Heihachi Mishima

[14] In response to claims that the story of Tekken was complicated, Harada denied as he saw it as a "simple" struggle between members from the Mishima family.[25] For Capcom's crossover game Street Fighter X Tekken, the official guide noted how Heihachi's multiple combos could inflict a large amount of damage on the opponents.[26] For the animated film Tekken: Blood Vengeance, writer Dai Satō commented that he had to wait to get Namco's approval to introduce Heihachi's final transformation using the power of the Mokujin in order to fight Jin in his Devil form.[27] The fight scene between the three generations of the Mishima family proved to be difficult to make as a result of the choreography aimed as well as the movement of motion actors.[30] Comic book artist Cavan Scott described Heihachi and Kazuya as "demons" due to their dark character traits, making their rivalry with Jin look unfitting in the narrative because of their differences.Scott wanted fans to look forward to his Tekken comic adaptation due to his handling of the three main characters, as it's set during the time Jin becomes similar to Heihachi and Kazuya, making their war more engaging.[31] In the first Tekken game, Heihachi hosts the first King of Iron Fist Tournament, offering a substantial prize money and even ownership of the Mishima Zaibatsu itself to those who have the courage and determination to defeat him.Around this time, he meets his grandson Jin Kazama, whom he trains so he can take revenge against Ogre for murdering his beloved mother Jun.[41][42][43] Back in the present, after Jin disappeared in the previous tournament, Heihachi finally has an opportunity to single-handedly retake the Mishima Zaibatsu.After defeating Tekken force soldiers and Nina Williams, he announces the seventh King of Iron Fist tournament to lure Kazuya out with the thoughts of killing him, while continue the world war which Jin started.Heihachi was also responsible for two new previous atrocities in the past, such as a gang war at Leroy Smith's hometown at Manhattan, New York, and an assassination on Lidia Sobieska's father, which she and her grandfather survived.After a long battle, Heihachi is finally defeated and killed; his corpse is subsequently thrown into a river of molten lava, and only a few people know of his supposed permanent death.By the time of the events of Tekken 8, a girl named Reina appears and joins the tournament, having some of Heihachi's moves, and is later revealed to be not only his daughter, but also secretly another Devil Gene user like Kazumi, Kazuya and Jin.The surviving baby Hachijo is suspected to be Reina, as Heihachi was somehow already aware of her Devil Gene and has high hopes for her as he does with Kuma family, leaving her actual relationship with him to be ambiguous.[57] Additionally, In the "Fight Lab" section of the game, Lee kidnaps the Mishima three fighters for Combot's final test of the machine Heihachi, Kazuya and Jin.[59] He also makes an appearance as a playable guest character in the PlayStation 2 and HD Online versions of the fighting game Soulcalibur II, and as an unlockable narrator in Ridge Racer 6, one of the launch titles for Xbox 360.He also makes guest appearances in the role-playing game Tales of the Abyss (as one of Anise's custom dolls) and in Pac-Man Fever (alongside several other Namco characters).[69] Heihachi appears as the main antagonist in the anime Tekken: The Motion Picture, voiced by Daisuke Gōri in the Japanese version and by John Paul Shepard in the English dub.In it, he was supposedly killed by Kazuya four years ago, though in reality he is hiding and had conducted the M-cell experiment (taken from the Devil Gene) on a high school class to test immortality.Heihachi is absent for most of the film until the climax, where he reveals that the experiment was just a ruse; he instead tries to take the Devil Gene from Kazuya and Jin, which gives its users increased power.[74] Tooru Fujisawa featured Heihachi as a cameo in his manga Great Teacher Onizuka, modeled after his younger appearance in Tekken.[102][103][104][105][106] His younger appearance in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 resulted in surprising reactions by critics who mainly pointed his hair.[107][108] PlayStation Universe included Heihachi and Kazuya among the top 5 rival pairs in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 based on the potential a team up the two can make.However, Destructoid said that game designer Katsuhiro Harada comes across as a liar as a result of promoting the final fight of Heihachi in previous interviews.[126] Polygon praised the role of Heihachi in Tekken: Bloodline citing "Even though he may seem at first glance like the same “hard-ass martial arts master” archetype we've seen time and time again, the show faithfully paints Heihachi as both a fighter and a CEO of a major corporation, and it's fun to watch him apply his “no mercy” rules of fighting in a business setting.