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Spin-Offs
Tekken Tag Tournament | Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Films & Shows
Tekken: The Motion Picture | Tekken: Blood Vengeance | Tekken: Bloodline
- Alternative Character Interpretation:
- When Jin accuses Heihachi of releasing Ogre, Heihachi neither confirms nor denies it, instead asking "does it matter?". Was he trying to deflect because he was responsible, indifferent to what Jin thought or trying to make Jin angry so he would really give it his all in their fight and lure out Ogre? The third option seems the most plausible given his satisfied smirk when Ogre appears for the climactic battle.
- Julia is the one who puts the idea that Heihachi may have unleashed Ogre into Jin's head. She claims this is what her mother Michelle believed. Is this what Julia believes as well or was she simply telling Jin this to turn him against his grandfather?
- Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the In Name Only aspects of Tekken's live-action movie is portraying Steve Fox as Jin's mentor figure. Here, Paul, who is canonically part of Steve's circle of friends, is depicted as a chummy senior figure to Jin.
- It's Short, So It Sucks!: A common complaint about the series is that since it's only 6 episodes long it feels rather rushed and a lot of fan-favorite characters like Yoshimitsu and Anna don't get their time to shine and their respective fights are skipped entirely.
- Moe: While not quite as cutesy as other incarnations, Xiaoyu is a welcome dose of sunshine in an otherwise fairly grim retelling. Many viewers liked the limited screentime she received along with a surprisingly good fight scene.
- Moral Event Horizon:
- Heihachi crosses it when he shoots his grandson Jin. Despite his insistence that he did it to protect the world, no one witnessing it buys it, with Paul even declaring that Heihachi is worse than Kazuya.
- If what Julia says is true, Heihachi crossed it much earlier when he deliberately unleashed Ogre in an attempt to control the creature. As Jin states, every single person hurt and killed by Ogre is on Heihachi's head, and Heihachi himself doesn't seem to deny it, either.
- Narm: The characters, especially Heihachi, have a tendency to pause their dialogue mid-sentence. They're attempting to be dramatic, but the frequency of this makes it very distracting.
- One-Scene Wonder: Kazuya, being absent from Bloodline much like he was in Tekken 3 on account of his death, appears only in a flashback when Paul recounts to Jin his and Heihachi's clashes in the previous two tournaments, but his brief appearance nonetheless perfectly encapsulates the ruthless menace and sheer hatred of Heihachi he's well known for.
- Kazuya: Everything you have, I will now take from you. Everything you thought you were, I have proven, you are not!
- Replacement Scrappy: How some people see Leroy in this series, considering that he’s basically shoe-horned into a story he was not a part of in the past and essentially replaced Eddy, the most iconic Tekken 3 newcomer next to Jin, as the token black fighter.
- Special Effects Failure: Throughout the entire series, every character has a weird triangular shadow over them regardless of the intensity or direction of light sources. It's very distracting once you notice it and there's no reason why it should be there. What makes it worse is that it's not some kind of animation error shown only in the series but it's also present in promotional material, meaning it was a deliberate artistic choice.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The fact that most of the the characters are wearing their modern costumes and some even wearing their Tekken 7 designs instead of looking like they did in Tekken 3, most glaringly obvious with Julia who’s wearing her internet streamer look and not her classic Native American look. Particularly odd because Jin is clearly wearing the more simplified version of his iconic red gloves first seen in Tekken 3.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Despite a lot of characters being shown to participate in the tournament, most of them aren't shown throwing a single punch or even being animated at all.
- Particularly egregious example is Yoshimitsu since he was similarly ignored in the previous animated adaptations despite his potential for entertaining fight scenes. Ironically, the near-universally reviled 2010 live-action movie remains the only one to actually give him a fight scene.
- Anna Williams and Steve Fox is another egregious case. While Nina gets plot focus, her own flesh and blood, her sister and son respectively are only shown in person once and eliminated off screen, with Nina interacting with neither of them. Given the series is literally about troubled families and bloodlines, the Williams family subplot would have perfectly complimented the Mishima storyline.
- Despite being one of Tekken 3's most iconic newcomers, Eddy Gordo doesn't appear at all nor is he even mentioned. As a factoid for those that don't know, Eddy's inclusion in Tekken 3 single handedly put the style of Capoeira into the mainstream. To a lesser degree, there's also some confusion as to why a fellow 3 newcomer Bryan Fury missed the cut as well.
