History Characters / Tekken3

* {{Revenge}}: Julia seeks revenge against Heihachi in her ending from ''3'', since he kidnapped Michelle to obtain her pendant to control Ogre.

* PaperTiger: With the reveal of [[spoiler:Jun's survival]] in ''Tekken 8'', Ogre has a total of named, un-retconned kill count of ''one'', the original King. A far cry from the threat he was presented as.

* {{Foil}}: He cares a lot for his creations and robots in general. [[BadBoss Dr. Abel]] is the total opposite.

* OneWingedAngel: True Ogre. He does this ''again'' in ''Devil Within'' with Monstrous Ogre.

* GuestFighter: Even before ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'' did it.

* DenserAndWackier: Compared to his father; the original Kuma looks like a ferocious bear in his portrait and model, and the hit effects with his claws put emphasis on slashing his opponents, with the only goofy thing about him being his obsession with defeating Paul. Kuma II, by comparison, looks much cuter, has goofier win poses like where he dances a bit, a joke ending in ''3'' where he tries to ask Panda out, and silly moves such as farting at his opponent or bouncing on his butt. While eventually the slashing hit effect was given to Kuma II in ''7'', he's been established as a joke character for years by that point.

* EdibleBludgeon: Starting with ''7'', he starts utilizing a ''salmon'' in combat, something bears are known to eat; Kuma can score a home run on the opponent by smacking them past the horizon with the fish.

* ShamuFu: His Rage Art in 8 has him hit his opponent into the air by using a Salmon like a golf club…then the Salmon transforms into a homing missile and blows them up.

* DenserAndWackier: Compared to his father. The original Kuma looks like a ferocious bear in his portrait and model, and the hit effects with his claws put emphasis on slashing his opponents, with the only goofy thing about him being his obsession with defeating Paul. Kuma II, by comparison, looks much cuter, has win poses where he dances a bit, a joke ending in ''3'' where he tries to ask Panda out, and silly moves where he farts at his opponent. While eventually the slashing hit effect was given to Kuma II in ''7'', he's been established as a joke character for years by that point.

* DenserAndWackier: Compared to his father. The original Kuma looks like a ferocious bear in his portrait and model, and the hit effects with his claws puts emphasis on slashing his opponents, with the only goofy thing about him being his obsession with defeating Paul. Kuma II, by comparison, looks much cuter, has win poses where he dances a bit, a joke ending in ''3'' where he tries to ask Panda out, and silly moves where he farts at his opponent. While eventually the slashing hit effect was given to Kuma II in ''7'', he's been established as a joke character for years by that point.

** RevengeBeforeReason: In your typical "avenging the mentor" story, the villain has evaded justice at the beginning. However, Marduk was already rotting in prison for the killing of Armor King so King's mentor's death had already been punished. The only reason he got out was because King bribed the prison into releasing him. King's need to personally avenge his mentor resulted in Marduk actually avoiding justice for the crime he was already imprisoned for. Though, it can be argued that it wasn't all for nothing, as Marduk [[TookALevelInKindness got a HELL of a lot nicer]] after he and King became friends.

* DenserAndWackier: He's this compared to his father. The original Kuma looked like a ferocious bear in his portrait and model, and the hit effects were claws which puts emphasis on him trying to slash his opponents, with the only goofy thing about him being his obsession with defeating Paul. Kuma II by comparison looks much cuter, has win poses where he dances a bit, a joke ending where he tries to ask Panda out in ''3'', and silly moves where he farts on his opponent. While eventually the slashing hit effect was given to Kuma II in ''7'', he had been established as a joke character for years by that point.

* {{Revenge}}: She had a surprisingly short lived interest in it, which is noticeable as usually revenge in Tekken consumes other characters' lives, or is a motivation for a game or two, and Michelle's own stories had it as an element too. The only time Julia ever wanted revenge was against Heihachi in her ending from ''3'', since he kidnapped Michelle to get her pendant to control Ogre. It started as soon as Michelle told Julia this information, and ended right after Michelle talks her out of it. Either that ending is canon or Julia learned the lesson in some other way, but Julia herself shows no interest in revenge and doesn't go after Heihachi in later games. And despite Kazuya having tormented Michelle back in ''2'', Julia only tried to stop him in ''6'' because him and Jin clashing would awaken a great evil (Azazel in this case). Her overall lack of interest in revenge is likely why she was used in King's story from ''5'' to try to talk him out of his own revenge against Marduk.

* ADogNamedDog: Apparently, Heihachi wasn't creative enough with naming his pet bear anything other than "Kuma", which is the Japanese word for "bear".

* HistoryRepeats: In his story arc in ''Tekken 4'', Hwoarang wins the tournament, Jin doesn't show up even in the finals. Only to meet Jin at the parking lot afterwards to finally tussle. [[spoiler:His character episode in ''8'' ends the same way, only this time he decides to settle things with Jin by running each other off the road in their bikes.]]

* TankGoodness: He brings a tank in his ending in ''8'' to his personal firing range where he sits on top of it. His tank's main gun even throws Law out of Hwoarang's bike, where he gets rag-dolled into the pavement.

* LatinoIsBrown: Averted. Eddy is not only Brazilian, but also ''black'', something that's rarely shown in popular media due to the pervasiveness of this trope. Brazil actually hosts the largest African diaspora in the world; the reason why their numbers seem smaller is because miscegenation is widely practiced in Brazil centuries before it became socially acceptable in other nations of the Americas, so most descendants of Afro-Brazilians today identify as mixed-race.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Poor Xiaoyu's love for Jin is doomed to be unrequited. Not enough that he has not one but two families worth of problems to deal with, Jin has resolved to ensure that his devil's blood will not continue to a new generation. [[spoiler:Averted in ''8'', where Jin finally comes to terms with himself, his legacy and future and all but has a RelationshipUpgrade with her.]]

* MrFanservice: From day one, that dobok shows his abs (except for ''4'', where it's fastened). As of ''6'', you can customize him to ditch that. By ''Tag 2'', there's really tight short shorts available for customization.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Poor Ling's love for Jin is doomed to be unrequited. Not enough that he has not one but two families worth of problems to deal with, Jin has resolved to ensure that his devil's blood will not continue to a new generation. [[spoiler:Averted in ''8'', where Jin finally comes to terms with himself, his legacy and future and all but has a RelationshipUpgrade with her.]]

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: She was originally portrayed as exceptionally childish and naive, existing heavily as comedic relief. ''Blood Vengeance'' changes her personality towards being an average schoolgirl with above-average intelligence, influencing successive games and all supplementary material. Her "obsession" with Jin is more about believing that he still has good in him than being Yandere.

* MoralityPet: She's probably the only person in the world Jin doesn't actively hate or ignore and isn't Jun. He keeps trying to push her away because he doesn't want her to get caught up in the darkness of his life. She's also one of the few people Heihachi treats well, providing her with amenities to such an extent that Xiaoyu saw Heihachi as a grandfather, in contrast to how [[AbusiveParents Heihachi]] treats his other children.

* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Her original outfit in ''3'' incorporates the colors of the Chinese flag, red and gold. Later games branch her out into pink, orange and even blue outfits. It isn't until ''8'' that she has an alternate outfit in her ending she sports a red and gold dress again.

* TheGrappler: Following in the footsteps of the original King, he is the premiere grappler of the ''Tekken'' series. He has a greater focus on grabs than other characters, including several GrappleMoves that he can integrate into combos for explosive damage, and can throw his opponent from almost any condition (standing, laying down, against the wall, etc.). Learning to fight him means being able to guess which throw he's going for and using the appropriate button sequence to counter it, which can be harder than it sounds due to King's incredible mix-up potential. In ''8'', this is more pronounced with his use of the Heat system, as certain command grabs done while in Heat cause the gauge to partially replenish, allowing him to keep up the assault. Some throws have also gained a pseudo JustFrameBonus in that performing their inputs as fast as possible causes their damage to increase, complete with unique camera angles. Several of King's chain grabs also became easier to input with simpler commands, although legacy players are rewarded with more damage if performed with their original commands.

* ShownTheirWork: Eddy is not only Brazilian, but also ''black'', something that's rarely shown in popular media due to the pervasiveness of LatinoIsBrown. Don't let the census fool you; Brazil actually hosts the largest African diaspora in the world. The reason why their numbers seem smaller (the official estimate counted only 14 million people identifying as ''negro'') is because miscegenation is widely practiced in Brazil centuries before it became socially acceptable in other nations of the Americas, so most descendants of Afro-Brazilians today identify as mixed-race.

* TokenMinority: One of the few black characters in the series.

** Panda is always sharing a select space with Kuma, although both are considered separate people with separate storyline modes and endings. In fact, [[WordOfGod series director Katsuhiro Harada]] ''has'' given thought to giving the two separate spaces of late; it depends on the roster size.

* DittoFighter: Imitates almost any fighter in the game it's in. Sometimes, it also needs to borrow some props -- a sword, a tail, even ''wings''.
** In the console version of its debut in ''3'', it's unable to copy Anna's moveset. This is because Mokujin's moveset is based on the arcade's Ver. 1, where Anna is just a PaletteSwap option for Nina. When Anna returned to being a playable character in her own right in Ver. 2, Namco didn't bother to update Mokujin to consider her presence and why (as well as being just plain ridiculous) it can't imitate Gon or Bosconovitch.

* BadassNormal: He's the second person to actually beat Jin in a tournament match (the first being Paul). Shame about Devil Jin. As of ''7'', [[spoiler:he won his rematch with Devil Jin [[EyeScream and took a grenade to the face for his trouble]].]] His ending in ''6'' features Hwoarang successfully refusing Azazel's power when it's merging with his body unlike Ganryu and Yoshimitsu who turn into devils, just to show that he's different from his rival Jin.
* BadassBiker: His bike features in some of his ''Fated Retribution'' intro and win poses, as well as in most of his endings throughout the series. In ''8'', he's seen doing the [[Manga/{{Akira}} Akira Slide]] in one of his intros.

* ButtonMashing: Could be this in ''Tekken 3''...but to a lesser extent than the Capoeira characters. Downplayed in later games as his moves began to transition into his other fighting stances.

* CycleOfHurting: A good Hwoarang player will trap opponents in these, initiating a combo and then using mix-ups to cut off avenues of escape. This is why Hwoarang has such high combo damage potential.

* ExtremityExtremist: He has a few decent punching moves but as a competition-style TKD practitioner his kicks make up ninety percent of his arsenal. It's played completely straight in [[VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken SFxT]], where he doesn't have a single punch move (normal standing LP and MP notwithstanding, making him akin to fellow Taekwondoka Juri). Due to this, he's often depicted as a rival of sorts to the series' other notable example, Steve.
* EyeScream: The reason he has that eyepatch in ''7''? He took a grenade to the face to save Jin's life, and as a result his right eye was severely damaged. Fortunately, it turns out his eye has healed from the explosion by the time he reappears in ''8''.
* EyepatchOfPower: His default ''Tekken 7: FR'' costume features one covering his right eye. The reason for the eyepatch is that he took a grenade to the face. Fortunately he no longer needs it by the time he appears in ''8'', as the damage to his eye had already healed by that point.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Baek.

* TheRival: Of Jin Kazama. ''Bloodline'' depicts their relationship as FriendlyRivalry.

* StalkerWithoutACrush: His rivalry with Jin tends to come across as this.

* TooManyBelts: His 2P costumes from ''5'' onward.

* YourMom: In one of his ''Tekken 4'' victory quotes.

* AnimalMotifs: Both the rabbit and the fenghuang, or Chinese phoenix.

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She was the first character to debut at the age of 16, the current boundary for "youngest debut" in the series. She's no longer the youngest now, but still looks and acts youthful.

* BrilliantButLazy: Many believe if she was more serious she could achieve real greatness.

* DifficultButAwesome: Her amazing okizeme and crush games eats over a lot of characters as she can pick away and evade a lot of moves. This, of course, means that she has an expansive moveset that needs to be learned thoroughly before she can even become a threat.

* CombatSadomasochist: Has been shown to really enjoy pain, whether taking it or dishing it out. Certain moves performed against him (including Nina's GroinAttack kick, Anna's [[AssKicksYou hip check]], the Williams sisters' [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown heel-grind]], and Jack's Volcano Blaster throw) will even make him laugh!
** As an EasterEgg, certain moves performed against him will make him laugh or yell out in amusement, especially ones that [[BallsOfSteel aim for his groin]] or involve him being thrown high in the air. Some of these moves even heal Bryan a small portion of the damage they just dealt to him!

* FlatCharacter: This guy loves to commit wanton acts of murder while causing all sorts of mayhem and destruction, and that's all there is to say about him. There is the ''tiniest'' hint that he used to be a more layered man before he became a cyborg, but the games never bother to explore his backstory, leaving him to be defined solely by his sadism.

* MoreDakka: Besides with his fists doing the fighting, Bryan is a trigger-happy psycho who likes to use more firepower to solve his problems, from assault rifles to miniguns.

->Ever since then, she's been trying to help/save/resolve Jin and the Mishimas' dysfunctional relationships. None of them are actually bothered to even notice her attempts, though; it's a wonder Jin isn't tired of talking her down.

%%* AdaptationalVillainy: In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken''.

* SatelliteCharacter: She's mostly defined as 'Xiaoyu's pet panda' so she'll just be around as long as Xiaoyu is involved and [[UndyingLoyalty follows her unquestioningly]]. There used to be a subplot about her constantly rejecting Kuma, but it seems to have been aborted, especially since Kuma is undergoing a much more serious plotline.

* BadassAdorable: He's a big, adorable, fuzzy grizzly bear with a goofy and endearing personality, and his martial arts training makes him significantly more threatening than your usual bear.
* BatterUp: His Rage Art in ''Fated Retribution'' involves doing this... with a ''[[ShameFu live fish]]'' as the bat.

* ExtremityExtremist: He has a few decent punching moves but as a competition-style TKD practitioner his kicks make up ninety percent of his arsenal. It's played completely straight in [[VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken SFxT]], where he doesn't have a single punch move (normal standing LP and MP notwithstanding, making him akin to fellow Taekwondoka Juri).

** He still wants a rematch with Jin, [[spoiler:[[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou but won't let him be hurt by anyone else]], as when a grenade is thrown their way during their fight, he kicks him out of the way and takes the hit, blinding his right eye]].

-> ''Let's make this a fair fight.'' (''as more jaguar noises'')

* NiceGuy: Don't let his intimidating mask and jaguar sounds fool you. He's actually one of the genuinely nicest characters in the series. Even with the larger storyline of ''Tekken'' becoming darker and more grim, King never once strays from his duty of protecting children, and even made time to make friends with his once bitter rival.

** His look is based on anime character turned real-life wrestler [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Mask_%28professional_wrestling%29 Tiger Mask]], who was also based on Tormenta. [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/t/tigermask/match.jpg Just compare King's outfit with the Tiger Masks shown here.]]

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Her optimistic and upbeat attitude is a stark contrast to the brooding and cynical Jin. This dynamic is more pronounced in spin-off material and other medium where they are always paired up.

->'''Appears in:''' ''3''-''7'', ''Tag''-''Tag 2'', ''Revolution''

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: She was originally portrayed as exceptionally childish and naive, existing heavily as comedic relief. Tekken 6 changes her personality towards being an average schoolgirl with above-average intelligence. Her "obsession" with Jin being more believing that he still has good in him than being Yandere. ''Blood Vengeance'' increases this even moreso and influencing successive games and all supplementary material.

* {{Flanderization}}: She has a crush on Jin but it’s sometimes taken it to psychotic levels.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: The smallest human fighter in the series, but can be pretty formidable.

* BatterUp: His Rage Art in ''Fated Retribution'' involves doing this... with a ''live fish'' as the bat.

* CameraAbuse: In ''7'' one of his new intros is a parody of Bryan's one where he drags a steel girder and throws it at the camera. Kuma's version does the same... with a salmon.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Compared to his predecessor, starting in ''3'' Kuma and Panda's near-entire moveset is more animalistic than Jack's, though up until ''7'' they both still shared the same moveset. Starting with 7 they began undergoing this further beginning with their Rage Arts, until ''8'' finally made both of them unique from one another by causing their paths to diverge story-wise. Kuma has now so thoroughly embraced his duty as Heihachi's most loyal enforcer that he has done something no one outside of the Mishima family has been able to do: he can now use his master's signature moves like the Electric Wind God Fist.

* SharedSignatureMove: His moveset is peppered with moves invented by Heihachi like the Hell Axle, but the biggest development comes from ''8'' where Kuma gains his own version of the Wind God Fist - the Mishima's signature technique - showing that he's still loyal to Heihachi even after the latter's death.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Heihachi and the Mishima Zaibatsu as a whole.
* TheUnintelligible: Bear growls. Translated into English for cutscenes from ''5'' on.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Downplayed; while explicitly stated that she will experience this in ''7'', as evidenced by her having a separate roster slot from Kuma (unlike Lee and Violet), the only major difference is the Rage Arts they have. It isn't until ''8'' where this has finally started to take effect. The years Panda has spent with Xiaoyu have really rubbed off on her, and although she still retains some of her Mishima training she has also begun adapting Xiaoyu's fighting style into her repertoire as well.

* BadassAdorable: {{Downplayed}}. He is a grizzly bear after all, but his comedic personality and fighting style bring out a very endearing side to him.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Holds this attitude towards Jin, Devil or not. When ambushed during his fight with Devil Jin, Hwoarang kicked a grenade out of the way that would have ended the fight in his favor then and there. His reward? [[EyeScream Losing an eye]].