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Leo
Kliesen, other known by the name of Eleonor Kliesen is a character that
was first introduced in the Tekken 6 while having an uncertain gender
until being revealed as a woman. She is from Germany and has BajiQuanan a
fighting style.
Leo
comes from a very talented family, with a spelunker father that was
world renowned and a mother that worked as an executive in the G
Corporation. After her father had disappeared in an expedition, Leo
wanted to continue the tradition and take after her father in becoming a
spelunker.
Her
life in such a family made her have a strong character and a pleasant
personality and a quiet life until her mother was killed. The police did
not investigate the murder of her mother, so Leo decided that she will
be the one that will find out the truth. She had a feeling that Kazuya
Mishima would be a person of interest in this investigation, but she
knew that it would be difficult to reach him.
After
finding out about the King of Iron Fist Tournament and that Kazuya
would take part of this tournament, Leo is learning that this might be
her only chance to fight Kazuya, so she enters the contest.
Leo
goes on a journey to the tournament and takes the time to learn more
about the G Corporation. She soon discovers that her mother was a
supervisor of the Mishima devil gene program and that the genes of a
devil would make its way into the genes of a human. This program
resulted in deaths.
Leo’s
style of fighting consists of strong and fast combinations along with
multiple hits. She will throw stunning blow that can also strike high
and low. She is a safe character to play as she has moves that enable
her to recover faster in between attacks.
Her
fighting style of BajuQuan is a Chinese martial art that is
characterized by powerful elbow strikes, and all her strikes are very
explosive and with short range power.
At
first, Leo was released as a girl, but when the game reached Europe,
there were rumors that she might be transgender as Leo was always
referred to with gender-neutral terms. Leo’s clothes never revealed her
true identity, so it always remained a topic opened for speculation.
While playing with Leo you would see that is wearing a sledgehammer that
is always a male item, but sometimes you can see her wearing her hair
in pigtails that are usually meant for female characters only.
Even
if some characters from the game referred to Leo as a boy, the producer
of the game came out and explained that Leo is, in fact, a girl and her
name are EleonoreKliesen. There are some other parts of her life left
unknown as it is not certain how her father died or if he is truly dead.
She is a mysterious character that will develop more in the new Tekken 7
game soon enough.
Lucky Chloe
Lucky
Chloe is one of the new characters that will be introduced in Tekken 7.
She has quite some controversy around her after being announced, but
still, she is one of the new fighters that will appear in this game.
Chloe
is a young woman, on the girly type of fighters, with long blonde hair
that has a middle part and two ponytails to make her look quite
childish. To make her a cliché, Chloe is a blonde girl with aqua blue
eyes that dresses just like a doll, wearing pink and black headphones
with Neko eras attached to them.
Another
unique aspect about her is that she wears a furry pink bolero over her
arms and hands that end in pink paws with her name written on them. She
doesn’t look like a threat at all. Her dresses are just like lingerie
most of the time. A night nightie with pink tutu skirt full with ruffles
is her “uniform” in which you will always see her. If the ears and the
paw were not enough, Luck Chloe also has a black cat tail to complete
the look.
As expected, her fighting technique consists of Freestyle Dance as she seems more like a dancer or a ballerina than a fighter.
Because
of her appearance, Chloe has received a lot of criticism from the fans
of Tekken. This scandal made the producer of Tekken joke about the game
and the state that in North America, Lucky Chloe will be replaced with a
bald and muscular skinhead resulting in an exclusivity in Europe and
East Asia.
Lucky
Chloe is not Japanese even if she is a great fan of the Japanese Pop
Culture from the way she acts and speaks. Harada told the fans that she
is hiding a big secret that will be revealed in the new Tekken 7. She
speaks both Japanese and English in this game.
Despite
other characters, Lucky Chloe has a low Rage Art instead of having a
mid or even a high one. Also, her Rage Art makes the players press
multiple buttons in some frames to make Lucky Chloe provoke more damage
than she usually does.
Even
if she is described as a fragile woman with a childish way of acting,
Chloe seems to be a strong opponent for many characters in Tekken, with
powerful moves and styles.
It
will be interesting to see how her character will evolve since she’s
been quite the controversial persona since she was first announced.
Tekken has gathered quite a fan base since a simple character can be
able to provoke such a response and both negative and positive reactions
from all around the world. She will be released even in North America,
and we shall see how well she performs and just how powerful she can be.
And on top of all, her big secret is about to be revealed very soon.
Marshall Law
Marshall
Law is a character that was created in a very similar way to Bruce Lee
as he is described as a very famous martial artist and even his looks
are inspired from the great fighter. In Tekken, Marshall Law has a son
who was named Forest Law, and his character is based solely on Brandon
Lee.
As
you might have already guessed, Marshall Law has his name after the
martial law, a terminology for the military rule over a nation. He is
represented as a Chinese American that can fight using different types
of martial arts. His nickname is “The Fighting Chef” and you will see
from the first Tekken games that he is a very good and close friend of
Paul Phoenix.
The
first time he enters a King of The Iron Fist Tournament was when he
decided that he needs money to build his dojo. He finishes as a
runner-up and manages to win enough money to make his dream come true.
In
the second Tekken, the taekwondo master Baek Doo San destroys his dojo,
so Marshall Law enters the second tournament to get his revenge on this
man. In the 3rd Tekken, Marshall decides not to enter a new tournament,
so his friendship with Paul starts to decline, but Paul convinces his
son, Forest to enter the tournament. Marshall becomes a successful
martial artist and an owner of a great restaurant called “Marshall
China” in America. Soon enough he finds himself struggling with the
restaurant and ends up an alcoholic. The only thing that could bring him
back in shape in entering a new tournament. The restaurant is lost, and
the business is gone soon enough after this.
He
doesn’t succeed and later on he is informed that his son has suffered
some great injuries while driving with Paul on a motorcycle. So he tries
again to win another tournament to pay the medical bills for his son.
The only way of being successful is by teaming up with Paul and another
fighter named Steve Fox.
Marshall
Law first appeared in the first Tekken and had a similar attire to
Bruce Lee. His fighting style is described as a simple martial art, but
later in the game, Marshall Law will be a practitioner or JeetKune Do,
known as a martial philosophy created by the one and only Bruce Lee.
The
only motivation that Marshall Law has been money. In every single game,
he seems to be having financial problems that can only be resolved by
entering and winning a tournament. But this is a difficult mission and
not a way of resolving his problems that keep reappearing.
While
fighting with Marshall Law, you will see some moves that you might
recognize from Bruce Lee’s movies. He is an aggressive fighter, but not
enough to make him win a King of The Iron Fist Tournament as he so badly
wants to. We shall see where Tekken 7 will take him next time.
Sergei Dragunov
Sergei
Dragunov is a recent character that was introduced in the Tekken 5
along with Lili. Sergei is known as a member of Spetsnaz, a Russian
Special Operatives and is characterized as a cold man and a very
calculated person.
You
will almost never hear Sergei Dragunov carry a conversation with
anyone, as he only has a few lines of dialogue along the gameplay.
Sergei is a very patriotic man that will care only about him and his
country. Even if he is such a cold man, his hobby appears to be singing.
It
would be easy to assume that Dragunov is an evil character, but he is
not. He just doesn’t care about all the fighting in the world. Dragunov
shows no empathy or mercy when he is fighting his enemies or opponents
as he is very focused on his mission and will do anything to see the
mission go to the end.
In
the 6th Tekken, Sergei Dragunov is ordered by the Russian Military to
capture the Devil. To do so, Sergei manages to get in the King of Iron
Fist Tournament 5, but as it turns out, he is unable to capture it.
During
this time, Rusia is facing a civil war, and everyone believes that this
is caused by the Mishima Zaibatsu Operatives. Sergei receives the
mission to stop this uprising and this way he is training by fighting
across the country. He now leaves for Japan to stop the corporation from
gaining any more power and to infiltrate the new tournament. At the end
of the tournament, the Russian military has captured Azazel. While
being captured, Raven shows up from a plane and extracts a colored orb
from Azazel and manages to escape with it, but Sergei outsmarts him and
manages to detonate the plane without any problems.
Dragunov
is a powerful character with many dangerous moves, and he is great
under pressure. He will focus on his mission so much that nothing could
ever stay in his path to victory. As for the fighting style, Sergei
Dragunov uses the Commando Sambo that is a modified style of the
offensive Sambo. He is also a trained member of the Russian army, and he
excels in hand to hand combats. If this was not enough that you should
know that he can also perform moves from the Mixed Martial Arts without a
problem.
Many
believe that Sergei Dragunov is not able to speak, but this is not true
as during the game he proved himself able to speak quite eloquently,
but he just doesn’t like and want to talk very much. Most of the time
you will see him sing outside the battlefield.
The
ending of the last Tekken game left the story unfinished so we expect
that in the next one, the story of Sergei Dragunov will continue as new
missions appear all the time, and he is set to complete every single one
of them with great success and in every possible way he can do it.
Shaheen
Shaheen is one of the new characters that will be making an appearance in the new Tekken 7 as another playable character.
His
appearance is of a typical Arabian male with brown eyes and dark brown
short hair accompanied by a mustache and of course by facial hair.
Because he is from the Saudi Arabia, you will often see him wearing a
long red shemagh tied with a black agal. This is a very traditional
piece of clothing for the Saudi Arabian people. He will also be wearing a
scimitar around his waist with a white and blue military uniform.
There
is no information about his personality as he will be shown more soon,
in the new game, but from his victory poses, you can clearly see that he
is not a fan of violence, and he only fights if he has to or he is
forced to do so.
As
he is wearing a military uniform, Shaheen is fighting in a Military
Fighting Style, but he uses acrobatics quite often in his kicks. His
name originates from the Persian name Shahin that means a royal white
falcon.
The
concept art of Shaheen was first introduced in 2014 when the creator
asked the fans if it would be ok to release him after the incident
regarding Tekken Tag Tournament 2. The fans liked him, and he received
positive attention. Fans have also suggested that there are great
similarities between him and an Assassins Creed character. After this,
Shaheen’s character suffered some alteration to make him different from
the other famous character.
It
is important that the creators tend to listen so much to the audience
and all the fans to create the best game without offending any
nationality with its new characters. This new Arabian character was a
risky decision, but it would turn out to be a good one.
Steve Fox
Steve
Fox is known as a British Boxer that managed to achieve the title of
Middleweight Champion of the World. His story centers around the fact
that he knew nothing about his past and that consumed him so much that
even all the winning wouldn’t be enough for him.
Steve
Fox was adopted, so he knew nothing about the biological parents.
Another unknown thing d=for him was his scar on his arm. He had no
memory of the origin of the scar.
Steve
received an order from the Mafia to organize a fight on which they were
going to put high bets on, but Steve didn’t agree with that and ended
up upsetting the Mafia. The Mafia then put a price on his head wanting
him dead. To escape the Mafia, Steve decided to enter the tournament.
In
Tekken 4, Steve manages to enter the Mishima Zaibatsu Data Room where e
tries to find information on his past, but the only thing that he can
find is that he was conceived by in vitro fertilization by the assassin
named Nina Williams.
While
being in the King of Iron Fist Tournament, Steve is trying to expose
himself to the world and maybe this way he will learn more about his
past. With the help of Lei Wulong, Steve discovers the evil plans of
Mishima Zaibatsu and that Zaibatsu is responsible for his creation. By
entering the competition, Steve hopes that he would win the tournament
and destroy Mishima. At the end of Tekken 5, we only see Steve
destroying a laboratory where experiments are made.
Steve
managed to destroy the Institute of Mishima Zaibatsu and turned back to
boxing, but the world has lost its interest in boxing. Steve receives
an invitation to training with Marshall Law and Paul Phoenix. They will
train in the art of martial arts and soon enough enter the new King of
Iron Fist Tournament.
The
3 of them, Steve Fox, Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law would win the
tournament as well as a large sum of money. As they celebrate the win,
they wanted to split the money, but Steve didn’t accept any as he
thought that the experience itself was enough for him and leaves. Little
did he know that the place was a trap and that soon after leaving, the
hut would explode and kill his two friends.
There
is no more information about the history of Steve or if he managed to
find anything else about it but perhaps in the new Tekken 7 his story
will evolve even more as he is a good person and a kind heart. He would
miss his friends and most likely would try to revenge their deaths by
entering a future tournament. His fighting style is mostly a boxing type
but after training with his friends, he learned even more about the
martial arts.