Characters of the Tekken series
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Bandai Namco Entertainment's Tekken media franchise is known for its varied cast of characters hailing from various nationalities, all coming together to compete in the King of Iron Fist tournament. In addition to the human characters, Tekken also features non-human characters for comic relief, such as the bear Kuma, his love interest Panda, the boxing kangaroo Roger, and the dinosaur Alex. Certain characters like Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima, Lee Chaolan, and Jun Kazama have their own alternative versions. Each character has their own goals for participating in the tournament.
Character appearances
Only four characters have been playable in all eight main Tekken games to date. Three were featured at launch: Nina Williams, Paul Phoenix and Yoshimitsu. But Paul is the only one of the three who is part of the character roster at launch. In the original Tekken 7 (vanilla arcade version), Yoshimitsu was added via an update, while Nina is completely absent and was only added in the updated version Fated Retribution. The other character was Heihachi Mishima, who became playable but outside the main roster as paid downloadable content in Tekken 8. Of the four, only Nina and Paul are playable in all the side games as well.
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