a lot of kicks, twirls, and flips somewhat of a hip-hop dancer.

Lucky Chloe was designed by Yusuke Kozaki, a character designer who had also worked on Fire Emblem Awakening and the No More Heroes series.^[55] The character's revelation drew complaints from forums such as e.g.NeoGAF, with some going so far as to ask Harada to remove the character from the game. Others, meanwhile, called out the character for being a fish out-of water conception or drew comparisons with characters from other fighting game series, including the systema fighter, Marie Rose from the Dead or Alive series.^[55] In response to these criticisms, Harada tweeted that he would consider to make Lucky Chloe exclusive for the Asian and European versions and a make well-muscled skinhead for the North American market; while the tweet was later clarified as a joke,^[56] several game outlets apparently took the comment seriously.

Master Raven

Voiced by: Wendee Lee

Master Raven (マスターレイヴン, Masutā Reivun) is a female superior of the original Raven, debuted in Tekken 7: Fated Retribution through time release. In a battle, she carries a sword similar to Yoshimitsu.

Shaheen

Shaheen (Japanese: シャヒーン Shahīn, Arabic: شاهين Shahyn) is a Saudi Arabian man wearing a shemagh and agal on his head. He also wields a scimitar around his waist. Shaheen was designed by illustrator NINNIN, one of several character designers and illustrators employed to create character designs for Tekken 7, with help from community feedback on social media, particularly those from Saudi Arabia.^[57] The character drew attention from the Middle Eastern mainstream press, being featured in publication medias from several countries, including Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Shaheen is a bodyguard for a Private Military Company, who is tasked in protecting key figures in the world. It is said that under his guard, no one has come to be attacked. However, a friend to Shaheen that is a top figure in the oil industry was however mysteriously found dead. Although it was published as an accidental death, Shaheen always had his doubts. Sometimes later, G Corporation acquires the private Military Company and everyone that Shaheen was previously familiar with ended up resigning after the acquisition. Having figured that all of this was all too much of a coincidence, Shaheen set out to investigate and find out the truth of what is really going on.

Non-playable characters

The following lists the non-playable characters (NPC) that appear in the series. While they do not participate in the tournament or even are not fighters in any way, they still influence the story, particularly in its characters.

Asuka's Father

The father of Asuka Kazama is a martial art master who practices Kazama Style Traditional Martial Arts which he teaches at his family's dojo located near Osaka. He also taught this martial art to his daughter, Asuka, who is an assistant teacher at his dojo. He is a relative of Jun Kazama, although to what extent their relationship goes is unknown. Before the events of Tekken 5, the arrogant God Fist Kung-Fu prodigy, Feng Wei, traveled through Japan to find the God Fist scroll, destroying many dojo along the way. The Kazama's dojo was one of his targets, as Feng easily defeated Asuka's father and his students, before destroying their dojo. This incident caused Asuka to participate in the fifth tournament to take revenge on Feng. While he is unseen in the main video game series, he does make an appearance in the non-canonical Tekken Comic, set during the events of Tekken 6.

Dr. Abel

Dr. Abel (ドクトル・アベル, Dokutoru Aberu) is a mad scientist who works for Mishima Zaibatsu alongside his rival, Dr. Bosconovitch. He revives the deceased Bryan Fury by reanimating him into a cyborg. Abel sent Bryan to Tournament 3 to collect mechanical data from Bosconovitch for his plans to build a cyborg army. After the tournament, Abel abandoned Bryan and attempted to kill the G Corporation's scientist Jane when she tried to break into the Mishima Zaibatsu's labs. However, Gun Jack shielded her from his attacks, thus destroying him instead. Later, Bryan was in a state of despair when his life was expiring. At the end of Tournament 4, Bryan found Abel and punched him across the room. It is unknown whether he survives the attack or not.

Emma Kliesen

Voiced by: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Emma Kliesen (エマ・クリーゼン, Ema Kurīzen) is the mother of Leo. She worked as an executive of G Corporation. Her husband disappeared when Leo was still a child. Some time before the events of Tekken 6, Emma was murdered by an unknown assailant presumably sent by her superior, Kazuya Mishima, thus sparking Leo's quest to take revenge against Kazuya. In both Leo and Steve Fox's endings in Tekken Tag Tournament 2, it is revealed that Emma once worked for Mishima Zaibatsu twenty years ago and that she was the supervisor of the "Hybrid Gene" program conducted by Heihachi Mishima, which consisted of injecting subjects who could withstand the fatal impact of the Devil Gene. One of the subjects, Steve, then known as NT01, was taken in by Emma, who reported his disappearance as death. After briefly taking care of him, Emma left Steve to be adopted in England.

Jane

Voiced by: Rumiko Varnes (TK5), Erin Fitzgerald (TK6), Jessica Schwartz (Tekken: The Motion Picture (English))

Jane (ジェーン, Jēn) is a Russian scientist working for G Corporation. As a child, she was orphaned in the Russian war zone and was left in the care of Jack-2, who defied his orders to raise her. However, he was eventually destroyed by an explosion, and Jane, then a scientist, determined to rebuild her friend. Nineteen years later, she developed Gun Jack and sent him to the third tournament to retrieve Jack-2's memories. The two managed to break the Mishima Zaibatsu's labs, but were attacked by Dr. Abel, who destroyed Gun Jack when he attempted to protect Jane. Two years later, Jane helped the construction of hundreds of Jack-4 robots with the intention of assassinating Kazuya Mishima, which she did not involved and spared by Kazuya for his use. Subsequently, she developed an upgrade to Jack-4 called Jack-5, whom she sent to participate in the fifth tournament for testing. At the end of the tournament, Jane managed to retrieve the fight data to complete the model. However, when she heard that the Mishima Zaibatsu was building NANCY-MI847J, a complex robot designed for warfare, she built an upgraded Jack model, Jack-6, to counter the robot.

In Tekken 7, Jane is revealed to be responsible and her group to create a biotechnological weapon named Gigas by combining between the strong fighter's DNA to a monstrous one.

Legendary Capoeira Master

The Legendary Capoeira Master is the grandfather of Christie Monteiro and the mentor of Eddy Gordo. Before the events of Tekken 3, Eddy willingly imprisoned himself after the murder of his parents, where he shared his cell with the Master. He taught Eddy the art of Capoeira during their incarceration. After Eddy was released, the Legendary Capoeira Master (who still had to serve two more years in prison) left a message for him to meet and teach his granddaughter, Christie, Capoeira. He was eventually released two years later, but had become a frail old man. When taken to medical exam, the doctor told Christie and Eddy that he was suffering from a normally incurable sickness that gave him only six months of life expectancy, but also told that a cure could be found with the technology of Mishima Zaibatsu. Thus, his cure became Christie and Eddy's primary reasons for entering the fifth tournament. At the end, neither Christie nor Eddy were able to win, and Eddy, in desperation, took his master to Japan while he joined the Mishima Zaibatsu's ranks with the promise from its leader, Jin Kazama, that he would help him curing his master. However, Jin ultimately failed to keep his promise, and the Legendary Capoeira Master eventually dies at the end of the tournament, with Eddy angrily leaving his ranks.

Richard Williams

Voiced by: Paul St. Peter

Richard Williams (リチャード・ウィリアムズ, Richādo Wiriamuzu) is a former assassin and the father of Nina and Anna Williams. He taught his children various assassination martial arts. Richard died sometime after the events of the first Tekken, which further strengthened the rivalry between his children, even after he left his final wish that the two would reconcile. His cause of death is unknown, although in the non-canon OVA Tekken: The Motion Picture, it is explained that Anna was responsible for his death. In the spin-off Death by Degrees (also non-canon), Richard had died when the sisters were still young and that he was killed when he was trying to protect his children.

Shin Kamiya

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (Japanese), David Vincent (English)

Shin Kamiya (神谷 真, Kamiya Shin) is a character specifically created for the CGI film Tekken: Blood Vengeance, which is an alternate retelling of the events between Tekken 5 and Tekken 6. He was a student of the Mishima Polytechnic High School, where he was a friend of Jin Kazama. During the start of the film, he has moved out to the Kyoto International High School and is apparently very sought after by both Jin and Kazuya Mishima. Ling Xiaoyu, who is sent by Anna Williams to temporarily attend that school to find Shin, first meets him just as he is about to commit suicide by jumping from the roof, which is ultimately a futile attempt. As Xiaoyu and Alisa Bosconovitch (sent by Nina Williams) delve further, it is revealed that Shin, along with his entire class had been experimented by Heihachi Mishima (thought to be dead at that time) with the Devil Gene to test immortality. Shin is the only survivor and he has since been given immortality, which he despises, thus explaining his temptation to take his own life. Shin is eventually kidnapped, which causes Xiaoyu and Alisa to work together to find him, only to find out that he had purposefully lured Heihachi to himself, wanting to take revenge against him for having ruined his life. Shin attempts to punch Heihachi, but he easily braces against it as he breaks Shin's spine, killing him.

Shin was one of the proposed character concepts as a playable character in Tekken Revolution. The developer found it difficult to make him as a playable character due to his lack of knowledge in martial arts and the fact that he died in the film he appeared in, although there was an idea to make him an immortal character.^[58] In the character poll, Shin ranked third, above the Zombie Bride and below Eliza and Sexy Female Tekken Force.

Tougou

Voiced by: Hozumi Gōda

Tougou (東郷, Tōgō) is Lars Alexandersson's friend and fellow member of the Tekken Force of Mishima Zaibatsu. When Lars rebels against the force, Tougou follows suit, and he becomes Lars and Alisa Bosconovitch's source of information during their travel throughout the world in attempt to avoid the Mishima Zaibatsu's manhunt. However, during their raid of G Corporation headquarters (in which Tougou also participates), he is killed by the company's forces, causing Lars to swear to take revenge against the enemies for his death.

While he is not a playable character in any of the games, his cybernetic sword is available as an item move for Lars in Tekken Tag Tournament 2. Tougou was one of the character concepts considered in a poll for a new character to be added in Tekken Revolution. He would have used a style similar to Lars, but with the added abilities to use his sword and to call for air strikes via radio.^[58]

Other characters

Characters who were supposed to debut in the series, but for one reason or another have not been included by developers on the final release.

Average, run-of-the-mill Old Man

An average old man that can be found in any neighborhood. He is not a martial artist, so he is pretty weak. It was an idea mentioned early in the series, and thrown out the instant it was mentioned.^[58]

Female Paul

For some inexplicable reason, Paul Phoenix is transformed into a girl, but the appearance is of a very cute girl. The concept was thrown out in 2 seconds, as it was too off-the-wall.^[58]

Ganmi-chan

Ganmi-chan (巌美ちゃん) is a teenage female Sumo wrestler who idolizes Ganryu. The original idea was proposed for Tekken Tag Tournament 2, but was discarded 5 seconds later in order to focus on increasing the popularity of Ganryu. A character sketch was completed several years ago, and the result was of a cute character, like those found in The Idolmaster.^[58] The sketch was later revealed by series producer Katsuhiro Harada on his Twitter account, in which he also stated that if the tweet is retweeted 1000 times, he would try to convince the staff to do her design.^[59]

Giant Praying Mantis

During development of Tekken 3, a bug caused the joints of a character to move backwards, and the character model was deformed. It looked like it would be a strong fighter, so there was an idea to actually implement it, but the idea was discarded for lack of development time. Like with Syake/Salmon, the Insect blank data can be found when the Tekken 3 arcade board is hacked. This was also found by some very hardcore fans, and video can be found on YouTube.^[58]

Sexy Female Tekken Force

A gorgeous and sexy female Tekken Force member, she is loyal to the Mishima Zaibatsu, regardless of who is in charge. As such, she was not a part of the rebellion started by Lars Alexandersson. The original concept was proposed for Tekken 5, but the clothing was too revealing and the concept was scrapped for fears the rating would increase. The concept surfaced again for Tekken 6 but did not make the final cut. There were several martial arts mentioned for this character, including Silat, Krav Maga, Savate, Taekkyeon, Systema, and Escrima. If chosen, the design may need to be altered in order to pass the ratings boards.^[58] In the results of the character poll to determine the new character for Tekken Revolution, Sexy Female Tekken Force ranked second, just below Eliza (then known as Female Vampire).

Syake/Salmon

Originally planned for Tekken 3, punch buttons would cause the Salmon to flop around, and the kick buttons would make it release eggs, which was quite an idea at the time. However, arcades were still popular worldwide, and charging 100 yen (1 USD) per play with such a character was likely to be a problem. That, and the fact that character would always be the target of Kuma, lead to the concept being scrapped. If the Tekken 3 arcade board is hacked, you will notice there is placeholder data with the character’s name remaining. This has been discovered by a few hardcore fans in the past (video is on YouTube). If, for some unforeseen reason, this character is actually chosen, development may be quite difficult.^[58]

Wild Card

Wild Card is an irregular character only appearing in the arcade version of Tekken. He is the manifestation of the random select used to determine CPU matches when the arcade machine is not in use. For the console version, Wild Card would have been used in conjunction with a random select slot on the character select screen and would have referred to any randomly selected character in the game, but was cut from the final release. A random select option would not be implemented until Tekken Tag Tournament. Wild Card can only be selected through hacking of an emulation of the arcade version. It uses Kazuya's model and Yoshimitsu's moveset. Wild Card does have name plates but does not speak; the only voice clip for Wild Card is the announcer speaking its name.

Zombie Bride

A zombie bride-to-be in a wedding dress. The idea first came up around Tekken 3 as the first fighting zombie in a game. The idea resurfaced again for Tekken 6, as the sister of Miguel, who was killed in an air strike and came back to life. Since the fighting style for a zombie would be quite difficult to create, the idea was scrapped.^[58] Zombie Bride ranked fourth in the character poll to determine the new character for Tekken Revolution, just below Shin Kamiya.

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