History Headscratchers / Tekken

* In Tekken 5, Anna no longer has her fur outfit from Tekken 3/Tekken Tag Tournament because [[AnimalWrongsGroup PETA]] complained. That in itself would be understandable, if a bit of an over-reaction, but when you bear in mind that playable characters include [[EverythingsWorseWithBears Kuma]], [[PandaingToTheAudience Panda]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos Roger Jr.]], you'd think that [=PETA=] would have a bigger problem with animals being beaten to a pulp than with someone simply wearing a fur outfit (for all we know it could be fake fur anyway!). Panda stands out in particular, seeing as how pandas are an endangered species and all... The outfit returns in Tekken 6, presumably because the developers realised that PETA's complaint wasn't coherent...

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** I'm not entirely sure about this, but they might be worried about HitboxDissonance causing balance issues. For instance, Kuma has some amazing moves, but is always low tier due to being a huge target, having tiny legs and being unable to sidestep. Mokujin emulating Kuma is smaller, has better evasion and better range on leg attacks, and the only sacrifice he has to make is a slight loss on arm range. For another example, imagine Xiaoyu with longer limbs... The reason it's OK right now is because you have no way of knowing what fighting style Mokujin will use, and it changes each round. If you could ''permanently'' emulate a character with all of a character's strengths but not its weaknesses, it wouldn't work out too well...

* In Tekken 5, Anna no longer has her fur outfit from Tekken 3/Tekken Tag Tournament because PETA complained. That in itself would be understandable, if a bit of an over-reaction, but when you bear in mind that playable characters include [[EverythingsWorseWithBears Kuma]], [[PandaingToTheAudience Panda]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos Roger Jr.]], you'd think that PETA would have a bigger problem with animals being beaten to a pulp than with someone simply wearing a fur outfit (for all we know it could be fake fur anyway!). Panda stands out in particular, seeing as how pandas are an endangered species and all... The outfit returns in Tekken 6, presumably because the developers realised that PETA's complaint wasn't coherent...

*** If that happened before Armor King II went in and smacked Marduk silly, that would be stupid. At that point, both King and Marduk were utterly shocked that Armor King I could be BackFromTheDead, so Marduk digging Armor King I's grave was a pretty justified move for both him and King, to ensure if Armor King I is still dead or not. As it turns out, if Marduk didn't prove Armor King I dead by digging his grave, both he and King wouldn't be able to fulfill their objective to uncover the return of Armor King. It may be a bit disgracing yes, but you have to also take account that both of them were at shock at the prospect of Armor King coming back, so asking them to just take it like a stride is what would either make me scratch or bang my head.

** Alternatively, ''ThisTroper'' thinks his appearances in the Soul Calibur/Soulcalibur games are fairly silly.

**** [[WordOfGod Harada]] hae since said that Leo is female.

*** Regardless, I understand the point the OP brought up. Marduk killed King's father figure and not only showed little remorse, he actually desecrates Armor King's grave by digging it up. Forgiveness is one thing, but befriending his mentor's killer and treating his death like it's water under the bridge is the point where fans cry WallBanger.

* Is it just me or is Namco determined to make Yoshimitsu look DarkerAndEdgier with each sequel? In the first game, he was just a silly-looking roboninja thing. Then Tekken 2 came along and he was given evil red eyes and vampire teeth, as well as a darker colour scheme. Tekken 3, he's a scary alien cyborg. Then he has a friggin SKULL FACE complete with GlowingEyesOfDoom, then there's that sudden voice change, and now...[[http://www.tekkenpedia.com/w/images/f/fa/Yoshimitsu_t-6_wallpaper.jpg oh hell.]] Thank god for customization.

*** Also, since he was originally supposed to be Kazuya's rival and Kazuya is well past needing a rival character, Paul was left in limbo. Especially since there was nobody to taker over his moveset (i.e. Baek to Hwo).

* Mokujin's existence and the lack of a character creator. Mokujin proves that the other fighters' styles can be adapted to different models relatively fine, so why not provide a character creation system akin to SoulCalibur's? Well, I guess not Soul Calibur considering [[RainbowPimpGear how characters usually]] [[RummageSaleReject end up looking]].

* Eddy's father's plan to "protect" his son. Does he really think that prison would be safe? Or, more importantly, that being sent to prison for several years, possibly for life, would be better than simply going into hiding? .