Tekken 7 Characters Confirmed So Far
Bob
Robert Richards, also known as “Bob,” is a recent character as he was introduced
in the Tekken 6 and he is considered a prodigy of martial arts, originated from
the USA. Bob has alternate version of himself, a type of an alter ego that is
named Slim Bob and is available in the Tekken 7 and Tekken 6/
Bob was always very diligent about his training as he was constantly trying
to master the martial arts but was never able to defeat the opponents that were
larger than him in size. Bob decided that it would help if he starts training
in a different way and also if he would start gaining weight.
After intensive training, Bob returns to the world of fighting as a
different man and decides to enter the new King of the Iron Fist Tournament to
test his new abilities and strength. He wins the tournament and gets distracted
by all the interviews and tv shows that he is required to enter, and soon
enough he tries to weight himself and finds out that all the weight he managed
to gain during his training is now gone and only weights 150 lbs. This is a
great disappointment for him, and he suffers a shock.
The future of Bob will be decided in Tekken 7 when it would be shown if he
will train to become fat again or if he will accept his state and train as a
simply slim fighter.
Bob is a very strong character, exceptionally robust, quick and
hard-hitting, with smart varies and devastating combos, Bob could be a great
fighter. His offense is incredibly damaging. However, most of his smart
launchers and low hits are punishable. Also, he is a giant target for extended
juggles. Overall, Bob is mostly contended as an offensive character.
Bob’s fighting technique is defined as a “freestyle karate” coming from the
United States of America to prove that he is a great fighter that should be
taken into consideration by all the other opponents.
Even when he is fat, Bob is wearing the same jumpsuit, a red hoodie with the
yellow number 8 on his chest and red pants that are completed with blue and
white sports shoes. He is always ready for training.
We are not shown the reason why Bobs looses weight so fast and why did his
body transformed so fast without him even noticing, but perhaps Tekken 7 will
bring more answers about his life. He was never bothered by the fact that he
was obese as he always wanted to be stronger and much bigger than his enemies or
opponents. While getting fat, Bob continued to train to maintain his agility
and strength in fighting. He is a very ambitious character that will stop at
nothing until he can achieve and conquer all his dreams and goals. Who knows
what’s next for this character and what the new game of Tekken 7 will bring for
the fat or slim Bob.
Heihachi Mishima
Heihachi Mishima is one of the most
important characters and is one of the most recurring characters that was present
in every single Tekken. He is the son of Jin Mishima Zaibatsu and is known as a
very arrogant man because he is always convinced that he is above everyone
else.
He trained under his father with the
style of Mishima Karate and that made him one of the best in the world. Even if
he is known to be very bitter with other people, he fell in love with a woman
called Kazumi, the only member to come into the Mishima bloodline and that he
genuinely loved.
They were a couple for a very long time
and their love resulted into a child that he named Kazuya. HeihachiMishima was
very harsh with his son and most of the time he was even violent with the child
to teach him about the brutality of the world. Even if his father beaten him on
multiple occasions, Kazuya stayed positive as his mother loved him enough for
the two of them.
HeihachiMishimastole the Zaibatsu from
Jinpachi and took the company in a new direction to the military industry.
Jinpachi will try to take back his company, but Heihachi Mishima will prove to
be stronger and will be imprisoned underneath the temple court.
Kazumi will be determined to kill
Heihachi as he was disgusted with his actions. Kazumi will fail, but it is said
that because of his attempt, Heihachi will be forced to kill his love. This is
an action that he will regret every moment.
The young Kazuya was devastated after his
mothers’ death. Heihachi flew Kazuya of a cliff edge believing that if the
boy was truly his son, he will be able to climb back again. Kazuya managed to
climb the cliff, but only with the help of the devil gene.
With the desire to test his abilities,
the first Iron Tournament came to be. Soon he will find out that even his
forgotten son will be participating in this tournament. He will loose to his
son and as a punishment, Kazuya will throw his father of a cliff just like he
did with him. Kazuya will take control of his fathers’ company and make it
grow, but he will slowly become more and more taken with the devil gene and
will become evil.
Heihachi will recover after his fall and
enter another tournament to defeat his son and will throw the boy into a
volcano. Heihachi will build the Tekken force and will want once more to
dominate the world.
His story continues as he will train Jin
Kazama and as we can see this is one of the most important characters in Tekken
7 that will surely be just as important in the new game. His story will
continue to evolve and you will discover many more hidden aspects that turn
Heihachi Mishima into a lead persona in this journey.
Jin Kazama
Jin
Kazama is another important character of Tekken that is
omnipresent in every other persona of this game. He is the son of Kazuya
Mishima and Jun Kazama. During Jun’s pregnancy, the devil gene will attempt to
pass over to Jin, but was able to fight it.
In order to avoid this, Jun took her son
into the woods to teach the child the Kazama fighting skill. Because of his
family, Jin will grow up to be a very humble and a good man. Jun knew that Ogre
will try to find Jin and kill him, as he is trying to kill all the great
fighters of the world. Jun told Jin that if something would happen to her that
he should go and find his grandfather, Heihachi. Jun will be attacked by the
Ogre and killed. Her son promised to find the Ogre and kill him to revenge his
mother.
Jin will now start to train with his
grandfather every day and will win the 3rd tournament. Before being
able to fight the Ogre, Heihachi wanted to test his grandson's ability in a
fight, and as expected he will be defeated. Jin will also defeat Ogre.
After winning this battle, Heihachi will
kill Jin, but this will activate Jin’s devil gene, and he will then take out
all members of the Tekken force and trap his grandfather by face and throw him
over a wall. Jin will now go to Australia and train there and to hide his
identity, he will start wearing a hoodie as you will see him a lot to do so in
the game. Jin will learn a more traditional style of fighting and will be
determined to destroy all the bloodline. He will enter the tournament to do so
and he will expect to fight his father, Kazuya, but instead will find himself
attacked by Tekken soldiers. He will be able to defeat soon after his grandfather
as well as his father.
Jin will take control over the Mishima
Zaibatsu and will soon become an entirely different person as the devil gene is
taking over him. He will also try to awaken Azazel, a being that had the devil
gene and by killing him he might eradicate this gene. Jin will sacrifice
himself to kill Azazel, and his body will be found in the desert. But by
killing Azazel, he still didn’t manage to escape this gene.
He is quite the core of this game, and
you will discover that he is the youngest fighter that has won the Tekken
Tournament. He is a unique character that starts as a good and humble boy but
ends up having the devil gene take over him and his actions. We will see where
the story will take him next and if he can escape the curse of a devil gene
that his family has passed on to him, and that can take over the world.
Kazuya Mishima
Kazuya
Mishima is the son of Heihachi Mishima and Kazumi and
also the grandson of Jinpachi Mishima, the leader of the Mishima Zaibatsu.
Kazuya starts his story as a very kind
boy, but his father will think that this is a sigh of weakness and will be
beaten often. He will ignore this until his father will take over the Mishima
Zaibatsu and kill his own wife.
For being considered weak, he will be
thrown off the cliff by his father as an act of proving himself worthy. His
father believed that if he is truly his son, then he will be able to climb back
again. Kazuya manages to come back, but only by making a deal with the devil
and taking on a devil gene.
Kazuya will start an intense program of
training of Mishima Star Karate and will find out that his father had adopted
another boy named Lee that is now training to fight him. Kazuya will
participate in all kinds of fighting tournaments and win them all. Kazuya will
find out that his father is hosting a tournament called the King of the Iron
Fist. He will enter the tournament and win every battle. He will even win
against his father and throw him over a cliff just like he suffered when he was
younger.
Kazuya will now take over the Mishima
Zaibatsu and will become more evil, due to the devil gene that will take over
him. Kazuya will hear that his father is still alive and will announce another
tournament to kill him. During the tournament, Kazuya will meet a woman and
conceive a child that will receive the devil gene as well.
Kazuya will transform itself into the
devil to defeat his father, but will still lose and be thrown into a volcano.
But he will survive and learn how to control the devil gene to take over the
corporation. He will even try to capture his son and steal his part of the
devil gene to become more powerful.
Jin turns out to be more powerful that
his father and grandfather and will escape this evil plan. Kazuya as changed so
much during his adulthood that he is no longer the loving and good person that
he used to be. In the new Tekken, the story will be focused on him and
his father.
Kazuya's’ fighting technique is based on
the Shotokan Karate, and you will discover that some of his moves are inspired
from the modern World Karate Federation. This game will give you a lesson in
karate moves that are world renowned and beautifully illustrated in many
fighting scenes along this game.
Tekken 7 will show many new turns of this
story will answer many questions about the history of Kazuya and the troubles
he has with his father and the way he can cope with the devil gene that takes
over his mind and body.
Asuka Kazama
Asuka
Kazama is one of the feminine characters in
Tekken 7 that has been an important aspect of this game even from the previous
game. Asuka is represented by a girl that has been learning the Kazaa-style of
Traditional Martial Arts from her early childhood. She has been raised and
educated by her father, a very important dojo master near the city of Osaka.
In the last Tekken, Asuka participated in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5
in which she was going to fight Feng Wei, to revenge the fact that he sent her
father to the hospital. But her quest was meant to fail. She will fight again
in the 6th Tournament to fulfill her wish.
Asuka is very focused on justice, and she made herself a purpose to fight
and be vigilant, but she is very young, a high school student of only seventeen
years old. Despite being so young, Asuka is a very strong young woman. She uses
Kazama- RyuuKobujutsu, similar to Jun and you will see that her attacks are single
strikes most of the time. Most of her moves consist of launchers that are
very useful for starting juggles. Her other moves are very efficient in
stunning the enemy, moves that can lead easily to a launcher.
You may also remember AsukaKazama from a manga series in 2009, named “Tekken
Comic” which featured Asuka as the main character.
Asuka is represented as a young woman that is more on the tomboy side
wearing a blue halter top with some blue shorts that in the Dark Resurrection
are more on the red and black side. She is always wearing boots and matching
gauntlet. While playing the game, you will see Asuka is wearing a traditional
Aikido uniform that is formed by a hakama, a gi top, instep guards and of course
the fingerless gauntlets. But let’s not forget that she is also a high school
girl wearing a typical uniform with a pleated skirt and a sweater vest. You
will mostly see her like this in the prolog parts and the intro while her life
is illustrated more.
As most of the high school girls are, Asuka is also an arrogant girl and of
course a brash one. But in the aspect of being a Kazama, this makes her unique.
As a fan of justice, Asuka tends to break up many fights in her neighborhood,
but also seems to pick up fights very easily and enjoy fighting. This is mostly
demonstrated by the fact that after defeating her target in the Tournament, she
remained for the rest of it just for fun.
She hasn’t suffered many alterations in this new game, but it will sure be
interesting to follow her life and her new adventures as the story continues in
Tekken 7, as she is one important character that appears in every single
opening intro of the Tekken game since the beginning.
