General Tekken Thread

Christie brings the fanservice, though. She got in over him in Street Fighter X Tekken, she's the one newcomers know, and she briefly replaced him entirely in 4 (you can unlock him in that game, technically, but canonically he never entered KOIFT 4.)

Baek was also brought back during 5's explosion of characters - he debuted in 2 and was dropped in 3 (it was even hinted that he'd been killed by Ogre like all the other MIA subbosses), only to resurface with Bruce and the rest of the gang with no explanation. He has his fans I'm sure, but he's not at all iconic like Paul is.

edited 23rd Aug '14 12:29:56 PM by Hashil

WHAT?

As for Paul, this is the guy who's actually managed to beat Kazuya in a fight, and also defeated Ogre as well. I know he's been placed in permanent Butt-Monkey tier, but he deserves better.

I honestly think Jinpachi has a chance. Kazumi was speaking to someone in the Tekken 7 trailer, and I think that was him. I'll bet they can come up with a Tekken-enough excuse to bring him back to life.

Plus they gave him a wicked cool moveset in Tekken 7.

I think I read somewhere that Ganryu is one of Harada's favourite characters. And he's the only representative for sumo. He'll still be there.

Plus he's got a growing presence in the universe with his Chanko Paradise restaurant. I really liked playing as him in 6, but they changed some of the effects of his moves in Tag 2 so that I couldn't do my favorite combo with him anymore, and I sort of lost interest.

Incidentally, Baek bites it in his own ending.

edited 23rd Aug '14 1:08:50 PM by Hashil

Wow. Up until his reaction when the bomb went off, I thought Steve actually set them up.

Hope that's not canon.

I'm sure everyone that was in Tekken 6 will be back. I could see Kunimitsu and Jun being the only ones that weren't in 6 coming back.

Wang died in his Tekken 6 ending too. I wonder if his death will stick, since he is over 100 years old. If he does die though, I doubt it will be after beating Azazel, they'll come up with another death scenario. Then again, if Jinpachi comes back, they could keep Wang around for one more game.

I'm not sure Zafina will be back. In her ending, she's sealed away with Azazel in an eternal battle. Even if her ending isn't canon, her story is closely tied to Azazel, and with him gone, she has no reason to stick around besides foretelling prophecies and such, and that can be done by other characters.

For Tag 2 characters, Prototype Jack and Combot are two more safe cuts.

There would presumably be a Jack 7 instead of any other Jack.

@ Hashil

Can we call that a In the Blood moment, as with Steve's T5 ending, since that's what Nina did to Anna and everyone in that movie set in her T5 ending?

No. Steve had nothing to do with that bomb. The Tekken Force set them up.

Exactly. The fact that he left before it went off was pure luck on his part.

He'd have died too if he'd stayed to count his share.

Out of all the endings to take seriously..

The only thing that's canon ending wise is Scenario Campaign and maybe the King endings. All of the others are mostly bunk(clearly) but may have things here and there put into their story in T7. Paul and Law getting blown up so...stupidly? Nah..

There doesn't even seem to be a point to it.

Why would the Tekken force want Paul and Law dead? They don't seem to be important to things at all.

They're joke characters now, though, at least in story, so it seems awfully odd to have a serious ending involving them when the other two are about laxatives and crotch shots.

More chaos for Jin, I guess. They killed a whole bunch of people for no reason to summon Azazel in the game's backstory.

edited 24th Aug '14 12:43:32 PM by Hashil

Wait. That ending may have been more about killing Steve, with Paul and Law simply being extra casualties.

It still raises the same question though.

I can't recall of Steve destroying one of their labs is canon or not, but if it was than the Zaibatsu would definitely want back at him for it.

I could still see at least Marshal being collateral from a botched attempt to kill Steve, since Forest can replace him and he'd have a perfect motivation for entering the latest tournament.

Trust me I wouldn't put too much thought into any of those endings.....

It is. Read it and weep if you can:

My bad, sorry. Reminded me of Nina's T5 ending though. They both seem to leave explosions similarly, and it makes sense, since they're mother and son.

edited 24th Aug '14 1:37:13 PM by HallowHawk

So again, what are the chances of Eliza getting in?

Not sure why I'm so interested in her, but I'm curious to see what others think.

Eh...

Like....really eh...

I dunno about likelihood, but I'm slightly interested in seeing her in, just because she's got a whole moveset and all that, but on the other hand, I wasn't really interested in her being made in the first place.

What he said.

Huh.

Guess she didn't catch on.

Oh well. I wanted to see her fight Alisa for some reason (not jus the similar sounding names) but I guess that's not too likely.

Edit: She's also one of the few supernatural characters (with Ogre being the other) who is not tied to the Mishimas in some way.

Well, there's also Jun's family, but you get my point.

edited 25th Aug '14 8:58:47 AM by HandsomeRob