History Film / Tekken

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A 2010 live-action film ''loosely'' based off the popular [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} fighting game series]] by Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment.

[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture The year is 2039]]. [[CrapSackWorld World wars have destroyed everything and territories are run by corporations]], the mightiest -- [[EvilerThanThou and cruelest]] -- of which is [[TitleDrop Tekken]]. Jin Kazama witnesses the death of his mother Jun by Tekken's private army in the slums known as Anvil. Vowing vengeance, and armed only with his street smarts and raw fighting skills, he enters a dangerous and potentially deadly combat tournament, where he must defeat the world's most elite fighters to become the "King of the Iron Fist."

Gained a direct-to-video sequel in 2014 called ''Tekken: Kazuya's Revenge''.

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!!This film provides example of:

* AccidentalPervert: In Christie's first scene, Jin is staring at her... because he's admiring the positioning of her toes. Later subverted when Jin actually ''does'' [[EatingTheEyeCandy enjoy the view]] while standing behind her.
--> '''Christie:''' Looking at my ass is a good way to get yours kicked.
* ActionGirl: Christie, Nina and Anna, though only Christie really gets to show it off. In addition to winning her tournament fight she takes out a whole load of Kazuya's mooks.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Heihachi is turned from the arrogant villain he is in the games to an infinitely more honorable OldMaster. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted in the after-credits scene, which implies the whole movie was [[TheChessmaster Heihachi playing everything to his favor]].]] Even in that scene, though, he still demonstrates a serenity Heihachi doesn't have.
** In the sequel, Kazuya is portrayed as being much nicer than he is in either the games or the first film.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Marshall Law is an ArrogantKungFuGuy instead of a humorous, good-natured BruceLeeClone.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** [[spoiler:Yoshimitsu is now a mere crony for Kazuya. See InNameOnly for details]].
** The film's version of Kazuya is devoid of his sympathetic backstory and is strongly implied to have raped Jun (which used to be a fan theory for the games, but was ultimately unproven and is considered very unlikely nowadays). He also works for Heihachi, who is his ArchEnemy in the games (not that he isn't at least TheStarscream).
** Miguel Rojo is changed from an honorable character with a legitimate desire of revenge to a thug with a Messiah complex.
* AdaptationalWimp:
** Paul Phoenix is mentioned in the film as a guy who lost to Marshall Law in less of a minute. In the games, Paul is effectively one of the strongest characters of the saga, and if he were to lose to Law, it would be certainly not that quick.
** Nina Williams needs to work with her sister as an assassin, completely fails to take out one young guy being ambushed, and loses to Christie in less than two minutes. While touted as a master assassin, she doesn't display too much of her game persona's badassery.
* AdaptationNameChange: The Mishima Zaibatsu is renamed Tekken and the fighting tournament they sponsor is called the Tekken tournament rather than King of Iron Fist[[note]]Tekken means "iron fist" in Japanese so technically the name remains the same[[/note]]. Ironically, their private army from the games is called the Jackhammers instead of the Tekken Force.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the movie, Jin's signature gloves are a gift from Fox, who claims to have used them in his own fighting career. In the videogames, Jin's gloves have no particular origin (although they bear the same pattern as Kazuya's gloves, red with a triangle of steel studs on the top of the hand, which they retain in this movie), and Fox has certainly never used them (he used generic boxing gloves instead).
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** The movie's version of Steve Fox knew Jun Kazama and apparently shared at least a tournament with her. However, those two characters have never shared a single installment of the videogame series (except by the non-canon ''Tag Tournament 2''), and their deep difference of age make it unlikely that they ever knew each other.
** Steve Fox is Nina Williams's son in the games, but they are unrelated in the film, where she is actually younger than him.
** While the film doesn't openly state Christie and Eddy don't know each other, it doesn't state they are friends and apprentices of the same master as in the games either, and they never interact onscreen. However, as their fighting styles are (at least officially) given as different martial arts in the film, it's implied they have absolutely no relation there.
** In the movie, Jin and Christie start a relationship. This never happens in the games and it's pretty improbable that it will happen anytime soon due to their respective personalities and allegiances. In this aspect, Christie seems to have been conflated with Xiaoyu, the one who has a crush on Jin in the games.[[note]]Indeed, she was supposed to fill this role, but the actress dropped out.[[/note]]
** The alignment of Nina and Anna Williams varies from game to game, but it's safe to say they are ''never'' on the same side. The movie opts to present them together as a team that works for the bad guys.
* AdaptedOut: With the series having accrued a huge cast over the years (this movie came out after ''Tekken 6''), many of them were bound to be left out, but characters like Paul and King, who had been in every game[[note]]even though the latter is a LegacyCharacter[[/note]] are glaring omissions.
* AgeLift:
** In this film, Steve Fox is well into his fourties, apparently around the same age as Jun. In the games, he is actually around her son Jin' age, and even his own mother (Nina Williams, by the way) might be younger than Jun as well.
** This version of Nina Williams seems to be in her twenties. In the games, she is old enough to have a young adult son, which is Steve Fox of all people. Though she still looks like she's in her twenties in the games thanks to having spent several decades as a HumanPopsicle. And while she is in her twenties in the first two games, not by the time Jin enters the picture in the third game.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts:
** Christie's fighting style is officially changed from UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} to UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts. She still strikes out a lot of kicks, some cartwheels and a ''meia lua de compasso'' in blink-or-miss moments, but it is clearly not considered capoeira onscreen, as she receives no relation to Eddy Gordo and the vague similarity of the two's styles onscreen is never commented.
** Miguel Rojo's style is changed from street fighting to zipota, a supposedly Spanish martial art (it counts as a double artistic license, as in real life zipota's authenticity is heavily debated, and it is actually believed by Spanish experts to be a foreign fabrication).
* BeardOfEvil: Kazuya has just about the most obviously evil beard and mustache combo imaginable.
* BlackMarketProduce: Jin buys an orange for his mother.
* ButNotTooForeign: Anna and Nina speak with American accents, despite apparently being Irish (though their nationality is not said in the movie). Admittedly this is the case in the games too.
* ButNotTooWhite: Irish Nina and Anna are played by a South African and Spanish actress respectively who are appropriately tanned.
* CanonForeigner: Jin's girlfriend Kara in the first film, as well as everyone except Kazuya, Heihachi and Bryan Fury in the second.
* TheCasanova: Prior to his mother's death, Jin is shown to have a girlfriend, Kara... who he promptly forgets about once he gets into Iron Fist and meets Christie, who throws herself at him within days. Especially glaring because the film strangely keeps cutting back to Kara during Jin's fights in the tournament.
* CompositeCharacter: Kazuya in this film is a composite of him and his adopted brother Lee from the games. Christie takes Ling Xiaoyu's role as Jin's love interest.
* CrapsackWorld: And it makes the one in ''Tekken 6'' look like a vacation spot.
* CreateYourOwnHero: As WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown 's Film Brain put it:
--> "Maybe if [Kazuya] didn't blow Jin's mom right the fuck up, none of this would have happened and Jin would have died in the slums not knowing a single thing about his heritage. So yeah, it's kind of all his fault really."
* DanceBattler: Eddy Gordo, played by real life capoeira prodigy Creator/LateefCrowder. Christie shows some moves as well, though not as much as in the games.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dragunov, Steve Fox and Bryan Fury]].
* DemotedToExtra: Anyone who isn't Christie, Steve, or part of the Mishima bloodline.
* DesignatedGirlFight: The tournament has three female participants, so the only time they're selected for a fight, it's against each other. In this case, Christie vs Nina. Although, Nina and Anna do try to take Jin out on Kazuya's orders, and Christie does fight several mooks.
* DisappearedDad: Jin was raised under the impression that his father was dead. Considering that Kazuya Mishima is his father, one can't really blame Jun for telling Jin this. [[spoiler:Especially after it's revealed that Jun became pregnant after Kazuya raped her]].
* TheDragon: Bryan seems to be this, though is reasons are DragonWithAnAgenda, since [[spoiler:Kazuya blackmailed him with knowledge of his cybernetics, and that they're illegal in tournaments]].
* DualWielding: Kazuya starts his climactic fight with Jin two axes in hand.
* FauxActionGirl: Nina is declared a master assassin, but completely fails at taking Jin out, even though she's got Anna to help her, and they ambush him in a dark room. The next day, she's easily beaten in the tournament by Christie.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Kazuya has one of the later on his cheek, but is notably missing the enormous one on his chest.
* InNameOnly:
** This Kazuya was never thrown off a cliff by his father when he was a child, and looks ''nothing'' like the character in the games - it's so bad that if you watched the trailer without knowledge that he was Kazuya, you'd be questioning who the hell Ian Anthony Dale was meant to be.
** Steve Fox, instead of being a similar age to Jin, is old enough to have fought in Iron Fist at the same time as Jun and to be a mentor to Jin. He also has a shaven head, which, amusingly enough, he cannot be customized to have in the games.
** Christie Monteiro is no longer a Brazilian capoeira fighter, having undergone a RaceLift and now fighting as a MMA fighter instead. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] slightly for CastSpeciation due to Eddy Gordo also being in the film and faithful to the original character, although the film removes Eddy and Christie's relationship from the games.
** Marshall Law is no longer a BruceLeeClone in fighting style or appearance, and is also portrayed as an incredibly cruel and brutal fighter.
** Miguel Rojo is stated to fall under SmallNameBigEgo, and like Marshall Law, looks and fights nothing like the character from the games. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the character being introduced in ''Tekken 6'', which wasn't released on consoles until after the film was shot.
** The Tekken Force soldiers have been renamed "Jackhammers" or "Jacks" for short.
** Yoshimitsu, the cyborg samurai who steals from the rich to give to the poor... is just [[LargeHam a regular guy in an elaborate suit of armor]]. For starters, [[spoiler:he seemed eager to kill Jin during their fight, and before he did so while Jin's on the ground, Kazuya looked at him after he overthrew Heihachi, and Yoshimitsu nodded, [[AdaptationalVillainy implying that Kazuya bribed him to kill Jin, like he attempted to do so with Bryan]]]].
** In the games, Raven is an enigmatic spy with a detached, business-like attitude. The Raven in this movie is portrayed as a martial artist by trade only and is much more approachable than his game counterpart, best displayed when he gives Jin sage-like advice about not letting anger corrupt you.
** The second film is even more in-name-only. The first one at least features a fighting tournament and characters from the games, while the sequel doesn't even have that much.
* InterfaceSpoiler: The second film's title, ''Kazuya's Revenge'', spoils the twist. For most of the film, the protagonist is suffering from amnesia and is given the name K. He doesn't discover that his true identity is Kazuya Mishima until the climax.
* KarmaHoudini: Jin suffers no repercussions for cheating on his girlfriend with Christie.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Invoked with the Jin[=/=]Yoshimitsu fight, as rather than take Yoshimitsu's sword so that he has to fight with his fists like everyone else, the tournament officials hand Jin a katana of his own.
* MagicalSecurityCam: During Jin's fight with Marshall Law, the TV shows shots from inside the cage - when there's no camera or camera man inside it.
* MaleGaze: There are plenty of shots of [[MsFanservice Christie's]] low-cut pants. Justified because Jin is checking her out.
* MrFanservice: Every male fighter (except Yoshimitsu obviously) gets a ShirtlessScene. Raven doesn't fight shirtless but he does go without it in a workout scene.
* MythologyGag: Armed and dangerous with it. Let's see:
** Paul Phoenix is mentioned to have been knocked out by Marshall Law in less than 30 seconds. Which would've been pretty improbable in the games's story, by the way.
** One of the statues seen in the arena is the same statue from the Hell's Gate/Heaven's Gate stage/s from ''Tekken 5/Dark Ressurection''.
** [[spoiler:Although it was averted as seen in TheStinger, the Jackhammer ordered to kill Heihachi to self-detonation is a reference to how Heihachi presumably died at the beginning of ''5'', and Kazuya, who in the games fed Heihachi to the Jack-4s, ironically says Raven's "Heihachi Mishima is dead."]]
** FinalBoss: Kazuya Mishima.
*** EarlyBirdBoss: Bryan Fury.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Kazuya seeks to kill Jin because the boy is the only real threat to his power. This is despite the fact that Jin would have never entered the tournament or gone after the Mishima family in the first place had Kazuya not killed his mother.
* NoNameGiven: Jin only uses his first name when he registers for Iron Fist. As it turns out, he had a damn good reason to keep his last name a secret, just not the one he thought he had.
* NoSell: Bryan Fury pulls this off thanks to his cybernetic enchantments.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: A news report mentions that Marshall Law qualified for the Iron Fist Open Call by beating Paul Phoenix. [[CurbStompBattle In 28 seconds]].
* OneNationUnderCopyright: The world is divided into eight massive conglomerates.
* LeParkour: The first time Jin is seen, he's running across rooftops smuggling equipment to a resistance group. Fittingly, the film is choreographed by Cyril Raffaelli, a known traceur.
* PlotHole: Weirdly enough, the tournament has ten participants, which would not work because ten is not a power of two - after the first round there would be five left, making semi-finals quite tricky. Additionally, Anna Williams is listed as a participant and yet never fights a match, and Yoshimitsu advances to the semi-finals automatically. It is possible that the Williams sisters only count as one participant (i.e. if Nina fights then Anna doesn't) since they're introduced together by Kazuya when he's running through them, and it's equally possible that Bryan Fury, as the champion, automatically is in the final match. However, it's not elaborated, making the tournament seem a bit all over the place.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Christie becomes Jin's LoveInterest, even though they've barely interacted in the games.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "I am Mishima Heihachi. [[IAmTheNoun I. AM. TEKKEN]]."
* RaceLift:
** Christie is played by white actress Creator/KellyOverton. There are debates about the Christie from the games being black, Hispanic, Italian and even Asian, but she is clearly not white, at least fully.
** Anna is also played by a Spanish actress, though she only has one line and she probably could pass for a Irish girl with a tan.
* RetiredBadass: Jun Kazama. She's not completely retired since she teaches Jin martial arts.
* RevengeOfTheSequel: ''Kazuya's Revenge''. [[NonIndicativeName Bizarrely enough, it's actually a prequel.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: Kazuya pulls this on Heihachi. [[spoiler:It just doesn't actually work since the Jackhammers are still loyal to Heihachi]]. Averted with Jin, [[spoiler:who refuses to sink to Kazuya's level and kill him]].
* SexualKarma: Despite his... [[TheCasanova questionable fidelity]], Jin and his partners generally have pretty good, mutually enjoyable sex, while Kazuya [[spoiler:is revealed to be a rapist]] and spends his entire [[AThreesomeIsHot threesome sex scene]] with the Williams sisters [[UnfocusedDuringIntimacy scowling and complaining about his father]].
* SmallNameBigEgo: Miguel Rojo, whose noted as being incredibly arrogant. It counts as a meta example too, as he had not yet been introduced in the games.
* TheStarscream: Kazuya, naturally. Heihachi also informs Jin that this is the reason Kazuya tried to have him killed too, since before the tournament, Heihachi only had the one heir but Jin's emergence meant that there was a second.
* SternTeacher: Jun to her son. As a young boy she'd put him in chokeholds he couldn't break free of, trying to impress upon Jin not to quit, ever.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:A wounded Kazuya walks past the holding cells at the arena, before the scene cuts back to Heihachi's final words, only for the scene to continue and reveal that Heihachi ordered his executioner to stand down, and that the Jack obeyed him]].
* ThreewaySex: Kazuya has some with the Williams sisters, though he's [[UnfocusedDuringIntimacy so angry about his father that he's clearly not enjoying it]], despite their best efforts.
* TorosYFlamenco: The producers thought Miguel Caballero Rojo's street fighting style wasn't Spanish enough, so they changed it for a supposedly Basque martial art named Zipota. Notably, in real life Zipota is basically unknown in Spain and is widely considered to be a fraud made up by its Texan promoter.
* TrashcanBonfire: During one of Jin Kazama's fights there's a shot of a group of people outside watching the battle on TV, with a fire burning in a trashcan nearby.
* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: [[spoiler:In the film's climax, Kazuya fights Jin with two axes and comes very close to killing him. Thanks to a distraction provided by Christie shooting the guards, Jin is able to snatch one of the axes from Kazuya and slashes him across the abdomen.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Kazuya ''really'' wants Heihachi to pass control of Tekken onto him, to the point that when he finds out that Heihachi has another heir in Jin, he sets out to kill Jin & take control of the company by force.
* WorkoutFanservice: There's a workout scene with many of the Iron Fist competitors are working out (mostly by lifting weights) in revealing and skin-tight clothes, while their bodies are covered in sweat. There are also plenty of MaleGaze and FemaleGaze shots where the camera focuses on the bare chest of the guys and the breasts of the girls.
* WouldHitAGirl: Kazuya hits Christie a couple of times and is also revealed to [[spoiler:have attacked Jun]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Jin witnessed his mother's death at the hands of Tekken's Jackhammers, and justifiably blames Heihachi for her death, even saying this verbatim to him. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as Heihachi argues that he saved her life after [[spoiler:Kazuya raped her]], as Kazuya would've killed her later if he had found out [[ChildByRape she was pregnant with Jin]].
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* AdaptationalWimp: Paul Phoenix is mentioned in the film as a guy who lost to Marshall Law in less of a minute. In the games, Paul is effectively one of the strongest characters of the saga, and if he were to lose to Law, it would be certainly not that quick.

** In the movie, Jin and Christie start a relationship. This never happens in the games and it's pretty improbable that it will happen anytime soon due to their respective personalities and allegiances. In this aspect, Christie seems to have been conflated with Xiaoyu, the one who has a crush on Jin in the games.

** This version of Nina Williams seems to be in her twenties. In the games, she is old enough to have a young adult son, which is Steve Fox of all people. Though she still looks like she's in her twenties in the games thanks to having spent several decades as a HumanPopsicle.

* DesignatedGirlFight: Christie vs. Nina.

%%* FauxActionGirl: Nina.

* MaleGaze: There are plenty of shots of [[MsFanservice Christie's]] low-cut pants.

* PlotHole: Weirdly enough, the tournament has ten participants, which would not work because tennis not a power of two - after the first round there would be five left, making semi-finals quite tricky. Additionally, Anna Williams is listed as a participant and yet never fights a match, and Yoshimitsu advances to the semi-finals automatically. It is possible that the Williams sisters only count as one participant (i.e. if Nina fights then Anna doesn't) since they're introduced together by Kazuya when he's running through them, and it's equally possible that Bryan Fury, as the champion, automatically is in the final match. However, it's not elaborated, making the tournament seem a bit all over the place.

* PlotHole: Weirdly enough, the tournament has ten participants, which would not work because it is an odd number - after the first round there would be five left, making semi-finals quite tricky. Additionally, Anna Williams is listed as a participant and yet never fights a match, and Yoshimitsu advances to the semi-finals automatically. It is possible that the Williams sisters only count as one participant (i.e. if Nina fights then Anna doesn't) since they're introduced together by Kazuya when he's running through them, and it's equally possible that Bryan Fury, as the champion, automatically is in the final match. However, it's not elaborated, making the tournament seem a bit all over the place.

* BareYourMidriff: A lot of Christie's outfits have this going on.

* DualWielding: Kazuya starts his climactic fight with Jin [[AnAxeToGrind two axes]] in hand.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex:
** Despite his... [[TheCasanova questionable fidelity]], Jin and his partners generally have pretty good, mutually enjoyable sex, while Kazuya [[spoiler:is revealed to be a rapist]] and spends his entire sex scene with the Williams sisters scowling and complaining about his father.
** Subverted twice on Jin's case, since Jackhammers were tearing parts of the Anvil apart looking for Jin, who was getting it on with Kara at the time, and that Christie refused to go along, since she wanted to fight him the day after, [[spoiler:though had he did so, Nina and Anna would have had a hard time going after him]].

* InNameOnly: Oh, boy...

* ThreewaySex: Kazuya has some with the Williams sisters.

* TokenMinorityCouple: Not an actual couple but the first round in the tournament has the two black participants fighting each other.

* AccidentalPervert: In Christie's first scene, Jin is staring at her... because he's admiring the positioning of her toes. Later subverted when Jin actually [[EatingTheEyeCandy ''does'' enjoy the view]] while standing behind her.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Mishima Zaibatsu is renamed the Tekken Corporation and the fighting tournament they sponsor is called the Tekken tournament rather than King of Iron Fist[[note]]Tekken means "iron fist" in Japanese so technically the name remains the same[[/note]]. Ironically, their private army from the games is called the Jackhammers instead of the Tekken Force.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Mishima Zaibatsu is renamed the Tekken Corporation. Ironically, their private army from the games is called the Jackhammers instead of the Tekken Force like in the games.

** Miguel Rojo is changed from an honorable character with a legitimate desire of revenge to a generic AxCrazy with a Messiah complex.

** The alignment of Nina and Anna Williams varies from game to game, but it's safe to say they are ''never'' in the same side. The movie opts to present them together as a team that works for the bad guys.

** In this film, Steve Fox is well into his fourties, apparently around the same age as Jun. In the games, he is actually around the age of ''Jin'', and even his own mother (Nina Williams, by the way) might be younger than Jun as well.

** Miguel Rojo's style is changed from street fighting to zipota, a supposedly Spanish martial art (it counts as a double artistic license, as in real life zipota's authenticity is heavily discussed, and it is actually believed by Spanish experts to be a foreign fabrication).

** Despite his... [[TheCasanova questionable fidelity]], Jin and his partners generally have pretty good, mutually enjoyable sex, while Kazuya [[spoiler:has a taste for rape]] and spends his entire sex scene with the Williams sisters scowling and complaining about his father.

** Paul Phoenix is mentioned to have been knocked out by Marshall Law in less than 30 seconds. Which would ve pretty improbable in the games's story, by the way.
** One of the decor seen in the arena is the same statue from the Hell's Gate/Heaven's Gate stage/s from ''Tekken 5/Dark Ressurection''.

** The film's version of Kazuya is devoid of his sympathetic backstory and is strongly implied to have raped Jun (which used to be a fan theory for the games, but was ultimately unproven and is considered very unlikely nowadays). He also works for Heihachi, who is his ArchEnemy in the games, not that he isn't at least TheStarscream.

** The film's version of Kazuya is devoid of his sympathetic backstory and is strongly implied to have raped Jun (which used to be a fan theory for the games, but was ultimately unproven and is considered very unlikely nowadays). He also works for Heihachi, who is his ArchEnemy in the games, not that it stops him from acting as TheStarscream here.

** The film's version of Kazuya is devoid of his sympathetic backstory and is strongly implied to have raped Jun (which used to be a fan theory for the games, but was ultimately unproven and is considered very unlikely nowadays). He also works for Heihachi, who is his ArchEnemy in the games.

* AdaptedOut: With the series having accrued LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters over the years (this movie came out after ''Tekken 6''), many of them were bound to be left out, but characters like Paul and King, who had been in every game[[note]]even though the latter is a LegacyCharacter[[/note]] are glaring omissions.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Eddy Gordo gets knocked out of the tournament first round. [[spoiler:Which subverts the trope, because this means he's no longer in the tournament when Kazuya changes the rules so the fights are to the death, at which Dragunov is the first to die in the tournament]].

** This version of Nina Williams seems to be in her twenties. In the games, she is old enough to have a young adult son, which is Steve Fox of all people. Though she still looks like she's in her twenties in the games thanks to having spent several decades as a HumanPopcicle.

** This version of Nina Williams seems to be in her twenties. In the games, she is old enough to have a young adult son, which is Steve Fox of all people.

** Heihachi is turned from the arrogant villain he is in the games to an infinitely more honorable OldMaster. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted in the after-credits scene, which implies the whole movie was [[TheChessmaster Heihachi playing everything to his favor]]. Even in that scene, though, he still demonstrates a composition Heihachi doesn't have.]]

** The film's version of Kazuya is devoid of his sympathetic backstory and is strongly implied to have raped Jun (which used to be a fan theory for the games, but was ultimately unproven and is considered improbable nowadays). He also works for Heihachi, who is his ArchEnemy in the games.
** Miguel Rojo is changed from an honorable character with a legitimate desire of revenge to a generic AxCrazy.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the movie, Jin's signature gloves are a gift from Fox, who claims to have used them in his own fighting career. In the videogames, Jin's gloves have no particular origin (although they bear the same pattern as Kazuya's gloves, red with a triangle of steel studs on the top of the hand, which they retain in this movie), and Fox has ''certainly'' never used them.

** The movie's version of Steve Fox knew Jun Kazama and apparently shared at least a tournament with her. However, those two characters have never shared a single installment of the videogame series (except by the non-canon ''Tag Tournament 2''), and their canonical ages make impossible that they could know each other in history anyway.

** While the film doesn't openly state Christie and Eddy don't know each other, it doesn't state they are friends and apprentices of the same master as in the games either. They never interact onscreen, and even their fighting styles are (at least officially) different martial arts.
** In the movie, Jin and Christie start a relationship. This never happens in the games and it's pretty improbable that it will happen anytime soon due to their respective personalities and allegiances (that, and the fact that Xiaoyu, the one who has a crush on Jin in the games, was AdaptedOut).

** In this film, Steve Fox is well into his fourties, apparently around the same age as Jun. In the games, he is actually around the age of ''Jin'', to the point that even his own mother (Nina Williams, by the way) might be younger than Jun as well.

** Christie's fighting style is officially changed from UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} to UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts. She still strikes out a lot of kicks, some cartwheels and a ''meia lua de compasso'' in blink-or-miss moments, but it is clearly not considered capoeira onscreen, as she receives no relation to this version of Eddy Gordo and the vague similarity of the two's styles onscreen is never commented.

* DanceBattler: Eddy Gordo, played by real life capoeira prodigy Creator/LateefCrowder. Christie shows some moves as well, but not as much as in the games.

** Christie Monteiro is no longer a Brazilian capoeira fighter, having undergone a RaceLift and now fighting as a MMA fighter instead. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] slightly for CastSpeciation due to Eddy Gordo also being in the film and faithful to the the character in the games, although the film removes Eddy and Christie's relationship from the games.

* TorosYFlamenco: The producers thought Miguel Caballero Rojo's street fighting style wasn't Spanish enough, so they changed it for a supposedly Basque martial art named Zipota. Notably, in real life Zipota is completely unknown in Spain and is widely considered to be a fraud made up by its Texan promoter.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/SarahPolley was also considered to play Nina.
** Gina Philips (of ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' fame) was originally cast at Anna, but had to drop out due to a pregnancy.
** Director Dwight H. Little's first choice for Jin was Ryan Merriman.
** Creator/TakeshiKaneshiro, Creator/SiennaGuillory, Susie Amy, Creator/AndySerkis, Nathan Jones, and Wrestling/KurtAngle were all at one point attached to the project.
** Ling Xiaoyou was originally intended to be a significant character and Jin's primary love interest (matching their relationship in the games), with Creator/ChiakiKuriyama in running for the role. For unknown reasons, Kuriyama dropped out of the project and the script was subsequently changed with Ling's role given to Christie.

* BadassGrandpa: Heihachi Mishima is in his 60's and is a formidable fighter.

** Marshall Law is an ArrogantKungFuGuy with a random Asian characterization instead of a humorous, good-natured BruceLeeClone.

* CompositeCharacter: Kazuya in this film is a composite of him and his adopted brother Lee from the games.
* CrapsackWorld: And it makes the one in ''Tekken 6'' look like a vacation spot.
* DanceBattler: Eddy Gordo, played by real life capoeira prodigy Creator/LateefCrowder. Christie shows some moves as well, but not as much as in the ganes.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Kazuya. As WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown 's Film Brain put it:
--> "Maybe if he didn't blow Jin's mom right the fuck up, none of this would have happened and Jin would have died in the slums not knowing a single thing about his heritage. So yeah, it's kind of all his fault really."

The 2010 Live-Action film based off the popular [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} fighting game series]] by Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the movie, Jin's signature gloves are a gift from Fox, who claims to have used them in his own fighting career. In the videogames, Jin's gloves have no particular origin, and Fox has ''certainly'' never used them (although they bear the same pattern as Kazuya's gloves, red with a triangle of steel studs on the top of the hand, which he retains in this movie).

** The movie's version of Steve Fox knew Jun Kazama and apparently shared at least a tournament with her. However, those two characters have never shared a single installment of the videogame series (except the non-canon ''Tag Tournament 2'') and their canonical ages make impossible that they could know each other in history anyway.

** While the film doesn't openly state Christie and Eddy don't know each other, it doesn't states they are friends and apprentices of the same master as in the games either. They never interact onscreen, and even their fighting styles are (at least officially) different martial arts.

** In this film, Steve Fox is bald, aged and well into his fourties, apparently around the same age as Jun. In the games, he is a much younger man, to the point that even his mother (Nina Williams, who in this film could be his daughter and not vice versa) might be younger than Jun as well. Amusingly enough, Fox cannot be customized to sport a bald head in the games.

** Christie's fighting style is nominally changed from UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} to UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts. She still strikes out a lot of kicks, some cartwheels and a ''meia lua de compasso'' in blink-or-miss moments, but it is clearly not considered capoeira onscreen, as she receives no relation to this version of Eddy Gordo and the vague similarity of the two's styles onscreen is never commented.

* CanonForeigner: Jin's girlfriend Kara in the first film, everyone except Kazuya, Heihachi and Bryan Fury in the second.

** Steve Fox, instead of being a similar age to Jin, is old enough to have fought in Iron Fist at the same time as Jun, has a shaven head and serves as Jin's mentor figure.

** The second film is even more in-name-only. The first one at least has a fighting tournament and characters from the games, while the sequel doesn't even have that much.

* PlotHole: The tournament has ten participants, which would not work, because after the first round there would be five left, making semi-finals quite tricky. Additionally, Anna Williams is listed as a participant and yet never fights a match, and Yoshimitsu advances to the semi-finals automatically. It is possible that the Williams sisters only count as one participant (i.e. if Nina fights then Anna doesn't) since they're introduced together by Kazuya when he's running through them, and it's equally possible that Bryan Fury, as the champion, automatically is in the final match. However, it's not elaborated, making the tournament seem a bit all over the place.

** Anna is also played by a Spanish actress though she only has one line and she probably could pass for a Irish girl with a tan.