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Unknown

Unknown

Origin: Unknown

Fighting Style: Mimicry (Tag), Kazama-Style Traditional Martial Arts (Tag 2)

Appears in: Tag-Tag 2

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Tag 2)

A non-canon character who had only made appearances in the Tag Tournament games, as her name suggests, not much is known about her. Tag 2 reveals that Unknown is merely Jun who had been possessed.

Her playstyle in Tag is a Ditto Fighter that can change what character she's mimicking, much like Shang Tsung. In Tag 2, she plays similarly to Asuka and Jun, with a few "boss" moves that makes her even more high risk - high reward.

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• Ambiguously Evil: In Ogre's TTT ending, she taunts Ogre just as he is about to absorb Jin. Sure, she's probably attracting his attention solely for a fight, but doing so also releases Jin from Ogre's grasp, saving him from being absorbed, and we have no other detail because the ending isn't voiced...
  • You can try losing both rounds against her in Tag 2 (Arcade Mode or Time Attack Mode). After you lose to her, watch the "Continue?" animation closely... it's kind of creepy to say the least.
• Animal Motifs: Possessed by a lupine spirit in the first Tag. Said spirit disappeared completely in the second Tag game. Although, once defeated in Arcade mode, a few wolf spirits are shown attacking her repeatedly until she finally succumbs.
• Awesome, but Impractical:
  • Maining her was this back in Tag 1. To properly main her you'd need to know the moveset of everyone she can turn into, as when you tag her in she'll have another character's moveset, although to mitigate this, pressing R3 changes the moveset to another character at random, but you still need to know a decent chunk of the cast otherwise you'll just keep switching for a while. And even switching characters can be messy as you'll need to look at her idle pose and quickly notice who she's copying, and some characters like Jin and Paul have similar idles.
  • Unlike Mokujin, she's overall worse than the characters she copies, because she's a female character and they mostly smaller limbs, and most of the characters in Tag 1 are male.
  • She has actual infinite combos, as doing tag combos seemingly resets the pushback from juggles, but you'll never be able to do this as the only visual cue when you switch movesets is what idle pose she's doing, and you'd have to quickly react to what she switched to and then use a specic move to continue the combo, and not everyone has good combo fillers for that even if a player could react fast enough, leaving such stylish combos for only tool assisted videos.
  • Lastly to bring her down some more, her HP value is among the lowest it can be at 140, although unlike other characters in the same category, she can switch movesets to try to gain the upper hand. She also hates everyone on the cast so she's never activating netsu.
• Big Bad: For the Tag games.
• Body Paint:
  • The purple ooze that covers her body seems to be embedded in her skin. Without it, she'd be naked. See her TTT1 and TTT2 endings.
  • From some of the continue screens, it seems that her ooze, uh, oozes in and out of the skin. In her Idle Animation, it occasionally creeps onto her left eye and reverts a few seconds later.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Certainly the case in the first Tag. The second title drops the "brainwashed" part and amps up the crazy.
• Cute and Psycho: She's half-nude and smiles a lot, but it's one of those smiles and where she fits on the good and bad scale is... well, unknown.
• Dem Bones: Some of her spike attacks have skeletons adorning them.
• Demonic Possession: By a wolfie spirit. She breaks free of it in her ending, though.
• Depending on the Writer: Her own identity is this. 6's artbook reveals she was planned to be Jun's younger sister, which's why Unknown defaults to her fighting style. However the same artbook says this detail was later dropped, and this makes it dubious if she was still planned to be related to Jun at all in Tag 1. Unknown looking caucasian while Jun is Japanese only makes it harder to create any connection between them. In Tag 2 she's Jun herself.
• Ditto Fighter: Unlike other examples, she doesn't even need to wait until the end of the round. No longer the case in TTT2, as Unknown uses only Jun's style augmented by her boss moves.
• Dying as Yourself: Implied in her TTT2 ending. After being defeated, Unknown's body is slowly sinking in the goop of her own stage, but then Angel appears and extends a hand to Unknown, making the purple goo on her body dissolve, "purifying" her in her last moments and presumably reverting her back into Jun, before she sinks into oblivion.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Her grunts in Tag are Nina's T1 voice distorted. Like Angel's, except that Unknown's grunts are even deeper. In Tag 2, a distorted version of Jun's voice is used instead.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: We don't get to know much about her other than she's a nude, possessed Jun with some bizarre supernatural powers.
• Fallen Angel:
  • In her TTT2 ending, like her default boss ending, she drowns down in her purple goop stage. Angel appears, touches her, and her ooze disappears while Unknown slowly sinks down to oblivion.
  • If you think about it, her stage's name, Fallen Garden, is an extension of this.
• Faux Affably Evil: She's nicer than when she is in her Jun form. That's probably because she wants to (and probably will) absorb you.
• Final Boss: Of the two Tag games. In the original she is fought at the final stage as a solo character, in the sequel she begins the fight as Jun Kazama. Once Jun is defeated, she transforms her ornate garden into a nightmarish hell of black muck and herself into Unknown.
• Foil: To her alter ego. Whereas Jun is quite reserved, conservative and graceful... Unknown is quite sensual (if you can call it that), unrestrained and zombie-like.
• Full-Frontal Assault: She is technically naked, aside from the purple ooze which covers her body. Her alternate costume in Tag 1, however, gives her a torn brown dress.
• Giant Hands of Doom: In Tag 2, Unknown can summon a giant disembodied hand from the ground, which is useful for starting combos. This hand can also be used in a certain Unblockable Attack that swallows your entire health bar bar a pinprick if you get caught in it (only if she is the enemy; if you're playing as her, it deals a mere 15% damage).
• Giggling Villain: When transforming in Boss mode, she takes an erotic breath before she turns her head up to her opponent and starts chuckling. Listen carefully.
• Glass Cannon: Tag 1 unlike the rest of the franchise, had different HP values, and Unknown was among those with the lowest HP, 140 when the average was 151.
• Hates Everyone Equally: In Tag 1 she hates everyone in the cast except Golden Tetsujin and Xiaoyu with a special green costume, and those two are special exceptions. Because of that, Unknown never gets netsu, because unlike Tag 2, netsu is not activated if a character hates another.
• HP to One: That portal pool in Tag 2. Nope, it isn't that damaging when you're controlling her.
• Mama Bear: In Ogre's TTT ending, she distracts Ogre from absorbing Jin by taunting him into a fight. Considering that she's Jun, she'll probably smack him with a dose of maternal fury.
• One-Winged Angel: Of Jun.
• Portal Pool: Has the ability to summon this for the aforementioned disembodied hand to rise in Tag 2.
• Power Tattoo: The same as Jin's, only with reverse orientation.
• Promoted to Playable: In both Tag games, she's an unplayable boss in the arcades, but the console versions make her playable.
• Psychotic Smirk: Unlike Jun, she smiles quite a bit. Even when she's as good as naked. Or threatening. Or batshit insane. Or all three.
• Quieter Than Silence: Does not NEED to say anything in her introduction. Her pose and the ominous wind sound effect is enough to convey her eeriness.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Her stage in the Arcade version of Tag 1 is shrouded in darkness like True Ogre's stage in Tekken 3, because the lower powered arcade hardware could barely handle having her wolf demon on screen at the same time as the 2 characters already on screen. She's also unselectable because the Mirror Match final boss battle (with 2 wolves on screen) still lags like crazy.
• Riddle for the Ages: Fittingly. Who she is, why she starts with Jun's fighting style, why she has the same tattoo as Jin, why she wanted to fight Ogre in his ending, and what the wolf spirit controlling her is, are questions that plagued the minds of Tekken fans for years. 6's artbook says she was planned to be Jun's younger sister but that was dropped. Tag 2 retcons her as Jun, which would also explain why she showed up to fight Ogre in his Tag 1 ending, but still doesn't answer what's up with Unknown's powers, how Jun even got them to begin with, and what connection they have with Devil Gene. And given Jun's canonical return in 8 making no allusion to Unknown save for a few reskinned moves, and the Tag games being non-canon, Bamco will be in no rush to answer anything surrounding her.
• The Reveal: Jun serves as the Final Boss in Tag 2. When you beat her in the first round, she becomes Unknown.
• Retcon: According to the Tekken 6 artbook, she was originally supposed to be Jun's younger sister, but that was dropped when Tekken Tag became non-canonical. In Tag 2, she's Jun herself.

• Spikes of Doom: Capable of summoning these from above in Tag 2.
• Superpowered Evil Side: She fits the superpowered side for Jun, but given Jun herself is very much Darker and Edgier and Good is Not Nice, and Unknown seems nicer (see Faux Affably Evil above) consider it an Inverted Trope for now.
• SNK Boss: Not so much in the first Tag title, but moreso on the 2nd title. Let's see here. Rather large health bar with the ability to recover health? Check. Counters just like Jun Kazama but much stronger and with higher priority? Check. A move that can reduce your health to 1 point while force-tagging your partner in? Check. Attacks from above and/or below that can't be anticipated and are very punishing? Check. Aggressively using her boss moves while aggressively attacking you? Check. Of course, these boss moves are nerfed when playing as Unknown.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Very appropriate for someone who's Jun's alter ego.
• The Scream: In both Tag games, if you look closely (maybe freeze framing a bit), Unknown's attack effects are actually white, screaming human faces.
• There Was a Door: Forcefully invoked in one of her command grabs, wherein, if her opponent is not backed up to an already extant wall, she creates one of hardened goo through which she then smashes her opponent. If she's paired up with her human form, she can change back and proceed from there.
• The Voiceless: Other than her combat grunts, groans, and her chuckle, she doesn't say anything. Which does more for her character than if she spoke.
• Transformation Sequence:
  • Jun undergoes one before becoming Unknown. Featuring erotic breathing, a giggle, and very dark goo.
  • Though in Tag 2, she does gain a special tag throw with Jun. Unknown knocks her opponent into a wall (creating a wall out of hardened purple goo pillars if there was no actual wall behind the opponent) and she will transform into her alter ego before smashing them through the wall.
  • She also reverts back into her alter ego in Tag 2 Jin's ending cinematic.
  • Funnily enough, in Tag, Unknown will do a transformation sequence (i.e. being surrounded by electric charges) to tag with Devil if she is currently mimicking Kazuya.

Tetsujin

Tetsujin

(metal noises)

Fighting Style: "Tetsujin-Ken" (mimicry)

Appears in: Tag, Revolution (unplayable boss), Mobile (unplayable boss)

A mimic character like Mokujin, only made out of metal. His only appearance was in Tekken Tag Tournament.

It makes a reappearance in Tekken Revolution as a secret sub-boss.

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• The Bus Came Back: After being absent for four games, it returns in Revolution where it occasionally appears as a secret boss.
• Chrome Champion: A metal version of Mokujin.
• Ditto Fighter: Mimics another character at random.
• Hitbox Dissonance: When copying Yoshimitsu, his "sword" doesn't have as much range as it looks like, and that's because his "sword" is just a pipe with a dented tip. This is done because Tetsujin is just a Palette Swap of Mokujin, who has no such detail to his wooder sword. If it had as much range as it looks like, he'd be slightly better than Mokujin when copying Yoshimitsu specifically.
• Meaningful Name: His name literally translates to "Iron Man" in English.
• Palette Swap: Of Mokujin.
• Out of Focus: Tetsujin has no appearances outside of TTT until Revolution.
• The Voiceless: Just like Mokujin, he never utters a peep.

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