While powerful, he’s good-natured, honest, and caring, looking out for several of the “regular” people characters who wind up as casualties in the Mishima family’s wars. Lars is also one of the leaders of a squad in the Tekken Force, the private military of the Mishima Zaibatsu.ĭuring the events of Tekken 6, he loses his memory, regains them, creates a resistance force to the game’s antagonists, and discovers he’s actually Heihachi Mishima’s bastard son, making him a participant in the Mishima family drama. Lars Alexandersson is the protagonist of Tekken 6. The undisputed tragic hero of the series. Overwhelmed by hatred for his surviving family and not in control of his demonic power, Jin unlearns his family martial arts and self-teaches his own style and becomes a wanderer and loner. This awakens Jin’s own Devil Gene, pitting him in an internal struggle against himself and his own bloodline for the remainder of his appearances. This leads Jin to seek out the help of his grandfather, Heihachi – who proceeds to use Jin for his own goals. Jin was raised alone by his mother, but she is killed or captured by a mysterious creature named Ogre. His mother is Jun Kazama, a caring woman who managed to suppress Kazuya’s Devil side enough to conceive a son. Jin is also the son of Kazuya and grandson of Heihachi who was also born with the Devil Gene.
Jin Kazama is the series protagonist for much of Tekken 3 onward. He’s ruthless, cunning, and will let nothing stand in his way of his goals – not even devils, gods, and his own loved ones. He manages to retake his Zaibatsu and hide his ambitions behind a carefully-crafted well-meaning public image in the years afterward, spending most of that time trying to find a way to gain even more power. He’s beaten to within an inch of his life, but Heihachi, despite not possessing the Devil Gene, survives through sheer willpower. He further tempted fate by hosting the first Tekken tournament. Later games would deepen that motive, implying that Kazuya’s mother passed something dangerous on to her son. He is also patriarch of the Mishima clan, head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, and the creator and organizer of the King of Iron Fist Tournament (what Tekken is known as in-universe), Heihachi is the father of Kazuya Mishima and wanted to see if his son could be a good successor to his company, so he threw him off a cliff. Heihachi Mishima is a main character and/or antagonist of every game in the series and the protagonist of Tekken 2 & 7. It doesn’t prevent him from producing a son, however. He has an identity crisis at one point, but later games show that Kazuya’s Devil side has not only won out, but has become as natural to Kazuya as breathing. His motive: nothing but pure revenge against his infanticidal father.įrom Tekken 2 onward, it’s clear that the years of pent-up rage and hatred, fueled by the Devil Gene, has turned Kazuya from antihero to outright villain, even when compared to his ruthless father. Bearing a horrible scar from the ordeal, he spent years training on his own before showing up during the first Tekken tournament, which was put together by Heihachi and his corporate conglomerate, the Mishima Zaibatsu. Kazuya survived thanks to inheriting the Devil Gene, a special strand of DNA that can bestow demon-like powers. Kazuya was thrown off a cliff at the age of five by his father, Heichachi, to see if he was a worthy successor. Kazuya Mishima is the protagonist of Tekken 1, antagonist of Tekken 2, and one of the main characters of nearly every game afterward. Tekken Main Characters: The Mishima Clan Kazuya Mishima Kazuya Mishima Tekken 7 – The Beginning and End of the Mishima Curse.Tekken 2 – You Should Have Found a Steeper Cliff.Tekken Main Characters: The Mishima Clan.The obvious caveat is that Smash Ultimate is a 2D fighter, so moves that would either hit in three dimensions or move a character into the back or foreground don't do so in this case. His signature moves like the Twister Kick, Dragon Punch, and even the Tekken mechanic of the 10-Hit Combo all look like near one-to-one adaptations from the Tekken series.
The game's penchant for creating very faithful adaptations of its guest characters abilities in Smash seems to be on full display with Kazuya. Ultimate moveset was largely revealed in the trailer alongside the tongue-in-cheek cinematics. Ultimate is coming at a later date, there's enough information in the new trailer to make some pretty safe inferences about his role within the game's meta. While a full breakdown of Kazuya's moveset in Super Smash Bros. The reveal at Nintendo's E3 Direct showed off an amusing cinematic trailer in line with previous DLC reveal trailers interspersed with a decent chunk of gameplay footage. Kazuya Mishima from the Tekken series is making his way into Super Smash Bros.